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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. History is regarded as one
of the more rigorous majors and yet also one of the most popular.
An extensively published faculty and recipients of numerous
major fellowships and grants, members of the Department deftly combine
their dedication to good teaching with widely acknowledged excellence
in scholarship. Several members of the faculty are recipients
of major book awards and many others have acquired sterling international
reputations in their respective fields. Such distinction carries
responsibilities, and many members of the Department have been called
upon to assume high office in professional organizations such as
the Western Society for French History and the American Conference
for Irish Studies.
Service within
the University has been equally prolific. Members of the Department
have served as Dean of Fordham College, Dean of the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences, officers of the Faculty Senate, and chairs
and members of University committees.
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 Latin American and Latino Studies, Medieval
Studies, American Studies, Irish 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.
Dr.
Doron Ben-Atar,
Department Chair
Phone: (718) 817-3931
benatar@fordham.edu
Dr.
Daniel Soyer,
Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: (718) 817-4527
soyer@fordham.edu
Dr.
Wolfgang Mueller,
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Rose Hill
Phone: (718) 817-3943
wpmueller2@juno.com
Dr.
Chris Schmidt-Nowara ,
Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Lincoln Center
Phone: (212) 636-7221
schmidtnowar@fordham.edu |
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The Department is pleased to welcome Elya Zhang as assistant professor of Asian History. In 2008/2009 she will be an An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
● Congratulations to Faculty who have recently
received external grants:
* Dr. Christopher Maginn has received a grant from the Irish government to oversee the introduction of Irish language course at Fordham for the period covering 2007 through 2008.
* Dr. Richard Gyug has received a grant from Social Services and Humanities Research Council of Canada as a co-investigator on the Monumenta liturgica beneventana project for the period 2006 through 2009.
* Dr. Carina Ray received a grant from The Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development (The Netherlands) to Fund the international conference, "Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan", at the institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
* Dr. Asif Siddiqi has received a NSF award to work on a project entitled, From Postcolonial to the the Global: The Making of the Indian Space Program, 1962-1992.
* Dr. Daniel Soyer received a grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation for Research on the Liberal Party of New York, 1944-2002.
* Dr. Kirsten Swinth received a ACLS award to work on a project entitled, Bringing Home the Bacon and Frying It Up Too: A Cultural History of the Working Mother in America, 1950-2000.
* Dr. Ebru Turan has received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas-Austin to complete work on her book on the political career of Ibrahim Pasha (1523-1536), the famous grand vizier of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman I.
* Dr. Elya Zhang has been granted an An Wang Post Doctoral fellowship at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University for a project entitled: “Spider Manchu: Duanfang, Network- Building, and the Construction of National Identity in Qing China.”.
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Congratulations
to faculty who have published books in the last year:
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Paul A. Cimbala for American Soldier’s Lives: The Civil War (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008).
* David Hamlin for Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914 (University of Michigan Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany , Ann Arbor, 2007).
* Hector Lindo-Fuentes for co-authoring Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Rogue Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2007).
* Christopher Maginn for co-editing Historias de España contemporánea: cambio social y giro cultural. Valencia: Publicacions Universitat de Valencia, 2008).
* Thierry Rigogne for Between State and Market: Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University’s Press Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century , New York, 2007).
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Congratulations to Dr Richard Gyug, who was awarded the Fordham University Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in Social Science for 2008.
Current
Searches
● Paul B. Guenther Endowed Chair in American History.
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