Curriculum Vitae

 

David Warren SABEAN

Henry J. Bruman Professor in German History

Dept. of History, University of California, Los Angeles

405 Hilgard Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90095

Tel: (310) 825-3173/4601

Fax: (310) 206-9630

E-mail: dsabean@history.ucla.edu

 

Education:

University

Major

Degree Date

     

Houghton College

History B.A.

1960

U. of Wisconsin

History M.A.

1961

Brandeis University

History of Ideas

(1961-62)

U. of Wisconsin

History Ph.D.

1969

Universität Tübingen

History

(1965-6)

Cambridge University

Anthropology

(1972-3, post-doctoral ACLS)

 

Teaching Positions:

Position

University

Dates

 

 

 

Lecturer (tenured)

University of East Anglia

1966-70

Assistant Professor

University of Pittsburgh

1970-73

Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh

1973-78

Adj.Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh

1978-83

Associate Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

1983-85

Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

1985-88

Professor

Cornell University

1988-93

Henry J. Bruman Professor in German History

University of California, Los Angeles 

1993-

 

Research Positions:

Position

Institution

Dates

     

Fellow (Stipendiat)

Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Göttingen) (MPIG)

 1976-77

Guest Scholar (Gast-

 

 

 wissenschaftler)

MPIG

1977-78

Research Associate

MPIG

1978-83

Fellow

MPIG

Summer 1984

Winter 1989

Summer 1990 

Summer 1991

Fall 1992

Fall 1997

Fellow

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Arbeitsgruppe "Ostelbische Gesellschaft," Potsdam

Fall 1993, 94

Elected Fellow

Wissenschafts Kolleg zu Berlin

2001-2

 

 

Post-Doctoral Fellowships:

Grant-in-Aid, ACLS, Summer 1968

Faculty Research Grant, SSRC, Summer 1970

Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Summer 1971

ACLS Study Fellowship to read anthropology at Cambridge, 1972-73

Maison des Sciences de l'homme, Fellow, Summer 1979

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1988-89

 

Research Awards:

National Institutes of Health, Research Award in Demography, 1974-5, renewed 1975-6

 

Honors:

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2000

 

Non-Teaching Activities:

 

Editor, Peasant Studies Newsletter, 1972-75, Peasant Studies, 1976-80

Editorial Board, Journal of Peasant Studies, 1972-85

Advisory Board, Historical Methods, 1972-78

Editorial Committee, Food and Foodways, 1988-

Board of Editors, Cornell University Press, 1989-93

Editorial Board, Central European History, 1990-99

Editorial Board, Journal of Modern History, 1991-94

Executive Committee, Modern European Section, American Historical

 Association, 1991-94

Advisory Board, Historische Anthropologie, 1992-

Series Co-Editor, Quellen und Forschungen zur Agrargeschichte

Stiftungsrat, Stiftung Oberschwaben, 2000-

 

Publications:

 

"The Theological Rationalism of Moïse Amyraut," in Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 55 (1964), 204-216.

 

"Household Formation and Geographical Mobility: A Family Register Study for a Württemberg Village 1760-1900," in Annales de demographie historique (1970), 275-294

 

Landbesitz und Gesellschaft am Vorabend des Bauernkrieges (Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1972)

 

"Famille et tenure paysanne: aux origines de la Guerre des Paysans en Allemagne (1525)," in Annales ESC (1972), 903-22.

 

"Family and Land Tenure: A Case Study of Conflict in the German Peasants' War (1525), in Peasant Studies Newsletter 3 (1974), 1-15. (A translation of the previous item. It has also appeared in Bob Scribner and Gerhard Benecke, eds., The German Peasant War 1525. New Viewpoints (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979).

 

"Markets, Uprisings and Leadership in Peasant Societies: Western Europe 1381-1789," in Peasant Studies Newsletter 2 (1973), 17-19.

 

"The Communal Basis of Pre-1800 Peasant Uprisings in Western Europe," in Comparative Politics 8 (1976), 355-364.

 

"Die Dorfgemeinde als Basis der Bauernaufstände in Westeuropa bis zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts," in Winfried Schulze, ed., Europäische Bauernrevolte der frühen Neuzeit (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1982). (A tranlation of the previous item.)

 

"Aspects of Kinship Behaviour and Property in Rural Western Europe before 1800," in Jack Goody, Joan thirsk, and E.P. Thompson, eds., Family and Inheritance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)

 

"Verwandtschaft und Familie in einem württembergischen Dorf 1500 bis 1870: einige methodische Überlegungen," in Werner Conze, ed., Sozialgeschichte der Familie in der Neuzeit Europas (Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1976)

 

"Probleme der deutschen Agrarverfassung zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts, in Historische Zeitschrift, Beiheft 4 (1975), 132-150.

 

"German Agrarian Institutions at the Beginning of the Sixteenth century, in Journal of Peasant Studies (1975), 76-88. (A translation of the previous item.) Reprinted in Janos Bak, ed., The German Peasant War of 1525 (London: Frank Cass, 1976).

 

"Der Bauernkrieg--ein Literaturbericht für das Jahr 1975," in Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 24 (1976), 221-31.

