Betty S. Anderson (B.A., Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Middle East and World History

Betty Anderson teaches Middle East and World History, having received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Near East History in 1997. Her research focuses on social, educational, and political developments in the modern Arab world. She is the author of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State, published by the University of Texas Press in Spring 2005, and History Handbook, published by Houghton Mifflin Press in 2003. She has published articles in Critique, Jordanies, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her current work is a history of the American University of Beirut (AUB), contracted with the University of Texas Press.

She teaches the following courses:
     World History II: 1500 to the Present (HI 176)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Introduction to the Middle East (HI 392)
     Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East (HI 484)
     Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East (HI 485)
     Ideology and Conflict in World History (HI 496)

Andrew J. Bacevich (B.S., United States Military Academy; Ph.D., Princeton University) American diplomatic history, U.S. foreign policy, security studies

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations and history at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bacevich is the author most recently of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005). His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002) and The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003). His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The American Conservative, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers. Professor Bacevich served for seven years, from 1998 to the summer of 2005, as the Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. In 2004, he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has also been a fellow of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dr. Bacevich has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Moncado Prize given by the Society for Military History and the Arter-Darby Military History Writing Award.

Professor Bacevich teaches the following courses in the History Department:
     American Military Experience (HI 370)
     American Foreign Policy (HI 376)
     Wars of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (HI 472)
     Ideas and American Foreign Policy (HI 566)

Clifford R. Backman (B.A., M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Mediterranean society in the late Middle Ages, with emphasis on the Crown of Aragon countries.

Professor Backman teaches medieval history, in addition to survey courses in Western Civilization. His chief research interest is the religious and intellectual history of the Crown of Aragon--the late-medieval multi-state confederation centered in Barcelona. He is currently at work on two key projects: a biography of James II, ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1291 to 1327, and a study of the religious thought of Arnau de Vilanova, the notorious heretic who happened to be the personal physician to three successive popes. He is the author of The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily: Politics, Religion, and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III, 1296-1337 (1995) and The Worlds of Medieval Europe (2002).

Undergraduate courses taught:
     The Dawn of Europe (HI 101)
     The Emergence of Modern Europe (HI 102)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     History of Medieval Europe (HI 203)
     History of the Crusades (HI 308)
     Medieval England (HI 318)
     Monks, Friars, and Saints (HI 406)

Paolo Bernardini (Dott. Lett., Genova; Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence) European history

Paolo Bernardini is the resident director of the Center for Italian and European Studies (CIES), Boston University Padova Program in Italy. His areas of research include the Enlightenment, early modern European-Jewish history, and the history of political thought. His most recent publications include The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West 1450-1800 (Oxford-New York, 2001) (co-edited, with Norman Fiering) and La Germania e l'Europa. Studi su politica, religione e filosofia del Settecento tedesco (Pisa, 2002). He was a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1998-1999, and a NATO research fellow of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, in 2000-2001.

Allison Blakely (B.A., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) modern European and comparative history

Professor Blakely came to Boston University in 2001 after teaching for thirty years at Howard University. He is the author of Blacks in the Dutch World: Racial Imagery and Modernization (Indiana University Press, 1994); Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought (Howard University Press, 1986--a winner of an American Book Award in 1988); several articles on Russian populism; and others on various European aspects of the Black Diaspora. His interest in comparative history has centered on comparative populism and on the historical evolution of color prejudice. Among the awards he has received are Woodrow Wilson, Mellon, Fulbright-Hays, and Ford Foundation Fellowships. He is President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and serves on the editorial board of its journal, The American Scholar.

He teaches the following courses:
     Freshman Writing Seminar (HI 150)
     Modern Political and Cultural Revolutions (HI 215)
     Blacks in Modern Europe (HI 481)
     Black Radical Thought (HI 583)
     African Americans Abroad (HI 586)

Brooke L. Blower (B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University) American cultural history, urban history, history of the United States in transnational perspective

Brooke Blower teaches courses in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American history. Her research seeks to reexamine modern American culture and politics in an international framework. She is the author of an article in Prospects, an American studies journal published by Cambridge University Press, and she is at work on a book that reconsiders the role of Americans in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. She has previously taught in the History Department and the Writing Program at Princeton University.

