Scholarly Activities
A Selection of Faculty Books
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Recent Faculty Publications
Nancy Fix Anderson
“The Rebel of the Family: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton.” The Rebel of the Family: A Critical Edition. Edited by Deborah Meem. Broadview Press. 2002. Pp. 428-440
“ ‘Mother Besant’ and Indian National Politics.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30 (2002): 27-54
Woman Against Women in Victorian England: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton (Indiana University Press, 1987)
Maurice P. Brungardt
"Expeditions, World Exploration: German States," and "Federmann, Nicolaus," in David
Buisseret (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World Exploration(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), Vol 1, pp.
280-282 and pp. 295-296.
"Poder y riqueza en la Nueva Granada al principio del siglo xvii," in Amado A. Guerrero Rincón (ed.), Memorias. VIII Congreso nacional de historia de Colombia. Bucaramanga, noviembre 17-20, 1992; Vol. 3: Cultura política, movimientos sociales y violencia en la historia de Colombia (Bucaramanga: Universidad Industrial de Santander, 1993), 137-151.
"Global Education and the American Student Abroad," in Deborah J. Hill (ed.), Global Education and the Study Abroad Program (Worthington, Ohio: Renaissance Press, 1991), pp. 88-94.
Sara Butler
The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
“Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.2 (Spring, 2006): 261-88.
“Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England.” Journal of Women’s History 17.4 (Winter, 2005): 9-31.
Bernard A. Cook
Women and War from Antiquity to the Present: An Encyclopedia, ed., (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), 2 vols.
"The Rights of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Post-1945 Europe," in Human Rights in Europe since 1945, edited by Antoine Fleury and Carole Fink. (Geneva: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 85-104.
Belgium: A History, (New York: Peter Lang, 2002).
Mark Fernandez
With Warren M. Billings, eds., A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
From Chaos to Continuity: Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial Ssytem, 1712-1862, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2001).
Rev. Robert Gerlich
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. (current research)
Behrooz Moazami
“The Ulema and the Nationalization of Religious Morality in Iran, 1925-63,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies I7,1 ( 2008): 41 - 61.
"The Legacy of Mossadegh." In Houshang Kezavarz Sadr and Hamid Akbari, eds, Proceedings of the Mossadegh Conference. Behesda, April 2005, 357-365.
"Towards a Constituent Assembly and the Second Republic in Iran," Arash 73 (2001).
Rev. Leo Nicoll
Austrian-Hungarian Prisoners of War, 1917-1918. (current research)
Michael Ross
"The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans," in Civil War History 51(June 2005): 135-150.
Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. ( LSU Press, 2003)
"Obstructing Reconstruction: John A. Campbell and the Legal Campaign against Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868-1873," in Civil War History, 49(September 2003): 235-253.
Robert Rowland
With S.L. Dyson, Continuity and Change in an Island Society: Sardinia from the Palaeolithic to the Later Middle Ages (2006).
"In Search of the Roman Frontier in Sardinia,” Festschrift E. N. Lane. The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities (2002).
"Observations on Donations made to the Church in the Judicate Period,"Giudicato d'Arborea, Marchesato di Oristano e il Mediterraneo, Oristano, 2000, 945-951.
Benjamin Wren
Zen Among the Magnolias (University Press of America).
Faculty Awards
Nancy Fix Anderson: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend; American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship; Dux Academicus; Student Alumni Meritorious Teaching Award; Walter Langer Prize for best article of the year in Psychohistory Review
Sara M. Butler: October 2006, article of the month, Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index; 2007, awarded the Sutherland Prize by the American Society of Legal History.
Maurice P. Brungardt: Fulbright Fellowship; Outstanding Community Service Award 2003
Bernard A. Cook: Fulbright Fellowship; Dux Academicus; Excellence in Teaching Award; Student Alumni Meritorious Teaching Award; Honorary Professor, University of Banat, Romania
Mark F. Fernandez: Student Alumni Meritorious Teaching Award; American Association of State and Local History Award; Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special Humanities Award; Louisiana Library Association Literary Award for From Chaos to Continuity
David W. Moore: Excellence in Teaching Award; Student Alumni Meritorious Teaching Award; Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special Humanities Award
Rev. Leo Nicoll.: Excellence in Teaching Award
Michael A. Ross: 1997 Otto Rotthert Prize; 1998 Thorne/Aldrich Award, 2000 Fletcher M. Green & Charles Ransdell Award for best articles in the Filson History Quarterly, Annals of Iowa: (1998 and 2001), and the Journal of Southern History
Ben L. Wren: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Related Activities
Anderson, Brungardt, Fernandez, Moore, Ross and Wren have all directed programs for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Brungardt for the City Planning Commission; Gerlich was asst. editor for the Jesuit Encyclopedia Project in Rome; Fernandez served on the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board. More distantly related: Moore served two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia.






