Marion W. (Buddy) Gray

C u r r i c u l u m  V i t a e


Department of History
Kansas State University
Eisenhower Hall
Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002/USA
Phone (785) 532-0367
Fax (785) 532-7004
e-mail: mgray@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~mgray/
CURRENT POSITION

Professor of History and Women's Studies
President, KSU Faculty Senate 1999-2000
Chair, Council of Faculty Senate Presidents, Kansas Board of Regents 1999-2000
EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
Attended Georg August Universität, Germany, 1967-69
M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1966
B.A., Texas Christian University, 1964
EMPLOYMENT

Kansas State University, 1969-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Justus Liebig Universität, Gießen, Germany, 1974-75
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Acting Chair of Department of History, 1989 and 1996 and Summer Semesters 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1975-1984
RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS

1999 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Expenses to participate in conference at Werder, Germany, 31 September - 4 October

1998 Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg, Germany.
Full funding for interdisciplinary gender history conference: 24 - 26 September
(Co-director with Dr. Ulrike Gleixner, Technical University, Berlin)

1996 American Council of Learned Societies.
Travel to International Conferences Grant, 26-29 September
(Additional support for lodging and board from Frankische Stiftung and Institut für Europäische Geschichte)

1996 Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe Ostelbische Gutsherrschaft, Potsdam
Guest scholar and researcher, June-July

1995 Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe Ostelbische Gutsherrschaft, Potsdam
Guest Scholar and Researcher, March - May.

1995 Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University
Visiting Scholar. In-kind support: Office, computer, supplies, research privileges, January - February

1994 Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University
Visiting Scholar, In-kind support: Office, computer, supplies, research privileges, January -July

1990 Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
Research Grant, May-July

1990 Europäische Akademie, Berlin
Conference Grant: Literatur und Gesellschaft in den beiden deutschen Staaten, 23 - 28 July 1990

1984-85 Fulbright Senior Research Grant
Munich and Göttingen, academic year

1982 Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte Göttingen
Research Grant, May-July

1973-74 National Endowment for the Humanities
Research Grant Göttingen, academic year

1973-1999 Kansas State University Bureau of General Research; University Small Research Grants; President's Faculty Development Fund; Department of History; and Women's Studies Program
Numerous research and travel grants

1967-69 Fulbright-Hays Grant for Dissertation Research in Germany
Awarded for academic year 1967-68; extended for the year 1968-69


INSTITUTIONAL GRANT EXPERIENCE

Core Faculty Participant in NEH-Funded Teacher Seminar on Environmental History, "People, Prairies and Plains," Kansas State University, 1995

Application Committee and Participant, KCH project: "Humanities and Public Schools," 1984

Field Humanist, Kansas Committee for the Humanities, 1982-1984. As consultant for KCH, assisted local applicants with preparation of proposals

Prepared application for and co-administered grant from Kansas Committee for Humanities: "Values in Education," 1981


TEACHING AWARD
William L. Stamey Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences, 1992
 BOOKS

Productive Men and Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres in the German Enlightenment. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000 (published December 1999).
View Berghahn's catalog. Link to "History," and page down to "Gray."

Prussia in Transition: Society and Politics under the Stein Reform Ministry of 1808. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986.


ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"Men as Citizens and Women as Wives: The Enlightenment Codification of Law and the Establishment of Separate Spheres," in Reich oder Nation? Mitteleuropa 1780-1815, ed. Heinz Duchhardt and Andreas Kunz. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung Universalgeschichte, Beiheft 46. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1998: 279-297.

"Kameralismus: Die säkuläre Ökonomie und die getrennten Geschlechterphären," Werkstatt Geschichte, 19 (1998) 41-58.

"'Modifying the Traditional for the Good of the Whole': Commentary on Statebuilding and Bureaucracy in Nassau, Baden, and Saxony in the Early Nineteenth Century, Central European History, 24 (1991): 293-303.

