Revised: 24. January 1997

MAX E. RIEDLSPERGER

PERSONAL:

Born: Detroit, Michigan, July 7, 1937

Marital status: married: wife Deanna, daughter Gretchen, grandson Benjamin.

EDUCATIONAL

High School: Cooley High, Detroit Michigan, graduated 1955

College: A.B. Wabash College, 1955-1959, A.B.: major: history, minors: political science, psychology.

M.A. University of Michigan, 1959-1961: history, political science,

Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1966-1969: history. Fields: Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, Russia and Soviet Union, Modern Europe, U.S. Diplomatic.

Other universities attended as part of undergraduate, graduate, or post-doctoral programs in that order: University of Detroit (1958), Wayne State University (1961-1963), University of Wisconsin (1965), Universität Salzburg (1968-1969), Indiana University (summer 1971), Vanderbilt University (summer,1976) Universität Heidelberg (Federal Republic of Germany, 1983-1984)

EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1961-1963: Teacher, Social Studies, Eastern High, Detroit, Michigan

1963-1966: Teacher, History, Government, German, Bay de Noc Community College, Escanaba, Michigan.

1966-1968: Teaching Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

1967-1968: Instructor, Colorado Womens' College, Denver, Colorado

1969-1972: Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University

1972-1977: Associate Professor, California Polytechnic State University

1977- : Professor, California Polytechnic State University

1983-1984: Resident Director, California State University International Programs in Germany (on leave from Cal Poly)

1985-1991: Department Chairman

EDUCATIONAL GRANTS AND AWARDS

National Defense Education Act grant for teachers of foreign language German), Summer Seminar, University of Wisconsin, 1965.

University Fellow: The University of Colorado, award for dissertation research. 1968-1969

Austrian Ministry of Education Fellowship, administered through the Fulbright competition, Salzburg, 1968-1969.

American Council of Learned Societies summer stipend for the study of Czech. Indiana University, 1971.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College and University professors, "Europe in the Age of Fascism," directed by Charles Delzell, Vanderbilt University, 1976.

Cal Poly Distinguished Teaching Award, 1984-1985.

Numerous Cal Poly CARE and MPPP research grants and member of group of faculty who participated in a program for globalization of the curriculum supported by the U.S. Department of Education

Listed in Marquis, Who's Who in America.

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

Numerous departmental and college committees.

Chair, Academic Senate General Education and Breadth Committee, 1977-1978.

Chairman, Cal Poly Academic Senate, 1978-1979, 1979-1980.

State Academic Senate, CSU 1980-83; liaison to Academic Council on International Programs; 1980-1983, member Credit and Curriculum Committee, 1981-1983.

CSU Admisions Advisory Council. 1981-1983.

CSU International Progams, Resident Director, Germany, 1983-1984

CSU Task Force on International Aspects of Education in the CSU, 1984-86.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

One book, chapters in books, articles in professional journals, conference papers and book reviews in professional journals, and pre-publication reviews for publishers. Click here for a bibliography of the published works and papers and access to many of them.




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