CAREER AND CREATIVE SYNOPSIS

Associate Professor of History (full-time faculty member since 1994) Tenured: 1999

DEGREES:

Harvard, AM
Yale, AM
Princeton--admitted twice:
       Rockefeller Fellow, History Department;
       Department of East Asian Studies

University of Chicago--admitted twice:
       Committee on Social Thought

Brandeis, AB (Winner: Endowed History Prize); AM, Ph.D.

Oxford and Cambridge 2001-2002 Visiting Fellow

PUBLICATIONS:

2001--"A British Military Family" CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, Oxford, England, Vol. 278, Issue # 1621 (Founded 1866; World-wide Circulation).

2002--"Fundamental Reference Works" EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Volume 35, #4 (Review Essay requested by the Editor). 

2002--"Gibbon at Magdalen" MAGDALEN COLLEGE RECORD [Oxford] 2002.

2002--Review of Esther Schor's Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria (Princeton University Press, 1994), requested by the Editor THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY.

2002-03--"When Government Fails," requested by the Editor CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE, England, #51, in response to the topic "Reflections on September 11."

2003--"Loyalty Knows No Shame," IDEAS, AESTHETICS, AND INQUIRIES IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA (Winter 2002-2003, Volume 8).

2004--Lady Maria Josepha Holroyd 1^st Lady Stanley of Alderley--the great-grandmother of Bertrand Russell--commissioned by Oxford University for THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, published, September 2004.

2005--Dr. Stern's articles appeared in magazines at Cambridge University and Oxford University. "What to do with a moment" appeared in CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE #56. The article is a short excursion into Dr. Stern's efforts in teaching and creativity.

2005--"The Nina, the Pinta, and the...." OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #243, Michaelmas Term. In this article, Dr. Stern discusses the American habit of fable-making--in childhood and adulthood--and the problems of historical ignorance and corruption.

2006--"When No One Returns to the Cave" OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #252, Trinity Term, is a companion to "When Government Fails" CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE, 2002. The puzzling configurations of war in American education, culture, and politics are highlighted. And there are reminders and warnings from ancient as well as contemporary civilization.

2006--"When Heaven is For Sale," OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #256, Michaelmas Term, 2006. Problems of wealth and integrity in contemporary higher education in America are discussed--along with memories from Dr. Stern's personal experiences.

2007--"SILOOJII," OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #262, Hilary Term 2007. The context is urban barbarism in New York City after WWII. In Summer 2007, "SILOOJII" was republished in the acclaimed American publication, EVERGREEN REVIEW, #113, 2007 [http://www.evergreenreview.com/113/contents.htm]. And, now also, a chapter in THE MEDITATION ROOM.

2007--"Generations and Education" CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE, England, #60. Dr. Stern briefly highlights significant features of "Generations and Education" in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, 18th century Japan, 18th century America, and contemporary America.

2008--"Give Me Your Undivided Attention," OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #277, Trinity Term 2008. The setting, theme, and characters belong to life in a New York City elementary school in the decade after World War II.

2008--"Toynbee and Gibbon," OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #280, Michaelmas Term 2008. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of the early volumes of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is the occasion for a comparative portrait of Toynbee's work with Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These two historians--perhaps the most illustrious and prolific in the English language--have many thoughts that can benefit the contemporary world.

2009--"A Hole in the Wall," OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #286, Hilary Term 2009--a portrait of the last days of segregation in the American south and in the US Army as observed and recalled by Dr. Stern.

2009--"Man or Quail?," online, and in print,  in THE CENTRIFUGAL EYE (Canada), August 2009--a discussion of the crisis of thought, teaching, and governmental responsibility, currently in America.

2009--"Edward Gibbon and the Courtenay Family" OXFORD MAGAZINE, England, #292, Michaelmas Term 2009. Gibbon's ideas and approaches to the writing and meaning of history--in a universal and personal sense.

2010--"Lady Sheffield Looks Back on Her Marriage" OXFORD MAGAZINE, England-- accepted. A brief portrait of the inner life that was shared by Lord and Lady Sheffield--the best friends of historian Edward Gibbon.

2010--A Ghost Story: Gibbon's Niece OXFORD MAGAZINE, England--accepted. A glimpse into Gibbon's memory and the collective memory evident today in his hometown, Putney. All citations and insights are drawn from previously unpublished and unknown materials in addition to on-the-scene observations made by Dr. Stern when he was a Visiting Fellow in Magdalen College, Oxford in 2002.

2011--PIGEONS HARVARD REVIEW--submitted.

2011--Forty-six Miles from Bryn Mawr OXFORD MAGAZINE, England--submitted.

2011--Helen MacLeod 1906 HARVARD MAGAZINE--submitted.

CURRENT BOOKS--

1. HEMBERRY FORT. (Manuscript)

2. THE MEDITATION ROOM. (Manuscript)

3. EDWARD GIBBON--FATHER AND SON. (Manuscript) 

4. ESCAPE FROM THE CHAIN GANG. (Manuscript)