Faculty:
Stacey Robertson, Dept. Chair
Emeritus Faculty:
Philip Jones,
Associate Professor
Director of Western Civilization Program
Office Location:
336C Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-2397
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Duke University
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Military, British, Science & Technology
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 326) Modern Military Forces and Institutions
(His 345) The History of England I
(His 385) Science, Technology and Society
(Civ 102) Western Civilization since the Renaissance (team-taught)
(Hon 100) Honors Seminar
(Civ 111 and Civ 112)Unified Basic Composition & Western Civ
Stacey Robertson, Dept. Chair
Associate Professor
Director of Women's Studies
Oglesby Professor of American Heritage
Office Location:
336E Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-3538
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1994 University of California, Santa Barbara
MA 1989, University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, 1987, Whittier College
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
U. S. Antislavery Movement
U. S. Women's History
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
"'The Strength that Union Gives': Western Women and Pragmatic Antislavery Politics," American Nineteenth Century History, 10 (September 2009): 299-315
“Remembering Antislavery: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 19 (Fall 2002): 65-72
“‘A Hard, Cold, Stern Life’: Parker Pillsbury and Grassroots Abolitionism, 1840-1865.” New England Quarterly 70 (June 1997): 179-210
“‘Aunt Nancy Men’: Parker Pillsbury, Masculinity, and Women’s Rights Activism in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” American Studies 37 (Fall 1996): 33-60.
AWARDS & HONORS:
Charles Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-09
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, 2008-09
Women's History Month Special Recognition Award, National Organization for Women, Peoria Chapter, March 2008
2007-8 Tracy Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
2007, 1998, 1995 Summer Stipend Research Award, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Bradley University.
2005 and 2003 Professor of the Year, Bradley University Order of Omega (Honor Society for the Greek system).
1998 Frederick Blinkerd Arts Summer Research Grant, Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin, Ohio.
1997 Bordin/Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
1995 First-Year Faculty Teaching Award, Office of Teaching Excellence, Bradley University.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Organization of American Historians
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 304) Women in American History
(His 300) US Since 1945
(His 306) Civil War
(His 450) Senior History Seminar
(WMS 200) Introduction to Women's Studies
(WMS 400) Research in Women's Studies
ADDITIONALLY:
Book Review Editor for H-SHEAR
Women's Studies Website: www.bradley.edu/las/wms
John Williams
Associate Professor
Office Location:
336D Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-3182
Email: johnw@bradley.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1984
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Germany since 1870; popular culture; gender and sexuality; environmental history; protest, resistance, and survival
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940, Stanford University Press, 2007.
As editor, Berlin Since the Wall’s End: Reshaping Society and Memory in the German Metropolis since 1989 , Cambridge Scholars Press .
“’Der Körper fordert seine Rechte’: Nudismus in der Arbeiterbewegung, 1919-1935,” forthcoming in Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung.
“Protecting Nature Between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925-1935” in Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller, eds., Germany’s Nature: New Approaches to Environmental History, Rutgers University Press, 2005.
“Ecstasies of the Young: Sexuality, the Youth Movement, and Moral Panic in Germany on the Eve of the First World War” in Central European History XXXIV:2 (2001), 162-189.
“Steeling the Young Body: Official Attempts to Discipline Youth Hiking in Germany from 1913 to 1938” in Occasional Papers in German Studies XII (1997).
“‘The Chords of the German Soul are Tuned to Nature’: The Movement to Preserve the Natural Heimat from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich” in Central European History XXIX:3 (1996), 339-384.
“The Kaiserreich in the 1990s: New Research, New Directions, New Agendas” in German History IX:2 (1991), 200-207. A conference report written in collaboration with Lora Wildenthal, Theresa Sanislo, and Jennifer Jenkins.
Review of Willi Oberkrome, ”Deutsche Heimat”: Nationale Konzeption und regionale Praxis von Naturschutz, Landschaftsgestaltung, und Kulturpolitik in Westfalen-Lippe und Thüringen (1900-1960) for H-German, May 2007 at www.h-net.org/reviews.
