James Van Horn Melton CV

August 2007

Education

Ph.D. (History), University of Chicago, 1982. Field of Concentration: Early Modern

Europe. Thesis Advisor: Leonard Krieger.

Fulbright Scholar, University of Vienna, 1978-80

M.A., University of Chicago (1975)

B.A.., Vanderbilt University (1974), cum laude.

Teaching

Emory University, Professor (present position)

Florida International University, Assistant Professor, 1984-87; Instructor, 1982

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Assistant Professor, 1982-84

Bundesrealgymnasium, Vienna 3 (English instructor), 1980-81

Academic Honors and Prizes

National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, January-December, 2008

Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Visiting Fellow, summers of 1993, 1995, 1997

Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, fall semester 1993

Recipient of Biennial Book Prize in Central European History for Absolutism and the

Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria. Awarded by the Central European Conference Group (of the A.H.A.), December, 1990.

University Research Committee, Emory (grant recipient, summer, 1988; fall semester,

1994; summer, 2007)

Herodotus Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1987

American Council of Learned Societies, 1984 (concurrent with American Philosophical

Society Grant-in-Aid)

William Rainey Harper Fellow, University of Chicago, 1980-81

Social Science Research Council Doctoral Fellow, Vienna, 1978-80 (concurrent with

Fulbright Fellowship)

Council of European Studies, Summer, 1977 (for research in Leipzig and Vienna)

James Lea Cate Departmental Fellow, University of Chicago, 1975-76

Cum Laude, Vanderbilt University, 1974

Books, Edited Volumes, Translations

Book in progress: Transatlantic Traces: An Alpine Miner in the Old World and the New,

1693-1761.

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2001. Paperback, 275 pp. Spanish translation: El auge del

público durante la ilustración europea ( Madrid: Editorial Debate, forthcoming).

Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and

Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 260 pp. Reissued in paperback 2002.

Co-Editor (with Jonathan Strom and Hartmut Lehmann), Pietism in Germany and North

America , 1680-1820: Transmissions of Dissent. Forthcoming, Ashgate

Publishing, 2008.

Editor, Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing

Publics in the Early Modern German Lands. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation

History, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

Co-Editor (with Hartmut Lehmann), Paths of Continuity: Central European

Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1994. 406 pp. Reissued in paperback, 2002.

Editor, The French Revolution in Germany and Austria (special issue of Central

European History, 1989). 218 pp.

Translation (with Howard Kaminsky) of Otto Brunner, Land and Lordship: Structures of

Governance in Medieval Austria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,

1992. 425 pp.

Articles

"From Alpine Miner to Lowcountry Yeoman: A Georgia Salzburger in Two Worlds,

1695-1739." Forthcoming in Past and Present.

“Pietism, Print Culture, and Salzburg Protestantism on the Eve of Expulsion (1731).”

Forthcoming in Jonathan Strom, Hartmut Lehmann, and James Van Horn Melton,

eds., Pietism in Germany and North America, 1680-1820: Transmissions of

Dissent. Aldershot, Hapshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

“ Confessional Power and the Power of Confession: Concealing and Revealing the Faith

in Alpine Salzburg, 1730–34." I n H.C. Scott and Brendan Simms, eds.,

Cultures of Power in Europe during the the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge

University Press, 2007.

"Auf Besuch im Wiener Kaffeehaus, oder wie ein Amerikaner seine Landsleute von fern

erkennen lernte," in Joachim Brügge und Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann, eds.,

Kulturstereotype und Unbekannte Kulturlandschaften am Beispiel von Amerika

und Europa . (= Salzburger Beiträge zur Volkskunde, 17). Salzburg, 2007.

“School, Stage, Salon: Musical Cultures in Haydn’s Vienna.” In Tom Beghin and Sander

Goldberg, eds., Engaging Rhetoric: Essays on Haydn and Performance.

University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 89-108 [reprint of article originally

appearing in the Journal of Modern History 76 (2004)]

“The Theresian School Reform of 1774” in James Collins, ed., Early Modern

Europe: Issues and Interpretations ( London: Blackwell, 2005) [reprint of book

chapter from Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory

Schooling in Prussia and Austria (1988)]

Articles on “Haydn,” “Mozart,” and “Freemasonry,” in Europe , 1450-1789:

Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. New York:

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. Vol. 2:470-73; 3:144-46; 4:214-16.

