She encourages her students to not just read the text, but to experience it – and talks of ways to bring Shakespeare “to its feet.” With her own research extending beyond the English department and ...

Patch teaches courses on modern Europe, Germany history and international relations. His research focuses on the Weimar Republic, the German Federal Republic and Christian social movements. Christian ...

The Jim Stump Prize in German honors a devoted alumnus of the Class of 1953. It is awarded annually, at the discretion of the Department of German and Russian, to an undergraduate of exceptional ...

Senechal taught courses on the American gilded age, the history of violence in America, the history of women in America, and a seminar on modern terrorism. Her research focuses on social history, ...

Professor Chalmers is a historian of the premodern Middle East and expert in the comparative study of religions. His current research focuses on religious contact and competition through time, with ...

Professor Vise teaches courses on Medieval European history, violence, crime and punishment, law, and religion and culture. Her research interests are Medieval European intellectual, cultural, and ...

I am revising my book manuscript entitled Yazoo’s Settlement: Finance, Law, and Dispossession in Early America. The book revisits one of the most notorious episodes in the early republic — the Yazoo ...

History 107 History of the United States to 1876 History 108 History of the United States Since 1876 History 150 Seminar in American History for Freshmen and Sophomores History 343 The United States, ...

History examines the past through various lenses — social, political and intellectual; textual and material — enriching us as individuals and preparing us to engage the complexities and ambiguities of ...

Bidlack taught courses on imperial Russia, Soviet Russia, Central Asia, and a study abroad course in Kyrgyzstan. He has researched Russia and Central Asia extensively and is the author of an annually ...

Rupke teaches courses in the history of “science, politics and the public good,” dealing with animal behavior as it relates to human morality, with Darwin and his critics, scientists as political ...