Biography Biography My specializations are Immigration & assimilation, statistical methods, and colonial. My Research and Teaching Interests include History of U.S. Immigration, including contemporary immigration. History of U.S. Policy and Topics related to comparative immigration and immigration policy. History of Ethnicity in the U.S. Strong interest in quantitative analysis, as applied to historical research. Some …
Biography Biography I am a specialist of contemporary Central and Equatorial Africa and teaches African History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born in France (Marseille) in 1964, I became a student at the Ecole Normale superieure de St Cloud in 1981, and received my Ph.D. in African History in 1994 at the University of Paris-Diderot. …
Biography Biography I’m a historian of Modern Europe, especially France, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My teaching and research interests have focused largely on society and politics – ranging from the transformations of rural society, to the history of European socialism and communism, the history of nationalism, voter behavior and, more recently, the contemporary extreme …
Biography Biography Current interests include science and medicine in the Enlightenment; the role of science in the public sphere; 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history. Education Ph.D., Princeton University, History, 1987 M.A., Princeton University, History, 1983 M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Agronomy, 1980 A.B., Ripon College, Biology and Chemistry, 1976 Books Science and Civil Society …
Biography Biography My specializations is Middle East (Medieval). My Research and Teaching Interests include Social and cultural history of the medieval Middle East: comparative history; comparative family history. Teaching fields: the Middle East from antiquity to the twentieth century; Muslim responses to the Crusades; Middle Eastern cities from Late Antiquity to the twentieth-century; nineteenth-century Islamic …
Biography Biography Trained as an historian of Anglo-America, I have become increasingly interested in American religious history and, as both former director of the UW-Madison Religious Studies Program and current director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, comparative religion. At this point my projects are eclectic: at the moment, they …
Biography Biography My specializations are Late 19th & early 20th c. political, the South. My Research and Teaching Interests include Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America; American Foreign Policy; Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern History; Twentieth Century American War; Race and Reform. Current Research : Presidential reputations in twentieth century America; the ‘League fight.’ Education …
Biography Biography My specializations are Medieval social & intellectual, Latin paleography, Medieval education. My Research and Teaching Interests include Medieval Intellectual History, incl. philosophy, theology, and political thought, esp. for the 12-14th centuries. Medieval Education and history of Universities. Monasticism. Education Ph.D., HarvardS.T.B., HarvardA.B., Vanderbilt Books Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the …
Biography Biography My teaching and research specializations focus principally on the environmental history, landscape history, and historical geography of North America, concentrating mainly on the United States with a secondary interest in Canada. I am committed to history that makes the past come alive for public audiences, both in the form of written storytelling and …
Biography Biography My general field of study is early modern Europe, with a focus on early modern France and the French Revolution. My research and teaching interests include popular politics and political activism, especially during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic era; gender; family; the Enlightenment; the transnational circulation of ideas, people, and practices; early modern …