As an administrator for nearly two decades of institutions devoted to the promotion of research, and as a historian of scholarship who has studied the subject of research, it became clear to me that the really great administrators were those who viewed their institutional work as interventions in shaping scholarship. We should value and study their practice no less than the articles and books that came out of their institutions, written by those whose their vision promoted. Fritz Saxl, Abraham Flexner, and Clemens Heller are a few of those I have most closely focused on over the years. Heller’s work as Braudel’s administrative collaborator offered me the opportunity to show how whole fields of learning could sometimes be set in motion by an administrator with intellectual vision.

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“Two Men in a Boat: The Braudel-Goitein ‘Correspondence’ and the History of Thalassography,” The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. Miller. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2013, 27-59

“From Spain to India Becomes A Mediterranean Society. The Braudel-Goitein ‘Correspondence’ Part II,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 56 (2014), 112-35

“Towards an Intellectual History of Academic Administration,” in Perspectives on History. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (March 2016).