Review of Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Marc Cioc, and Thomas Zeller, eds., How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich for H-German, July 3, 2006 at www.h-net.org/reviews .
Review of Gerald Izenberg, Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky Through World War I in Central European History XXXVI:1 (2003), 136-139.
Review of Karl Toepfer, Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935 in Central European History XXXIII:1 (2000), 145-147.
Review of William H. Rollins, A Greener Vision of Home: Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918 in Central European History XXXII:3 (1999), 345-349.
AWARDS & HONORS:
Research Mentorships at Bradley University, Fall, 1998; Fall, 1999; Spring, 2001; Spring, 2002.
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002.
Nominee for Caterpillar New Faculty Teaching Award, 2002
Annual Roe-Williams Scholarship to the History and Education Departments granted partly in my honor by Bradley student Elizabeth Kooba beginning 2001.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Historical Association.
German Studies Association.
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 321) Topics in Intellectual History--Fall 2007--Europe 1880-1945: Society, Culture, and Politics in the Age of Catastrophy
(His 327) Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe
(His 329) From Imperial to Nazi Germany
(His 340) Twentieth-Century Europe
(His 342) Nineteenth-Century Europe
(His 350) Junior Seminar on Historical Methods
(His 375) The Holocaust
(His 382) Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe since 1500
(His 406) Research Mentorships
(His 451) Senior Research Seminar in European History
(Civ 100) Western Civilization from Mesopotamia to the Present (team-taught)
(Civ 102) Western Civilization since the Renaissance (team-taught)
(Hon 100) Honors Seminar
ADDITIONALLY:
Director for the Berlin Seminar since 2000
Amy Scott
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
336B Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-2814
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2007
M.A., University of Tulsa, August 1999
B.S.B.A., University of Tulsa, December 1996
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
20th-Century U.S. Political and Cultural; Cities, Suburbs, and Environment; Post-1945 Social and Political Movements; the American West
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Co-edited with Kathy Brosnan, City Dreams, City Scenes: Utopian Visions, Urban Design, and City Life in the Twentieth-Century American West. Under contract, University of New Mexico Press.
“Remaking Urban in the American West: Urban Environmentalism, Lifestyle, Liberalism, and Hip Capitalism in Boulder, Colorado, 1950-2000” in Jeff Roche, ed. The Political Legacies of the American West. Forthcoming, University of Kansas, 2008.
"The Politics of Community in the Albuquerque Model Cities Program," The New MexicoHistorical Review, Forthcoming Fall 2008.
“National Liberal, Hometown Radical, New Populist Politician: The Life of Fred Harris,”Chronicles of Oklahoma vol. LXXXIII, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 4-33.
“Health Food Movement” in Immanuel Ness, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Vol. 3. M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2004, p. 1014-1019.
“American Buddhism” in Immanuel Ness, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Vol. 3. M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2004, p. 1029-1033.
“Cities and Suburbs,” in David Farber and Beth Bailey, eds. The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, p. 263-272.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Western History Association
Urban History Association
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 201) Violence, Crime, and Punishment in U.S. History
(His 204) United States History Since 1877
(His 303) American Urban History
(His 308) Social Movements in Recent U.S. History
(His 309) The History of U.S. Law Enforcement
(His 450) American Journeys: U.S. History Research Seminar
Rustin Gates,
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
327 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-4872
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2007
A.M. Harvard University, 2000
A.B. Occidental College, 1996
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modern Japanese History, Japanese Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Meiji Diplomacy in the early 1930s: Uchida Yasuya, Manchuria, and Post-withdrawal Foreign Policy,” in Tumultuous Decade: Japan’s Challenge to the International System, 1931-1941, edited by Masato Kimura and Tosh Minohara, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2010.
Review of Erik Esselstrom, Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia in Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming 2009.
“‘Problematic’ Foreign Policies: How the United States Came to Resemble Imperial Japan,” Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, Vol. 6 (September 2009), pp. 20–31.