 

"Intensivierung der Arbeit und Alltagserfahrung auf dem Lande--Ein Beispiel aus Württemberg," in Sozialwissenschaftliche Information für Unterricht und Studium 6 (1977), 148-152.

 

"Small Peasant Agriculture at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in Germany: Changing Work Patterns, in Peasant Studies 7 (1978), 218-224. (A translation of the previous article.)

 

With Robert Berdahl, Alf Lüdtke, and Hans Medick, "Il `Processo Lavorativo' nella Storia: Note su un Dibattito," in Quaderni Storici 14 (1979), 191-204.

 

With Robert Berdahl, et al., Klassen und Kultur: Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven für historische Analyse (Frankfurt: Syndikat Verlag, 1982).

 

"Unehelichkeit: Ein Aspekt sozialer Reproduktion kleinbäuerlicher Produzenten: Zu einer Analyse dörflicher Quellen um 1800," in the preceding volume, 54-76

 

With Hans Medick, eds., Interest and Emotion. Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); Emotionen und materielle Interessen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984)

 

With Hans Medick, "Family and Kinship: Material Interest and Emotion," in Peasant Studies 8 (1979), 139-60. A reworked version has appeared in Italian in Quaderni Storici 45 (1980), 1087-1111, and it also appears as the introduction to the preceding volume, both in English and in German.

 

"Young Bees in an Empty Hive: Relations between Brothers-in-Law in a Swabian Village," in the preceding volume (English and German).

 

With Seymour Drescher and Alan Sharlin, eds., Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of George L. Mosse (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1982).

 

With Seymour Drescher and Alan Sharlin, "George Mosse and Political Symbolism," in the preceding volume.

 

"Communion and Community: The Refusal to Attend the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Protestant Württemberg," in Mentalitäten und Lebensverhältnisse. Beispiele aus der Sozialgeschichte der Neuzeit (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982).

 

With Hans Medick, "Neue Themen in der historische-ethnologischen Familienforschung," in Sozialwissenschaftliche Information für Unterricht und Studium 11 (1982), 91-100

 

"La conscience et la peur: qui a tu, le pasteur," in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 51 (March, 1984), 39-53.

 

"The History of the Family in Africa and Europe: Some Comparative Perspectives," in Journal of African History 24 (1983), 163-71

 

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). A German translation has appeared with Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1987, entitled, Das zweischneidige Schwert and in paperback with Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 1990. Two chapters were translated into Hungarian, Misszionáriusk a Csonakban, ed. Vári András (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado, 1988).

 

"Der Bullenopfer," in Journal für Geschichte 1 (1985), 20-25.

 

"Der Bedeutung von Kontext, sozialer Logik und Erfahrung," in F.J. Brüggemeier and J. Kocka, eds., Geschicht von unten--Geschichte von innen: Kontroversen um die Alltagsgeschichte, publication of the Fernuniversität Hagen (October 1985). Also published in Geschichtsdidaktik (February, 1986)

 

Property Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

 

"Exchanging Names in Neckarhausen around 1700," in Peter Karsten and John Modell, eds., Theory, Method, and Practice in Social and Cultural History (New York: New York University Press, 1992), 181-198.

 

"Social Background to Vetterleswirtschaft: Kinship in Neckarhausen," in Rudolf Vierhaus et al., Frühe Neuzeit--Frühe Moderne? Forschungen zur Vielschichtigkeit von Übergangsprozessen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992), 113-132

 

"Die Produktion von Sinn beim Konsum der Dinge," in Wolfgang Ruppert, ed., Fahrrad, Auto, Fernsehschrank. Zur Kulturgeschichte der Alltagsdinge (Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993)

 

"Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Question of Incest," in The Musical Quarterly 77 (1993), 709-717

 

"Production of the Self during the age of Confessionalism," in Central European History 29 (1996), pp. 1-18

 

"Soziale Distanzierungen. Ritualisierte Gestik in deutscher bürokratischer Prosa der Frühen Neuzeit," in Historische Anthropologie 4 (1996), 216-233.

 

"Die Ästhetik der Heiratsallianzen. Klassencodes und endogame Eheschließung im Bürgertum des 19. Jahrhunderts," in Josef Ehmer, Tamara K. Hareven and Richard Wall, eds., Historische Familienforschung: Ergebnisse und Kontroversen (Frankfurt, 1997), pp. 157-170.

 

"Allianzen und Listen: Die Geschlechtsvormundschaft im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, in Ute Gerhard, ed., Frauen in der Geschichte des Rechts. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart (München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1997), 460-79.

 

Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

 

"Village Court Protocols and Memory," in Heinrich R. Schmidt, André, Holenstein, and Andreas Würgler, eds., Gemeinde, Reformation und Widerstand (Tübingen: Bibliotheca Academica Verlag, 1998)

 

"Kinship and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century," forthcoming in German in a volume of essays on class, ed. Martin Kohli

 

"Peasant Voices and Bureaucratic Texts: Narrative Structure in Early Modern Protocols," in Peter Becker and William Clark, eds., Little Tools of Knowledge, forthcoming.