Her courses include:
     Americans in the World: United States History in Transnational Perspective (HI 367)
     Modern American Cultural History (HI 379)
     Postwar America: Issues in Political, Cultural, and Social History, 1945-1969 (HI 467)
     American Historiography (HI 750)
     Methods in American Cultural History (HI 757)

Charles Capper (B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) U.S. intellectual and cultural history

Professor Capper came to Boston University in 2001 after teaching fifteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarship focuses on American intellectual life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of a two-volume biography, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize for 1993 and the second of which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2007. He is now working on a book on the Transcendentalist movement and Romantic intellectual culture in America. He published a collection of new scholarship on his book's central circle in his and Conrad E. Wright's Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement in Its Contexts (1999). He has co-edited with David A. Hollinger The American Intellectual Tradition, 2 vols., 5th ed. (2006). He has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Humanities Center, and Charles Warren Center fellowships. He is the co-editor with Anthony J. La Vopa and Nicholas Phillipson of Modern Intellectual History.

Professor Capper teaches:
     Intellectual History of the United States, 1776-1900 (HI 373)
     Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present (HI 374)
     American Intellectual History (HI 763)

In addition he teaches a variety of undergraduate colloquia, honors courses, and graduate seminars in intellectual history and American Studies.

Houchang E. Chehabi (Licence, Université de Caen; Diplôme, Institut d'Etudes Politiques; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University) comparative politics, Central Asia and Middle East politics, religion and politics

Professor Chehabi has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and UCLA and has held Alexander von Humboldt and Woodrow Wilson fellowships. He is the author of Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and has co-edited Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995) and Sultanistic Regimes (1998). Professor Chehabi has also written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations.

Professor Chehabi teaches the following courses:
     Fundamentals of International Politics (IR 230)
     History of Modern Iran, 1900 to the Present (HI 397/IR 397)
     Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century (HI 398/IR 328)
     Central Asia in the Twentieth Century (IR 505)
     International Law and Problems of World Order (IR 573)
     Modernization in Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan (IR 705)
     Iran and the Middle East (IR 706)

Arianne Chernock (B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) modern British history

Arianne Chernock is an Assistant Professor specializing in modern Britain and Europe. Her work focuses on 18th- and 19th-century cultural, political, imperial, and gender history, and specifically, the contributions and legacies of the Enlightenment. Most recently, Chernock contributed an essay "Extending the 'Right of Election,'" to Women, Gender, and Enlightenment (Palgrave, 2005). Chernock's work has also appeared in the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and New York Times Book Review. She is currently preparing her manuscript, Champions of the Fair Sex: Men and the Creation of Modern British Feminism, for publication. The book demonstrates the extent to which male reformers were engaged alongside women in the formation of feminist theory and practice, and urges that the "woman question" be folded into the larger story of the radical British Enlightenment.

Professor Chernock teaches the following courses:
          History Writing and Research Seminar (HI 150)
          The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
          Making of Modern Britain (HI 321)
          Twentieth-Century Britain (HI 322)

Charles Dellheim (B.A., S.U.N.Y. Binghamton; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University) modern European cultural, Jewish culture, modern Britain, business and culture

Charles Dellheim, Professor and Chair, came to Boston University in 2001, after a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. He was previously Professor of History and Humanities and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Arizona State University, where he won a Distinguished Teaching Award. He was trained in modern European cultural history, and his chief publications in modern British history include The Face of the Past: The Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England; The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution; and "The Creation of a Company Culture: Cadburys, 1861-1931." In recent years his work has focused on the role of Jews in modern culture. He is currently writing a book that provides an historical perspective on Nazi art looting by telling the story of a circle of art dealers, collectors, and critics who became pivotal figures in the art world. Dellheim has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Littauer Foundation. He is a past president of the Economic and Business Historical Society and served on the executive board of the Western Humanities Alliance.

Professor Dellheim teaches the following courses:
          Cities and Cultures (HI 339)
          European Historiography (HI 700)

Barbara Diefendorf (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) Early modern Europe, French history--Renaissance to Revolution, Reformation

Professor Diefendorf has taught European history at Boston University since 1980. She is the author of Paris City Councillors in the Sixteenth Century: The Politics of Patrimony (1983) and Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (1991). Her third book, From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris (2004), was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize by the American Historical Association in 2005 for the best book in French history. Professor Diefendorf has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and American Council of Learned Societies and taught as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and the Harvard Divinity School. In 2006 she delivered the University Lecture. She is currently working on a comparative study of the culture and politics of the Catholic Reformation in France.

