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.
 

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.
 
CURTIS A. KEIM
Professor of History and Political Science
EDUCATION: B.A., Manchester College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
INTERESTS:
 
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.
 
JAMES W. PAXTON
Instructor/Assistant Professor of History
EDUCATION: B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; (Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)

INTERESTS:

 
FRANCIS 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.

 
JOHN ROMANO
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
EDUCATION:
INTERESTS:
 
IAN WENDT
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
EDUCATION: B.A., Bringham Young University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

INTERESTS:

 

Daniel Gilbert
Winfred Kohls
Robert Stinson






 

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