HISTORY
European Civilization since 1500
The United States to 1877
The United States since 1865
Arab-Islamic Civilization
African Civilizations
Latin America in the Colonial Era
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Medieval Europe
England Through the Reign of Elizabeth
The Roman Revolution
The Holocaust
19th- and 20th-Century Latin America
Classical Mythology
Europe in the 20th Century
The Ancient Near East and Europe to 1715
From Bismarck to Hitler to Fischer: History of
Modern Germany
The U.S. and Latin America: History of Their Relations
Colonial America
The United States from 1945 to the Present
History of the American City
Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Women in Europe 500-1700
Historical Methods and Interpretations
Disease in History
History of Emotions
Conquering the World: Alexander the Great and
the Creation of the Universal Empire
Senior Seminar
Majors have access to the Moravian Archives, which
houses documents dating back to colonial times and the Joseph
Mangan Sr. collection of audiotapes covering political and economic
events in U.S. history since World War II. All members of the
Moravian College community have access to networked Windows and
Macintosh microcomputers in the academic computing laboratory
in Monocacy Hall. The lab provides laser printing capabilities
for Macintosh and Windows computers. Students with their own computers
who purchase a network kit from the Center for Information Technology
may connect to the campus network directly from their dormitory
rooms. This connection provides 24-hour access to network services,
including printing, file servers, electronic mail, and the Internet,
plus storage for personal files and access to campus software
programs needed for academic pursuits.
Archive and museum field study placements are available
at local and regional institutions, including Historic Bethlehem
and the Allentown Art Museum. Selected students may spend their
junior year at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Keble College, Oxford University. Many other off-campus programs
are available. The national history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta,
is active on campus.
Students may also participate in the History Club.
SANDY
BARDSLEY |
| Associate Professor of History |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Otago (New Zealand); M.A. & Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| INTERESTS:
Medieval and early modern history, particularly the history of women. Dr. Bardsley is the author of Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) and Women's Roles in the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 2007). She is currently working on a book on the ways in which the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century affected gender systems in late medieval England. |
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DENNIS
G. GLEW |
| Professor of Classics and History |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., St. John’s College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University |
| INTERESTS:
The history of the Hellenistic kingdoms of Asia Minor and
the late Roman Republic. His articles and reviews in ancient
history and coinage have appeared in the Journal of the
American Numismatic Society and the American Historical
Review and in international journals. |
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| CURTIS A. KEIM |
| Professor of History and Political Science |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., Manchester College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University |
| INTERESTS:
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| HEIKKI
E. LEMPA |
| Assistant Professor of History; Chair
of the Department of History |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Turku, Finland; Ph.D., University of Chicago |
| INTERESTS:
Dr. Lempa's classes on modern European and German history
explore politics, culture, the history of everyday life, emotions,
education, and the use of historical knowledge. While the
book, Bildung der Triebe. Der deutsche Philanthropismus
(1768-1788), discussed the rise of modern education in
Germany, his current work on a book-length study, Educating
the Middle-Class Body. Dietetics, Dancing, and Walking in
Nineteenth-Century Germany, focuses on the everyday life
of the German middle-class. Besides history Lempa loves walking.
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KAREN MORRISON |
| Assistant Professor of History |
| EDUCATION:
B.S.E., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida |
| INTERESTS:
Latin American history, especially social history; race in
the Atlantic world; the history of African diasporan communities. |
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| JAMES
W. PAXTON |
| Instructor/Assistant Professor of History
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| EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University; (Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario) |
INTERESTS:
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| FRAN
RYAN |
| Assistant Professor of History |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., LaSalle University; M.A., Villanova University; Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania |
INTERESTS:
Modern United States history, particularly social, urban
and political history. Teaching survey and advanced courses
in all areas of United States history. Primary research
interests include U.S. labor history, with emphasis on public
workers, as well as transformations in political cultures,
gender, race and the history of everyday life. Other scholarly
interests include women’s history, oral history methodologies,
and Irish culture. |
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| MICHAEL WERNER |
| Visiting Instructor of History |
| EDUCATION:
B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D. candidate at University of Chicago |
INTERESTS: |
Daniel Gilbert
Winfred Kohls
Robert Stinson |
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