David M. Gallo

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B.A. in History

Minors in History and Political Science

Minor in Women's Studies

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		Associate Professor of History Ph.D., Boston College M.A., Boston College Th.M., Harvard University M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology B.A., Assumption College

Contact Information: (718) 405-3481 david.gallo@mountsaintvincent.edu The Academy, Room 304		Areas of Expertise: Reign of Louis XIV Versailles and Court Culture Byzantine Empire - Reign of Justinian & Theodora

Courses:

HIST 214 Shaping of the Modern World
HIST 210 Classical Civilizations
HIST 211 Medieval History
HIST 212 Eastern Roman Empire
HIST 400 Early Modern Europe
HIST 495 Practicum in the Teaching of History

Research Interests:
Courtly life during reign of King Louis XIV
King Louis XIV of France
Versailles
Royal chateaux
Marie Antoinette
Old Regime France

Honors and Awards

Teacher of the Year, 2006
Knight in a European Order of Chivalry (Capellán Caballero con Mérito in the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George (Order of Chivalry bestowed by HRH the Infante Don Carlos of Borbon-Dos Sicilias, Duke of Calabria).

Recent Publications:
"Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV's Lever du Roy and the Theory of the `King's Two Bodies" for Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009.

“What’s Still Grand about the Grand Siècle: The Age of Louis XIV and the Education of the Heart” in Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Actes du Colloque 2005.

The Château of Marly-le-Roi. Musée de Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes, France (in the English language section of the research library).

Conference Paper: "Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV's Lever du Roy and the Theory of the 'King's Two Bodies'" given at the 25th Annual Conference, Society for Interdisciplinary French

Conference Paper: Seventeenth-Century Studies, as part of a panel on "Body and Soul/Le Corps et l'Âme," October 13th, 2006, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.