Jack BernhardtProfessorPh.D. University of California at Los Angeles, 1986. B.A. Wake Forest University, 1971. Office: Business Tower (BT) 558 Email: john.bernhardt@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5521 |
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Areas of InterestLate Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe.Medieval Europe, German Empire. History of the Medieval Church and Christian Monasticism. Ancient and Medieval Britain. Medieval and Early Modern Political Ideas. Publications
BiographyProfessor Bernhardt teaches the History of Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He has training in Roman History, Medieval Latin, Latin Paleo- graphy, Medieval Diplomatics, the Transmission of Classical Texts, and the Constitutional and Legal History of the Middle Ages. He specializes in Early and High Medieval Europe, especially the German Empire, and the history of the Medieval Church. In addition, he has begun to examine more closely topics in Anglo-Saxon England and Medieval Britain. He has written extensively on German Medieval Kingship and its relations with monasteries and the Church. Currently his research focuses on topics relating to King/Emperor Henry II of Germany and his era (1002-1024) in preparation of a second monograph. In addition, he recently has researched numerous aspects of the twelfth cen- tury, such as canon law, and theory and practice of imperial government, and ars dictaminis, as well as the historiography of specific twentieth-century medi- eval historians.Back to Top
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Ruma ChopraAssistant Professor.Ph.D. University of California, Davis M.A. Carnegie Mellon University, Cultural Studies. M.A. University of Albany, English. B.A., Summa Cum Laude Carnegie Mellon University, English. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 316 Email: ruma.chopra@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5515 |
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Areas of InterestColonial America.Selected Awards
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Rob CirivilleriLecturer.M.A. San Jose State University. B.A. San Jose State University. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 141 Email: robert.cirivilleri@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5540 |
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Areas of InterestMedieval History, Canon Law.Ancient Greek and Roman History. Biblical Studies, History of the Ancient Near East. Early American History, the History of American Music. Critical Thinking and the Historical Process. PublicationsThesis--Marriage and Canon Law: Consanguinity, Affinity and the Medieval Church (996-1215).BiographyRobert Cirivilleri was born and raised in the Santa Clara Valley. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of San Francisco and Graphic Design at the San Francisco Academy of Art before transferring to San Jose State University to complete his B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Graphic Arts in 1985. Following a year abroad, studying French language and culture at the Universite d' Aix-Marseilles III, and traveling widely throughout Europe, he returned to work in the airline industry for several years before pursuing a Masters Degree in Medieval History at San Jose State University. Upon completion of his degree in 2000, he taught American History at Evergreen Valley Community College and Latin at Hillbrook School in Los Gatos before beginning his career as a lecturer at San Jose State University.His teaching specialties include United States History, Critical Thinking and World History. His particular areas of interest include Medieval and Renaissance studies, Ancient Greece and Rome, and in the field of American studies, a special interest in Colonial history, the Civil War, and the American Musical tradition. Back to Top
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Michael ConniffProfessor.Ph.D. Stanford University, 1976. M.A. Stanford University, 1969. B.A. UC Berkeley, 1968 . Office: 210 N. 4th St., 3rd floor 0135 Email: michael.conniff@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-7196 |
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BiographyProfessor Conniff directs the Global Studies program and also the Silicon Valley Center for Global Innovation and Immigration at San Jose State University. He promotes international curriculum, faculty and staff development, exchanges with foreign universities, and programs to prepare students to succeed as citizens and professionals in the world at large. Conniff earned degrees at UC-Berkeley and Stanford (Ph.D. 1976) and has published a number of books on modern history, most recently A History of Modern Latin America (wth Lawrence Clayton), Africans in the Americas (with T.J. Davis), and populism in Latin America. He has lived overseas for a dozen years, held several post-doc appointments (including three Fullbright tours), and served in the U.S. Peace Corps. He lectures often in Portuguese and Spanish. Before joining SJSU, he taught history at the University of New Mexico and created Latin American studies programs at Auburn University and the University of South Florida.This summer I will be traveling and then on sabbatical for fall semester. For Global Studies, please contact mark.mckenna@sjsu.edu (408-924-7197). For the SVCGII, please contact edward.cohen@sjsu.edu (408-924-5824 or 510-847-6407). Back to Top
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Patricia Lopes DonAssociate Professor.Ph.D. University of California at Davis, 2000. M.A. San Jose State University, 1994. B.A. San Jose State University, 1974. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 217 Email: patricia.don@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5526 |
