European History Faculty by Field of Specializations

Ancient Mediterranean

Arthur M. Eckstein
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1978
Ancient History
phone: 301-405-4301
ameckst1@umd.edu

Professor Eckstein is a specialist in the history of the Hellenistic world and Roman imperialism under the Republic. He has published three books, a co-edited book, and 45 major scholarly articles. The first book, Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C. (1987), is a study of the day-to-day mechanism of Roman foreign relations under the Roman Republic, emphasizing specifically the wide freedom of diplomatic decision-making enjoyed by Roman commanders in the field—the diplomatic importance of “the man on the spot”. The second book, Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995), is a revisionist analysis of the important Hellenistic historian Polybius, who has usually been viewed as a severe and rational pragmatist; the book emphasizes instead Polybius’ traditionally moralistic approach to human action in the face of widespread social and international anarchy. The third book, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (2006), is a pioneering effort at combining modern international-systems theory with Hellenistic history. It argues that while Rome under the Republic was certainly a militaristic and aggressive state, this cannot be the primary reason for its exceptional success, since all states in the harsh interstate anarchy that constituted the Hellenistic Mediterranean world were militaristic and aggressive, and the anarchic state-system pushed all of them in that direction. The reason for Rome’s exceptional success lies, rather, in Roman skill at alliance-management, which included the generous extension of Roman citizenship to non-Romans.

Professor Eckstein’s 45 scholarly articles cover a wide range of topics, mostly on issues of Roman imperial expansion, but also on topics ranging from modern theories of economic imperialism to American film and popular culture. In the latter regard, Professor Eckstein is co-editor (with Peter Lehman, former President of the American Cinema Studies Association) of a collection of scholarly essays on one of the director John Ford’s greatest films: The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western (2004).

Professor Eckstein’s current project is Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-188 B.C. This is a detailed study of Rome’s first involvement in the Greek world east of Italy, and engages this topic through (once more) a theoretically-informed approach involving modern international-systems theory.

Professor Eckstein has been a long-term member of the editorial board of The American Journal of Philology (the oldest and most prestigious American journal of ancient literature and history), and of The International History Review (the most important journal of international political theory). He was the major scholarly consultant on the PBS film “Roman City” (1994), which won an Emmy Award. For the past ten years he has been Director of the Department’s Undergraduate Honors Program in History.

Kenneth G. Holum
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973
Ancient Greece, Rome, Late Antiquity
phone: 301-405-4315
kholum@umd.edu

Professor Holum specializes in Late Antiquity and the archaeology and history of Greek and Roman cities. Since 1989 he has directed the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, an international archaeological project that explores Caesarea Maritima, a Roman city located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. His books include Theodosian Empresses (1982) on imperial women in Late Antiquity, and King Herod's Dream (1988), on the antiquities of Caesarea. He has edited Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millenia (1996) and Caesarea Papers 2 (1999) (available at www.journalofromanarch.com), both large collections of reports and essays on Caesarea. His newest book (2000), The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima, co-authored with Clayton M. Lehmann. He has also published forty scholarly articles, archaeological reports, and essays. He served as curator for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling museum exhibition "King Herod's Dream" (1988-90), and has consulted on four films on Caesarea. Professor Holum has received a number of grants and awards, including a Lady Davis Visiting Professorship in Jerusalem, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Senior Fellowship from the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem; three fellowships from Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; several grants from NEH; and a large research award from the Joseph and Mary Keller Foundation. He has served the department as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the Honors Program, and Director of Graduate Studies. Professor Holum is currently writing a monograph on Caesarea entitled Caesarea's Fortune. His research interests included ancient cities generally, the eastern Roman provinces, the victory of Christianity over paganism, and the transformation of the Roman world in Late Antiquity.

