I
was born in White Plains, New York, and lived there briefly before a short stint
in Houston, Texas. By the time I was three, my family moved to California which
is my "home," otherwise known as the "old country." I grew
up in Los Altos in the Bay Area
(that's in the South Bay for you California cognoscenti) when it was still a
middle-class town and graduated from Los
Altos High (the one in Los Altos, not the one in Hacienda Heights).
Then it was off to Pomona College where I became a history major, joined Lambda Chi (now defunct, but not in my heart), and ran on the track team (see if you can spot me here—I'm in several places). While attending Pomona, I had the wonderful opportunity of studying abroad at University College, Oxford ("Univ!") during my junior year—something that quite literally changed my life. It turned me into an Anglomaniac, and I embraced the hopeless cause of English football. After graduation, I worked as a paralegal for Morrison & Foerster ("MoFo") in San Francisco before heading to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UCSB, I found my career, my life, and my wife (Elizabeth, whom some of you might know through our Humanities program). It was a great part of the world to live in because Santa Barbara is really the closest place to Eden I can think of. While doing dissertation research, I lived in Britain (1996-1997), occupying a flat in Hampstead. (I have since returned to Britain on another research adventure in 2003.) After briefly serving as an instructor at UCSB, I taught for a year at the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon (1999-2000) before moving on to the University of Puget Sound (2000-2002). I joined the History Department at Saint Anselm College in the fall of 2002. I have two children, Jackson (2001) and Vivien (2005).
Britain (2003): Jackson and I mind the gap as we take the Tube in London. On the same visit, Elizabeth and Jackson survey the skyline of Oxford.
The Fort at No. 4 (2007): Left, I hunt French and Indian War re-enactors while my brother-in-law looks on. Right, Jackson prepares to swab the 4-pounder.
Goffstown (2007): Left: While jumping on the futon, Vivi explains why she prefers Alphonse de Neuville's Defence of Rorke's Drift (1880) to his Cemetery at St. Privat, 18 August 1870 (1881). Goffstown (2009): Right: Vivi can take apart and reassemble this cheap, plastic, Chinese machine gun in 64 seconds. Another military historian is in the making.
Boston (2009): Jackson pays homage to his hero by making the pilgrimage to Paul Revere's grave at the Old Granary Burying Ground.
Saint Anselm College (2009): Here I am hanging with Professor Pajakowski in my office. According to ratemyprofessors.com, "Dubrulle is the second best Prof in the history department after Paj." If that's true, it's quite an honor.
Henniker (2008): We lose the championship final and get second place in Division 3 of the New Hampshire Soccer Conference for the second time in three years.
Henniker (2009): For the third time in four years we get second place in Division 3. We are the Buffalo Bills (remember the 1990s?) of the NHSC.