Recent Publications:

Books:

Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England , ed. C. Levin and R. Bucholz (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Sources and Debates in English History 1485-1714 with N. E. Key (Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 2004; 2nd ed.,Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Early-modern England 1485-1714:  a Narrative History, with N. E. Key (Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 2003; 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Early-Modern England 1485-1714: a Narrative History with N.E. Key (Blackwell, Oxford, 2003).

Officials of the Royal Household 1660-1837, 2 vols., comp. with J.C. Sainty (Institute of Historical Research, London, 1997-98).

The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1993).

Articles:

“’The Stomach of a Queen’ or Size Matters:  Gender, Body Image and the Historical Reputation of Queen Anne” in Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England , ed. C. Levin  and R. Bucholz (University ofNebraska Press, 2009), pp. 242-72

"Queen Anne: Victim of her Own Virtues?" in Queenship in Britain: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics, ed. C. Campbell-Orr (Manchester University Press, 2002).

"Going to Court circa 1700: a Visitor's Guide," The Court Historian V (December, 2000).

"The Database of Court Officers," The Court Historian III no. 2 (July, 1998).

"'Nothing But Ceremony': Queen Anne and the Limitations of Royal Ritual," Journal of British Studies XXX, no. 3 (July 1991).

Audio/Video Lectures:

“London:   A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World” (The Teaching Company, 2009) 

"A History of the Modern Western World” (The Teaching Company, 2006)

England from the Tudors to the Stuarts (The Teaching Company, 2003)

Online Computer Database:

The Database of Court Officers 1660-1837 (DCO) A computer database which contains the career histories of every person who served in the British royal household from the restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the death of Queen Victoria.

Current Projects:

Books:

Sources and Debates in Early-Modern England 1485-1714 with N.E. Key, (Blackwell, 2004-in press).

Power, Pomp and Pleasure: a Political, Social and Cultural History of the The British Court 1660-1901 (Will be the first scholarly history of the court, for both an academic and a popular audience--in progress).

Articles on:

• The nature of officeholding in the royal household 1660-1837
• Economical Reform, 1780-1812

Courses Taught:

• Western Civilization I-II
• Early-modern England 1485-1760
• Early-modern London c. 1500-1715
• Order and Disorder in Early-modern England 1400-1750 (undergraduate and graduate versions)
• Honors Tutorial

Awards:

• Fellow, Royal Historical Society
• CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Medal Award for Higher Education Reporting, 1998, for article, "A Question of Balance", Loyola magazine (Winter, 1998)
• Prince of Wales Foundation for Architecture in America Scholar, Royal Collection Studies, Summer 1997
• Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994
• Honors Student Association Teacher of the Year, 1998

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