• Daniel Riches
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2007
  
  dlriches@ua.edu
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 9:30-11:00 a.m.

  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)
• Early Modern Germany (HY 400/500)
• War and Diplomacy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (HY 400/500)
• War and Religion in the West (HY 400/500)
• Proseminar in European Religious History (HY 635)

Recent Publications:

• “The Italian Travels of the Professors of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” Forthcoming.
• “Early Modern Military Reform and the Connection Between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia.” Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005), Nr. 3, 347-364.
• With Susan Lewis Hammond and Erik Thomson. “Emulation and Competition. Introduction: Early Modern Scandinavian Transformations of European Examples.” Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005), Nr. 3, 327-330.
• “The Rise of Confessional Tension in Brandenburg’s Relations with Sweden in the Late-seventeenth Century.” 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.” Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 2004. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest, 2004.

Current Projects:

• Revision of dissertation, “The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697,” into a book manuscript.
• Book project: Pan-Protestantism After Westphalia

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• 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)