BEN GOFF HISTORY
23 APRIL 2021
Curriculum Vitae
Ben Goff
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History
Florida State University
bngoff@fsu.edu
Education
Degrees
2022 (expcected) Ph.D., History
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Dissertation: “An Economy of Life: Military Medicine and the French State, 1630-1815”
Major Field: Early Modern Europe
Teaching Fields: Science, Medicine, Environment; Atlantic World; Islamic World
2014 M.A., History
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Thesis: “Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion”
2011 B.A., History
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Minors: French, Classics
Non-Degree Programs
2018 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
2011 French Language Summer Intensive Course
Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Grants and Fellowships
External
2021-Masséna Society Dissertation Fellow, The Masséna Society
2020-Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship, L’Institut Français d’Amérique and the Society for French Historical Studies
2020-Micro Grant, Society for Military History
2019-Masséna Society Dissertation Fellow, The Masséna Society
2018-Mellon Institute in French Paleography Summer Fellow, Newberry Library
2018-Masséna Society Dissertation Fellow, The Masséna Society
2016-Conference Travel Grant, International Napoleonic Society
Internal
2021-UROP Materials Grant, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
2020-Martin-Vegue Fellowship, Florida State University, dissertation completion grant
2015-Legacy Fellow, Florida State University, competitive graduate school recruitment package
2015-Donald D. Horward Fellow, Florida State University, history department recruitment package
Awards
2021-Joe Richardson Excellence in Teaching Award, Florida State University History Department
2015-Fellows Society Inductee, Florida State University Graduate School Honors Society
2011-Best Undergraduate Paper, Pennsylvania East Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record
2020-History of the Middle East, Florida State University
2020-The Modern World to 1815, Florida State University
2019-Medicine and Society in the United States, Florida State University
2014-2015-Ancient History, Butler County Community College
2014-Early United States History, Butler County Community College
Discussion Leader and Grading Assistant
2018-The Modern World since 1815, Florida State University
Grading Assistant
2017-Guns, Drugs, and Slaves, Florida State University
2017-Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., Florida State University
2016-The Modern World since 1815, Florida State University
Publications
Book Reviews
2020-Benjamen Goff. Review of Lockley, Tim, Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874. H-War, H-Net Reviews. November, 2020. Link
Research Assistantships
2019-Assistant to Dr. Ron Doel. Project: “International Scientific Cooperation during the Cold War.” Florida State University. Compiled and annotated an index of primary sources
2016-Assistant to Dr. Laurie Wood. Project: “Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics.” Florida State University. Organized bibliographic material and transcribed primary documents
Conference Presentations
2020-“Cultivating and Deploying Naval Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century French World,” Society for Military History, Washington DC (Cancelled due to
the COVID-19 pandemic)
2019-“Military Medicine and the Relationship between Knowledge and Empire,” Society for Military History, Columbus OH
2017-“The Milice of Eighteenth-Century France,” Society for Military History, Jacksonville, FL
2017-“Militias in Late Eighteenth-Century France: Reforms and the Revolution,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Charleston, SC
2016-“Provincial Regiments and Service Exemptions in Late Eighteenth-Century France,” Florida State War and Society Workshop, Tallahassee, FL
2016-“Conceptions of Martial Strength in the French Enlightenment,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Shreveport, LA
2016-“Early Modern French Military Culture: A Literary Analysis of the Sixteenth Century,” Southeastern Regional Graduate Conference, Tallahassee, FL
2016-“The Military as a Reflection of National Character: 1800-1815,” International Napoleonic Congress, Dublin, Ireland
Conference Chairs and Comments
2020-Comment, “Sulphur and Sailing: Science and Medicine in the Revolutionary Era,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Tallahassee FL
2020-Chair, “The Medieval World and the Supernatural,” Southeast Regional Graduate Student Conference, Tallahassee FL
Service to the Profession
2020-2021-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), Florida State University.
Directed undergraduates working on original historical research for publication.
2019-2020-Vice President, History Graduate Student Association, Florida State University
2019-2020-Chair, Southeast Regional Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University
Organized a 50-person conference under the theme “Otherness and Unheard Narratives.” The conference was moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019-Graduate Student Mentor to incoming student Philip Hazard, Florida State University
2019-National History Day Judge. Community Christian School, Tallahassee, Florida
Judged posters and documentaries for the junior section
2011-2012-Volunteer, Butler County Historical Society, Butler Pennsylvania
Worked as an archivist, cataloging sources on prominent local families
Professional Experience
2014-2015-Adjunct Faculty, Butler County Community College, Butler, PA
Taught courses in early American history and ancient history
2010-Internship, Eagles Mere Museum, Eagles Mere, PA
Started development on new local history exhibit
Memberships
Society for French Historical Studies
Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution
Society for Military History
Fellows Society, Florida State University
Phi Alpha Theta
H-War
H-France
Languages
French-Full professional proficiency
R-Basic proficiency