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Letter from the Chair
Welcome to the History Department’s first newsletter! In the coming year, I look forward to updating you on news from the department every quarter. Here you will find new developments regarding faculty, current students and alumni. We hope this will be a great way for you to stay in touch with your alma mater. I look forward to your insight and your feedback.
In fact, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you about our upcoming forum and reception. As we expand our community of History scholars, I hope you will be able to join us for events like these.
Finally, as you know, state universities have been hit hard recently by budget cuts. I hope you’ll take a moment to explore the History Department’s website at www.temple.edu/history and consider making a donation to support our graduate student fellowship fund.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Daniel Wells
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Faculty News |
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Beth Bailey
Areas of study: U.S. Gender and Sexuality, 20th Century U.S. Cultural/Social, War and American Culture
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Lila Corwin Berman
Areas of study: American Religious History and Modern Jewish History; Director, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
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Seth C. Bruggeman
Areas of study: Memory, Material Culture, Public History
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Bettye Collier-Thomas
Areas of study: 19th and 20th Century African American, U.S. Social and Cultural History, Women and Religion
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Travis Glasson
Areas of study: Britain, Atlantic
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Peter Gran
Areas of study: Middle East, Comparative and Political Economy
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Richard Immerman
Areas of study: U.S. Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, 20th Century U.S.
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Susan E. Klepp
Areas of study: Colonial America, Women, Social
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Ken Kusmer
Areas of study: U.S. Social, Race and Ethnicity, Recent America, Media and Society
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Jay Lockenour
Areas of study: Modern Europe, Germany, European Military
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Sophie Quinn-Judge
Areas of study: Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
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Francis Ryan
Areas of study: U.S. Labor; History of Philadelphia
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Bryant Simon
Areas of study: 20th Century U.S., Urban, Popular Culture
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Howard Spodek
Areas of study: South Asia, Urban
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Heather Ann Thompson
Areas of study: Post-1945 urban and labor history, justice policy, postwar crime and punishment, Black Power, 1960s and 70s radicalism
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Teshale Tibebu
Areas of study: African History; Comparative History; Third World History.Read more. |
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Gregory J. W. Urwin
Areas of study: U.S. Military, Civil War, World War II
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David Waldstreicher
Areas of study: 18th-19th Century U.S., Political, Slavery and Antislavery
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David Watt
Areas of study: U.S. Cultural, U.S. Religious, 20th Century U.S.
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Ralph Young
Areas of study: Dissent in America, 20th Century Social/Cultural, Civil Rights
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Public History at Temple: Past, Present, and Future
Seth C. Bruggeman
Although nearly everyone has some idea of what history professors do, we often forget that not all historians work in universities. The people who manage museums, protect historic structures, maintain archives, and otherwise safeguard our shared past are called public historians. Public historians turn up in surprising places. Nearly all branches of state and Federal government employ public historians as do corporations, advocacy groups, advertising firms and the list goes on. Philadelphia is home to some of our nation’s most prominent public historians and many of them trained in Temple’s history department. Read more. |
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