Hayim Lapin
Professor and Chair, Jewish Studies Program
Ph.D. in Religion, Columbia University, 1994
Jewish History, Ancient History
phone: 301-405-4296
hlapin@umd.edu

Hayim Lapin is the author of Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee (1995) and Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (2001), and is at work on a history of the early rabbinic movement.. He is the editor of Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (1998), and co-editor of Jews, Antiquity and the 19th-Century Imagination (with Dale B. Martin) and a volume in progress on the Middle East in the Byzantine Early Islamic Transition (with Kenneth Holum). He currently serves as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.

Medieval and Early Modern

Alejandro Cañeque
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., New York Univeristy,

Bernard Cooperman
Louis L. Kaplan Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976
Jewish History, Early Modern European History
phone: 301-405-4271
cooperma@umd.edu

Professor Cooperman has edited two volumes of essays, co-authored a book on the Ghetto of Venice, translated and contributed an Afterword to Jacob Katz' Tradition and Crisis, and written two books which will be published soon. In addition he has written some eleven articles. He has organized numerous professional conferences and consults frequently with museums and libraries for exhibits in his field. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has been a Lilly Fellow (1994-95), and has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies 1991-1997.

Philip Soergel
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1988
Early modern Germany, Renaissance and Reformation, medieval Christianity
phone: 301-405-4284
psoergel@umd.edu

Philip Soergel is the author of Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria (1993) and a number of articles and essays. He has also edited two collections of essays in the series Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, and written two textbook volumes in the series, Arts and Humanities through the Eras. Over the years he has received a number of grants, among which are awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. During 1993-1995, he served as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and he has also been on several occasions a fellow of the Duke August Library, Wolfenbuettel and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Janna Wasilewski
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007
Medieval Europe

Janna Wasilewski is Assistant Professor of the European High Middle Ages. Her research interests include the history of power, women, and religious conflict, particularly in medieval Spain but across Western Europe as well. She is currently preparing a book manuscript titled Regina: The Life of Berenguela of Castile, 1180-1246, a study of the career of a singularly powerful medieval queen. Dr. Wasilewski has held research fellowships from the Fulbright Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and United States Universities, and the Real Colegio Complutense.

Modern Europe (1700 to Present)

Katherine David-Fox
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
eastern and central Europe, Czech Republic
phone: 301-405-4281
kdavidf@umd.edu

Professor David-Fox earned her Ph.D. at Yale University and also studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Before coming to the University of Maryland in 2001, she taught at the Ohio State University. Her teaching and research interests include Czech, Czechoslovak, Polish and Habsburg history, cultural and gender history, modernism, and nationalism. She has published articles in The Journal of Women's History and East European Politics and Societies, and her article in the Savic Review, "Prague-Vienna, Prague-Berlin: The Hidden Geography of Czech Modernism," won the Stanley Z. Pech Prize of the Czechoslovak History Conference for best article or book chapter of 2000-2001. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, "Modernists in an Age of Nationalism: The Czech 1890s Generation." Professor David-Fox has won fellowships from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), among others. She served as president of the Czechoslovak History Conference for the 2001-2004 term and currently serves on the board of the CET Central European Studies in Prague program.

Gay L. Gullickson
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978
Women's History; Social History; Modern French History
phone: 301-405-8274
glg@umd.edu

Professor Gullickson is the author of two books and numerous articles in women's history and French history. Her first book, Spinners and Weavers of Auffay, published in 1986 by Cambridge University Press, won the Berkshire Prize in History. It is a study of the sexual division of labor in the cottage textile industry and in agriculture in Normandy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her second book, Unruly Women of Paris , published in 1996 by Cornell University Press, analyzes the ideological messages conveyed by verbal and visual depictions of the women who participated in the revolution known as the Paris Commune of 1871. Her current research is on the British Suffragettes. It is part of a larger project on women and secular martyrdom. Professor Gullickson has held several fellowships, including an NEH, a DanforthTeaching Associateship, and an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She teaches courses in the history of women and gender, nineteenth-century social history, French history, and contemporary theory for historians. She served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the History Department from 1997-2000. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Women's Studies Department and the Theatre Department, and is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Policy in the University of Maryland's Graduate School.