“Introduction,” in James Van Horn Melton, ed., Cultures of Communication

from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern

German Lands. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Aldershot,

Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

“Pietism, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Germany,” in James E. Bradley

and Dale Van Kley, eds., Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe.

University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. Pp. 294-333.

“The Ideological Origins of Begriffsgeschichte,” in The Meaning of Historical

Terms and Concepts, ed. Hartmut Lehmann and Melvin Richter (Occasional

Papers of the German Historical Institute, 15, 1996). Pp. 21-34.

“The Austrian and Bohemian Nobility in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in

H.M. Scott, ed., The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth

Centuries, vol. 2. London and New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. 110-43. 2 nd ed.

forthcoming with Palgrave-McMillan, 2007.

“‘Society’ and the ‘Public Sphere’ in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany,” in

Class. Ed. Patrick Joyce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 ( reprinted

version of “The Emergence of ‘Society’ in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century

Germany,” in Penelope Corfield, ed., Language, Class, and History. London:

Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. 131-49).

“Introduction: German Historical Scholarship, 1933-1960,” in Hartmut Lehmann and

James Van Horn Melton, eds., Paths of Continuity: Central European

Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1994. Pp. 1-18.

“From Folk History to Structural History: Otto Brunner (1898-1982) and the Radical-

Conservative Roots of German Social History,” in Hartmut Lehmann and James

Van Horn Melton, eds., Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography

from the 1930s to the 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1994. Pp. 263-292.

“Government and People during the Aufklärung: Introduction,” in Charles W. Ingrao,

ed., State and Society in Early Modern Austria. West Lafayette: Purdue

University Press, 1994. Pp. 229-37.

“Otto Brunner’s Land and Lordship” (co-authored with Howard Kaminsky).

Introduction to Otto Brunner, Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in

Medieval Austria, trans. Howard Kaminsky and James Van Horn Melton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Xiv-lviii.

“From Image to Word: Cultural Reform and the Rise of Literate Culture in Eighteenth-

Century Austria.” Journal of Modern History, 58 (1986), 95-124.

“Absolutism and ‘Modernity’ in Early Modern Central Europe.” German Studies

Review, 8 (1985), 383-398.

“Von Versinnlichung zur Verinnerlichung. Bemerkungen zur Dialektik repräsentativer

und plebejischer Öffentlichkeit.” In Grete Klingenstein and Richard Plaschka, ed., Österreich im Europa der Aufklärung, vol. 2. Vienna, 1985. Pp. 919-941.

“Arbeitsprobleme des aufgeklärten Absolutismus in Preussen und Österreich.”

Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 90 (1982),

49-75.

“From Enlightenment to Revolution: Hertzberg, Schlözer, and the Problem of Despotism

in the Late Aufklärung.” Central European History, 12 (1979), 103-23.

Book Reviews

40+ book reviews published in eleven scholarly journals, including The American

Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, The English Historical Review, The

Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes, The Journal of Social

History, The Eighteenth Century, German History, Central European History, German

Studies Review, Austrian History Yearbook, East European Quarterly.

Papers and Conferences

“The Pastor and the Schoolmaster: Language, Dissent, and the Struggle over Slavery in

Colonial Ebenezer, 1734-52.” Pietism and Community in Europe and North

America , 1650-1850 (Conference sponsored by the Candler School of Theology,

Emory University, October, 2006.

“Print Culture, Sociability, and Public Opinion: Enlightenment Homologies.” German

Studies Association, Pittsburgh, October, 2006.

“The Seven Years War: Fatal Crossroad?” Panel roundtable participant, German Studies

Association, Pittsburgh, 2006.

“Von Gastein nach Georgia: Transatlantische Erfahrungen eines Salzburger Bergknappe,

1695-1761.” Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, March 2006;

Institut für Kulturgeschichte, Universität Augsburg, November 2005.

“Confessional Power and the Power of Confession: Concealing and Revealing

Confessional Identity in Alpine Salzburg, 1730-1734.” Peterhouse College,

Cambridge University, September, 2005.

"From Alpine Miner to Lowcountry Yeoman: A Georgia Salzburger in Two Worlds,

1695-1739." Vann Seminar in Premodern History, Emory University, April, 2005

“Contrafactual Piety: Heresy and the Colonization of Public Space in an Alpine Village,

1730.” German Studies Roundtable, Emory University, November 2004.

