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Guilford,
Connecticut, 06437
e-mail: pbehre@fair1.fairfield.edu
tel.: (203)
458-8357
Education: Ph.D., Yale University, May, 1991;
Dissertation: Religion and the Central State in Metz, 1633-1700;
Orals Fields: Early Modern France (Advisor Peter Gay); secondary fields
in Early Modern England (examiner David Underdown), and Colonial
America (examiner Edmund Morgan), passed May 1987 with distinction.
M. Phil., Yale University, May, 1988.
M.A., Yale University, May, 1987.
Non-degree program, Judaic History and Hebrew Language,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, August 1984-July, 1985.
B.A., Yale University, May 1982, cum laude.
Academic Appointments:
1998-present, Associate Professor of History, Fairfield University.
1991-1998, Assistant Professor of History, Fairfield University.
1991-present, Visiting Research Fellow, Yale University, Dept. of
History.
Teaching Experience:
At Fairfield University:
Europe and the World in Transition, (Hi30); the history of Europe and
Europeans in the wider world, 1500-1850.
European Society in the Middle Ages (Hi203); a survey of the social and
political history of Europe, 476-1492 C.E.
Early Modern France: Passion, Politics, and the Making of National
Identity, (Hi230); a survey of French history from the end of the 16th-
century Religious Wars until the rise of Napoleon I.
Peasant Toil, Peasant Revolt: Daily Life in Rural Europe before 1900,
(Hi 314); upper division seminar on peasants and peasant culture
and on the historiography of peasant studies including the Annales
School.
Jews and Christians in Europe: A Social History, (Hi205); a survey of
Jewish-Christian relations from the advent of Christianity until the
Dreyfus Affair.
Religious Outsiders in Early Modern France and Europe, (Hi317);
Upper division seminar on religious minorities in Europe, 1492-1789.
At Yale University:
As Instructor: Religious Outsiders in Early Modern France, (Hi385b).
As Teaching Assistant: European Civilization to 1648, (Hi201a),
Professor Robt. Stacey,
Stuart England, (Hi253b), Professor David
Underdown.
Tudor England, (Hi252a), Professor David
Underdown.
Jews and Revolution, (Hi259b/Rel.Stud.324b),
Professor Paula Hyman.
Publications:
One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of
Absolutism
in Metz, Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.
“Lorraine in the Time of Georges de La Tour,” in Georges de La Tour
and His World, Philip Consibee, ed., New Haven: Yale University Press,
1996.
Articles: “Jews and Christians in the Marketplace: The Politics of Kosher Meat in
Metz,” Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 26, Spring 1997,
pp. 169-177.
“Raphael Levy: A Criminal in the Mouths of the People,” Religion,
January 1993, pp. 1-26.
(continued)
“Religious Persecution,” Contemporary Religion, Wade C. Roof, ed.,
Macmillan, 2000.
Conference Papers:
“Beyond Conversion: How Anti-Protestantism changed Catholic
Perceptions of Jews in the North, 1564-1685,” delivered at the
Annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies,
March, 1996, Boston, Massachusetts.
“Jews and Christians in the Marketplace: The Politics of Kosher
Meat in Metz,” delivered at the annual meeting of the American
Historical Association, December, 1992, Washington D.C.
“The Ritual Murder Accusation Against the Jews: An example
from 1670,” delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for
French Historical Studies, April 1992, El Paso, Texas.
University Service:
At Fairfield:
Spring 2000, Acting Academic Director, Judaic Studies Program.
1998-present, Humanities Institute, committee member.
Fall 1993-spring 1998, Co-advisor, History Club.
1995-1998, Admissions and Scholarships Committee (Chair, 1997-98).
1993-1995, Judicial Board of Review, faculty representative.
Spring 1994, Ad-hoc faculty committee on diversity, sub-committee
on campus environment.
1995-present, Steering Committee, Judaic Studies Program.
1996-1998, Dean’s committee to study student retention.
1998-1999 History Department Search Committee (Modern
Germany).
1993-1994, Search Committee for the Carl and Dorothy Bennett
Chair in Judaic Studies.
1994-1995, Search Committee, French specialist, Modern Languages
Department.
1996-1997, member Rhodes Consultation Group (to study Christian
identity on campus).
1991-1992, Search Committee, History Dept.(Middle East).