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Faculty By Concentration
Below are the different concentrations within the History Department. Click on each to see the full listing of faculty members within that concentration.
- Europe
- Gender and History
- Intellectual History
- Religion and History
- United States
- Worlds, Empires and Encounters
Europe
Javier Castro-Ibaseta
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 220
860-685-2326
Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 325
860-685-2326
BA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
MA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
PHD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
COL223 - 01
Theater and Society
COL409 - 27
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST407 - 01
Senior Tutorial
HIST409 - 35
Senior Thesis Tutorial
COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL404 - 08
Dept/Program Project or Essay
COL410 - 19
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST255 - 01
History of Spain
HIST410 - 14
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wed. 11-12 (PAC 220) and 3-4 (41 Wyllys 325), or by appointment.
Research Interests: Public forms of literature (satire, theater) and the formation of the public sphere in early modern Madrid. The Spanish Empire as a global entity.
Scholarly Keywords: Early Modern Spain and Spanish Empire Satire and political life (16th-17th centuries) History and literature
Academic Associations: American Historical Association
Paul Erickson
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 420
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-5748
BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
HIST221 - 01
History of Ecology
HIST336 - 01
Science and the State
HIST254 - 01
Science in Western Culture
HIST340 - 01
History of Rationality
HIST404 - 06
Dept/Program Project or Essay
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2
Nathanael Greene
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
BA Brown University
MA Harvard University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Harvard University
ARCP409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST164 - 01
France at War 1934-1944
HIST203 - 01
Modern Europe
HIST403 - 02
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST409 - 16
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST158 - 01
Soph Sem: Appeasement/Origins
HIST220 - 01
France Since 1870
HIST410 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays 10-11 and Wednesdays 1:10-4
Research Interests: France in the 1930s
Scholarly Keywords: European history since 1789 Modern French history Modern Spanish history
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Associate Professor of HistoryShow BioAssociate Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 414
860-685-2397
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2397
BA Brigham Young University
DPHIL Oxford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
MSC London School Econ & Political
HIST268 - 01
Origins of Global Capitalism
HIST319 - 01
The Weimar Republic
HIST404 - 02
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 22
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://condor.wesleyan.edu/egrimmer/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1-3:00; Wednesdays 4:10-5:00; or by appointment
Scholarly Keywords: Modern German history, economic and social history, modern European history
Oliver Holmes
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 320
860-685-2379
BA City College
MA University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Chicago
HIST362 - 02
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST383 - 01
French Existentialism And Marx
HIST409 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: ON LEAVE SPRING 2013
Ethan Kleinberg
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-4479
Professor of Letters
College of Letters
860-685-2323
Director, Center for the Humanities
95 Pearl Street
860-685-4479
Executive Editor
BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University of California LA
PHD University of California LA
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
COL245 - 01
Senior Colloquium
COL409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FRST409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CHUM227 - 01
Introduction to Theory
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
COL410 - 09
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FRST410 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Cecilia Miller
Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 405
860-685-2387
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2387
BA LeTourneau College
DPHIL Oxford University
MPHIL University of St Andrews
CSS407 - 01
Senior Tutorial
CSS409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST216 - 01
European Intellectual History
HIST294 - 01
Political Fiction
HIST294 - 02
Political Fiction
HIST491 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
HIST141 - 01
Theories and Models
HIST215 - 01
European Intellectual History
HIST404 - 08
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST492 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://cmiller.faculty.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-5:30
Scholarly Keywords: European Intellectual History See: http://www.europeanintellectualhistory.org
Miller has given many talks from her current book manuscript on Enlightenment and Political Fiction. These talks include "Renzo, the Failed Revolutionary, in Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi," for Yale University's Department of Italian on October 12, 2006; "Candide in European Intellectual History: Uniforms, Monkeys, and Ravenous Women," for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Culture on November 16, 2006; "Don Quixote Reconsidered: Sancho Panza on Good Government and the Origins of the Market Economy," for New York University's Department of Economics Colloquium on Market Institutions and Processes on January 29, 2007; and "Matriarchy and Meritocracy in Gulliver's Travels: Plato's Republic as Swiftian Ur-Text," at the Harvard Humanities Seminar in 18th Century Studies at the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University on April 4, 2008.
Laurie Nussdorfer
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
William Armstrong Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor, Medieval Studies
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
BA Yale University
MA Princeton University
MSC London School Econ & Political
PHD Princeton University
COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History
COL106 - 01
The Italian Renaissance
COL410 - 15
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST202 - 01
Early Modern Europe
Personal Web Site:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:45-4:05 in Squash (41Wyllys) COL 313.