Professor Diefendorf regularly teaches the following courses:
     The Emergence of Modern Europe (HI 102)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Europe Between Renaissance and Revolution (HI 204)
     Women and Gender in European History (HI 216)
     Renaissance Europe (HI 311)
     The Reformation Era: Sixteenth-Century Europe (HI 312)
     Early Modern France (HI 332)
     French Revolution and Napoleon (HI 333)
     Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe (HI 414)
     Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (HI 425)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 701)

Louis A. Ferleger (B.B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Temple University) U.S. economic history

Louis Ferleger was appointed Professor of History in 1999. He is also Executive Director of The Historical Society, a historical organization located at Boston University. He is co-author of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy and editor of Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. He is also co-editor of Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (2000). Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Professor Ferleger's courses include:

David Fromkin (B.A., J.D., University of Chicago) International relations, U.S. and Middle East

Professor Fromkin is Professor of International Relations, History, and Law. He has spent most of his professional life as a single practitioner attorney and a private investor. He served as the head of foreign policy for Hubert Humphrey in the 1972 presidential primary campaign. He writes frequently for Foreign Affairs and other periodicals. He is the author of The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems; The Independence of Nations; A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922; In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World; and The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century. He is Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, located at Boston University.

Professor Fromkin teaches courses in the International Relations Department.

Anna Geifman (B.A., M.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University) Russian and Soviet history

Professor Geifman is the author of Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917 and Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution. She is planning an annotated English translation of Ivan Bunin's memoirs.

Professor Geifman teaches:
     History of Russia, 1689-1917 (HI 345)
     History of the Soviet Union and Post-Communist Russia, 1917-Present (HI 346)
     Late Imperial Russia (HI 444)
     Russian Intellectual History (HI 445)
     The Russian Revolution (HI 446)
     Psychohistory (HI 503)

Thomas F. Glick (B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Harvard University) Medieval history, history of Spain, history of science and technology

Professor Glick is a medieval historian, the author of Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia (1970), Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (1979), and From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle (1995). His principal interest is in the transfer of ideas, institutions, and techniques from the Islamic to the Christian world in the Middle Ages.

He normally teaches the following courses:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     The Age of Discoveries (HI 210)
     Science and Technology in World History (HI 275)
     Early Medieval Spain (HI 327)
     Darwin, Freud, and Einstein (HI 347)
     Medieval Science and Technology (HI 409)
     Science and Modern Culture (HI 448)
     Readings in Food History (HI 781)

Erik Goldstein (B.A., Tufts University; M.A., M.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Ph.D., University of Cambridge) Diplomacy, international relations, British foreign policy

Professor Goldstein's research interests include diplomacy, formulation of national diplomatic strategies, the origins and resolution of armed conflict, and negotiation. He has published in numerous journals, including Review of International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, East European Quarterly, Historical Research, Historical Journal, and Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies. He is the author of Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916-1920 (1991); Wars and Peace Treaties (1992); The First World War's Peace Settlements: International Relations, 1918-1925 (2002, Italian translation, 2004); and Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (2003). He has co-edited The End of the Cold War (1990); The Washington Conference, 1921-1922: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road to Pearl Harbor (1994); The Munich Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II (1999); and Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (2002). Professor Goldstein is also the founder-editor of the journal Diplomacy & Statecraft, and he serves on the editorial board of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Britain and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy at the University of Leicester (UK). He was previously Professor of International History and Deputy Director for the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham (UK) and has held appointments as Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow at the Naval War College and as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the President of Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Massachusetts. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Wardrop Fund Grant at the University of Oxford, a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bane Fund Grant from Cambridge University, and a Hoover Presidential Library Fellowship.