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Areas of InterestEarly Modern Social & Cultural European History.Colonial Latin America History. Colonial Mexico History. History of Inquisition. Publications
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BiographyAfter fifteen years of teaching in the public schools, I returned to the university to take a MA in History at San Jose State University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Davis, in 2000. My scholarly interests lie in both early modern history and history education. I teach and advise in both areas.Though I began in early modern European history with an emphasis on Spanish imperial history, I have branched into the area of colonial Mexico in the first few decades after the conquest. I have presented and published in this topic and I will soon complete a book on the Inquisition of indigenous leaders in central Mexico in the 1530s. In the future, I hope to produce a second book on the subject of Mexico City in the years 1519-1545. I retain my very strong interest in the subject of history education and I also publish, research and present in this academic area. I recently wrote a successful grant that allows the History Department to work with field teachers in the Santa Clara Valley to improve their expertise in American history teaching. I believe strongly in giving teachers the opportunity to expand and deepen their content knowledge and link it to excellent and proven pedagogy. Through the research results I will obtain from this grant and other grant projects in history literacy, I hope to be able to bring out a book in a few years that explains the linkage of content knowledge in history and effective pedagogical strategies for the teaching of history, or what is often called history pedagogical content knowledge. Back to Top
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Glen GendzelUndergraduate Advisor, Associate Professor.Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998. M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1982. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 137 Email: glen.gendzel@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5514 Faculty Page (click here) |
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Areas of InterestCalifornia and the American West.U.S. politics, culture, business, foreign policy. Social memory and political culture. Gilded Age and Progressive Era. PublicationsPublications and Presentations Page (click here)BiographyI am a proud Bay Area native. Born in Oakland, I graduated from Palo Alto High School and the University of California, Berkeley, before leaving the Bay Area to start a far-ranging academic odyssey. I endured mid-western winters to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Then I endured southern summers when I taught at the University of Georgia and at Tulane University in New Orleans. Then I experienced Southern California as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Then I spent several years teaching at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) before coming home to the Bay Area at last to teach at San Jose State. I have published articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and reviews on subjects ranging from California mythology, politics, and migration to the baseball business, social memory, and McCarthyism. I am always delighted to teach California students about California history and other subjects dear to my heart.Back to Top
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Libra HildeGraduate Advisor, Assistant Professor.Ph.D. Harvard University, 2003. M.A. Harvard University, 1994 . B.A., magna cum laude History and Native American Studies University of California, Berkeley, 1991. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 215 Email: libra.hilde@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5512 Faculty Page (click here) |
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Areas of Interest19th-century U.S. political and social historyCivil War, Reconstruction, and Slavery Native American History U.S. Women's and Gender History. Back to Top
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Patricia Evridge HillAssociate Professor, Department Chair.Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas, 1990, Humanities/History. M.A. University of Texas at Dallas, 1984, Humanities/History. B.A., cum laude Southern Methodist University, 1979, History major, Spanish minor. Certified by the State of Texas to teach secondary History and Spanish. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 132 Email: pchill@pacbell.net Phone: 408-924-5755 Faculty Page (click here) |
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Areas of Interest19th- and 20th-century U.S. social and urban history.U.S. women's history. U.S. labor history. Women in medicine and public health. Historical biography. PublicationsMonograph:
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PersonalI have served as the statewide secretary and SJSU chapter president of the California Faculty Association - the union for all CSU faculty members. When not engaged as a historian or union activist, I enjoy playing tennis, skiing, hiking, and wine collecting.Back to Top
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Iris JerkeLecturer.M.A. San Jose State University, 2003. B.A., Summa Cum Laude San Jose State University, 2002. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 321 Email: iris.jerke@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5507 Faculty Page (click here) |
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Areas of InterestAfrican American History.Black Women's Cross-Cultural History. Gender History. 19th century American History. History of the West. Publications
