“Judaizing Jews in France and the Spanish Inquisition: the Reports of Juan Bautista de Villadiego and Diego de Cisneros on the Portuguese New Christians in France,” Academic Conference on Inquisition Studies (Inquisition and Empire), Springfield, Missouri, February 2008. “Fishwives and Fish merchants: The Role of Women in the Fish Trade in the Ports of Northern France,” American Historical Association, January 3-6, 2008. “Religious Strife and National Unity: Remembering and Forgetting National Religious Conflict,” with Annette Finley-Croswhite, at the conference entitled “Transitional Politics. The quest for stability after war and revolution in modern European history,” held at , 6-9 December 2007. The papers from this conference will be published in an edited collection. “Maritime Insurance and Commercial Law Practices in Early Modern ,” Western Society for French History, , November 7-9, 2007. “’Jewish Jews’ and “Catholic Jews’: Confessionalization and Portuguese New Christians in Early Modern ,” Renaissance Society of , , March 22-25, 2007. “The Spanish Inquisition Abroad: the Surveillance of Conversos in Early Modern ,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, , CA, Library, March 3, 2007. “From ‘Gentle Lamb’ to ‘Femme Fatale’: Gender, Ethnicity and the Murder of Laetitia Toureaux,” with Annette Finley Croswhite, at the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, , June 2-5, 2005. “The Migration of an Institution: the Commercial Courts of Early Modern France,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, March 4-5, 2005, San Marino, California. “Ambivalent Partners: French, Spanish, and Portuguese Merchants in Early Modern Rouen,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,” October 28-31, 2004, Toronto, Canada. “Planning for the Apocalypse: Arms Trafficking in 1930s France,” The Western Society for French History, Lubbock, Texas, September 30-October 3, 2004. “From Consulado del Mar to Juridiction Consulaire: Spanish Migrants and the Development of Merchants’ Courts and Commercial Law in Early Modern ,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 30-November 1, 2003. Migration and Religious Identity: The Portuguese of seventeenth-century Rouen,” American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2-5, 2003. 10,
“The Negotiation of Rape in Early Modern ,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, , October 24-27, 2002. “Policies of Deceit: Insurance Fraud in Early Modern France,” at conference, “Shell Games: Scams, Frauds, Deceit (1300-1650), An International Conference at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 29-29 April, 2001. “Wives as Business Partners in Early Modern ,” Business History Conference Annual Meeting, , April 20-22, 2001. “The Price of Assimilation,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, November 2-4, 2000. “Female Business Acumen in Early Modern ,” French History Conference, UCLA, April 22, 2000. “Policing the Monopolizing Women of ,” Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Meeting 2000, 30 March, April 1, State University. “‘To Beggar Thy Neighbor or Not?’ Cooperation and Rivalry with the Merchants’ Tribunal of Rouen,” Conference on Institutional Culture, King’s College, London, July 8-10, 1999. "Entrepreneurial Women in Early Modern France," Syposium, "Women and Money in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds," sponsored by the for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the for the Study of Women, March 20, 1998. "Contractual Kin: Servants and Mistresses in Sixteenth-Century ," American Historical Association, , January 8-11, 1998. "Constructing Kinship in Early Modern ," Western Society for French History, 24th Annual Conference, October 30 - November 2, 1996, . "Kinship, Urban Alliances and the Meaning of 'Étranger' in Sixteenth-Century Toulouse," at the Conference on French History, held by the Society for the Study of French History, April 2-3, 1996, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. "Policing the Unruly Women of Nantes, 1565-1580," at the Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Meeting, March 23-25, 1995, Atlanta, Georgia. "The Boundaries of Community: Spanish and Portuguese Merchants in , 1580-1650," at Seventeenth Century Studies Today: A Conference in Honor of Professor Lloyd Moote, The Clark Library, , April 16-17, 1993. "Les éstrangers naturalisés": Spanish Merchants in French Cities, 1480-1630," The American Historical Association, Meeting, December 28, 1991.
Comment, Panel, “New Directions Medieval Economic History,” Part 2: “Revisiting Medieval Trade,” Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, , January 4-7, 2007. Chair, Comment, “The Laughter and Wisdom of the French Humanists,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, , CA, February 6, 2010. Offices in Professional Organizations Member, Council for the Society for the History of Discoveries, September 2009- 2011. Member, Council of the Western Society for French History, 1992-1995, 1998-2000 Member, Program Committee, Western Society for French History, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003. Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Western Society for French History, 1999-2000. Member, Koren Prize Committee, French History Society, 2002-2004 Chair, Steering Committee, World History Association, 2006-2007. Manuscript Reader “Family Business: the political economies of daily life in early modern ,” Julie Hardwick, reviewed for “Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henry IV, 1553-1593,” Ronald Love, 1998, reviewed for McGill-Queen’s University Press. “In the Eye of the Hurricane,” John McGrath, 1999, reviewed in 1998 and again in 1999 for University Press of Florida. I read numerous manuscripts, on average one or two per academic year, for peer-reviewed professional journals such as French Historical Studies and Terrae Incognitae. Textbook Consultant I have worked closely editing, revising, and writing supplementary materials such as test banks, study questions, timelines, map captions and boxed supplementary sections for most of the major world history textbooks currently on the market, including Felipe Fernández Armesto, The World, (New York: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009), Craig Lockard, Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global History, and Craig, et. al., The Heritage of World Civilizations (for which I authored sections on gender and art in world history), as well as for several textbooks under development at McGraw-Hill and Bedford-St. Martin and more specialized work for Longman. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association, 1984 - present. Western Society for French History, 1986 - present.