James F. Harris
Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968
Modern German History
phone: 301-405-2095
jharris@deans.umd.edu

James F. Harris was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree in History at Loyola University in Chicago and his MA and PhD in European History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. With the exception of one year in northern Wisconsin, his scholarly career has been at the University of Maryland, College Park which he joined in 1967. His scholarly interests are located in modern German History and he has written on German liberalism, the Revolutions of 1848 and Antisemitism, among other topics. He became Chair of the Department of History in 1994 and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities in February 1997.

Jeffrey Herf
Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis Unversity, 1980
Modern Germany, 20th-century Europe, European intellectual
phone: 301-405-7667
jherf@umd.edu

Professor Herf's research and publications examine Europe and Germany's political culture over the breaks and continuities of the twentieth century. In spring 2006, Harvard University Press published his fourth book, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. The work examines the Nazi regime's radical anti-Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds, an explanatory framework, and effort to legitimate mass murder. His first book, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish translation. War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (The Free Press, 1991) examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997) was the co-winner of the Fraenkel Prize of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London in 1996. In 1998 it received the George Lewis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. Jeffrey Herf has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Israel, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Marshall Fund, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the Fulbright program, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His current interests include work on varieties of opposition to and debates about communism in Weimar Germany, Nazi Germany and West Germany during the Cold War and in unified Germany covering the period from 1919 to the 1990s; and the diffusion of national Socialist and fascist ideas and propaganda beyond Germany, within Europe and outside Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. He is also working on a collection of essays on ideas and politics in twentieth century German history.

John R. Lampe
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971
Eastern European History, Economic History
phone: 301-405-4370
jlampe@deans.umd.edu

Professor Lampe's most recent books are Balkans into Southeastern Europe, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave, 2006) and Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of 20th Century Southeastern Europe, co-edited with Mark Mazower (CEU Press, 2004). In 2000, he published the second edition of his Yugoslavia as History, Twice there was a Country for Cambridge University Press. His initial book was Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950, From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations, with Marvin Jackson (Indiana University Press, 1982), winner of the first annual Vucinich Prize for a publication for publication on Eastern Europe from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. A former Foreign Service Officer, Professor Lampe directed the area studies program for Southeastern Europe at the Foreign Service Institute from 1980 to 1985 and the program in East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington from 1987 to 1997. He is currently a Senior Scholar at the Wilson Center. He continues to travel regularly to the region and to comment on current events for the Voice of American and other media.

Marsha L. Rozenblit
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1980
Modern Jewish History, Modern Central European History, History of the Habsburg Monarchy, Modern European History
phone: 301-405-4289
mrozenbl@umd.edu

A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Rozenblit has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). This book used quantified methods to explore the impact of immigration, social mobility, residential concentration, education, and intermarriage and conversion on the integration of Viennese Jews into Austro-German society. More recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. The book thus explores both Jewish identity and ethnic and national identity in general. In 2005, along with Pieter M. Judson, she edited Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Berghahn Books), a collection of essays on the complex process of crafting national identities in Habsburg Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between Jews and other Germans in Moravia between 1848 and 1938. Professor Rozenblit has also written many articles on such subjects as Jewish religious reform in nineteenth-century Vienna, synagogue selection in nineteenth-century Baltimore, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the Holocaust. She has held fellowships from the ACLS, NEH, and the University of Maryland's GRB. She served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies, and regularly evaluates manuscripts for journals, presses, the NEH, and the Dissertation Prize Committee of the Austrian Cultural Institute. She served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies from 1998 to 2003. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Donald M. G. Sutherland
Professor
Ph.D., University of London, 1974
French History
phone: 301-405-4294
dsutherl@umd.edu

