Associate Professor of History
Teacher of the Year, 2006

Contact Information
718-405-3481
david.gallo@mountsaintvincent.edu

Dr. Gallo's doctoral research was on the chronological development of the daily ceremonials surrounding King Louis XIV of France from 1655 to 1702. His interest is in the court life and ceremonials of Louis XIV, and their relationship to the architecture of Versailles (and other royal chateaux) and their shaping of the political life of Old Regime France. He is also a 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).

Administrative Duties
Chair, History Department, 2004–present
Chair, College Senate, 2004–2008
Faculty Council Executive Committee, 2006-2008

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

Education
B.A., Assumption College, 1979 (summa cum laude)
M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology, 1984
Th.M., Harvard University (cum laude), 1985
M.A. in History, Boston College, 1989
Ph.D. in History, Boston College, 1992

Publications
“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).

Recent Conference Papers
"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
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.

Recent Area of Research
"Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: the Queen's Bedchamber at Versailles and the Terrorizing of Marie Antoinette"

Favorite Links
The Society for Court Studies, http://www.courtstudies.org/
Louis XIV, the Sun King, http://www.louis-xiv.de/
Chateau de Versailles,  http://www.chateauversailles.fr/