2013–2014 The Bulletin - USS at Tufts - Tufts University

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Professor Virginia G. Drachman, Chair, Fall 2013; Arthur Jr.
and Lenore Stern Chair in American History; Women in the
U.S., medicine and society in the U.S., modern U.S.
Professor Beatrice F. Manz, Chair, Spring 2014; Middle East
and Inner Asia
Professor Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Darakjian and Jafarian
Chair in Armenian History; Armenia and cross-cultural world
history
Professor Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Chair in Lebanese and
Eastern Mediterranean Studies; Middle East
Professor Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of
History; South Asia, the Muslim world
Professor Peniel Joseph, Modern U.S., African American
Professor Gary P. Leupp, Japan
Professor Howard L. Malchow, Walter S. Dickson Professor
of English and American History; Modern Britain, Europe
Professor Steven P. Marrone, Medieval, early modern
Europe
Professor Daniel Mulholland, Russia and modern Germany
Professor Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Prince of Asturias
Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization
Professor Reed Ueda, Industrial and urban U.S. history,
immigration, American social history, comparative and world
history
Professor Peter Winn, Latin America
Associate Professor Benjamin Carp, Early American history
Associate Professor Jeanne Penvenne, Africa, Labor and
social history of Mozambique
Associate Professor Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor
of North African and Middle Eastern History; North Africa,
Middle East
Assistant Professor David Ekbladh, Modern U.S., U.S. in
the world
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Foster, Modern France in
the world, colonial West Africa
Assistant Professor Kris Manjapra, Modern South Asia,
modern Germany, intellectual history
Assistant Professor Alisha Rankin, Early modern Europe
Assistant Professor Man Xu, Chinese history
Lecturer David J. Proctor, Late Antique & Medieval Western
Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial
relations
SECONDARY APPOINTMENTS:
Professor Gregory R. Crane, Classics; Winnick Family Chair
in Technology and Entrepreneurship; Greek literature,
computers and classics
Professor R. Bruce Hitchner, Classics; Roman history,
archaeology and international relations
Adjunct Professor John C. Perry, The Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy; Japanese diplomatic history
Associate Professor Steven W. Hirsch, Classics; Greek,
Roman, and Near Eastern history
Assistant Professor Heather D. Curtis, Religion; History of
Christianity, American religious history
Adjunct Senior Lecturer John C. Schneider, Tisch College;
U.S. urban and social history
Lecturer Steven Cohen, Education; History, political science
and philosophy, curricula instruction, practice of teaching
history and political science
The study of history reveals the past, enlightens the
present, and influences the future. Historians seek
to understand how nations, societies, and individuals
have lived and thought, and why they have behaved
the way they did. Supplying the context that
informs art, ideas, institutions, and events, history
illuminates all of human experience.
Trained to examine evidence carefully and
evaluate received interpretations of the past,
students construct their own understanding of
historical processes and occurrences, building
arguments from primary sources, historians’
writings and appropriate theoretical literatures. In
history you also write gripping narratives, empathize
with the experiences of people who have gone
before and re-imagine past worlds.
The Tufts History faculty promotes a diversity
of approaches and ways of understanding the past.
From the history of medicine, to labor and migrant
histories, to transnational and material culture,
courses challenge students to analyze historical
material. The Department offers a wide range of
courses designed to meet the needs and interests of
students with differing concerns and levels of
preparation. General surveys (numbered below 100)
cover entire periods, fields, or geographic areas,
while thematic courses (numbered 100 to 189)
provide more specific, comparative, or regional
perspectives. Foundation Seminars (announced
each semester and numbered History 90-97)
introduce undergraduate majors to the historian’s
craft; Research Seminars (numbered 190 to 197)
provide them with the opportunity to practice it
through a significant research project. Students
interested in specialized work are encouraged to
explore independent study or to consider the option
of writing a Senior Honors Thesis.
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