BRIAN DOMITROVIC

 

Department of History

Sam Houston State University

Box 2239

Huntsville TX 77341

bfd001@shsu.edu

 

 

Academic Appointments

 

2005                 Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University   

2002-2004         Instructor of History, Slippery Rock University

2004                 Adjunct Lecturer in History, Grove City College

2003                 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Allegheny College

2000-2002         Tutor in History, Harvard University

 

 

Education

 

2000        Ph.D., A.M., History, Harvard University

 

Thesis: “Max Horkheimer: Social Philosopher,” Prof. Donald Fleming, Chair.

Graduate exam fields: modern European intellectual; medieval intellectual; modern U.S.; British economic

 

1989        A.B., Columbia University.  History major, Mathematics minor

 

1989        Additional university study: University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain

 

 

Honors

 

2003        Title VI grant, U.S. Department of Education

2000        Director’s Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

1998        Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

1996        Travel grant, Charles Warren Center

1995        Travel grant, Center for European Studies/Krupp Foundation

1994        Richard M. Weaver Fellowship Award

1989        Elsberg Award for Excellence in Modern History, Columbia College

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Sam Houston State University

 

Ancient-Medieval

Renaissance-Imperialism

Germany & Central Europe Since 1815

 

Slippery Rock University

 

Twentieth-Century World

History of the Jews

America

Historical Methods (graduate)

 

Allegheny College

 

Europe, 1914-1989

Modern Germany

Colloquium in Freedom and Responsibility

 

Grove City College

 

Renaissance and Reformation Europe

 

Harvard University

 

Historical Methods

Honors Thesis in History

European Intellectual History

 

 

Publications

 

“Max Horkheimer,” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John R. Shook (Thoemmes Press, 2004)

 

“Nathan Marsh Pusey: In Memoriam,” in Modern Age Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer 2004)

 

“Paul Elmer More: America’s Reactionary,” in Modern Age Vol. 45, No. 4 (Fall 2003)

 

Review of Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, by John R. Hinde, in Modern Age Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring 2002)

 

“The Future and the ‘End of History’,” in Vision: Harvard Students Look Ahead (Dipylon Press, 1994)

 

 

Presentations

 

“Dread for Democracy: Karl Lowith Reads Burckhardt and Tocqueville,” invited lecture, ISI Honors Fellow Conference, Princeton University, June 2005

 

“The First Neo-Conservatives,” invited lecture, Allegheny College, Nov. 2003

 

“Horkheimer and Hayek Diagnose the Problem,” invited lecture, Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 2003

 

“The Strange Career of Dialectic of Enlightenment,” conference talk, Yale Germanic Studies Conference, March 1999

 

“Max Horkheimer after 1950,” conference talk, Contemporary History Workshop, Cambridge MA, April 1997

 

“New Thinking on the History of Atheism,” invited lecture, Quincy House Senior Common Room, Cambridge MA, Jan. 1997

 

“Freud, Augustine, and Atheism,” invited lecture, Elmbrook University Center, Cambridge MA, April 1993

 

 

Service

 

2002-2004                  Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, Slippery Rock University

2002-2004                  Library Acquisitions Chair, History, Slippery Rock University

 

 

Languages

 

Proficiency in German, reading and speaking; competence in Spanish, reading and speaking