PERSONAL:
Born 25 December 1937, Spokane Washington
Married 30 July 1960 to Susan Ruth Lathrop
Two Children: Elizabeth (born 21 December 1963), David (born 12 July 1965)
Address: Department of History
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
Phone: (213) 740-1658
FAX (213) 740-6999
E-mail: <knoll@usc.edu>
EDUCATION:
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, B.A. 1960 (Foreign Languages, Summa cum laude)
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, M.A. (1961) and
Ph.D. (1964) (Medieval and Renaissance History)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE--ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
1969--present University of Southern California, Assistant to Associate (1970) to Professor (1985) of History
1964-1969, Purdue University, Assistant Professor of
History
SELECTED CONCURRENT APPOINTMENTS:
1971-1974 and 1985-1991, Chair, Department of History, University of Southern California
1979 and 1990, Spring Quarter, Visiting Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
1989-1992, Chief Reader (Chief Faculty Consultant),
Advanced Placement Program in European History, The College Board and
Educational Testing Service
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
1975-1978 Elected Councilor, The Medieval Association of the Pacific
1986--present Member, Board of Director, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
1992--present Member, Editorial Board, The Polish Review
1996--present Member, Editorial Board, The Sixteenth
Century Journal
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. The Rise of the Polish Monarchy: Piast Poland in East Central Europe 1320-1370 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972 [winner of the 1971 Kosciuszko Foundation Prize "for the Work which has contributed most to an Understanding and Appreciation of Polish Civilization]).
2. St. Stanislaw, Bishop of Krakow (Santa
Barbara, CA: Polish American Historical Association, 1979) (with Bogdan
Deresiewicz and Daniel Buczek).
Selected Scholarly Articles:
1. "Wladyslaw Lokietek and the Restoration of the Regnum Poloniae," Medievalia et Humanistica, XVII (1966), 51-78.
2. "The Stabilization of the Polish Western Frontier Under Casimir the Great, 1333-1370," The Polish Review, XII, iv (Autumn, 1967), 3-29.
3. "Casimir the Great and the University of Cracow," Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, XVI (1968), 232-249.
4. "Poland as Antemurale Christianitatis in the Late Middle Ages," The Catholic Historical Review, LX (1974), 381-401.
5. "The World of the Young Copernicus: Society, Science, and the University," in Nicholas Steneck, ed., Science and SocietyóPast, Present, and Future (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1975), pp. 19-43.
6. "The Arts Faculty at the University of Cracow at the End of the Fifteenth Century," in Robert Westman, ed., The Copernican Achievement, 1473-1973 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1975), pp. 137-156.
7. "Learning in Late Piast Poland," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, CXX, ii (April, 1976), 136-157.
8. "Feudal Poland: Division and Reunion," The Polish Review, XXIII, ii (1978), 40-52.
9. "The Papacy at Avignon and University Foundations," in The Church in a Changing Society (Uppsala, Sweden: University of Uppsala Press, 1979), pp. 191-196.
10. "Krakow Through the Centuries," in St. Stanislaw, Bishop of Krakow (see above, under Books, position 2), pp. 37-64.
11. "Jan Dlugosz and His Banderia Prutenorum," The Polish Review, XXV, i (1980), 93-97.
12. "Forward: Tadeusz Manteuffel, The Man, The Historian, and Historiography," in Tadeusz Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State, The Period of Ducal Rule 963-1194, translated by Andrew Gorski (from Polska w okresie prawa ksiazecego 963-1194 in Historyk wobec historii [Warsaw, 1976--a selection of Manteuffel's writings]) (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), pp. 7-20.
13. "Jan Dlugosz, 1480-1980," The Polish Review, XXVII, i/ii (1982), 3-28.
14. "In Search of the Battle of Grunwald," The Polish Review, XXVIII, iii (1983), 67-76.
15. "The University of Cracow in the Conciliar Movement," in James M. Kittelson and Pamela J. Transue, eds., Rebirth, Reform and Resilience. Universities in Transition, 1300-1700 (Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 1984), pp. 190-212.
16. "Louis the Great and Casimir of Poland," in S.B. Vardy, G. Grosschmid, and L.S. Domonkos, eds., Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland (New York: Columbia University Press [East European Monographs], 1986), pp. 105-127.
17. "Jagiello Dynasty," in Joseph R. Strayer, general editor, The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. VII (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1987), pp. 40-41.
18. "Piast Dynasty," in Joseph R. Strayer, general editor, The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. IX (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1987), pp. 628-629.
