Please see our Faculty page and choose a name from the left column for more detailed information on individual faculty research.
Excellence in research --the production of new historical knowledge is central to the Department's mission. Faculty research spans areas as diverse as global environmental history, the history of the African slave trade, global migrations, urban design and the history of the automobile, representations of the Irish and Turks in seventeenth century English travel literature, Japanese culture, gender dynamics in China, and post World War II conflict in the Ukraine, and representations of Russia and the USSR in American cinema.
NEW PUBLICATIONS BY HISTORY FACULTY
The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England Published in February 2008, by University of Delaware Press. The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England by Professor Anna Suranyi is her latest book.
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Breadwinnners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model
Professor Laura Frader has released her most recent book Breadwinnners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model, Duke University Press, 2008.
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Horse in the City. Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Professor Clay McShane in collaboration with Joel A. Tarr released The Horse in the City. Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century with John Hopkins Univ. Press, October 2007.
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Wood: Craft, Culture, History
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From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails
From the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails edited by Debra Kaufman,
Professor Gerald Herman, James Ross, and David Phillips,
was released in Summer 2007.
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Russians in Hollywood Hollywood Russians
Professor Harlow Robinson's new book, Russians in Hollywood Hollywood Russians will be released this coming November.
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Советская агентура: очерки истории СССР в послевоенные годы 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] |
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 Harvey Green was recently interviewed by 
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 published by University of Hawaii Press in August 2006.Professor Emeritus Patrick Manning published his collection Migration in World History (Routledge).
Professor William Fowler published his Empires at War. The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 (Walker)
Other faculty publications over the past two years include Patrick Manning, Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003), Ballard Campbell (and William Shade) eds., American Campaigns and Elections 3 vols. (M.E. Sharpe, 2003); Laura L. Frader (and Herrick Chapman), eds., Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (Berghahn, 2004). Faculty authors have published articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of Asian Studies, among many others.