Professor Goldstein teaches the following courses:
     The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean (HI 344/IR 325)
     Diplomacy and Statecraft (IR 535)

Marilyn Halter (A.B., Brandeis University; Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education; Ph.D., Boston University) Twentieth-century American social and cultural history, American Studies, immigration, race, ethnicity and consumer culture

Marilyn Halter is a Professor and holds a joint appointment as a Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. She also serves as the Director of the American and New England Studies program. Her interdisciplinary scholarship spans the fields of history, sociology, and anthropology with particular emphasis on ethnographic and oral history methodologies and with specializations in the study of immigrants of African descent as well as the relationship of commerce and culture. Professor Halter's published works include Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity (2000); Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (1993); The Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde [with Richard Lobban] (1988); and her edited volume, New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs (1995). She is the Senior Consultant and Project Historian for the Oasis Institute’s "The Immigrant Experience," a national education project for older adults and she also co-chairs the "Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar" an on-going series in conjunction with the Massachusetts Historical Society.

She regularly teaches the following courses:
     The Peopling of America (HI 261)
     Colloquium in American Consumer History (HI 475)
     American Immigration History (HI 755)

Linda M. Heywood (B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University) African, African American, African diaspora

Professor Linda Heywood is the author of Contested Power in Angola, editor of and contributor to Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, and co-author with John Thornton of Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America (Cambridge University Press, July, 2007). Her articles on Angola and the African Diaspora have appeared in The Journal of African History, Journal of Modern African Studies, Slavery and Abolition, and the Journal of Southern African Studies. She has served as a consultant for numerous museum exhibitions, including African Voices at the Smithsonian Institution, Against Human Dignity sponsored by the Maritime Museum, and the new exhibit at Jamestown, Virginia. She was also one of the history consultants and appeared in the PBS series African American Lives (2006) and Finding Oprah’s Roots (2007).

She teaches:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Colonialism in Africa (HI 292)
     African American History (HI 371)
     African Diaspora in the Americas (HI 489)
     Women, Power and Culture in Africa (HI 588)

James H. Johnson (B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Ph.D.. University of Chicago) European intellectual and cultural history

James H. Johnson is Associate Professor of History and Fellow in the University Professors Program at Boston University. During 1999-2002 he held the position of National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor. He also teaches regularly in the university's Core Curriculum, and between 2001 and 2007 was director of that program and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His 1995 book Listening in Paris. A Cultural History, a study of music and its audiences from the ancien régime to the Romantic era, is the recipient of the 1995 Herbert Baxter Adams Award, given by the American Historical Association, and the 1994 Jacques Barzun Award in Cultural History, given by the American Philosophical Association. Professor Johnson is an active lecturer/performer who has spoken at symposia and conferences on a wide range of topics exploring the relationship between music and the political, religious, and cultural climates of its time. His regular performances include an annual three-part lecture/performance series on aspects of classical canon. A 1985 Fulbright grant recipient for research in Paris, Professor Johnson has also served as visiting scholar in residence at the Università di Padova. His essays and articles have appeared in The Journal of Modern History, Nineteenth-Century Music, and the Times Literary Supplement.

He teaches the following courses:
     The Dawn of Europe (HI 101)
     The Emergence of Modern Europe (HI 102)
     Core Curriculum (CC 101, 102)
     Nineteenth-Century France (HI 334)
     Nineteenth-Century European Intellectual History (HI 315)
     Twentieth-Century European Intellectual History (HI 316)
     Music and Ideas from Mozart to the Jazz Age (HI 426)
     Postwar European Culture (HI 428)

William R. Keylor (B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University) 20th-century international relations, U.S. diplomatic history, modern France

Professor Keylor is the author of Academy and Community: The Foundation of the French Historical Profession (1975); co-editor (with Dora B. Weiner) of From Parnassus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun (1976); Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in Twentieth-Century France (1979); The Twentieth-Century World: An International History (4th rev. ed., 2001); The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919 (1997); A World of Nations: The International Order since 1945 (2002); and dozens of articles in scholarly journals and book chapters on twentieth-century history. He has been a Guggenheim, Fulbright, Earhart, and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, has been elected to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, has been named Chevalier de l'ordre national du mérite by the French government, and has served as the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. At Boston University he has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award. Professor Keylor served as Chairman of the Department of History at Boston University between 1989 and 2000.