Research Interests: I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.
Scholarly Keywords: early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity
Academic Associations: American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Grants: Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS
Publications:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Editorial Boards: Roma Moderna e Contemporanea
Board Memberships: Wesleyan University Press (2007-09)
Leadership Positions: Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2010-12)
Gary Shaw
Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary ProgramsShow Bio and Photo
Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
North College 309
860-685-2707
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 205
860-685-2373
Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-2373
Associate Editor, History and Theory
860-685-2373
BA McGill University
DPHIL Oxford University
CSPL493 - 01
Internship
Personal Web Site:
http://gshaw.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: by appointment only. DEAN OF DIVISION II & IX
Research Interests: later medieval social life; information and social networks;the nature of the self since the Middle Ages; the philosophy of history; historiography
Scholarly Keywords: Medieval Europe; Britain; Historiography
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center
860-685-3293
Assistant Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies
860-685-3293
Tutor, College of Social Studies
BA Sarah Lawrence College
PHD University Calif Berkeley
HIST219 - 01
Russian & Soviet Hist 1881/Pre
HIST323 - 01
Religion and History
HIST409 - 39
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST491 - 02
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
CSS340 - 01
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &
CSS340 - 02
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &
HIST184 - 01
Communist Experience
HIST410 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 4-4:45 and Thursdays 10:30-12
Magda Teter
Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish StudiesShow Bio and Photo
Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies
860-685-5356
Professor of History
222 Church Street 203
860-685-5356
Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-5356
Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5356
MA Columbia University
MA Warsaw University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University
Personal Web Site:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Research Interests:
As a scholar of Jewish history, eastern European history, and of early modern religious and cultural history, I specialize in Jewish-Christian relations. My first book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 (pbk, 2009), challenges the perception that the Catholic Church triumphed in Poland and demonstrates the superficiality of the re-Catholicization of the ruling elites, whose economic interests trumped their religious loyalties.
My new book, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, 2011) tells a story of affirmation of Catholic dogmas after the Reformation, not necessarily though religious education and propaganda but through the application of criminal law, and the courts' treatment of "the sacred" and, thus, also of the "sacrilege." The book addresses one of the most notorious examples of "sacrilege" -- the accusation that Jews desecrated consecrated communion wafers.
"Sinners on Trial" combines political, legal, and cultural historical approaches.
Far more than the Church's efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts' classification of Catholic spaces as the only "sacred spaces" and their adjudication of crimes of "sacrilege," were crucial for the (re)Catholicisation of Poland, and the shaping of the country's religious identity.
"Sinners on Trial" crucially casts a new light on the most infamous case of sacrilege, the accusations against Jews for stealing and desecrating the host, situating it within a broader context of the politics of crime -- most specifically that of sacrilege, illuminating its post-Reformation character.
Scholarly Keywords:
Early modern history, Jewish history, Poland, religious history, gender, eastern Europe, historiography
Academic Associations:
Association for Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, Sixteenth Century Studies, American Catholic Historical Association, Church History, AAUP
Lab URL:
http://www.earlymodern.org
Publications:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu/mteter_publications.htm
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Books: Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pbk 2009) Coedited with Adam Teller, Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland, vol. 22, (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010, released Nov. 2009) Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, Spring 2011). Articles: "'There Should Be No Love between Us and Them': Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern Poland," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 249-70. Co-authored with Adam Teller, "Introduction: Borders and Boundaries in the Historiography of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 3-46. "Crime and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Poland," a chapter in a book Kommunikation durch symbolische Akte. Religivse Heterogenitdt und politische Herrschaft in Polen-Litauen [Communication through symbolic acts. Religious heterogeneity and political Rule in Poland-Lithuania], ed. Yvonne Kleimann (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, Germany, 2010), 171-90. "Ritual Murder Accusation," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture edited by Judith Baskin (forthcoming, 1160 words) Co-authored with Debra Kaplan (Yeshiva University), "Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Methodological Remarks on Jews in Early Modern Europe," in Sixteenth Century Journal 40 no. 2 (2009): 365-93. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert: articles: "Conversions," "The Ezofowicz Family," "Ger Zedek," "The Helicz Family" (with Edward Fram), "Judaizers," "Katarzyna Malcherowa Weigel" (New Haven: Yale University Press, in 2008), 489, 348-351, 590-91, 710-11, 834-35, 2011-12. "Negotiating the internal and the external, or on the contextualization of pre-modern Ashkenazi Jewry," Review essay on Joseph M. Davis, Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Rabbi, in Jewish History 21 no.? (2007): 217-32. With Edward Fram, "Apostasy, Fraud and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow," AJS Review 30 no. 1 (2006): 31-66 "The Legend of Ger Zedek (Righteous Convert) of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance," AJS Review 29 no. 2 (2005): 237-63 With Edward Fram, "Matai nosad ha-defus ha-`ivri be-Qraqov?" [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?], Gal-`Ed 20 (2005): 144-49 "Kilka uwag na temat podziałsw społecznych i religijnych pomiędzy Żydami i Chrześcijanami we wschodnich miastach dawnej Rzeczpospolitej" [Polish: Some Remarks on the Social and Religious Divisions between Jews and Christians in Eastern Towns of Premodern Poland], Kwartalnik Historii Żydsw [Quarterly of Jewish History, Warsaw, Poland] 207 no. 3 (September, 2003): 327-36 "Jewish Conversions to Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Jewish History 17 no. 3 (2003): 257-83