"Concealment and Exposure: The Communicative World of a Salzburg Protestant on

the Eve of His Georgia Exile (1733)," Pietism in Two Worlds: Transmissions of

Dissent in German and North America, 1680-1820 (Conference sponsored by the

German Historical Institute and Emory University, Atlanta, March of 2004).

“ Salzburg Protestantism on the Eve of Expulsion (1731-33): The Pietist Conventicle as

Public Sphere.” Pietism, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere in the Long

Eighteenth Century (Conference in Mols, Denmark, sponsored by the Danish

State Archives, January, 2003).

“Schooling, Musical Culture, and Rhetoric in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of the

Young Haydn.” William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, April, 2001

Commentator for panel on “Rethinking the Public and Public Opinion in the Eighteenth

Century.” Society for French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, March 2001

“Pietismus und Frauen im 17. Jahrhundert.” Universität Innsbruck, October 1999.

Chair for panel on “Freemasonry in National Context.” American Historical Association,

Seattle, January 1998.

Organizer and chair of the Second International Conference of Frühe Neuzeit

Interdisziplinär, held at Duke University, April 16-19, 1998. Conference Title:

“Constructing Publics: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German

Lands.”

“Pietism and the Public Sphere: Revisiting Habermas.” Presented at the above.

“Reading Publics: Transformations of the Literary Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century

Europe.” Vann Seminar in Pre-modern History, Emory University, September

1995.

Commentator for panel on “New Work on Culture and Politics in Leipzig.” German

Studies Association, Chicago, September 1995.

“Habermas and the Bourgeois Public Sphere: Historical Reflections and Critiques.”

Folger Shakespeare Library, December 1993; German Studies Roundtable, Emory

University, February 1993.

Commentator for panel on “State and Society in Early Modern Austria,” Center for

Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, October 1991.

“The Culture of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Age of Mozart.” Seminar on German

History, Cambridge University, November 1991.

Chair for panel on “Church and State in Eighteenth-Century Austria.” American

Historical Association, Chicago, December 1991.

“ Vienna in the Age of Beethoven,” The Age of Beethoven (NEH Summer Seminar),

Arizona State University, June 1991.

Co-organizer and co-chair (with Hartmut Lehmann) of conference jointly sponsored by

the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., and Emory University, April

• Conference title: “Paths of Continuity: German Historical Scholarship

from the 1930s to the 1960s.”

“Otto Brunner and the Radical-Conservative Origins of German Social History.”

Presented at the above, April 1990.

Commentator for panel on “Popular Catholicism and the State in Eighteenth-Century

Austria.” American Historical Association, New York, December 1990.

Commentator for panel on “German Historical Scholarship between Enlightenment and

Historicism.” German Studies Association, Buffalo, October 1990.

“Josephism and the Problem of Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Austria.” New

England Historical Association, Smith College, November 1989.

Chair and Commentator for panel on “The Persistence of the Counter Reformation in the

Post-Westphalian Empire.” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, October

1989.

“The Rise of Civil Society in 18 th- and 19 th-Century Germany.” Presented at the above.

“Joseph Haydn and the Culture of the Habsburg Realms.” Aston Magna Academy,

Rutgers University, July 1989.

Chair and commentator for panel on “Constitutional Thought and Political Economy in

18 th-Century Germany and Austria.” American Historical Association,

Cincinnati, December 1988.

Commentator for panel on “Jacobinism at Home and Abroad.” International Congress of

Historians of the French Revolution, Georgetown University, May 1989.

“The Right-Wing Roots of German Social History.” Institute on Central Europe,

Columbia University, December 1987.

“The Political Culture of the Habsburg Court in the 18 th Century.” German Studies

Association, St. Louis, October 1987.

“Rural Industry and Popular Schooling in Theresian Austria.” American Historical

Association, Chicago, December 1986.

“Compulsory Labor and Compulsory Schooling in Frederickian Prussia and Theresian

Austria.” German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 1985.

“Literate Culture and Cultural Reform in 18 th-Century Austria.” American Historical

Association, Chicago, December 1984.

“The Religious Roots of Reform in 18 th-Century Prussia.” Southwestern Social Science

Association, Fort Worth, March 1984.