He regularly teaches the following courses:
     History of International Relations, 1914-45 (HI 349)
     History of International Relations Since 1945 (HI 350)
     The Great War and the Fragile Peace (HI 436)
     The United States and the Cold War (HI 465)

Richard A. Landes (B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University) Medieval history, millennial studies

Professor Richard Landes is the author of Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 (1995) and co-editor with Thomas Head of The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Responses in France around the Year 1000 (1992). He is currently working on a two-volume study on the role of apocalyptic expectations in Western culture from the origins of Christianity to the present, provisionally entitled While God Tarried: Disappointed Millennialism and the Genealogy of the West, and co-editing with David Van Meter a collection of essays on the Apocalyptic Year 1000, the results of an international conference held at Boston University on November 2-5, 1996. He has spent several years and summers studying and researching in Paris (1971/2, 1980/1, 1987, 1994), where he is engaged in a collaborative effort to edit the collected works of Ademar of Chabannes; and he spent a sabbatical in Jerusalem (1994/5) working on the first volume of his current book. His work focuses on social history, particularly on the role of various kinds of religious discourse in relations between elites and commoners. He is co-founder, with Stephen O'Leary, of the Center for Millennial Studies, an organization at Boston University dedicated to tracking, archiving, and interpreting the manifestations of apocalyptic expectation in and around the year 2000.

Professor Landes regularly teaches the following courses:
     The Dawn of Europe (HI 101)
     Medieval History (HI 203)
     Communications Revolutions and the Making of Global Culture (HI 249)
     Millenarian Expectations in Western History, Year 1-2000 (HI 309)
     Heresy and Persecution (HI 310)
     Feudal France (HI 331)
     European Popular Culture (HI 412)

Igor Lukes (B.A./M.A., PhDr., Charles University, Prague; M.A.L.D., Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University) Eastern European politics, central European history, post-Soviet politics

Professor Lukes is a University Professor in the University Professors Program, Professor of International Relations, and Professor of History. He is also an Associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University. Dr. Lukes is a historian of Eastern and Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written about Europe between the World Wars and about contemporary developments in East Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans. He has received awards from the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Philosophical Society; he has been a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall Dr. Lukes has worked in the newly opened archives in Prague. This work provided the foundation for his award-winning book, Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930's (1996) and its Czech version Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu (1999). He is also a co-author and co-editor of The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II (1999), Inside the Apparat (1990), and Gorbachev's USSR: A System in Crisis (1990).

Professor Lukes regularly teaches "Central Europe" (HI 341) in the History Department.

Herbert Warren Mason, Jr. (A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University; advanced study in Islamics, Collège de France, Paris) Islamic history, Middle Eastern history, Irish history

Professor Mason has authored 13 books, including scholarly studies, translations from French and Arabic, memoirs, fiction, and poetry. He has written numerous encyclopaedia entries, reviews, and articles on a wide range of historical and literary subjects for journals published in the United States, England, France, Germany, and the Middle East. He was nominated for a National Book Award for his retelling of the Gilgamesh epic [Gilgamesh, A Verse Narrative (1970)] and translated Louis Massignon's 4-volume Passion of al-Hallaj (1983) for the distinguished Bollingen Series. His writings have been translated into several languages, and he has traveled widely by invitation as a scholar and author throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. In addition to his academic and literary work, he has served by election on several professional foundation boards and committees and on advisory boards of journals. He serves as Vice-President of the Institut Louis Massignon of the Musée des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.

He regularly teaches the following courses:
     Islamic History (HI 486)
     Muslim Historiography (HI 770)
     Comparative Medieval Studies (HI 405)
     Oriental Paths of Life (HU 550)
     Sufism, Religion and Myth in Literature (RN 243)

David Mayers (B.A., Oberlin; Ph.D., University of Chicago) U.S. diplomatic history and foreign policy, international relations of Europe since 1870

Professor Mayers is the author of Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1955 (1986); George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy (1988); The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy (1995); Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991 (1998, paperback version 1999); and Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power (2007). Mayers is co-editor with Richard Melanson of Reevaluating Eisenhower: American Foreign Policy in the 1950s (1987). Mayers has a joint appointment with the Political Science Department; he served as chairman of that department between 2001 and 2007. His current research and writing are centered on FDR's wartime diplomacy.