Jennifer Tucker
Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Associate Professor of History
222 Church Street 221
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5389
Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
103
860-685-5389
Interim Director of Albritton
101A
860-685-4469
BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University
FGSS405 - 01
Senior Seminar
HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST409 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST404 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 09
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Research Interests: Jennifer Tucker's first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005) explores the social and cultural relations of photography, science, and ideas of truth in Victorian London. Other research concerns include artistic exchanges in scientific colonialism; interactions between science and popular culture; science and gender studies; and photography in historical documentation and interpretation. She is currently at work on a book about life and art in the Victorian photographic studio and is writing a series of essays about photography and historical interpretation.
Scholarly Keywords: Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.
Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies Grant; Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation Grant; British Marshall Scholarship (UK)
Gender and History
Laurie Nussdorfer
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
William Armstrong Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor, Medieval Studies
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
BA Yale University
MA Princeton University
MSC London School Econ & Political
PHD Princeton University
COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History
COL106 - 01
The Italian Renaissance
COL410 - 15
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST202 - 01
Early Modern Europe
Personal Web Site:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:45-4:05 in Squash (41Wyllys) COL 313.
Research Interests: I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.
Scholarly Keywords: early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity
Academic Associations: American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Grants: Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS
Publications:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Editorial Boards: Roma Moderna e Contemporanea
Board Memberships: Wesleyan University Press (2007-09)
Leadership Positions: Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2010-12)
Gary Shaw
Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary ProgramsShow Bio and PhotoDean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
North College 309
860-685-2707
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 205
860-685-2373
Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-2373
Associate Editor, History and Theory
860-685-2373
BA McGill University
DPHIL Oxford University
CSPL493 - 01
Internship
Personal Web Site:
http://gshaw.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: by appointment only. DEAN OF DIVISION II & IX
Research Interests: later medieval social life; information and social networks;the nature of the self since the Middle Ages; the philosophy of history; historiography
Scholarly Keywords: Medieval Europe; Britain; Historiography
Jennifer Tucker
Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssociate Professor of History
222 Church Street 221
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5389
Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
103
860-685-5389
Interim Director of Albritton
101A
860-685-4469
BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University
FGSS405 - 01
Senior Seminar
HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST409 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST404 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 09
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Research Interests: Jennifer Tucker's first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005) explores the social and cultural relations of photography, science, and ideas of truth in Victorian London. Other research concerns include artistic exchanges in scientific colonialism; interactions between science and popular culture; science and gender studies; and photography in historical documentation and interpretation. She is currently at work on a book about life and art in the Victorian photographic studio and is writing a series of essays about photography and historical interpretation.
Scholarly Keywords: Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.
Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies Grant; Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation Grant; British Marshall Scholarship (UK)
Ann Wightman
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Center for the Americas 201
860-685-2396
Chair, History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-2396
Professor, Latin American Studies
Center for the Americas 201
860-685-2396
BA Duke University
MAA Wesleyan University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
HIST296 - 01
Colonial Latin America
HIST296 - AU01
Colonial Latin America
AMST404 - 05
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST245 - 01
Latin American History
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Research Interests: Professor of History Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.
Intellectual History
Paul Erickson
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 420
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-5748
BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
HIST221 - 01
History of Ecology
HIST336 - 01
Science and the State
HIST254 - 01
Science in Western Culture
HIST340 - 01
History of Rationality
HIST404 - 06
Dept/Program Project or Essay
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2
Demetrius Eudell
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 415
860-685-3574
Professor, African American Studies
228
860-685-3574
BA Dartmouth College
PHD Stanford University
AFAM203 - 01
Early African American History
AFAM301 - 01
Junior Colloquium
HIST159 - 01
War and National (Re)formation
HIST401 - 17
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
HIST409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial
AFAM119 - 01
What Is History?
