History Professors Rank 14th in New Ranking of Graduate Programs
The History faculty at Northeastern has been ranked 14th in the nation in a new measure of scholarly productivity, along with Northeastern's English faculty. This new study, called the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the first of its kind, is a quantitative analysis of faculty productivity at 354 universities around the country. The FSP index ranks over 250,000 faculty in more than 7,000 doctoral programs, by analyzing publications, grants and awards, and honors of department faculty.This new ranking system is unique in that it attempts to produce an objective measure to rank departments, rather than rely primarily on reputation as other ranking systems do. President Joseph Aoun applauds Northeastern's performance in the new ranking system, as "outstanding achievement by dedicated and talented scholars."
New Publications by our History faculty:
Советская агентура: очерки истории СССР в послевоенные годы
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Wood: Craft, Culture, History
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The Industrial Revolution
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Empires at War
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Radicals And Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-garde Rejection of Modernism
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Professor Jeffrey Burds has published his book, Советская агентура: очерки истории СССР в послевоенные годы, 1944-1948 [Soviet Police Informants: Essays on the History of the USSR during the Postwar Years, 1944-1948]
Professor Harvey Green had his lastest book, Wood: Craft, Culture, History released this past monday, October 23, 2006.
Professor Laura L. Frader published The Industrial Revolution(Oxford University Press).
Professor William Fowler published his Empires at War. The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 (Walker)
Professor Tom Havens's most recent book, Radicals And Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-garde Rejection of Modernism (University of Hawaii Press) was released this past August.Exciting Faculty News
History Department Distinguished Professor of History William Fowler, specialist in colonial American history and Atlantic History, has been named the first "Gay Hart Gaines Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History" at Mount Vernon. Professor Fowler will deliver a series of three lectures on the life and times of George Washington over the course of the next twelve months, beginning this July.
Professor of History Ballard Campbell has been appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program beginning in Fall, 2006. For the past twenty-five years OAH Presidents have appointed some of their most distinguished colleages to the program. Distinguished Lecturers are invited to give lectures at universities throughout the country for a period of three years. The program is one of the longest running of its kind among scholarly associations.