He regularly teaches the following course for the History Department:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1898 (HI 366)

James C. McCann (B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University) African history, environmental history, agricultural history, the history of health and agro-ecological change

Professor McCann is author of Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop (2005); Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa (1999); People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia (1995); From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia: A Rural History (1987). His book Maize and Grace won the 2006 George Perkins Marsh Prize as the best book in environmental history for 2005 from the American Society for Environmental History. His current book project is "Stirring the Pot: The Tastes and Textures of African Cookery." Professor McCann is also author of numerous articles and book chapters in the area of agricultural and environmental history. He has held residential fellowships at the DuBois Institute (Harvard University, 2005-2006), the Program of Agrarian Studies (Yale University, 1998-1999), and the National Humanities Center (1991-1992). His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently leads a joint research team investigating the link between malaria and maize cultivation in Africa supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and including the Harvard School of Public Health, the World Health Organization, and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health. He has served as consultant to Oxfam America, Oxfam (U.K.), the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, the Carter Center, Norwegian Save the Children, the United Nations Environmental Program, American Jewish World Service, the International Livestock Research Institute, and the International Centre for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat. He has twice testified before the United States Congress as well as to the U.K House of Parliament.

He regularly teaches undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on the following topics:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Reconstructing the African Past (HI 291)
     African Environmental History (HI 394/894)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 701)
     African Historiography (HI 770)
     Graduate Seminar in African History (HI 777)

Brendan McConville (B.A. Reed College; M.A., Ph.D. Brown University) Early American history

Brendan McConville's research focuses on the intersection of politics and social developments in Early America. He is the author of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace (Cornell, 1999, paperback University of Pennsylvania, 2003), The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (OIEAHC-UNC Press, 2006), and The American Revolution (forthcoming). He taught at SUNY-Binghamton from 1992 to 2004 and was chair of the department there in 2003-04.

Professor McConville teaches the following courses:
     Colonial Society (HI 259)
     American Revolution (HI 356)
     England from Reformation to Revolution (HI 417)
     Three Revolutions (HI 453)
     War and American Society, 1607-1973 (HI 454)
     Early American History and Culture (HI 455)

Eugenio Menegon (B.A., University of Venice "Ca Foscari," Italy; M.A. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Chinese history; Chinese-Western relations in the Late Imperial Period; world history

Eugenio Menegon teaches courses in Chinese history (premodern and modern periods) and in World History. His interests include Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, and the intellectual history of Republican China. He has published a number of articles in various languages, and he is the author of an Italian-language biography of the Jesuit Giulio Aleni, a pioneer in cross-cultural and religious exchanges in China in the seventeenth century, entitled Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J., 1582-1649. Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall’Europa alla Cina (One Heaven. Giulio Aleni S.J., 1582-1649. Geography, art, science, and religion from Europe to China, 1994). He was Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in 2002-2004. He is presently working on a book entitled Ancestors, Virgins and Friars on the life of Christian communities in late imperial south China.

Professor Menegon teaches the following courses:
     World History to 1500 (HI 175)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200), Topic: "Cultural encounters" between different groups and societies in the early modern period (1500-1800) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa
     Early Chinese History (HI 389)
     Modern Chinese History (HI 390)
     Continuity and Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (HI 487)

Cathal J. Nolan (B.A., University of Alberta; M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto) International history, American diplomatic history, military history

Professor Nolan is Executive Director of the International History Institute at Boston University and holds an appointment as associate professor in the Department of History. He is the author of Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy and The Longman Guide to World Affairs and editor of Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the 20th Century, Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimensions of International Affairs, and Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775. In 2002 his four-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations was published. His Wars of Religion: 1000-1650, volumes I and II of ten planned volumes of an Encyclopedia of World Wars, was published in 2006. His Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy was published in January, 2007. Nolan received the Arts and Sciences "Outstanding Teaching Award" at Miami University in 1991, and an "Outstanding Teaching Award" from the CAS Honors Program at Boston University in 2006.

For the History Department he teaches:
     History Writing and Research Seminar: War in Literature and Film (HI 150)
     History of War (HI 307)
     History of Diplomacy (HI 340)
     World War II (HI 537)

Simon Payaslian (B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., Ph.D., Wayne State University, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Armenian history

Professor Payaslian is Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Professor in Modern Armenian History and Literature. He is the author of U.S. Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Administrations (1996); International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System (with Frederic S. Pearson) (1999); The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923: A Handbook for Students and Teachers (2001); United States Policy Toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide (2005); and (expected in 2007) History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present. His current research projects include the history of the Armenian community in the United States, Armenian foreign policy since independence from the Soviet Union, and an article titled "Poets of the Last Generation."