BiographyIris M. Jerke, was born and raised in Germany. During her twenty years stay in the multi-ethnic city of Berlin (West, Germany) she gained a well-founded diverse cultural background. Extensive travel throughout Europe and the United States added to her understanding of different race relations inside and outside of the United States. Before pursuing a career in academics, Ms. Jerke owned a business in Germany.Between the years 1998 and 2003, Ms. Jerke received an A.A. in Intercultural Studies at DeAnza Community College, Cupertino in 2000, a B.A. in African American Studies, a B.A. in Social Science with emphasis in race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity, both in 2002 and a M.A. in U.S. history with a concentration in African American History in 2003 from San Jose State University. Ms. Jerke received honors as a President's scholar and Dean's scholar; she is the recipient of several scholarships and a First Year Fellowship from the University of California, Department of History, Davis, California. Her teaching specialties include United States History, Critical Thinking, African American History, Race and Ethnic History, Women's History, Black Women's Cross-Cultural History, and History of Film. Back to Top
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Allison KatsevLecturer.Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998. M.A. Stanford University, 1990. B.A., magna cum laude Yale University, 1985. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 140 Email: akatsev@sonic.net Phone: 408-924-5508 |
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Areas of InterestRussia and the Soviet Union.Germany. European Intellectual and Cultural History. Historiography. World History. Interdisciplinary methods. Publications
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BiographyI am originally from Ohio and went to college at Yale University. After college, I traveled to Russia often, and then settled down to studying Russian history at Stanford University.In my doctoral dissertation, "Social Identity and Russian Cultural Politics: Defining the Historian in the Pre-Reform Era," I reconsider the impact of Russia's encounter with modernity by examining elite identity in the first half of the nineteenth century. I analyze the changing self-representations of three Moscow University historians. I conclude that their careers suggest that attitudes towards modernity, far from fracturing educated Russian society, actually served as a source of cohesion. I am currently reworking my dissertation for publication. After graduate school, I taught in Stanford's Introduction to Humanities Program. There I had the opportunity to teach interdisciplinary courses, with subjects ranging from Russian culture, to art and philosophy, to philosophical and anthropological perspectives on mortality. From this experience, I developed a particular interest in the ways that other disciplines can enrich discussions of "history." I joined the faculty of San Jose State University in 2005. I teach survey courses in Russian, European and World history, as well as seminars in historiography and research methodology. In my classes, I include art, architecture, literature, film, etc., encouraging students to explore the past from many angles. Back to Top
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Benjamin KlineLecturer.Ph.D. University College, Cork, Ireland, 1986. M.A. San Jose State University, 1980. B.A. San Jose State University, 1978. Office: Business Tower (BT) 558 Email: bkline555@gmail.net Phone: Deanza 864-8561 |
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Areas of InterestEnvironmental History.African History. British Empire History. Modern European History. Irish History. Publications
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BiographyDr. Benjamin Kline is a native of San José, California. He received his B.A. (1978) and M.A. (1980) from San José State University and a Ph.D. from the University College Cork, Ireland (1986). He has taught at San José State University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Wheelock College in Boston. In 1989 he taught at the University of Sierra Leone as a Fulbright Scholar. His primary fields of interest are the British Empire, modern Europe, Britain, Ireland, and Africa. Among his many publications are four books, including "Genesis of Apartheid: British African Policy in the Colony of Natal 1845-93" and numerous articles including "Northern Ireland: A Protracted Conflict", "Winston Churchill and Michael Colins 1919-22: Their Conflicting Views of Ireland and its Future", and a contribution to the Cambridge Illust- rated History of the British Empire. At present he is completing a history of the United States Computer Industry's role in shaping Ireland's high-tech industry. Of his other achievements that can be noted: Coordinator and Presenter at the Cambridge University Workshop on the British Empire in March 1993, Research Director for the McNair Scholars Program, ASPIRE Program in 1996, and Liaison Professor for the University College Cork, Ireland in 1990.Back to Top
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Margo McBaneLecturer.Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, History. M.A. University of California Davis, History. M.A. Stanford University, Education. B.A. University of California Santa Cruz, Community Studies. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 321 Email: margo.mcbane@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5530 |
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Areas of InterestU.S. Women's HistoryU.S. Gender History California History Public History American Social/Labor History History of the West Social History of American Culture U.S. Comparative Ethnic/Racial History Immigration History Publications
