Faculty Name:David Gallo, PhD
Designation
Associate Professor of History
Education Qualification
- PhD, Boston College
- MDiv, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
- ThM, Harvard University
- MA, Boston College
- BA, Assumption University
Areas of Interest
- Courtly life during reign of King Louis XIV of France
- King Louis XIV of France
- Versailles and court culture
- Royal chateaux
- Marie Antoinette
- Old Regime France
- Byzantine Empire (Reign of Justinian and Theodora)
More
Courses
- HIST 202 Royalties and Revolutions: Pre-Modern to the Modern Worlds
- HIST 300 Classical Civilizations
- HIST 301 Medieval History
- HIST 302 Eastern Roman Empire
- HIST 405 The Tudor Reformations
- HIST 410 The French Monarchy, 1560-1789
- HIST 417 Britain: Foundations of Constitutional Rule, 1660-1714
- HIST 495 Practicum in the Teaching of History
Honors and Awards
- 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)
- Teacher of the Year, University of Mount Saint Vincent, 2006
Professional Affiliations
Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle français)
Publications
- “Total Eclipse: Black Masses and the Dark Arts at the Court of the Sun King,” Supernatural Studies Association, 2nd Annual Conference, University of Mount Saint Vincent, March 29, 2019
- “A Provincial Noble at Versailles: Jean Plantavit de la Pause, Marquis de Margon, at the Reception of the Doge of Genoa, 15 May 1685,” presented at the 33rd Annual Conference, Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, panel on “Center and Margins/Centre et Marges, ” University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, October 18, 2014
- “Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV’s Lever du Roy and the Theory of the `King’s Two Bodies” Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
- “Seventeenth-Century Studies,” as part “Body and Soul/Le Corps et l’Âme,” University of Iowa, October 13, 2006
- “What’s Still Grand about the Grand Siècle: The Age of Louis XIV and the Education of the Heart” Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Actes du Colloque, 2005
- The Château of Marly-le-Roi. Musée de Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes, France (English language section)
- “Royal Bodies, Royal Bedrooms: Louis XIV’s Lever du Roy and the Theory of the ‘King’s Two Bodies,'” 25th Annual Conference, Society for Interdisciplinary French