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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.
Barry Goldberg,
Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Lincoln Center
Phone: (212) 636-6392
bgoldberg@fordham.edu |
| What's
Going On
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The Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Carina
Ray (PhD, Cornell University), whose research focuses on the
racial and sexual politics of colonial rule in Africa (particularly
Ghana), as well as the comparative histories of race mixture
in Africa and the Diaspora.
● Congratulations to Faculty who have recently
received external grants:
a
Dr. Kirsten Swinth was awarded a fellowship
from the American Council of Learned Societies, for her project,
"Bringing Home the Bacon and Frying It Up Too: A Cultural
History of the Working Mother in America, 1950-2000."
a
Dr. Christopher Maginn has received a grant
from the Irish Government Fund to oversee the introduction
of an Irish language component to the Institute of Irish Studies
program.
a
Dr. Ebru Turan has received a grant for the
Folger Institute's Faculty Weekend Seminar, "Constantinople/Istanbul:
Destination, Way-Station, City of Renegades," to be directed
by Palmira Brummett in September 2007.
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Congratulations
to faculty who have published books in the last year:
a
Paul A. Cimbala, co-ed., Making a New South Race, Leadership
, and Community after Civil War. University Press of Florida,
2007.
a
David Hamlin, Work and Play: The Production and Consumption
of Toys 1880-1914. University of Michigan Press, 2007.
a
Hector Lindo -Fuentes, co-author, Remembering a Massacre
in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and
the Politics of Historical Memory. University of New Mexico
Press, 2007.
a
Christopher Maginn, co-author, The Making of British Isles:
the State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660. Pearson Longman,
2007.
a
Thierry Rigogne, Between State and Market: Printing and
Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford: The
Voltaire Foundation, 2007.
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The department is also pleased
to enjoy the services of Anne Hayes, (PhD, CUNY, 2004), whose
book, Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives,
1880-1930, was recently published by Routledge. Dr. Hayes
will be teaching course at Rose Hill campus, while Dr. Robert
Genter (PhD, Columbia University, 2005, historian of the U.S.
since 1945, will be teaching at our Lincoln Center campus.
His publications include forthcoming articles in the Journal
of American Culture, the Journal of Popular Culture, and
Studies in Humanities on Hypnotism, comics, and American-slasher
films in Cold War culture.
●
Congratulations to Doron Ben-Atar for the success of his
play "Behave Yourself Quietly," which debuted in
New Haven in April.
Current
Searches
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