AWARDS & HONORS:
Bradley University, research Excellence Committee Grant 2008-2009
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2006–2007
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Supplementary Dissertation Grant 2004-2005
Matsushita International Foundation Research Grant 2004–2005
Suntory Cultural Founation Special Research Grant 2003-2005
Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbukagakusho) Fellowship 2003–2005
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (declined) 2003–2004
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for teaching and Learning 2002, 2003, and 2006
Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship 2002-2003
Joseph Fletcher Memorial Award for Outstanding MA Thesis, Harvard University 2000
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japanese Foreign Affairs: The Case of Uchida Yasuya and his Asianism.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, June 2009.
“Solving the ‘Manchuria Problem’: Uchida Yasuya and the Long Russo-Japanese War (1904–1933).” University of Iowa, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies sponsored public talk, February 2009.
“Reevaluating the Study of U.S.-East Asian Relations: Sources, Approaches, and Pedagogy.” (Roundtable) Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 2008.
“Uchida Yasuya and the Manchuria Problem: A Cautionary Tale of Obsessive Foreign Policy.” Illinois State University, International Studies Seminar Series, January 2008.
“The Manchuria Problem: Uchida Yasuya and the Japanese Empire.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2007.
“Japanese Foreign Policy and the Crisis of Identity in Meiji Japan.” New York Conference on Asian Studies, St. Lawrence University, October 2006.
“Scorched Earth Diplomacy: Uchida Yasuya, Manchukuo, and Japan’s Withdrawal from the League of Nations.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2005.
“Uchida Yasuya to senzen Nihon gaiko” (Uchida Yasuya and Prewar Japanese Diplomacy). Kobe
University Japanese Politics and Diplomacy Research Seminar, Kobe, Japan, January 2005.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 107) Non Western Civ. Modern Japan, 1860-present
(His 314) Non Western Civ: Japan & World War II
(His 334) Non Western Civ: Modern China
(His 334) Non-Western Civ: Samurai in Japanese History
Brad Brown
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
351 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-4908
Email: bb@bradley.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., & MA, University of California Santa Barbara, 1999
BA, Whittier College, Whittier CA, 1987
Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego CA, 1983
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Revolutionary France
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Revolution of 1830." In Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History, ed. by I. Ness and G. de Laforcade. 5 vols. Facts on File, forthcoming.
"The Rhetoric of Premature Mourning: Assassination Attempts and the Civil Religion of the July Monarchy." Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting, 29 (2003), 80-88.
"Symbols of Royalty and the Revolutionary Crowds of 1830." Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the Annual Meeting, 23 (1996), 374-83.
"Kingship and the French Revolution of 1830: The Meaning of Royal Authority in Popular Political Culture and Orléanism." PhD diss., University of California Santa Barbara, June 1999. UMI# 9956131
Review of William Fortescue, France and 1848: The End of Monarchy (New York: Routledge, 2005), for H-France Review, Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 4,
http://www.h-france.net/vol7reviews/brown12.html.
Review of Jill Harsin, Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848 (New York and Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002), for H-W-Civ, H-Net Reviews, December 2003,
http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156061093956209.
Review of John M. Knapp, Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869 (Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001), for H-France Review, Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 131,
http://www.h-france.net/vol2reviews/brown3.html.
