EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1969 University of California, Berkeley, CA
M.A. 1962 University of California, Berkeley, CA
B.A.1961 Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
    Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2003
    Department Chair, 1995-1999
    Professor, 1992-Present
    Associate Professor, 1981-92
    Assistant Professor, 1969-81

TEACHING AREAS:
History of Western Civilization, German History, Nazi Germany, Twentieth-Century Europe, European Diplomatic History

PRIZES AND AWARDS:
1981 Hermann E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference for "outstanding contribution to the field of business history by a junior member of the profession during the previous two years."
1979 Newcomen Special Award in Business History  for article in Business History Review.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Police and the Social Order in German Cities: The Düsseldorf Administrative District,     1848-1914 (DeKalb: NIU Press, 1992).
Management and Labor in Imperial Germany: Ruhr Industrialists as Employers, 1896-1914 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1984)

Articles:

"Adapting Festive Practices:  Carnival in Cologne and Mainz, 1871-1914," Journal of Urban History (forthcoming).
"Custom, Commerce, and Contention: Rhenish Carnival Celebrations, 1890-1914." German Studies Review 20 (1997): 323-341.
"Regimenting Revelry: Rhenish Carnival in the Early Nineteenth Century," Central European History 28 (1995): 457-481
"Policing Popular Amusements in German Cities: The Case of Prussia's Rhine Province, 1815-1914," Journal of Urban History 16 (August 1990): 366-385.
"State Power and Local Interests in Prussian Cities: Police in the Düsseldorf District, 1848-1914," Central European History 19 (Sept. 1986): 293-313.
"Police-Military Relations in Prussia, 1848-1914," Journal of Social History 19 (Winter 1985): 305-317.
"Rulers of the Ruhr: Leadership and Authority in German Big Business before 1914," Business History Review 53 (Spring 1979): 40-64. Reprinted in Business Elites, ed. by Youssef Cassis (International Library of Critical Writings in Business History)
"Employer Response to Unionism: Ruhr Coal Industrialists before 1914," Journal of Modern History 48 (Sept. 1976): 397-412.

Work in Progress:
Since the completion of my second book, I have been investigating the social history of pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations in major German cities such as Cologne, Mainz, Aachen, and Düsseldorf between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the beginning of World War I. This project represents a continuation of work begun in a modest way with my article on "The Policing of Popular Amusements." Topics being investigated include changes over time in what kind of people participated in what ways and for what reasons, the alternating engagement and disengagement of local and national elites, the significance of the observance of Carnival for the definition of local, regional, and national identities, and the changing relationship of such festivities to efforts to discipline and integrate urban society.