HIST404 - 05
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 11-12 and by appointment in PAC 415
Research Interests: History and Culture of the Americas Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
Oliver Holmes
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 320
860-685-2379
BA City College
MA University of Chicago
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Chicago
HIST362 - 02
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST383 - 01
French Existentialism And Marx
HIST409 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: ON LEAVE SPRING 2013
Ethan Kleinberg
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-4479
Professor of Letters
College of Letters
860-685-2323
Director, Center for the Humanities
95 Pearl Street
860-685-4479
Executive Editor
BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University of California LA
PHD University of California LA
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
COL245 - 01
Senior Colloquium
COL409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FRST409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CHUM227 - 01
Introduction to Theory
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
COL410 - 09
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FRST410 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Cecilia Miller
Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssociate Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 405
860-685-2387
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2387
BA LeTourneau College
DPHIL Oxford University
MPHIL University of St Andrews
CSS407 - 01
Senior Tutorial
CSS409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST216 - 01
European Intellectual History
HIST294 - 01
Political Fiction
HIST294 - 02
Political Fiction
HIST491 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
HIST141 - 01
Theories and Models
HIST215 - 01
European Intellectual History
HIST404 - 08
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST492 - 01
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://cmiller.faculty.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-5:30
Scholarly Keywords: European Intellectual History See: http://www.europeanintellectualhistory.org
Miller has given many talks from her current book manuscript on Enlightenment and Political Fiction. These talks include "Renzo, the Failed Revolutionary, in Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi," for Yale University's Department of Italian on October 12, 2006; "Candide in European Intellectual History: Uniforms, Monkeys, and Ravenous Women," for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Culture on November 16, 2006; "Don Quixote Reconsidered: Sancho Panza on Good Government and the Origins of the Market Economy," for New York University's Department of Economics Colloquium on Market Institutions and Processes on January 29, 2007; and "Matriarchy and Meritocracy in Gulliver's Travels: Plato's Republic as Swiftian Ur-Text," at the Harvard Humanities Seminar in 18th Century Studies at the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University on April 4, 2008.
Vera Schwarcz
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian StudiesShow Bio and Photo
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2383
BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Stanford University
HIST409 - 23
Senior Thesis Tutorial
EAST410 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST224 - 01
Modern China
HIST308 - 01
The Jewish Experience in China
HIST410 - 16
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://between2walls.com
Office Hours: Spring 2013 Semester: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5, and by appointment, call 860-685-2383, or email, vschwarcz@wesleyan.edu.
Research Interests: the role of truth in the wake of historial trauma history of landscaped spaces
Scholarly Keywords: Chinese Intellectual History, Comparative Memory Studies Poetry and History Truth and Historical Narative
Academic Associations: association for asian studies
Grants: Guggenheim Fellowship 1989-1990 Founders Fellowship, AAUW 1988-89 American Council of Learned Societies, 1996 National Academy of Sciences: 1979-80
Publications:
http://between2walls.com/
two new books of poems published in 2009
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center
860-685-3293
Assistant Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies
860-685-3293
Tutor, College of Social Studies
BA Sarah Lawrence College
PHD University Calif Berkeley
HIST219 - 01
Russian & Soviet Hist 1881/Pre
HIST323 - 01
Religion and History
HIST409 - 39
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST491 - 02
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
CSS340 - 01
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &
CSS340 - 02
Jr Tut: Relig., Secularism &
HIST184 - 01
Communist Experience
HIST410 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 4-4:45 and Thursdays 10:30-12
Jennifer Tucker
Associate Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssociate Professor of History
222 Church Street 221
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5389
Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5389
Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
103
860-685-5389
Interim Director of Albritton
101A
860-685-4469
BA Stanford University
MPHIL Cambridge University
PHD Johns Hopkins University
FGSS405 - 01
Senior Seminar
HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST409 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST404 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 09
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://jtucker.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Research Interests: Jennifer Tucker's first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Johns Hopkins University, 2005) explores the social and cultural relations of photography, science, and ideas of truth in Victorian London. Other research concerns include artistic exchanges in scientific colonialism; interactions between science and popular culture; science and gender studies; and photography in historical documentation and interpretation. She is currently at work on a book about life and art in the Victorian photographic studio and is writing a series of essays about photography and historical interpretation.
