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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jamel M. Ostwald

Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern Europe)

Department of History

Eastern Connecticut State University

ostwald at-sign easternct dot edu

www.jostwald.com

Education

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2002

M.A., Ohio State University, 1995

Professional Experience

Teaching

Courses Taught

Eastern Connecticut State University – Assistant Professor

HIS 231: Western Civilization since 1500

HIS 203: Renaissance/Reformation

HIS 350: European Warfare, 1337-1815

HIS 355: Reformation Europe

HIS 356: Old Regime Europe

HIS 357: French Revolution and Napoleon

HIS 391: Religion, War and Peace in Early Modern Europe

HIS 406: Military Revolution in Europe (seminar)

George Mason University – Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow

Religion, War and Peace in Early Modern Europe

Western Civilization

Ohio State University – Adjunct Instructor

Western Civilization from the 17^th century (Winter & Spring 2003)

Columbus State Community College – Adjunct Instructor

World Civilization II

Western Civilization to 1500

Research

Publications

Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession, (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007).

"Vauban et la guerre de siège" in Victoria Sanger and Isabelle Warmoes (eds.), Vauban, bâtisseur du Roi-soleil, (Paris: Somogy 2007), 132-141 (translated by Pierre Saint-Jean).

 “Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban,” in Steve Walton (ed.), Instrumental in War: Science, Research, and Instrumentation between Knowledge and the World (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005).

“The ‘Decisive’ Battle of Ramillies, 1706: Prerequisites of Decisiveness in Early Modern Warfare,” The Journal of Military History 64 (July 2000), 649-678.

Book Reviews

Nicole Salat and Thierry Sarmant, Politique, guerre et fortification au Grand Siècle. Lettres de Louvois à Louis XIV, (Paris: Société de l'histoire de France, 2007) for The Journal of Military History.

Roy McCullough, Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France, (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007) for The Journal of Military History.

Brett Steele and Tamera Dorland (eds.), The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of the Enlightenment, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005) for Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science.

Janis Langins, Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004) for IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology.

Scholarly Presentations

“Competing Views of Military Utility in Vauban-Era Siegecraft” at the International Committee for the History of Technology Symposium 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 August 2007.

“Making Space for War in the Vauban Historiography” at the Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World conference, organized by the Departments of History and French, University of Minnesota, October 2006.

Commentator on “Britons on the Continent: Reflections on the Use of Expeditionary Forces in Early Modern Europe” at the Society for Military History 2004 Annual Meeting, Bethesda, MD on 21 May 2004.

“The Laws of War in Early Modern Siege Warfare” presented at the Urban Operations in War and Peace: Cantigny Conference Series, Wheaton, IL on 4 March 2004.

“The Inevitability of Siegecraft: The Dutch Contribution to Marlborough’s Victories” presented at The American Historical Association 2004 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. on 9 January 2004

Commentator on two panels at the Western Society for French History 31st Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA: “Early Modern and Modern Military History” on 30 October 2003, and “Political Testaments and Military Legacies” on 1 November 2003.

“Louis XIV’s Cabinet War and the Option of Battle in an Age of Sieges” presented at the 2003 Society for Military History Conference, Knoxville, TN on 3 May 2003.

“Contexts of the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban” presented at the Society for the History of Technology 2002 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario on October 18, 2002.

“Databases and the War of the Spanish Succession” presented at the Western Society for French History 28^th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California on November 9, 2000.

“The Calculus of Surrender: Siege Capitulations in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1712” presented at the Twenty-third Annual Great Lakes Historical Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 2, 1998.

“Decisive Battle in Early Modern Europe: The Strange Case of the Duke of Marlborough and Ramillies, 1706” presented at the Society for Military History Conference, Chicago, Illinois on April 24, 1998.

 “Siege Warfare in Early Modern Europe: Allied Siege Lengths in the War of the Spanish Succession” presented at History: The Military and Society IV, Columbus, Ohio on April 12, 1996.

Last Updated: January 26, 2008