Professor Sutherland's first monograph, The Chouans: The Social Origins of Popular Counterrevolution in Upper Brittany, 1770-96 (1982), earned Honorable Mention in the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize competition of 1981-82 awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. It has been translated into French. His second monograph, France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution, vol. 1 of Douglas Johnson (ed.) The Fontana History of Modern France (1985) has been translated into French, Dutch, and Italian. A new version appeared in 2003. Professor Sutherland has also published twenty-seven articles, two of which won the Koren prize (1975, 1985), awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article in French history by an American or Canadian. He has given papers to scholarly conferences around the world, has been an editor of French Historical Studies, reviews manuscripts and books for leading journals and scholarly presses, and has made a number of TV and radio appearances where he was interviewed about his work. In 2002, the French government made him a Chevalier des palmes académiques for his contributions to French culture. He has also received awards from the National Council of Jewish Women, the Canada Council, the SSHRC, and the General Research Board, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has just completed a manuscript entitled Lynching, Law, and Justice: Murder in Aubagne. Finally, Historical Refelctions/Réflexions historiques (2003) published the papers of a major conference he organized on violence and the French Revolution at College Park in October 2001.

Madeline C. Zilfi
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976
Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Islam, Gender Issues
phone: 301-405-8403
mzilfi@umd.edu

Madeline Zilfi specializes in Middle East history in the Ottoman period. Her research interests focus on the eighteenth century (the "long" eighteenth century from the 1680s to the 1820s), particularly with respect to Ottoman-Islamic urban culture and social movements, law and legal practice, and women's experience. She is the author of The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age (1987) and editor of Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Middle East (1997) and has written on Islamic revivalism, early modern divorce and consumption patterns, the Tulip Era, and female slavery. (For a complete list of her scholarly works, consult her vita.)

Professor Zilfi has been the recipient of grants and awards from Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the University of Maryland Graduate Research Board, and the Turkish Studies Association.

Britain [link to: http://www.history.umd.edu/Fields/British/index.html]

Richard Price

Dr. Price has his degrees from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is the author of many articles and papers in British social and labor history. His books include An Imperial War and the British Working Class 1899-1902 (London, 1972); Masters, Unions and Men: Work Control and the Rise of Labour in the Building Trades, 1830-1914 (Cambridge, 1980); Labour in British Society 1780-1980: An Interpretive History (London, 1986); British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently completing a book titled Encounters of Empire: the British and the Xhosa on the Eastern Cape Frontier 1820-1860 , which is about the creation of the British Empire in southern Africa.

Julie Anne Taddeo

Dr. Taddeo is visiting assistant professor of British history and director of the undergraduate internship program. She received her Ph.D. in History at the University of Rochester in 1996. She has taught history and women's studies at Temple University in PA (1996-2002) and at University of California, Berkeley, where she also was the Assistant Director of the Center for British Studies (2002-2005). Her publications include Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity (2002) and articles on British modernism, gender, and sexuality. Her current projects examine the relationship between identity, gender, and class in post-WWII British popular culture. Her teaching specialties include Victorian culture, the history of sexuality, Modern British and European social and cultural history, and women's/gender studies.

Sabrina Alcorn Baron

Dr. Baron holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has published on censorship, book collectors, the book trade, and news writing, as well as the history of reading and culture of publication in early-seventeenth-century England. Baron co-edited (with Brendan Dooley) The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (2001). Also in 2001 she was guest curator for the Folger Shakespeare Library Exhibition, The Reader Revealed , and compiled and edited the exhibition catalog of the same name. She wrote 13 biographies for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Baron was a Fulbright scholar in 1997-8 and has been awarded other fellowships, most recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies at the Library of Congress.

Russia and Eurasia [link to: http://www.history.umd.edu/Fields/Russian/index.html]

Michael David-Fox
Associate Professor
Ph.D, Yale University, 1993
mdavidf@umd.edu

Michael David-Fox has been at the forefront of the transformation of Russian and Soviet history since the fall of communism; he has published widely on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. Works include Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (Cornell University Press, 1997) and over 20 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics in leading History and Russian studies journals. He has edited or co-edited five books, including Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe (Greenwood); two volumes in Russian entitled Amerikanskaia rusistika (American Russian Studies); The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History; and After the Fall: Essays on Russian and Soviet Historiography after Communism.