Scholarly Keywords: Social and cultural practices of science; Victorian Studies; visual culture; photographic history; history of women and gender.
Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies Grant; Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation Grant; British Marshall Scholarship (UK)
Leah Wright
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 329
860-685-3573
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies 230
860-685-3573
BA Dartmouth College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
Personal Web Site:
http://lmwright.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Research Interests:
Leah M. Wright is an Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Her research interests include 20th Century United States political and social history and modern African American history. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Federal History, Souls, Oxford African American Studies Center Online/African American National Biography, as well as in the anthology Making the South Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Archives/Presidential Libraries, and Oberlin College. Currently, she is working on a book, The Loneliness of the Black Conservative: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power; her project offers new insight into the relationship between African American politics, the American civil rights movement, and the Republican Party.
Academic Associations: American Historical Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Organization of American Historians; American Political Science Association; American Studies Association
Religion and History
Richard Elphick
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 134
860-685-2394
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2394
Co-Chair, College of Social Studies
BA University of Toronto
MA University of California LA
PHD Yale University
CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS409 - 27
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CSS491 - 03
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
HIST230 - 01
History of Southern Africa
HIST409 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
UNIV409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS240 - 02
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS402 - 20
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
CSS410 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST408 - 01
Senior Tutorial
UNIV410 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays 1:15 to 2:00, Thursdays 7:00pm to 9:00pm, and by appointment.
Bruce Masters
John E. Andrus Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
John E. Andrus Professor of History
860-685-2395
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 137
860-685-2395
BS Georgetown University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Chicago
AR
GE
TU
HIST234 - 01
20th Century Middle East
HIST311 - 01
Ethnic Rel Class Mideast & Bal
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays 1-2:30 and Fridays 10-11:30. Also by appointment.
Research Interests: Current projects: Christianity in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1800; The Arabs in the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918: A Social and Cultural History (forthcoming, 2013, Cambridge University Press). Published works include: The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 East (1988); Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World (2001); The Ottoman City between East and West, co-authored with Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman (1999); Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, co-authored with Gabor Agoston (2009); Contributions to The Cambridge History of Turkey (2006) and The Cambridge History of Islam (2010).
Scholarly Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Modern Middle East, Ireland
Academic Associations: American Historical Association Middle East Studies Association Turkish Studies Association
Laurie Nussdorfer
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
William Armstrong Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor, Medieval Studies
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
BA Yale University
MA Princeton University
MSC London School Econ & Political
PHD Princeton University
COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial
FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History
COL106 - 01
The Italian Renaissance
COL410 - 15
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST202 - 01
Early Modern Europe
Personal Web Site:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:45-4:05 in Squash (41Wyllys) COL 313.
Research Interests: I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.
Scholarly Keywords: early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity
Academic Associations: American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Grants: Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS
Publications:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Editorial Boards: Roma Moderna e Contemporanea
Board Memberships: Wesleyan University Press (2007-09)
Leadership Positions: Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2010-12)
William Pinch
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
BA University of Virginia
MA University of Virginia
PHD University of Virginia
Personal Web Site:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Scholarly Keywords: South Asia; British Empire; Mughal Empire; Religion and History; Maritime History; World History
Grants: NEH, Fulbright-Nehru, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, SSRC, FLAS, AIIS, Meigs
Publications:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/research/
Ronald Schatz
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 306
860-685-2384
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2384
BA University of Wisconsin
MAA Wesleyan University
MAT Harvard University
PHD University of Pittsburgh
HIST210 - 01
History of American Jewry
HIST342 - 01
Rise of Conservatism America
HIST403 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST409 - 14
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST171 - 01
SS:Exploring Middletown's Hist
HIST266 - 01
American Labor History
HIST404 - 04
Dept/Program Project or Essay
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 11-11:45 and 1:15-3
Vera Schwarcz
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian StudiesShow Bio and PhotoMansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2383
BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Stanford University
HIST409 - 23
Senior Thesis Tutorial
EAST410 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST224 - 01
Modern China
HIST308 - 01
The Jewish Experience in China
HIST410 - 16
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://between2walls.com
Office Hours: Spring 2013 Semester: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5, and by appointment, call 860-685-2383, or email, vschwarcz@wesleyan.edu.
