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Dr. Dan Crews
Education
Ph.D. History, December, 1984, Auburn University
Dissertation: Juan de Valdés and the Imperial Ideology of Charles V.
Language certifications: Spanish and Russian.
M.A. History, May 1979, University of Memphis.
B.A. History & Political Science, July, 1977, University of North Alabama.
Employment
1987- University of Central Missouri, tenured 1993, Professor 1999.
1984-1987 Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Baptist University.
Selected & Recent Publications
"How Charlie Mayes dropped into History," article submitted to the Missouri Historical Review and currently being revised.
Invited book review of Juan Carlos González Espitia's Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispnic World for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, vol 22, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 557-558.
"Renaissance Conception of Justification." In: Sgarbi M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1017-1
Invited entry, “Juan de Valdés” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, May 2021.
Invited book review of Cristian Berco’s, From Body to Community: Venereal
Disease and Society in Baroque Spain, in Renaissance Quarterly, 70, no.2 (summer 2017): 698-699.
Invited entry, “Juan de Valdés.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Invited book review of K. Anipa, Juan de Valdés’ Díalogo de la Lengua: A Diplomatic Edition in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 1, (Spring, 2016): 219-220.
Invited book review of Masimo Firpoo, Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation in the Catholic Historical Review, vol. 102, no.1 (Winter 2016): 168-169.
“Biografia y autobiografia novelesca: datos nuevos sobre Juan de Valdés y Lazarillo de Tormes.” In Actas del Congreso de la Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas, Ed. Pierre Civil. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2010.
Twilight of the Renaissance: The Life of Juan de Valdés, University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Invited entry, “Francisco de los Cobos” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, vol. 1, 550-551. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
"Juan de Valdés y la crisis de Camerino, 1534-1535." In Aspectos históricos y culturales bajo Carlos V, ed. Christoph Strosetzki, 106-118. Frankfurt am Main: Velvuert, Madrid: Iberroamericana, 2000.
"De armas y letras: el cursas honorum de Juan de Valdés." In Actas del XIII congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Vol. 4, Historia y Sociedad, ed. Florencio Sevilla y Carlos Alvar, 79-86. Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 2000.
Invited book review: Vives: Edicions Princeps edited by Enrique González, et al. The Sixteenth Century Journal, XXI, no. 4 (Fall 1995): 749-750
Invited entry, "Juan de Valdés." In Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450 - Present, pp. 4805-4812. Edited by James A. Moncure. Washington D.C.: Beacham Publishing, Inc., 1993.
"Intellectual Sources of Spanish Imperialism: The Education of Juan de Valdés," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas IX, No. 1 (Spring, 1992): 38-43.
"Juan de Valdés and the Comunero Revolt: An Essay on Spanish Civic Humanism." The Sixteenth Century Journal XXII, No. 2 (Summer 1991): 233-252.
Invited book review: Alonso de Zorita: Royal Judge and Christian Humanist, by Ralph Vigil. The Sixteenth Century Journal XIX, No. 4 (Winter 1988): 658.
"Juan de Valdés and Spanish Imperial Humanism," in Explorations in Renaissance Culture XI (1986): 43-51.
Service in Professional Societies
2009- 2020 An executive editor for Bulletin of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
2010-2012 General Secretary of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
2009-2010 Vice General Secretary of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
1989-1999, and 2007-2009 General Editor of the Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
1991-2009 Member of the editorial board of Mediterranean Studies
1999 Co-host and Co-Organizer with Luis Corteguera (University of Kansas) of the 40th anniversary conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Kansas City, March 1999.
Presentations
"Lazarillo de Tormes' Golden Ass: A Mini-Micro History," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, 27-30 Oct. 2022.
"The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Mayes," presented in September 1021 at the University of Central Missouri as part of the university's Sesquicentennial Celebration.
Invited chair and discussion leader for panel, "Medical Knowledge and Practice in Spain and New Spain," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Oct. 17-19, 2019.
Organized the panel and presented a paper at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies held in Barcelona, July 2019. Panel title, The Emperor’s Impossible Dreams; my presentation, “Royal Justice vs. Voluntary Mercy: The Case of the General Hospital in Cuenca.”
“Lazarillo de Tormes and the Castilian Court Disease,” presented at the International Conference on Medicine, Literature, and Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 3-5 July 2017.
“Lazarillo de Tormes and the Purge of Purgatory in the Spanish Reformation,” presented at the Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, April 2017.
Invited chair and commentator on panel: “Spanish Diplomacy in Sixteenth Century Italy,” 48th meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York University, March 2017.
“Charles V’s Court Crisis (1527-1532) and Lazarillo’s ‘Vuestra Merced,’” 47th meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Diego Naval Museum, sponsored by San Diego State University, March, 2016.
“Doctors, Empirics and Charles V’s Court Disease,” 46th meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins University, March, 2015.
“Charity and Masturbation: The Case of Francisco Ortiz,” 45th meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Modena, Italy, 26-29 June 2014.
“The French Disease and Italian Heresy: The Case of Giovanni di Valdés,” invited presentation to the Hall Center Early Modern Seminar, University of Kansas, October, 2013.