“The Crisis of Baroque Culture in Austria.” Baroque Connections, Calvin College, April

1983.

“Soziale und wirtschaftliche Grundlagen des aufgeklärten Absolutismus.” Institut für

Geschichte, University of Vienna, May 1981; Historisches Seminar, University of

Graz, May 1979.

“Repräsentative und plebejische Öffentlichkeit in Österreich im 18. Jahrhundert.” Max-

Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, December 1980; Austrian Academy of

Sciences, Vienna, October 1980.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

History of Western Civilization (first half of two-semester sequence)

The Germans (freshman seminar taught in Department of German Studies)

Female Rulership in Early Modern Europe

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (also given as a Language Across the Curriculum class)

Renaissance and Reformation Europe

Europe, Reformation to Enlightenment

The Age of Religious Wars

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Modern Germany

Habsburg Spain

Schooling in History

Graduate

Studies in European History (required colloquium for graduate students)

Introduction to College Teaching

The Public Sphere in Enlightenment Europe

The Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe

Microhistory: From the Local to the Global

Dissertations Supervised

John Doney, “Reform and the Enlightened Catholic State: Culture and Education in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, 1731-1795” (1989).

William Bradford Smith, “Regio et Religio: Confession and State-Building in Upper Franconia, 1420-1620” (1994).

Kristian Blaich, “Creating the Socialist University: Academic Culture and GDR Politics at Greifswald University, 1945-1961” (1996).

David Freeman, “ Wesel and the Dutch Revolt: The Influence of Religious Refugees on a German City, 1544-1612” (2000).

Daniel Krebs, "Approaching the Enemy: German Prisoners of War in the
American War of Independence, 1776-1783" (2007).

Carol White, “The Republic of Letters in Enlightenment Geneva” (in progress).

Professional Service

Editorial Board, German History, 1998-

Editorial Board, Austrian History Yearbook, 1994-2003

Associate Editor, Central European History, 1989-91

President, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, 1996-98

Tenure and promotion referee for candidates at UCLA, University of Chicago, Stanford

University, University of Vienna, University of Oregon, Pomona College,

Carleton University, Academia Sinica ( Taipei), Northern Illinois University, University of Delaware

Book manuscript referee, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press,

Stanford University Press, McGill-Queens University Press

Book Prize Committee, Conference Group for Central European History (of the A.H.A.),

1991-92, 2000-2001

Book Prize Committee, Committee for Austrian History, 1992, 1996

Nominating Committee, Conference Group for Central European History, 1990

University Service

University Research Committee, 2006

Chair, Department of German Studies, 2003-05

Chair, Department of History, 2001-2003

Director, Emory Summer in Vienna Program, Department of German Studies, 2005

Chair of German Studies Search Committee for senior position in German Studies, 2004-

Department of History Search Committee, Modern German History, 2004-

Chair of German Studies Search Committee for junior position in Medieval Studies,

2003-4

Chair of History Search Committee for junior position in Modern U.S. South, 2002-3

Chair of Search Committee for one-year replacement position in Early Modern British

History, 2002

Chair of search committee for Visiting Professor in German Studies, 2002-3

Emory delegate for selection of DAAD Visiting Professor, Bonn, Germany, January,

1999, January 2006

Chair of Search Committee for tenured position in Modern German history, 1997-8

Fulbright Selection Committee, Emory University, 1997-8

Chair of Search Committee for one-year replacement position in Modern German history,

1996-7.

Director of Graduate Studies, Emory Department of History, 1995-97; Graduate

Committee, 1993-95, 2000-2001

Advisory Committee, Emory Department of History, 1995-97

University Research Committee, 1996-98 (Chair, Humanities subcommittee, 1997-98)

Digital Information Resources Council, Emory University, 1996-97

Dean’s Teaching Fellows Selection Committee, Emory University, 1995

Emory Scholars Selection Committee, Emory College, 1994-95

Graduate Executive Committee, Emory University, 1991-93

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Emory Department of History, 1990-91

Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society), 1988-89

Committee on Theories of Interpretation, Emory Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, 1989-1990

Graduate Language Committee, Emory Department of History, 1988-98

Cuttino Scholarship Committee, Emory Department of History, 1988-90

Latin American history search committee, Emory Department of History, 1988-89