William L. Email & Phone Number

Newport, Ky, Us

Highland Heights, Kentucky (Greater Cincinnati Area)

Campbell County, Kentucky

I was elected to the Campbell County Kentucky Conservation District Board (as a Supervisor) in November of 2018, and have been an official part of the Board since January 1, 2019.

The United States

I was fortunate to be contracted by Audble, Inc. to write and to narrate an Audible Exclusive book titled "The Rise and Fall of the Borgias", an investigation of one of the Renaissance's most notorious families. Christina H., an Audible, Inc. Editor wrote that, "“Facts we all know about the Borgias: They had power. They had Popes. Everything in the Showtime series couldn’t be true. Professor Landon probes why this particular family acquired a reputation for incest, poison and assassination. Did Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI) hold orgies in the Vatican, or was be a better-than-average Renaissance pontiff? Was Lucrezia, his daughter – yes, you read that right – a murderous temptress, or merely a woman whose value was to ally her family to other powerful clans through marriage? One overarching question run through the lectures like silk through brocade: what made the Borgias infamous?”

Chantilly, Va

I was invited to audition to be a writer and presenter for "The Great Courses" in the summer of 2015. After writing up a test lecture, I was contracted to write a 24 part series on the importance of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince", which illustrates how that infamous work was received in its own time, and how it has been judged and used right down to the present. My series, part of the the "Books that Matter" collection, via Audible.com and thegreatcourses.com.

Highland Heights, Ky 41099

As the Chair of The Department of History and Geography at Northern Kentucky University, I was responsible for leading and managing all aspects of my diverse department, which is comprised of 27 full-time, creative personalities. Such leadership and management duties includes: budget, recruiting and hiring faculty, staff and students; and representing my Department on campus and further afield. My scholarly work is internationally recognized, resulting in invited speaking engagements in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Canada. I take great pride in being a polished and professional presenter.Additionally, I am an active scholar and grant writer. My most recent monograph was recently nominated for the Renaissance Society of America's prestigious Gordon Book Prize.

Interim Chairperson of the Department of History and Geography, Associate Professor of European History, and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

I taught upper division, undergraduate seminar courses in Renaissance, Reformation and Medieval Europe and also courses on Classical Antiquity. All of my courses are interdisciplinary with an emphasis on recent and classic historical scholarship, political theory and art history. In addition to teaching upper division courses, I also teach first year, freshman survey courses (traditional and online) in European History until 1713. At the graduate level, I am also an active thesis advisor, and committee chair, to MA candidates at NKU. Recently, I was awarded multiple grants to pursue research in Italian archives. That research will be the foundation of my third book project.

Led discussion groups on a weekly basis with first year students in the one-year European History Survey in The University of Edinburgh's School of History.