"From the Household Economy to 'Rational Agriculture': The Establishment of Liberal Ideals in German Agricultural Thought," In Search of a Liberal Germany: Studies in the History of German Liberalism, ed. Larry Eugene Jones and Konrad Jarausch. Berg: Oxford et al., 1990: 25-54.

"Educating for Domesticity: Pedagogical Ideals in the Hausmütterliteratur in the Age of Enlightenment," Views of Women in Western Tradition: Frontiers of the Past and the Future, ed. Frances Richardson Keller, Edward Mellen: Lewiston, NY, 1990: 407-431.

"Prescriptions for Female Domesticity in a Transitional Era: Germany's Hausmütterliteratur, 1780-1840," History of European Ideas, Special Issue; Women in European Culture and Society, ed. Karen Offen, 8 (1987): 413-434.

"The Rise of German Nationalism and the War of Liberation (1803-1814)," Napoleonic Military History: A Bibliography, ed. Donald D. Horward. Garland: New York, 1986: 435-478.

"Der Ostpreußische Landtag des Jahres 1808 und das Reformministerium Stein: Eine Fallstudie politischer Modernisation," Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, 24 (1977): 129-145.

"Government by Property Owners: Prussian Plans for Constitutional Reform on the County, Provincial and National Levels in 1808," Journal of Modern History, 48 (1976), on-demand: 1-51.

"Schroetter, Schön and Society: Aristocratic Liberalism versus Middle-Class Liberalism in Prussia, 1808," Central European History, 6 (1973): 60-82.


EDITED JOURNAL EDITION
Kansas Quarterly, special issue, "Ethnicity on the Plains," 25:2 (1992) c. 1994.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Working the Land for 'the Nation': Agriculture and Patriotism in the Napoleonic Era in Germany," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Selected Papers 1998, ed. Kyle O. Eidahl and Donald D. Horward. Tallahassee: Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, 1998, 565-573.

"The Human and Natural Ecology of Albrecht Thaer (1752-1829)," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Selected Papers 1995, ed., Ronald Caldwell, Donald D. Horward, John W. Rooney, Jr., and John K. Severn, Tallahassee, 1995, 107-115.

"Bourgeois Values in the Rural Household, 1810-1840," Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, ed., Ellen Evans and John W. Rooney, Jr., Tallahassee, 1994, 449-456.

"Radical Feminism and a Changing Concept of Marriage: Prussia's Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Proceedings, ed. Donald D. Horward and John C. Horgan. Tallahassee, 1990: 807-814.

"German Historiography of the Revolutionary Era: Innovative Methodologies of Half of Society," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Proceedings, ed. Warren Spencer. Atlanta, 1987.

"Teaching about Women in Social Studies," Kansas Social Studies, Spring, 1982.

"Bureaucratic Transition and Accommodation of the Aristocracy in the Prussian Reform Year 1808," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Proceedings, ed. Harold Parker et al. Athens, GA, 1981: 86-92.

"A New Course: 'Introduction to History,'" L. Meeth and D. S. Gregory, Directory of Teaching Innovations in History, Studies in Higher Education, Arlington, 1981.


FORTHCOMING BOOK UNDER CONTRACT

Formatting Gender: Transitions, Breaks, and Continuities in German-Speaking Europe, 1750-1830. Edited volume with co-editor, Ulrike Gleixner (Technische Universität-Berlin). Under contract with University of Michigan Press. Manuscript to be delivered Sept. 1, 2000. Includes sixteen original essays by scholars from Germany, Great Britain, and the U.S.


RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Environmental History at the Village Level: Research in progress on the village of Schlalach, Germany, for a monograph documenting changing relationship of the villagers with their natural environment, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Article on this topic to be published in Germany by the Arbeitsgruppe ostelbische Gutsherrschaft, Potsdam, 2000.  A glimpse of the historic churches of the Parish of Schlalach is available on the world wide web with text written by Schlalach's Pastor Volker Kunick. There are German and English versions. 


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