Research Interests: the role of truth in the wake of historial trauma history of landscaped spaces
Scholarly Keywords: Chinese Intellectual History, Comparative Memory Studies Poetry and History Truth and Historical Narative
Academic Associations: association for asian studies
Grants: Guggenheim Fellowship 1989-1990 Founders Fellowship, AAUW 1988-89 American Council of Learned Societies, 1996 National Academy of Sciences: 1979-80
Publications:
http://between2walls.com/
two new books of poems published in 2009
Gary Shaw
Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary ProgramsShow Bio and PhotoDean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
North College 309
860-685-2707
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 205
860-685-2373
Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-2373
Associate Editor, History and Theory
860-685-2373
BA McGill University
DPHIL Oxford University
CSPL493 - 01
Internship
Personal Web Site:
http://gshaw.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Spring 2013: by appointment only. DEAN OF DIVISION II & IX
Research Interests: later medieval social life; information and social networks;the nature of the self since the Middle Ages; the philosophy of history; historiography
Scholarly Keywords: Medieval Europe; Britain; Historiography
Magda Teter
Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish StudiesShow Bio and PhotoJeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies
860-685-5356
Professor of History
222 Church Street 203
860-685-5356
Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-5356
Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5356
MA Columbia University
MA Warsaw University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University
Personal Web Site:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Research Interests:
As a scholar of Jewish history, eastern European history, and of early modern religious and cultural history, I specialize in Jewish-Christian relations. My first book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 (pbk, 2009), challenges the perception that the Catholic Church triumphed in Poland and demonstrates the superficiality of the re-Catholicization of the ruling elites, whose economic interests trumped their religious loyalties.
My new book, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, 2011) tells a story of affirmation of Catholic dogmas after the Reformation, not necessarily though religious education and propaganda but through the application of criminal law, and the courts' treatment of "the sacred" and, thus, also of the "sacrilege." The book addresses one of the most notorious examples of "sacrilege" -- the accusation that Jews desecrated consecrated communion wafers.
"Sinners on Trial" combines political, legal, and cultural historical approaches.
Far more than the Church's efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts' classification of Catholic spaces as the only "sacred spaces" and their adjudication of crimes of "sacrilege," were crucial for the (re)Catholicisation of Poland, and the shaping of the country's religious identity.
"Sinners on Trial" crucially casts a new light on the most infamous case of sacrilege, the accusations against Jews for stealing and desecrating the host, situating it within a broader context of the politics of crime -- most specifically that of sacrilege, illuminating its post-Reformation character.
Scholarly Keywords:
Early modern history, Jewish history, Poland, religious history, gender, eastern Europe, historiography
Academic Associations:
Association for Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, Sixteenth Century Studies, American Catholic Historical Association, Church History, AAUP
Lab URL:
http://www.earlymodern.org
Publications:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu/mteter_publications.htm
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Books: Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pbk 2009) Coedited with Adam Teller, Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland, vol. 22, (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010, released Nov. 2009) Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, Spring 2011). Articles: "'There Should Be No Love between Us and Them': Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern Poland," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 249-70. Co-authored with Adam Teller, "Introduction: Borders and Boundaries in the Historiography of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 3-46. "Crime and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Poland," a chapter in a book Kommunikation durch symbolische Akte. Religivse Heterogenitdt und politische Herrschaft in Polen-Litauen [Communication through symbolic acts. Religious heterogeneity and political Rule in Poland-Lithuania], ed. Yvonne Kleimann (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, Germany, 2010), 171-90. "Ritual Murder Accusation," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture edited by Judith Baskin (forthcoming, 1160 words) Co-authored with Debra Kaplan (Yeshiva University), "Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Methodological Remarks on Jews in Early Modern Europe," in Sixteenth Century Journal 40 no. 2 (2009): 365-93. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert: articles: "Conversions," "The Ezofowicz Family," "Ger Zedek," "The Helicz Family" (with Edward Fram), "Judaizers," "Katarzyna Malcherowa Weigel" (New Haven: Yale University Press, in 2008), 489, 348-351, 590-91, 710-11, 834-35, 2011-12. "Negotiating the internal and the external, or on the contextualization of pre-modern Ashkenazi Jewry," Review essay on Joseph M. Davis, Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Rabbi, in Jewish History 21 no.? (2007): 217-32. With Edward Fram, "Apostasy, Fraud and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow," AJS Review 30 no. 1 (2006): 31-66 "The Legend of Ger Zedek (Righteous Convert) of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance," AJS Review 29 no. 2 (2005): 237-63 With Edward Fram, "Matai nosad ha-defus ha-`ivri be-Qraqov?" [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?], Gal-`Ed 20 (2005): 144-49 "Kilka uwag na temat podziałsw społecznych i religijnych pomiędzy Żydami i Chrześcijanami we wschodnich miastach dawnej Rzeczpospolitej" [Polish: Some Remarks on the Social and Religious Divisions between Jews and Christians in Eastern Towns of Premodern Poland], Kwartalnik Historii Żydsw [Quarterly of Jewish History, Warsaw, Poland] 207 no. 3 (September, 2003): 327-36 "Jewish Conversions to Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Jewish History 17 no. 3 (2003): 257-83
United States
Paul Erickson
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 420
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Science in Society
860-685-5748
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-5748
BA Harvard University
MA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
HIST221 - 01
History of Ecology
HIST336 - 01
Science and the State
HIST254 - 01
Science in Western Culture
HIST340 - 01
History of Rationality
HIST404 - 06
Dept/Program Project or Essay
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2
Demetrius Eudell
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 415
860-685-3574
Professor, African American Studies
228
860-685-3574
BA Dartmouth College
PHD Stanford University
AFAM203 - 01
Early African American History
AFAM301 - 01
Junior Colloquium
HIST159 - 01
War and National (Re)formation
HIST401 - 17
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
HIST409 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial
AFAM119 - 01
What Is History?