COURSES TAUGHT:
(Civ 100) Western Civilization
(Civ 101) Western Civilization to 1600
(Civ 102) Western Civilization since 1600
(Civ 111 and Civ 112)Unified Basic Composition & Western Civ
(His 321)The Enlightenment
(His 337) Modern Non-Western History
(His 341) The French Revolution
(His 342) Nineteenth-Century Europe
(Hon 100) Honors Seminar--The Utopian Imagination
(Soc 390) Sociology of Globalization
Aurea Toxqui
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
345 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-2393
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, 2008
MA, Universidad Iberoamericana, Santa Fe-Ciudad de Mexico, 2001
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modern Mexico; popular culture, social interaction, taverns and neighborhood dynamics, alcohol consumption, and crime; comparative social and cultural history of Latin America.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2007 “Bandits in the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Costumbrista Novels,” 17th Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, Conference Proceedings, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
AWARDS & HONORS:
2007 Teaching Award, Student Athletes Advisory Committee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2006 Barbara Robinson Foundation Fellowship
2005 Barbara Robinson Foundation Fellowship
2004-2006 P. E. O. International Peace Scholarship Fund
2004 Tinker Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona
2002-2005 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt) – Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology International Scholarship
2001 Hewlett Fellowship
1994-1996 Conacyt Scholarship
1988-1992 Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) – Mexico’s Public Education Ministry Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies (RMCLAS)
Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
American Historical Association (AHA)
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His 105) Non-Western Civilization Latin America
(His 335) Modern Mexico
Susan Smith
Adjunct Professor
Office Location:
327 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-4872
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. University of Washington 2005
M.A.I.S. University of Washington 1997
B.A. Georgetown University 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Provincial life and culture; Museum Studies, material culture and collecting; Historic preservation;
Imperial and Soviet cultural, scholarly, and philanthropic institutions
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Liudi s kul'turnoi siloi, skromnye truzheniki i pisanie russkoi istorii. ("Those with "Cultural Power" and the "Modest Toilers": Amateur Enthusiasts and the Writing of Russian History)" In Dni slavianskoi pis'mennosti i kul'tury (Days of Slavic Written Language and Culture) Vladimir: Vladimir State University. Expected publication: fall-winter 2008.
"Book Review: Lewis, Catherine M. The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005." Solicited by the Michigan Historical Review. Scheduled publication: fall 2008.
"The Accidental Museum: Expropriating and Appropriating the Past." The Russian Review 65(3): 438-453. July 2008.
"Book Review: Clark, Katerina and Evgeny Dobrenko with Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov. Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953. Annals of Communism. Translated by Marian Schwartz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007." Russian Review. 65(3): 527. July 2008.
AWARDS & HONORS:
Short Term Grant. Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. 2005.
Eurasia Program Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship. Social Science Research Council. 2003.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education. 2001.
Regional Scholar Exchange Program Grant. American Councils for International Education. 2001. Declined.
Rondeau Laverne Evans Dissertation Fellowship. Department of History, University of Washington. 2001.
Advanced Study Center Fellowship. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2000.
“Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory.”
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
American Historical Association
SHERA – an association of scholars, museum specialists, and students interested in the visual and material culture of the countries of the former Soviet Union and East and Central Europe
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
American Historical Association Conference, January 2007.
"The Professionals' "Smaller Brothers": Amateur Enthusiasts and the Writing of Russian History"
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, November 2006. Participant on roundtable "Directions in the Study of Soviet Identities: Why the Provinces Matter."
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, November 2006. Chair for panel "Museums and Exhibitions in Imperial Russia."
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, November 2005. "Local Identity as Shaped by Moscow: The Transformation of the Vladimir Regional Museum in the 1920s."
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, December 2004. “The Reception of Sacred Objects in a Secular Space: Icons in the Vladimir Museum and the Shaping of Identity.”
Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, October 2003. “The Promotion of Industrialization in a Provincial Russian Museum during the Stalinist First Five Year Plan.”
COURSES TAUGHT:
(Civ 102) Western Civilization since the Renaissance (team-taught)
(His 103) Introduction to Russian History
Rob Faber,
Adjunct Professor
Office Location:
325 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-2394
Email:
EDUCATION:
Penn State University – Ph.D. 2006
SUNY Albany – M.A. 1995
SUNY Albany – B.A 1989
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
US intellectual and cultural history; post-World War II US social history; the history of the social sciences; and the history of American radicalism and conservatism.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Dissertation: “After Progress: Defining American Political and Cultural Maturity in the 1940s and 1950s,” Penn State University, 2006
Selected Papers: “Anti-Radicalism in Mid-Century American Thought,” Modern History Workshop, Penn State University, February 13, 2006
“Readjusting the Greatest Generation: Fear, Gender, and the Returning World War II Serviceman,” Penn State University, October 17, 2003
Forthcoming in The Dictionary of American History, editors: Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak: “Anti-Modernism,” “Humanism,” “The Associated Press,” and “The Atlantic Monthly.”