Professor Payaslian teaches the following courses:
     History Writing and Research Seminar (HI 150)
     Modern Armenian History and Literature (HI 277)
     Modern History of the Caucasus (HI 399)
     The Armenian Genocide (HI 594)

Ronald Richardson (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton) history of racial thought

Professor Richardson, who joined the Boston University faculty in January 2000 as Associate Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program, is the author of Moral Imperium. His current project is entitled Winston S. Churchill: Imagining the Racial Self.

His courses include:
     History of Racial Thought (HI 580)
     The World and the West (HI 590)

Jon H. Roberts (A.B., University of Missouri; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University) U.S. intellectual history, Anglo-American religion, history of science

Professor Roberts is an American intellectual historian with special interests in the history of Anglo-American religious thought, the history of science in both Europe and North America, and the relationship between science and religion. He is the author of Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1869-1900 and the co-author (with James Turner) of The Sacred and the Secular University. He is currently working on several projects dealing with the history of the relationship between science and religion, as well as a book dealing with the efforts of mainstream American Protestant intellectuals during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to defend the privileged status of mind--divine and human--in the face of a series of challenges from forces associated with "modernity."

Among the courses that Professor Roberts teaches are:
     The Emerging United States to 1865 (HI 151)
     Religious Thought in America (HI 354)
     Science and American Culture (HI 368)
     Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500 (HI 369)
     and a variety of undergraduate colloquia and graduate seminars in intellectual history, the history of science, and American Studies.

Jeffrey W. Rubin (A.B., Harvard College, Ph.D., Harvard University) Latin American history

Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. His research on Latin America focuses on the historical and cultural origins of grassroots activism and the ways in which social movements contribute to the deepening of democracy. He is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (1997), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Professor Rubin’s current research focuses on grassroots innovation in Brazil, where he did fieldwork in 2001-02, funded by a Research and Writing Grant from the MacArthur Foundation and a Fulbright Fellowship. He is beginning a comparative research project on private sector responses to successful grassroots innovation, as a way of evaluating prospects for economic and cultural reform in Latin America today. Professor Rubin has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, the Program in Culture and Politics at the State University of Campinas, Brazil (funded by a Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities), and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego.

His courses include:
     Modern Latin America (HI 386)
     Social Movements in 20th-Century Latin America (HI 582)
     U.S.-Mexican Borders (HI 587)

James Schmidt (B.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) European political and social thought from the eighteenth century to the present

Professor Schmidt specializes in the history of European political and social thought from the eighteenth century to the present. He is the author of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (1985) and the editor of What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions (1996). His articles on Hegel, Kant, Foucault, Habermas, and other thinkers have appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Journal of History of Ideas, Journal of History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Social Research. In 1999 he received the James L. Clifford Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject. He has received a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, most recently in support of a summer research seminar that brought together a group of philosophers, historians, and musicologists to explore the relationship between the philosopher Theodor Adorno, the novelist Thomas Mann, and the composer Arnold Schoenberg during their exile in Hollywood during the 1940s, a topic he has examined in a chapter that will appear in The Cambridge Companion to Adorno.

Professor Schmidt teaches the following courses for the History Department:
     The European Enlightenment (HI 314)
     Refugee Intellectuals (1933-1950) (HI 440)
     Enlightenment and Its Critics (HI 514)

Bruce Schulman (B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University) 20th-century U.S. history

Professor Schulman is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (1995); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. In 1989-90 he was director of the History Project in California, a joint effort of the University of California and the California State Department of Education to improve history education in the public schools. In 1993, as Associate Professor at UCLA, Schulman received the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. From 1997 to 2002 he was Director of the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University.