David-Fox is a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, where he regularly comments on a broad range of issues in editorials, reaction pieces, and reviews. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on the Soviet reception of Western intellectuals and fellow-travelers in the 1920's and 1930's, " Inside the 'Great Experiment': Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941." He has been a Humboldt Fellow (Germany) and holds an honorary degree from Samara State University (Russia). He has been a visiting scholar or fellow at the W. Averill Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Ohio State University's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the Mershon Center for Studies in International Security and Public Policy, and the National Academy of Education.

Carolyn Pouncy
Faculty Research Fellow
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
cpouncy@umd.edu

Carolyn Pouncy specializes in pre-Petrine Russian history, specifically the culture and politics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her edited and annotated The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, won the Heldt Prize for Best Translation by a Woman in Slavic Studies in 1994. She has also published in Russian Review , Harvard Ukrainian Studies , Russian History/Histoire russe , and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History . From 1985 to 1992, she was a Fellow at the Russian Research Center, now the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Harvard University and, from 1987 to 1989, managing editor of Russian Review --then also run out of Harvard. She currently works as managing editor for Kritika, the editorial offices of which are located at the University of Maryland.

Jewish (Classical Antiquity to Present)

Marsha L. Rozenblit
Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1980
Modern Jewish History, Modern Central European History, History of the Habsburg Monarchy, Modern European History
phone: 301-405-4289
mrozenbl@umd.edu

Hayim Lapin
Associate Professor
(joint appointment with Jewish Studies)
Ph.D. (Religion) Columbia University (with Distinction), 1994
Jewish History, Ancient History
phone: 301-405-4296
hlapin@umd.edu
Hayim Lapin is the author of Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee (1995) and Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (2001), and is at work on a history of the early rabbinic movement.. He is the editor of Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (1998), and co-editor of Jews, Antiquity and the 19th-Century Imagination (with Dale B. Martin) and a volume in progress on the Middle East in the Byzantine Early Islamic Transition (with Kenneth Holum). He currently serves as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.

Bernard Cooperman
Louis L. Kaplan Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976
Jewish History, Early Modern European History
phone: 301-405-4271
cooperma@umd.edu

Science, Technology, and Environment [link to: http://www.history.umd.edu/Fields/Technology/index.html]

Thomas Zeller
Associate Professor
Dr.Phil., University of Munich, 1999
History of Technology, Environment History
phone: 301-405-6471
tzeller@umd.edu
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/TZeller/

Thomas Zeller, a specialist in environmental history and the history of technology, has published Strasse, Bahn, Panorama in 2002. A revised English translation of this book, Driving Germany: The Landscape of the Autobahn, 1930-1970, came out in 2007 with Berghahn Books. He is the coeditor of two volumes on the environmental history of Germany: How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, coedited with Franz-Josef Brüggemeier and Mark Cioc (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005) and Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, coedited with Thomas Lekan (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005). With Christof Mauch, he has coedited the volumes The World Beyond the Windshield: Driving and the Experience of Landscape in 20th Century Europe and America (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007) and Rivers of History: Designing and Conceiving Waterways in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008). Thomas Zeller has published several articles on on the historical interplay of technology and environment in shaping landscapes. His current book-length project, Consuming Landscapes, is a comparative study of the driving experience in 20th-century Germany and the United States. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, among others. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. At the University of Maryland, his appointment is shared between the Department of History and the A.J. Clark School of Engineering. For the latter, he teaches in the Gemstone Program and the College Park Scholars Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Women and Gender [link to: http://www.history.umd.edu/graduate/fields/gender/]

Gay L. Gullickson
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978
Women's History; Social History; Modern French History
phone: 301-405-8274
glg@umd.edu

Katherine David-Fox
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
eastern and central Europe, Czech Republic
phone: 301-405-4281
kdavidf@umd.edu

Janna Wasilewski
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007
Medieval Europe

Madeline C. Zilfi
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1976
Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Islam, Gender Issues
phone: 301-405-8403
mzilfi@umd.edu