19. "[Medieval] Poland," in Joseph R. Strayer, general editor, The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. IX (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1987), pp. 716-731.
20. "The Urban Development of Medieval Poland, With Particular Reference to Krakow," in Barisa Krekic, ed., The Urban Society of Eastern Europe in Pre-Modern Times (Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1987), pp. 63-136.
21. "The University Context of Kochanowski's Era: Humanism and the Academic Culture of the Renaissance in Poland," in Samuel Fiszman, ed., The Polish Renaissance in Its European Context (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988), pp. 189-212.
22. "Economic and Political Institutions on the Polish-German Frontier in the Middle Ages: Action, Reaction, Interaction," in Robert Bartlett and Angus MacKay, eds., Medieval Frontier Societies (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 151-174.
23. "The European Context of Sixteenth Century Prussian Humanism," Journal of Baltic Studies, XXII, I (Spring, 1991), 5-28.
24. "Italian Humanism in Poland: the Role of the University of Krakow in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries," in Jean R. Brink and William F. Gentrup, eds., Renaissance Culture in Context: Theory and Practice (Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1993), pp. 164-175.
25. "National Consciousness in Medieval Poland," Ethnic Studies, X (1993), 65-84.
26. "Poland," in Hans J. Hillerbrand,
Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), III, 283-288.
27. Jadwiga and Education," The Polish Review [forthcoming]
28. The University Context of Cracovian
Conciliarism in the Fifteenth Century," Polonia Sacra
[forthcoming]
Notes and Short Articles:
Eighteen entries: short review articles, conference rapports, brief biographical and historiographical articles in reference works, and the like.
Reviews:
Eighty-two reviews of scholarly works in scholarly journals, including The American Historical Review, Speculum, The Slavic Review, Renaissance Quarterly, The Polish Review, Church History, The Catholic Historical Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, East Central Europe, The Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, The English Historical Review, The Business History Review, Isis, The International History Review, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, Mediaevistik.
Sixty-five brief reviews of scholarly works on Poland and
east central Europe for CHOICE Magazine (a reference and advisory
guide of the American Library Association).
Translations and Editorial Work:
"Louis the Great as King of Poland as Seen in the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnkow," by Jerzy Kloczowski, in S.B. Vardy, G. Grosschmid, and L.S. Domonkos, eds., Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland (New York: Columbia University Press [East European Monographs], 1986), pp. 129-154.
Books for College Libraries, 3rd edition, vol. III: History, sections on "Poland" (Westbury, CT: American Library Association, 1988).
1992 AP European History: Free-Response Scoring Guide and Sample Student Answers (with analysis by Chief Faculty Consultant Paul W. Knoll) (New York: The College Board, 1992), 59pp.
Vita Caroli IV [translation from the Latin of the Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV]
(Forthcoming, Central European University Press, 2000.
Work in Progress and Forthcoming
Book manuscript: "A Pearl of Powerful Learning: The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century," ca 180,000 words, complete in draft.
Monograph: "Conciliar Thought in Fifteenth Century Poland and the Origins of Early Modern Polish Political Theory;" designed to be about 50,000 words.
Introduction, Bibliography, and Editor,
Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rusí, vol. IV
(14th-16th centuries) (to be published by the Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Peter Jacyk Centre).
MAJOR FELLOWSHIP AWARDS:
Graduate Fellow, The Danforth Foundation, Class of 1960
NDEA Title VI, Foreign Language Fellowship, 1963-1964 (Polish)
Purdue
University Faculty Research Grants (XL Grants), Summer 1965 and Summer 1966
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Slavic and East European
Studies Grants, 1966-67, 1970-71, 1984-85
American Philosophical Society
Grant, 1969
University of Southern California, Research and Publications
Grants, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1981
University of Southern California,
Faculty Research and Innovation Grants (FRIF)/Zumberge Research and Innovation
Grants (ZRIF), 1984-85, 1992-93
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
Junior Fellowship, 1970
International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) and
Fulbright Fellowship (Office of Education Administration), 1977-78 academic
year: ten months in Poland at Instytut Historyczny of Warsaw University and
Instytut Historii of the Polish Academy of Sciences Haynes Foundation Summer
Fellowship for Faculty, 1978
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of
America
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Renaissance Society of America
American Society of Church History
American Catholic Historical Association
American Association of
University Professors
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Western Slavic Association
Medieval Association of the Pacific
Early
Slavic Studies Association
Polish Studies Association
American Cusanus
Society