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BiographyAs an historian, I am interested in working within the academy as well as the surrounding community. I am interdisciplinary in my approach to history. My interest in history formed through the lens of community studies, my undergraduate major at UCSC. After conducting field work with the United Farmworkers of America, I wrote my B.A. thesis, “Labor Pains: The History of Women in California Agriculture.” I then received a grant from the Youth Project to convert this thesis into a union organizing book for the United Farmworkers of America.I pursued a high school teaching credential and M.A. in Education from Stanford University. I taught high school social studies at Palo Alto High School and Carmel High School. Concurrently I ventured into the world of public history. I have worked in museums, public radio documentary production, non-profit history development, and municipal history projects (known as Cultural Resource Management). In one such project, I received grants from several foundations including the California Council in the Humanities and the Kellogg Foundation to produce an award-winning two part, two hour radio documentary for public radio, “Talkin’ Farmwork Blues: An Oral History of California Farm Labor.” I also served as the LA Program Officer for the California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. My public history specialty is oral history and I at the University of Texas El Paso I became director of the Institute for Oral History as well as Assistant Professor of Public History and U.S. History. Currently I am working part-time as a history lecturer at SJSU while pursuing my public history interests including local history projects: the history of Mexicans of Santa Clara Valley, 1920-1960; the history of northern California surfing, 1885-1960; and the history of the El Paso Chapter of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1940-1950s. I completed my M.A. in History from UC Davis, with my thesis, “The Role of Women in Determining the California Farm Labor Structure: A Case Study of the Woman’s Land Army During World War I.” Subsequently I obtained an History Ph.D. from UCLA. I received honors in my field with my dissertation, “The House that Lemons Built: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Citizenship, and the Creation of a Citrus Empire, 1893-1919.” Back to Top
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Steven MillnerProfessor.Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology. M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology. B.A. San Jose State University, Sociology. Office: Washington Square Hall (WQH) 216B Email: steven.millner@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5864 |
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Areas of InterestModern American History.PublicationsComing Soon.Selected Achievements•Coming Soon.BiographyComing Soon.Back to Top
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Eric NarvesonLecturer.M.A. San Jose State University, 1986. B.A. San Jose State University, 1983. A.A. West Valley College, 1981. Ryan Single Subject Credential, 1985. California Community College Credential, 1987. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 237B Email: eric.narveson@evc.edu Phone: 408-924-5519 |
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Areas of InterestWorld War II.Modern Military History. History of San Jose State University. History and Critical Thinking. Publications
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Mary PickeringProfessor.D.E.A. Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France. Ph.D. Harvard University,1988. M.A. Harvard University. B.A., magna cum laude. Harvard University, graduated in three years, Phi Beta Kappa. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 218 Email: mary.pickering@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5516 |
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BiographyA native of San Francisco, I received my B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. I also hold an advanced graduate degree (D.E.A.--French equivalent to A.B.D.) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, where I lived for over three years. Before coming to San José State, I taught for six years at Pace University in New York City. My academic specialties are modern European social and cultural/intellectual history, French history, and European women's history. I am the author of Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography. (A French philosopher, Comte was the founder of positivism, sociology, the Religion of Humanity, and the history of science). The first volume was published by Cambridge University Press in 1993. I received an NEH fellowship in 1991 to continue writing the biography. I finally completed the thirty-year project in 2009, when the second and third volumes were published. I have also written many articles for journals and chapters for books. My work is interdisciplinary, analyzing issues in history, sociology, and philosophy. It has attracted the attention of scholars in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. At San José State, I teach undergraduate surveys and graduate seminars in European history, methodology, and historiography. I enjoy teaching very much and like to have students read novels and primary sources to gain a deeper understanding of past issues that are still significant today.Back to Top
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Rick PropasLecturer.Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1982. M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1977. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1969. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 141 Email: rickpropas@comcast.net Phone: 408-924-5520 |
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Areas of InterestAmerican Foreign Policy: Russia and the Middle East.20th Century American politics and material culture. 18th Century American politics and culture. Local and California History. Public History. Publications
