People Type: Emeriti

Lee, Jean

Biography Biography My specializations are Revolutionary America, historical memory, the South to 1835, and slavery in the Atlantic world. Education Ph.D., University of Virginia M.A., University of Nebraska B.A., Carroll College Books Experiencing Mount Vernon: Eyewitness Accounts, 1784–1865 Jean Lee. Experiencing Mount Vernon: Eyewitness Accounts, 1784–1865. University of Virginia Press, 2006. George Washington, acutely aware …

Mallon, Florencia

Biography Biography My specializations are Modern Latin America; gender, ethnicity and class; and indigenous history. My Research and Teaching Interests include Latin American History, 19th and 20th centuries, especially Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Ethnicity, gender, and colonialism; oral history and testimonial literature; Native-state relations. Education Ph.D., Yale M.A., Yale B.A., Harvard Books Courage Tastes of …

Mazzaoui, Maureen

Biography Biography My specializations are Renaissance and medieval economic. My Research and Teaching Interests: Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe; Renaissance Italy; History of Technology to 1600. Current Research: The Woolen Industry of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Education Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College M.A., Bryn Mawr College B.A., Hunter College Books An Expanding World: …

McDonald, David

Biography Biography My specialization is Russian to 1917. My research and teaching interests include the History of Imperial Russia (1649-1917); social, intellectual, political and diplomatic. Education Ph.D., Columbia M.A., Toronto B.A., Toronto Books United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914 David McDonald. United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914. Harvard University Press, 1992. In 1904 …

Mitman, Gregg

Biography Biography My teaching and research interests span environmental history, the history of science, medical history, and the visual culture of science and medicine, with a focus on the United States in the world. In particular, I seek to understand the ways in which political economy, cultural values and beliefs, and scientific knowledge intersect in shaping the …

Neu, John

Biography Biography Interests: Bibliography of the History of Science. Education M.L.S., University of Wisconsin, Library Science, 1959 B.S., University of Wisconsin, English, 1957

Nyhart, Lynn K.

Biography Biography I study the history of biology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mainly in Europe. I am especially interested in the history of investigation into the organization of living things, the social organization of the sciences that study them, and relations between elite and popular science. My current research examines the history of …

Payne, Stanley

Biography Education Ph.D., Columbia University M.A., Claremont Graduate School B.A., Pacific Union College Books Franco and Hitler Spain, Germany, and World War II Stanley Payne. Franco and Hitler Spain, Germany, and World War II. Yale University Press, 2008. Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn’t Spain enter World War II? In what ways did …

Plummer, Brenda Gayle

Biography Biography My specializations are African American history, the United States in the 20th century, Caribbean history, and the history of U.S. foreign relations. I am currently working on a study of race and race making in the world of commercial travel. Education Ph.D., Cornell University M.A., Columbia University B.A., Antioch College Books In Search …

Roberts, Mary Lou

Biography Biography My specialization is Women and Gender; France; the Second World War. My most recent book concerns the politics of sex during the American presence in France during the Second World War. As the GIs conquered Normandy in the summer of 1944, they pursued their fantasies of having sex with French women. Such erotic …