HIST404 - 05
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST410 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 11-12 and by appointment in PAC 415
Research Interests: History and Culture of the Americas Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
Courtney Fullilove
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow BioAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 416
860-685-3036
BA Columbia University
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University
Office Hours: ON LEAVE SPRING 2013
Jeffers Lennox
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
BA University of Toronto
MA Dalhousie University
PHD Dalhousie University
HIST122 - 01
The Atlantic World
HIST182 - 01
Acadia/Nova Scotia/Mi'kma'ki
HIST237 - 01
Early North America to 1763
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5 and by appointment.
Research Interests: I work on North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Specifically, I explore the influence of geographic knowledge (boundaries, shared spaces, mapping, concepts of territory and sovereignty) on the relationships among British, French, and Aboriginal inhabitants of the northeast.
Scholarly Keywords: Early North America, Atlantic World, Canada, Mapping and Geographic Knowledge, Aboriginal history, Acadia/Nova Scotia
Ronald Schatz
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 306
860-685-2384
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2384
BA University of Wisconsin
MAA Wesleyan University
MAT Harvard University
PHD University of Pittsburgh
HIST210 - 01
History of American Jewry
HIST342 - 01
Rise of Conservatism America
HIST403 - 03
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST409 - 14
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST171 - 01
SS:Exploring Middletown's Hist
HIST266 - 01
American Labor History
HIST404 - 04
Dept/Program Project or Essay
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wednesdays 11-11:45 and 1:15-3
Leah Wright
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 329
860-685-3573
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies 230
860-685-3573
BA Dartmouth College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
Personal Web Site:
http://lmwright.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Research Interests:
Leah M. Wright is an Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Her research interests include 20th Century United States political and social history and modern African American history. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Federal History, Souls, Oxford African American Studies Center Online/African American National Biography, as well as in the anthology Making the South Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Archives/Presidential Libraries, and Oberlin College. Currently, she is working on a book, The Loneliness of the Black Conservative: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power; her project offers new insight into the relationship between African American politics, the American civil rights movement, and the Republican Party.
Academic Associations: American Historical Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Organization of American Historians; American Political Science Association; American Studies Association
Worlds, Empires and Encounters
Javier Castro-Ibaseta
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoAssistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 220
860-685-2326
Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 325
860-685-2326
BA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
MA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
PHD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
COL223 - 01
Theater and Society
COL409 - 27
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography
HIST407 - 01
Senior Tutorial
HIST409 - 35
Senior Thesis Tutorial
COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL404 - 08
Dept/Program Project or Essay
COL410 - 19
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST255 - 01
History of Spain
HIST410 - 14
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Wed. 11-12 (PAC 220) and 3-4 (41 Wyllys 325), or by appointment.
Research Interests: Public forms of literature (satire, theater) and the formation of the public sphere in early modern Madrid. The Spanish Empire as a global entity.
Scholarly Keywords: Early Modern Spain and Spanish Empire Satire and political life (16th-17th centuries) History and literature
Academic Associations: American Historical Association
Richard Elphick
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoProfessor of History
Public Affairs Center 134
860-685-2394
Tutor, College of Social Studies
860-685-2394
Co-Chair, College of Social Studies
BA University of Toronto
MA University of California LA
PHD Yale University
CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS409 - 27
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CSS491 - 03
Teaching Apprentice Tutorial
HIST230 - 01
History of Southern Africa
HIST409 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
UNIV409 - 01
Senior Thesis Tutorial
CSS240 - 01
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS240 - 02
Soph Tut: Emerg. Mod. Europe
CSS402 - 20
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad
CSS410 - 18
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST408 - 01
Senior Tutorial
UNIV410 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays 1:15 to 2:00, Thursdays 7:00pm to 9:00pm, and by appointment.