He teaches the following courses:
     The United States Since 1865 (HI 152)
     United States, 1945-1968 (HI 364)
     United States Since 1968 (HI 365)
     Colloquium on Postwar America (HI 467)
     Colloquium on American Society Since 1970 (HI 468)
     The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 (HI 575)
     Literature of American Studies (AM 736)

Nina Silber (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) 19th- and early 20th-century American history

Professor Silber specializes in the history of the United States between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century, including the period of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her scholarship focuses mainly on cultural and women's history, but the courses she teaches--on the Civil War era, the Gilded Age, and the American South--also examine society and politics in these periods. She is the author of numerous publications, including The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993), which is an examination of Northerners' changing cultural attitudes towards the South after the Civil War, and Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2005). She also co-edited Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992), Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters Between New England Soldiers and the Homefront (1996), and Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the US Civil War (2006). She has consulted on a number of Civil War and women's history video projects and museum exhibits. And she has served as Director of Women's Studies at Boston University.

She regularly teaches the following courses:
     The Civil War Era (HI 361)
     The Gilded Age (HI 362)
     A History of Women in the United States (HI 375)
     The Civil War in American Memory(HI 461)
     History of the American South (HI 462)
     Race and the South: History and Literature (HI 579)
     United States, 1830-1900 (HI 749)

John Thornton (B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) African, Atlantic history, world history

After having taught at Millersville University since 1986, John Thornton joined the Boston University faculty in fall 2003. His specializations include Africa and the Middle East, as well as world history. He is the author of The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718 (1983); Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 (1992); The Kongolese Saint Anthony. Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (1998); Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (1999); and is now working (with Linda Heywood) on Angolans in the Early Anglo-Dutch Atlantic, 1615-50 (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

He teaches:
     World History to 1500 (HI 175)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Atlantic History, 1500-1825 (HI 385)
     States and Commerce in Atlantic Africa (HI 396)
     Comparative Slavery (HI 584)

Jon Westling (B.A., Reed College) Medieval European history, Western Civilization, Core Curriculum

After graduate work at UCLA and teaching experience at the University of California at Irvine, Centre College of Kentucky, and (as assistant professor) Reed College, Jon Westling came to Boston University in 1974 and has held several administrative posts, including that of provost and finally (in 1996) president of the university. He was named Professor of Humanities in 1991 and taught humanities in the Core Curriculum. After resigning from the presidency in 2002, he was named Professor of History the following fall, and in 2003 began teaching Western Civilization (as well as continuing in the Core). At commencement 2003 Boston University awarded him the degree of Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

He teaches the following courses:
     The Dawn of Europe (HI 101)
     The Emergence of Modern Europe (HI 102)
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     History of Medieval Europe (HI 203)
     England in the Middle Ages (HI 318)
     Tudor History (HI 319)
     Core Curriculum

Diana Wylie (B.A., Goucher College; M.Litt., Edinburgh University; Ph.D., Yale University) African history, African Studies, Core Curriculum

Professor Wylie is affiliated with Boston University's African Studies Center. She has published on eastern and southern African history as well as the history of the British empire, including A Little God, The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom (1990) and Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (2001, named Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002, and winner of the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association, 2002). She has lived and worked in five African countries: Kenya, Algeria, Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa. Before arriving at Boston University, she taught at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, and the University of Oran, Algeria. In 2002 she won Boston University's Metcalf Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2003 was named Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She teaches the following courses:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     Colonialism in Africa: Impact and Aftermath (HI 292)
     Histories for the New South Africa (HI 494)
     History of Morocco (HI 595)
     African Historiography (HI 770)
     Poverty in Africa: A Comparative Perspective on Health in Southern African History (HI 777)
     The History of Food (HI 780)
     Social Science I (CC 203)

Jonathan R. Zatlin (B.A. Yale University; M.Phil. St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Modern European, particularly German, history

Jonathan Zatlin is an Assistant Professor, teaching modern German and European history. His current research interests include the interplay between racism and economic shortage in Soviet-style regimes, industrial espionage, and the history of money. In addition to chapters in edited volumes, Zatlin has published articles in German History, German Politics and Society, and Zeitschrift für Geschichstwissenschaft and in 2007 published The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany (Cambridge University Press). Among the awards he has received are Fulbright and Social Science Research Council Fellowships.

Professor Zatlin teaches the following courses:
     The Historian's Craft (HI 200)
     History of Europe, 1900-Present (HI 232)
     Modern German History, 1914-Present (HI 338)
     History of European Socialism, 1914-1945 (HI 424)
     Comparative European Fascism (HI 430)
     Jews in Modern German History (HI 443)