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Stephen Haliczer, Ph.D. is a well-known historian of the Spanish Inquisition with a strong interest in digital learning, simulations and games, human-computer interaction, and search technology. From 1999 to 2001 he was the director of HigherEdWorld, a Northern Illinois University sponsored project to promote digital learning in collaboration with other institutions. He received his Ph.D. from St. Andrew’s University (Scotland) in 1969 and has published six books, numerous scholarly articles, and has given thirty-three papers both in the United States and abroad.
During the 1980s and 1990s he became one of the leaders of the “new Inquisition scholarship.” His book on Valencia’s inquisitorial tribunal, Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia (University of California Press, 1990) is one of the pioneering studies of a local inquisitorial tribunal. His most recent book, From Exaltation to Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain, which was published by Oxford University Press in spring 2002, uses Inquisition case files to compare women mystics punished by the Holy Office with those who (like Saint Teresa) were accepted by the wider society. He has been visiting professor at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain) the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) and Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. Dr. Haliczer is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Haliczer has appeared on The History Channel, BBC, PBS, and The Discovery Channel.
During the last six years Dr. Haliczer has changed his focus to developing simulations and games for learning and the commercial market. He is the designer and developer of “Surviving the Spanish Inquisition,” “Making Saints,” “Four Early Modern Trials,” and the new board game “Vatican” published by the College of DuPage Press in early 2006. Dr. Haliczer is now coordinator of Web marketing/ online communities for College of DuPage.
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