Professional Profile
Gerald L. Soliday has recently retired as an Associate Professor of Historical Studies
and the History of Ideas in the
Professor Soliday has published A Community in Conflict: Frankfurt Society in the Seventeenth and
Early Eighteenth Centuries (University Press of New England, 1974) and
edited The History of Kinship and the
Family: A Select International
Bibliography (Kraus International Publishers, 1980). In addition, he has published six articles,
two review essays, and some sixty book reviews in professional journals. For many years he has engaged in research for
a social history of
Now that he is retired and teaching
only individual students or an occasional graduate course as an emeritus
professor, Dr. Soliday is focusing his work on a monograph and an edition of
primary sources that use the Hessian city as a case study to elucidate a wide
variety of interpretive issues in the social, political, and cultural history
of early modern Europe.
Gerald Soliday has served on the
program committee of the German Studies Association (1981, 82, and 83) and on
the national screening committee for German study grants of the Institute for
International Education (1990, 91, and 92).
He was coordinator of the Dallas Social History Group (1989-1993), and
in 1983 he was elected a Scholarly Member of the Hessian Historical
Commission. In 1998 he was president of
the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical
Association.