BRIAN WEISER
Department of History, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver CO, 80217
Cell phone: (347) 922-1687; Email:
APPOINTMENT
Professor of History-- Metropolitan State University of Denver
EDUCATION
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of History Ph. D. 1999
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, M. A. 1993
Columbia College of Columbia University, B. A. 1991
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Charles II and the Politics of Access. Woodbridge, Suffolk UK: Boydell, 2003.
“Falstaff, Shame and Honor.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare,edited by Malcolm Smuts, Oxford University Press.2016
“The Military Revolution and Absolutism.” In ABC-CLIO Analyze Series (2012)
“Shaul and the Stranger King.” In From Within the Tent, edited by Daniel Feldman and Stuart Halpern. New York. Yeshiva University Press, 2011.
“The Causes of Absolutism.” In ABC-CLIO Enduring Questions Series (2010)
Introduction to Winston Churchill, The History of the English Speaking Peoples: The New World. New York: Barnes and Noble Press, 2005.
“Recent Work in Economic Thought.” History Compass, Blackwell Publishing Limited (2005).
“A Call for Order: Charles II’s Ordinances for the Household.” The Court Historian 6:2 (Sep. 2001): 151-6.
“Access and Petitioning During the Reign of Charles II.” In The Stuart Courts, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks. Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Press, 2001.
“The Politics and Representation of Access in Edward Howard's The Change of Crownes.” Restoration 24:1
(Spring 2000): 1-10.
“Owning the King’s Story: The Escape from Worcester.” Seventeenth Century 14:1 (Spring 1999): 43-62.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
“The Sybmolism of Skimmington,” Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studes, College Park, MD, March, 2017.
“Arlington and Access,” The Earl of Arlington and his World, University of London, November 2016
“When is a Skimmington not a Skimmington: The Shaming of the Vicar of Waterbeach, 1602,” delivered at the seminar on British History in the Seventeenth Century, Institute of Historical Research, London, February, 2016
“The Ordinances of Charles II,” delivered at the Palatium Conference, Making Room for Order, Kalmar, Sweden,
October, 2014
“The Shaming of Falstaff and the Taming of the Scold,” delivered at the Pacific Coast Conference
Of British Studies, Huntington Library, March, 2008.
“The Historical Context of Hobbes and Locke,” guest lecture, Columbia University, April 2007.
“Charles I and Economic Thought,” delivered at the North American Conference of British Studies, Denver, CO,
October, 2005.
“Monopolies and Monarchy: Accessibility, Demand, and Economic Theory in the Reigns of Charles I and Charles II,” delivered at the Northeastern Conference of British Studies, Malden, MA, November 14, 2003.
“The Black Death: The Social and Medical Consequences,” delivered at the School of Nursing, University of New Hampshire, March, 2003.
“The Regulation of Access in Charles II’s Palaces,” delivered at the Court Studies Seminar Series, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Nov, 2001.
“The Spectre of a Presbyterian King,” delivered at the John Bunyan Triennial Conference, Cleveland, OH,
October, 2001.
“From Whitehall To Worcester: The Palaces of Charles II,” delivered at the British Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, April 14, 2000.
“What Made the Merrie Monarch Mad?: The Politics and Representation of Access in Edward Howard's
The Change of Crownes,” delivered at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York,
NY, April 16, 1999.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver, 2004-Present
Assistant Dean, Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University: 2010-2011
Visiting Professor, Columbia University, 2008
Visiting Lecturer, Rutgers University at Newark, 2003 and 2005
Visiting Professor, University of New Hampshire, 2001- 2003
Visiting Professor, Chowan College, 2000
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book Reviews Editor, H-Albion, 2007-2009
LANGUAGES
German, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish
GRANTS, PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship Spring 2007
NEH Fellowship for the Folger Summer Institute, “Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution” 2003
Mellon Fellow in Literature and History 1996