William Johnston
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 135
860-685-2375
Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures
Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2375
Professor, Science in Society
860-685-2375
BA Elmira College
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University
HIST409 - 20
Senior Thesis Tutorial
SISP409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial
EAST410 - 02
Senior Thesis Tutorial
ENVS331 - 01
Mountaintop Removal Mining
HIST410 - 30
Senior Thesis Tutorial
SISP410 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays 1:30-4 in COE 203
Research Interests: My current research topics are: Syphilis in Early Modern Japan Warfare and State Formation in Sixteenth Century Japan The Historiography of Amino Yoshihiko
Scholarly Keywords: Modern Japanese History
Jeffers Lennox
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoBA University of Toronto
MA Dalhousie University
PHD Dalhousie University
HIST122 - 01
The Atlantic World
HIST182 - 01
Acadia/Nova Scotia/Mi'kma'ki
HIST237 - 01
Early North America to 1763
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5 and by appointment.
Research Interests: I work on North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Specifically, I explore the influence of geographic knowledge (boundaries, shared spaces, mapping, concepts of territory and sovereignty) on the relationships among British, French, and Aboriginal inhabitants of the northeast.
Scholarly Keywords: Early North America, Atlantic World, Canada, Mapping and Geographic Knowledge, Aboriginal history, Acadia/Nova Scotia
Bruce Masters
John E. Andrus Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoJohn E. Andrus Professor of History
860-685-2395
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 137
860-685-2395
BS Georgetown University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Chicago
AR
GE
TU
HIST234 - 01
20th Century Middle East
HIST311 - 01
Ethnic Rel Class Mideast & Bal
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays 1-2:30 and Fridays 10-11:30. Also by appointment.
Research Interests: Current projects: Christianity in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1800; The Arabs in the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918: A Social and Cultural History (forthcoming, 2013, Cambridge University Press). Published works include: The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 East (1988); Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World (2001); The Ottoman City between East and West, co-authored with Edhem Eldem and Daniel Goffman (1999); Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, co-authored with Gabor Agoston (2009); Contributions to The Cambridge History of Turkey (2006) and The Cambridge History of Islam (2010).
Scholarly Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Modern Middle East, Ireland
Academic Associations: American Historical Association Middle East Studies Association Turkish Studies Association
William Pinch
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and PhotoBA University of Virginia
MA University of Virginia
PHD University of Virginia
Personal Web Site:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: ON LEAVE ALL YEAR 2012-2013
Scholarly Keywords: South Asia; British Empire; Mughal Empire; Religion and History; Maritime History; World History
Grants: NEH, Fulbright-Nehru, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, SSRC, FLAS, AIIS, Meigs
Publications:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/research/
Vera Schwarcz
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian StudiesShow Bio and PhotoMansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 303
860-685-2383
Professor, East Asian Studies
860-685-2383
BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Stanford University
HIST409 - 23
Senior Thesis Tutorial
EAST410 - 12
Senior Thesis Tutorial
HIST224 - 01
Modern China
HIST308 - 01
The Jewish Experience in China
HIST410 - 16
Senior Thesis Tutorial
Personal Web Site:
http://between2walls.com
Office Hours: Spring 2013 Semester: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5, and by appointment, call 860-685-2383, or email, vschwarcz@wesleyan.edu.
Research Interests: the role of truth in the wake of historial trauma history of landscaped spaces
Scholarly Keywords: Chinese Intellectual History, Comparative Memory Studies Poetry and History Truth and Historical Narative
Academic Associations: association for asian studies
Grants: Guggenheim Fellowship 1989-1990 Founders Fellowship, AAUW 1988-89 American Council of Learned Societies, 1996 National Academy of Sciences: 1979-80
Publications:
http://between2walls.com/
two new books of poems published in 2009
Ann Wightman
Professor of HistoryShow BioProfessor of History
Center for the Americas 201
860-685-2396
Chair, History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-2396
Professor, Latin American Studies
Center for the Americas 201
860-685-2396
BA Duke University
MAA Wesleyan University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
HIST296 - 01
Colonial Latin America
HIST296 - AU01
Colonial Latin America
AMST404 - 05
Dept/Program Project or Essay
HIST245 - 01
Latin American History
Office Hours: Spring 2013:
Research Interests: Professor of History Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.
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