Historical understanding is the foundation of the liberal arts education received at Fordham University. Most students take at least two History courses during their undergraduate careers and many are inspired to take more. The Department of History offers undergraduate majors and minors at both the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses and graduate study at the Rose Hill campus.
Courses taught in the Department of History at the undergraduate level cover a wide range of historical cultures, subjects, and themes – from medieval warfare to the war in Vietnam, from early monasticism to sexual revolutions, from technology to food. Graduate study centers on five major areas: Gender, Latin America, Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, and the United States. It is also possible for graduate students to develop a more specialized program of study along national lines (we are especially strong in the history of the British Isles, Germany, Italy and France from the middle ages to modern times), or thematic concerns such as cultural or intellectual history.
The History Faculty at Fordham University are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and University and professional service. Many members of the Department have been distinguished with University teaching awards, book awards, and prestigious fellowships, as well as publishing their research in well-known journals and . with highly respected presses. Many have been called up on to assume high office in professional organizations and within the University. Engaged and responsible members of the Fordham community, History faculty are also deeply involved in the creation, administration and content of many interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies, Irish Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Medieval Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, Women’s Studies, and more.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if the following pages fail to answer your questions about Fordham University’s Department of History
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New Faculty
Dr Saul Cornell will be joining Fordham as the new Paul B. Guenther Endowed Chair in American History
The Loyola Chair for 2009/10 is Dr R. Bentley Anderson, S.J. (St Louis University) and for Spring 2010 is Dr Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome).
Fellowships
Dr Richard Gyug: 2010-12 grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as co-investigator of Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana
Dr Wolfgang Mueller: NEH Summer Seminar at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University of London
Dr Silvana Patriarca: Directeur d’études invité, Ėcole pratique des hautes études, Paris, April and November 2009
Dr Nicholas Paul: Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2009/10
Dr Carina Ray: Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, 2009/10
New Books
Dr Carina Ray: co-editor, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Cornell UP, 2009).
Maryanne Kowaleski: co-editor, Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing, and Household in Medieval England (CUP, 2009).
Other Awards
Dr Doron Ben-Atar: his play, Peace Warriors, debuts at the Capitol Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. in July 2009 and the NY International Fringe Festival in August. Peace Warriors was also a semi-finalist at the 2009 O’Neill competition.
Dr Maryanne Kowaleski: named the North American representative to the Scientific Committee of the Datini Institute in Prato, Italy
Dr Chris Schmidt-Nowara: named Research Associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, 2008-13
Dr Asiq Siddiqi: named to the MIT Space Policy and Society Research Group which produced a report on the space program for the incoming Obama administration
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