• Daniel Riches
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2007
  
  dlriches@ua.edu
  
  

  Research Interests:

• Early Modern European History (especially Central and Northern Europe)
• Military and Diplomatic History
• Interaction of Religion and Diplomacy
• Interpersonal Networks
• History of Higher Education

Courses Currently Taught:

• Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 101)
• Honors Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 105)
• The Thirty Years' War (HY 400/500)
• Early Modern Germany (HY 451/500)
• War and Diplomacy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe HY 481/500)
• War and Religion in the West (HY 482/500)
• Undergraduate Research Seminar in Early Modern Europe (HY 430)
• Proseminar in Early Modern European History (HY 631)
• Proseminar in European Religious History (HY 635)
• Seminar in European History (HY 682)

Recent Publications:

• "Conversion and Diplomacy in Absolutist Northern Europe." In David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, and David Warren Sabean (eds.), Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming in April 2012).
• "A New Paradigm for Studying the Thirty Years War." Discussion piece (featured, extended review) on Peter H. Wilson, Europe's Tragedy – A History of the Thirty Years War (London: Allen Lane, 2009). In German History 29:1 (2011), 102-107.
• "Italian Travel and the Professors of the University of Frankfurt/Oder in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." In Emilio Bonfatti, Herbert Jaumann, and Merio Scattola (eds.), Italien und Deutschland. Austauschbeziehungen in der gemeinsamen Gelehrtenkultur der frühen Neuzeit (Padua: Unipress, 2008), 219-246.
• (with Susan Lewis Hammond and Erik Thomson) "Emulation and Competition. Introduction: Early Modern Scandinavian Transformations of European Examples." In Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005), Nr. 3, 327-330.
• "Early Modern Military Reform and the Connection Between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia." In Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005), Nr. 3, 347-364.
• "The Rise of Confessional Tension in Brandenburg’s Relations with Sweden in the Late-seventeenth Century." In Central European History 37 (2004), Nr. 4, 568-592.
• "The Swedish Reception of Early Modern Dutch Military Reform and its Transmission from Sweden to Brandenburg." In Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 2004. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest, 2004.

Current Projects:

• Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture: Brandenburg-Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Book manuscript in preparation.
• "The Rhetoric of Difference in the Marriage Negotiations between Queen Christina of Sweden and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg." In Mary Lindemann and David Luebke (eds.), Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Early Modern Germany (in preparation).
• "Bengt Skytte's Universitas Gentium and Swedish Historiography." Article in preparation.
• Next book project: Pan-Protestantism After Westphalia.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• University of Alabama Research Grants Committee Award (2011)
• University of Alabama Research Grants Committee Award (2008)
• Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Aurora Borealis Prize (2007)
• Von Holst Prize Lectureship, Department of History, University of Chicago (2003)
• Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, University of Chicago (2002-2003)
• DAAD Scholarship for research and study in Germany (1999-2000)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education (1997-2002)
• Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (1996-1997)