Norman R. Bennett (A.B., Tufts University; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), Ph.D., Boston University) East African, Portuguese, and world history

Professor Bennett joined the faculty of Boston University in 1960, becoming professor in 1970. He is the author of Studies in East African History (1963), Mirambo of Tanzania (1971), Africa and Europe from Roman Times to the Present (1975, Second edition, 1984), A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar (1978), and Arab Versus European in Nineteenth Century East Central Africa: A Study in Diplomacy and War (1986).

Joseph Boskin (B.A., SUNY-Oswego; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) American social history: popular culture, ethnicity, violence

Professor Boskin was Professor of History through the 2000-01 academic year and continues to teach in Boston University's Metropolitan College. He is the author of many articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, review essays, and several books, including Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony (1977), Sambo: The Rise & Demise of an American Jester (1986), and Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture (1997). Among his edited works are Seasons of Rebellion: Protest and Radicalism in Recent America, co-author with Robert A. Rosenstone (1972), Urban Racial Violence in the Twentieth Century (1976), and The Humor Prism in Twentieth Century America (1997). He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Humor published by Mouton de Gruyter. His current writing focuses on comedic narratives and essays.

Saul Engelbourg (B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Columbia University) American economic history

Saul Engelbourg is the author of International Business Machines (1976), Power and Morality: American Business Ethics, 1840-1914 (1980), and (co-author) The Man Who Found the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of the Western Railroads (1996). He has retired from teaching but continues to be involved in Boston University's Interdisciplinary Italian Studies Program.

John G. Gagliardo (B.A., M.A., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University) Early modern European history

Professor Gagliardo has published four books and one translation on early modern European and German history, as well as articles and numerous book reviews in the same field. His Enlightened Despotism (1967 and later editions) and Germany Under the Old Regime, 1600-1790 (1991) are widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses in European and German history. Professor Gagliardo is fluent in German; he studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Marburg, has since made a number of research trips to Germany, and has traveled extensively in other European countries. He has lectured at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., as a specialist in the history of international relations before 1914. He has taught at Amherst College (1960-65), the University of Illinois at Chicago (1965-68), and at Boston University (1968-2003); he was the 1984 recipient of Boston University's Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Merle Goldman (B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Radcliffe College; Ph.D., Harvard University) History of China

Merle Goldman is the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history and culture. Her last two books, China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent (1981) and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China (1994), were selected by the New York Times Book Review as among the notable books of their respective years. The latter book was also selected by the American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, as the best book on government published in 1994. She also has edited five books ranging from a discussion of Chinese culture in the early decades of the twentieth century to Science and Technology in Post-Mao China. Her new research is on "From Comrade to Citizen in the People's Republic of China: The Struggle for Political Rights in Post-Mao China." She has published over fifty articles for scholarly journals and also has written for the New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Center. She was a member of the United States delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1993-94) and a member of the Presidential Commission on Establishing Radio Free Asia. In 1982, she received the Radcliffe Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievements.

Fred M. Leventhal (A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D. Harvard University) Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history

Professor Leventhal is the author of Respectable Radical: George Howell and Victorian Working Class Politics (1971); The Last Dissenter: H.N. Brailsford and His World (1985); Arthur Henderson (1989); and the editor of Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia (1995). In addition, he serves as co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century British History and has previously served on the editorial boards of the Journal of British Studies and the Journal of Modern History. Professor Leventhal has received grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Kent at Canterbury, the University of Sydney, and Harvard University and visiting Research Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Affiliate of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and is Past President of the North American Conference on British Studies. His current research is concerned with the projection of British culture in America, 1918-1945, and with state sponsorship of the arts in Britain between 1939 and 1951.

Stephen R. Lyne (B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) American foreign policy, Vietnam War, Cold War

Ambassador Lyne spent 29 years in the Foreign Service, serving in Cambodia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Gabon, Algeria, Australia, Lebanon, and Ghana, as well as in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He taught graduate and undergraduate coures related to U.S. Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War. He occasionally gives papers and writes reviews on topics concerning the American involvement in Vietnam.

Dietrich Orlow (B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan) Modern European history, history of modern Germany, comparative history of Fascism, comparative history of European Socialism

Professor Orlow has authored several books dealing with the history of modern Germany. They include A History of the Nazi Party (1969, 1973) [2 volumes], Weimar Prussia, 1918-1933 (1986, 1991) [2 volumes], A History of Modern Germany, 1871-Present (1987, 4th ed. 1999), and Common Destiny: A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969 (1999). He has also written a large number of articles for American, German, and Dutch journals. Professor Orlow taught at Boston University from 1971 to 2002 and was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg in Germany and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In recent years Professor Orlow focused his research activities on aspects of the comparative history of contemporary Europe.

Claudio Véliz (B.Sc., University of Florida; Ph.D., London School of Economics) Latin American history

Professor Véliz has held the Chair of Economic History on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Chile and was Professor of International Politics at the Chilean War Academy. In 1972 he was awarded the Chair of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of a number of books, including Historia de la Marina Mercante de Chile, The Centralist Tradition of Latin America, and The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America. Until 2002 he was Director of the University Professors at Boston University.