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
AHA
OAH
COURSES TAUGHT:
(His. 203) United States History to 1877
(His. 308) Topics in American Political History: “The Emergence of Cold War Liberalism, 1930-1960”
(His. 311) US Economic History and the History of American Political Economic Theory
Randy Kidd 
Adjunct Professor
Office Location:
347 Bradley Hall
Office Phone:
309 677-2399
Email:
EDUCATION:
PhD, History of Science, Yale University, 2001
MA, Medieval History, Western Washington University, 1998
BA, Psychology, Colorado College, 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
--The history of beliefs about the human body
--The history and persistence of metaphoric language about our bodies, such as “Learning something by heart,” “Believing with all our heart,” “Loving someone with all our hearts,” “shedding of innocent blood,” “that makes my blood boil” and other phrases that we use to talk about ourselves
--The Greco-Arabic Translation Movement of the 10th and 11th Centuries that brought many of our classical texts into Europe by means of Arabic scholars, and helped inspire the first universities at Oxford, Bologna and Paris, around 1200 CE
--The history of universities, particularly their start as Medieval “knowledge guilds”
--Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern theories of motion, particularly with respect to what people thought caused the “perpetual motion machines” of a planet in its orbit (macrocosm) and the pulse in the heart (microcosm)
--The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century: did it really happen? How have different generations of historians characterized it?
--Historiography
COURSES TAUGHT:
(Hist 336), Non-Western History to 1500 CE
(Hist 337), Modern Non-Western History
(Civ 100), Western Civilization
Emeritus Faculty :
Heather Fowler-Salamini, retired 2008
Caterpillar Professor
of Latin American History
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Latin American History, The American University, 1970
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
20th century Mexican social history-peasantry, working class, caudillismo, gender
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920-38 (Nebraska, 1978). Spanish Translation published by Siglo XXI.
Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990, coedited with Mary Kay Vaughan. Spanish translation published by El Colegio de Michoacán/BUAP.
Articles:
“Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women’s Culture in Postrevolutionary Veracruz,” (Gabriela Cano, Jolie Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan eds.) Sex in Revolution. Duke University Press (2006).
“Gender, Work, and Working-Class Women’s Culture in the Veracruz Coffee Export Industry, 1920-45,” International Labor and Working-Class History (Spring 2003).
“Women Coffee Sorters Confront the Mill Owners and the Veracruz Revolutionary State, 1915-8,” Journal of Women’s History (Spring 2002)
AWARDS & HONORS:
Caterpillar Professor of Latin American History, 2000-6
Rothberg Research Award
Senior Fulbright –García Robles Teacher/Researcher Grant, 1998
NEH Research Grant, 1990-1
Fulbright-Hayes Research Grant, 1983
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Conference on Latin American History
Latin American Studies Association
(His 105) Non-Western Civilization Latin America
(His 332) Modern Latin American History
(His 335) Modern Mexico
(His 339) Women in Global Perspective
(His 350) Historical Methods Seminar
(His 452) Area Studies Research Seminar
ADDITIONALLY:
Chairperson of History Department, 1999-2002, 2006-
Director of Bradley Summer Program, Querétaro, Mexico, 2003, 2005
Gregory G. Guzman, retired 2008
Professor
Email:
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Medieval, Ancient, and Early Modern Europe, University of Cincinnati, 1968
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Inner Asian Barbarians, Medieval Mongols, World History, Vincent of Beauvais and the Manuscript Tradition of the Speculum Historiale
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
”The Vinland Map controversy and the Discovery of a Second Version of the Tartar Relation: The Authenticity of the 1339 Text” , Terrae Incognitae, 38 (2006), 19-25.
