General Editor of New Perspectives on the Past, a series of monographs founded by R. I. Moore in 1983 and published by Blackwell, Oxford. Books published since 1993: David Arnold, The Problem of Nature (1996); Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 2nd edition (2006); Francis Oakley, Kingship (2006); William Ray, The Logic of Culture (2001); Bruce Trigger, Sociocultural Evolution (1998); David Turley, Slavery (2000); Merry Wiesner, Gender in History (2001). Articles, chapters in books, and other published writings "Recentering the West?" In Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West: Historians in Conversation, ed. Donald A. Yerxa, 98–103. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. Reprinted from Historically Speaking 9, no. 2 (Nov/Dec 2007): 14-16. "Hegel's Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages." Viator 39 (2008): 345- 86. "Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance." In The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin, 364–80. New York – London: Routledge, 2007. "Recentering the West: A Forum," by John M. Headley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Constantin Fasolt, and John M. Hobson. Historically Speaking 9, no. 2 (Nov/Dec 2007): 9-19. "Hermann Conring and the European History of Law." In Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations. Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., ed. Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Peter Starenko, and Peter Wallace, 113–134. Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 127. Leiden: Brill, 2007. "History and Religion in the Modern Age." History and Theory, Theme Issue 45 (2006): 10- 26. "Red Herrings: Relativism, Objectivism, and Other False Dilemmas." Storia della storiografia 48 (2005): 17-26. "Empire the Modern Way." Disquisitions on the Past & Present 13 (2005): 73-82. "The Limits of History: An Exchange," by Constantin Fasolt, Allan Megill, and Gabrielle M. Spiegel. Historically Speaking 6, no. 5 (May/June 2005): 5-17. "Political Unity and Religious Diversity: Hermann Conring's Confessional Writings and the Preface to Aristotle's Politics of 1637." In Confessionalization in Europe, 1555–1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, ed. John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand, and Anthony J. Papalas, 319–45. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. "Report on Enrollment and Teaching, 1996 to 2001," University of Chicago Record, August 15, 2002 37/1 (2002): 1-7 "Europäische Geschichte, zweiter Akt: Die Reformation." In Die deutsche Reformation zwischen Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. Thomas A. Brady, 231–50. München: R. Oldenbourg, 2001. "Hermann Conring and the Republic of Letters." In Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter des Konfessionalismus. The European Republic of Letters in the Age of Confessionalism,