“Spreading Brotherly Love: Juan de Valdés and Hospital Confraternities in Cuenca and Naples,” presented at the 127th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, 3-6 January, 2013.
Presentation for Plenary Panel Celebrating the Retirement of Wim and Carla Phillips. Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Albuquerque, 5 April 2013.
“Back from the Dead: Señor San Lázaro, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the Valdés Family,” presented at the43rd meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Tufts University, April, 2012.
“Charles V's Imperial Propaganda and Conciliar Diplomacy, 1541-1554,” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lisbon, July 2011.
"The Converso Civic Christianity of Juan de Valdés." Invited lecture, King's College, Oxford, June 2010.
"Valdesian Justification and Lazarillo de Tormes," presented at the Quinto Congreso Internacional sobre los Conversos y los Morescos, University of Alcala, Spain, June 2010.
"Deconstruction of Valdesian Justification," Mediterranean Studies Conference, University of Salamanca, Spain, May 2010.
"Love and Language in Juan de Valdes's Neapolitan Sodality," 40th Annual by the University of Kansas and the University of Central Missouri.)
“Mendacious History and Postmortem Heresy: Bartolomé de Carranza and Juan de Valdés,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Saint Louis, October 2008.
“Biografía y autobiografía novelesca: datos nuevos sobre Juan de Valdés y Lazarillo de Tormes.“ Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Paris, France, July 2007.
“Welfare Reform, Lazarillo de Tormes, and the Valdés Family,” presented at the 38th meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Miami, Florida, April 2007.
“Francisco de los Cobos and Juan de Valdés: Privanza and Clientage Under Charles V,” presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2006.
“El bueno, el bello, y el herético: Giulia Gonzaga y la origen del círculo Valdesiano en Nápoles,” the triennial meeting of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Monterrey, Mexico, July 2004.
The Good, the Beautiful, and the Heretical: Giulia Gonzaga and the Origins of the Valdesian Circle in Naples,” the Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, May 2004.
“The Mysterious Death of Cardinal Medici and Spanish Diplomacy,” presented at the Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, July 2002, Granada, Spain.
“The Dirty Cardinal and the Humanist Saint: Juan de Valdés and the Trial of Benedetto Accolti,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Athens, Georgia, April 2002.
“Juan de Valdés and the Tunisian Campaign of Charles V,” presented at the Mediterranean Studies Association, Bahia Brazil, May 2000.
"Juan de Valdés y la crisis de Camerino 1534-1535," invited presentation at the German symposium celebrating the 500th birthday of Charles V, University of Münster, February 2000. All expenses paid by the organizers of the symposium.
“Ascanio Colonna, Juan de Valdés and the Diet of Ratisbon, 1541,” invited lecture, Oxford University (Trinity College) March 1999.
"A Matter of Honor: Juan de Valdés' Pursuit of Office in Naples," presented at the Conferencia Mediterranea XX, July, 1998 (Valencia).
"De armas y letras: el cursas honorum de Juan de Valdés," presented at the Triennial Meeting of the Asociación Interncional de Hispanistas, July, 1998 (Madrid).
Commentator for session, “Government and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Spain,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, April, 1998 (St. Louis).
Commentator for session "The'State' and Political Reality: Castille in the Reign of Charles V," American Historical Association, January, 1997 (NY).
"The Political Theology of Juan de Valdés and the Diet of Ratisbon, 1541," presented at the Southern Historical Association, Nov., 1995 (New Orleans).
"The Political Theology of Juan de Valdés and the Diet of Ratisbon, 1541," presented at Conferencia Mediterranea XVII, July, 1995 (Murcia, Spain).
"Intellectual Sources of Spanish Imperialism: The Education of Juan de Valdés," annual SSPHS meeting, April, 1992 (San Juan, Puerto Rico).
"Juan de Valdés and Spanish Administration of Naples," presented at the Centennial Anniversary of the Auburn History Department, October, 1991(Auburn University).
"Juan de Valdés and the Conciliar Diplomacy of Charles V," presented at the Central Renaissance Conference, April, 1991 (University of Missouri).
"Juan de Valdés and the Conciliar Diplomacy of Charles V," presented at Conferencia Mediterranea XII, July, 1990 (Cartagena, Spain).
Commentator for the session "The Spanish Reformation." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October, 1989 (University of Minnesota).
"Juan de Valdés and the Mediterranean Empire of Charles V," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, October, 1988 (Tempe, Arizona).
"Juan de Valdés and the Mediterranean Empire of Charles V," presented at Conferencia Mediterranea IX, July, 1987 (Rome).
"The Marquis de Villena and the Civic Humanism of Juan de Valdés," annual SSPHS meeting, April, 1987 (University of Texas).
"Juan de Valdés and the Comunero Revolt: A Case of Spanish Civic Humanism," presented at the Central Renaissance Conference, April, 1986 (University of Kansas).
"Juan de Valdés and Spanish Imperial Humanism," presented at the South Central Renaissance Conference, March, 1985 (Texas A&M University).