One of the four editors of Travel, Trade, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia (525-1492). New York, 2000. I also wrote six of the entries.
"The Testimony of Medieval Dominicans Concerning Vincent of Beauvais" in Lector et Compilator: Vincent de Beauvais, frére précheur. Un intellectuel et son milieu au XIIIe siécle , ed. by Monique Paulmer-Fourcart, Paris, 1997, pp. 303-26.
"Reports of Mongol Cannibalism in the Thirteenth-Century Latin Sources: Oriental Fact or Western Fiction?" in Discovering New Worlds: Essays on Medieval Exploration and Imagination, ed. by Scott D. Westrem, New York, 1991, pp. 31-68.
"Vincent of Beauvais' Epistola actoris ad regem Ludovicum: A Critical Analysis and a Critical Edition" in Vincent de Beauvais: Intentions et Réceptions d'une oeuvre encyclopédique au Moyen Âge ed. Monique Paulmier-Foucart, Serge Lusignan, and Alain Nadeau, Paris, 1990, pp. 57-85.
Programmed Instruction for Western Civilization. New York, 1989, rev. 1991.
"Were the Barbarians a Negative or Positive Factor in Ancient and Medieval History?" The Historian, L (1988), 558-72.
"Une liste des manuscrits du Speculum historiale de Vincent de Beauvais" Scriptorium, XLI (1987), 286 -94. Co-authored with M.C. Duchenne (University of Nancy II, France) and J.B. Voorbij (University of Groningen, Netherlands).
"Another Volume of the Cambron Manuscript of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Historiale" Scriptorium, XXXVII (1983), 112-22.
"The Encyclopedist Vincent of Beauvais and his Mongol Extracts from John of Plano Carpini and Simon of Saint-Quentin" Speculum, XLIX (1974) 287-307.
"Simon of Saint-Quentin and the Dominican Mission to the Mongol Baiju: A Reappraisal" Speculum, XLVI (1971), 232-49.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Bradley Caterpillar Professor of European History, 2001-
Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor Scholarship Award, 1994.
Midwest Faculty Seminar Fellowship, 1989.
NEH Summer Seminar, 1988.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships at the Vatican Microfilm Library, 1985-98.
NEH Research Tools Division Fellowship, 1982-83.
NEH Summer Institute, 1981.
Senior Research Associate in the Institute for Uralic and Altaic
Studies, summers of 1978-83.
Bradley Rothberg Research Award, 1977.
Participant in Institutes on Inner Asian and Mongol Studies, 1975 and 1977.
East-West Center Institute Fellowship, summer of 1972.
NDEA Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study and tour Southeast Asia, summer of 1971.
Fellowships to Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, summers of 1969 and 1976.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Medieval Academy of American
Medieval Association of the Midwest
Midwest Medieval History Conference
Vice president and president, 1995-97
Illinois Medieval Association
Vice president and president, 1991-93
World History Association
Phi Alpha Theta - the National History Honor Society
COURSES TAUGHT:
(Civ 100) Western Civilization (independent and team-taught)
(His 336) Early Non-Western History
(His 337) Modern Non-Western History
(His 323) Greek Civilization
(His 325) Roman Civilization
(His 327) Medieval Civilization
(His 324) Barbarians in History
(His 320) Renaissance & Reformation
ADDITIONALLY:
Assistant Director and Director of the Bradley Berlin-Prague Seminar, 1999 and 2000.
Invited to make presentations at International Conferences in Montreal, Paris, Leeds (England), Venice, and Hong Kong.
Participation in Bradley's Study Abroad Program since 1991. I have taught in Brugge (Belgium), Trier and Munich (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), Malta, and Egypt.
Founder and Editor of the Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter, 1976- Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter
Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, 1969-
Elected one of the National Councilors, 1981-83
Member of the National Book Award Committee, 1976-87
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