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BiographyI have taught history just about anywhere anyone would let me, including Cabrillo, Chabot and Evergreen Valley Colleges, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, Northern Kentucky University, Xavier University and Cal State, Long Beach. Apart from teaching, I have worked in the non-profit sector as a historian and administrator. I was trained in American foreign policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I received the PhD. I have studied 18th century America independently and learned the history of California and the Bay Area and Cincinnati and the Midwest while writing and researching there. I have written newspaper op/ed pieces and have run for school board in Fremont, where I have lived since 1989. An interest in historic writing instruments has led me to edit a national journal and write numerous articles, both scholarly and popular, on fountain pens.Back to Top
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Bruce ReynoldsProfessor, Area Studies Advisor.Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988. M.A. Central Missouri State University. B.A., cum laude Central Missouri State University. Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 140 Email: bruce.reynolds@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5523 |
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Areas of InterestTrans-Pacific International Relations in the 20th Century.Japanese, Chinese, and Southeast Asian History. Asia during World War II. PublicationsBooks:
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BiographyA native of Missouri, I received by undergraduate and masters degrees from Central Missouri State University and my Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to entering the teaching profession I worked as a radio broadcaster and print journalist.My academic specialty is East and Southeast Asia history with an emphasis on international relations in the Pacific region during the first half of the twentieth century. I have published two books and several articles on Thailand's role in World War II and now am studying U.S.-China relations by focusing on the biography of long-time U.S. State Department China hand, Willys R. Peck. At San Jose State University I serve as advisor for the Area Studies minor and am director of the East Asian Regional Materials and Resources Center (EARMARC). Funded by grants from the East Asian Centers at Stanford University and UC-Berkeley, EARMARC lends audio-visual materials to teachers at all levels. For information, call 408-924-5518 or 408-924-5523. Or, you can write to EARMARC, c/o History Department, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0117. Back to Top
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Jonathan RothProfessor and Director of theBurdick Military History Project. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1991. M.A. Columbia University. B.A. University of California at Berkeley. Office: Business Tower (BT) 561 Email: jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5505 |
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BiographyI was born in Redwood City, California in 1955, raised in Sunnyvale, and attended Homestead High School in Cupertino. My first year in college was at U.C. Davis, but I left to travel in Europe for a year, then completed my B.A. in Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. I then spent a year studying Assyriology at the Georg-August Universitaet in Goettingen, Germany under a Fulbright scholarship. After my studies in Germany, I moved to New York City.In New York I also enlisted in the New York Army National Guard, in which I served six years, mainly with the 69th Infantry Regiment. I earned my commission as a second lieutenant from the Empire State Military Academy. After a few years hiatus from the academy, working in publishing and advertising, I enrolled in Columbia University's History program, where I earned my Ph.D. in Ancient History. My dissertation "Logistics of the Roman Army in the Jewish War, 66 to 73 A.D." was supervised by Prof. William V. Harris and deposited in 1991. An expanded version of my thesis was published in 1999 as The Roman Army at War, Leiden: E.J. Brill. I taught as a visiting professor at Tulane University in New Orleans for one year, then spent three years as a Dorot Teaching Fellow at New York University, before coming to San Jose State, in 1994 as an Assistant Professor. I was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, I served as Chair of the History Department. Since 1999, I have been the Director of the department’s Burdick Military History Project. Back to Top
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Mary Lynn WilsonLecturer.Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies. M.A. UCLA, Medieval European History. B.A. University of California, History and English Literature. Office: DMH 321 Email: marylynnwilson@sbcglobal.net Phone: 408-924-45509 |
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Areas of Interestpre-Christian Germanic language, Religion, CultureHistorical Linguistics Archaeology Folklore BiographyMary Lynn Wilson earned a double B.A. in History and English Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her M.A. in Medieval European History at UCLA and her Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. Indo-European Studies is an interdisciplinary program in Historical Linguistics, Archaeology, and Folklore. Her specialty is pre-Christian Germanic language, religion, and culture. She has studied 13 different languages and trained in reconstruction of pronto language and culture. Dr. Wilson is a lecturer in the History and Marketing Departments at San Jose State University.Back to Top
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Diana BakerDepartment Coordinator.B.A. San Jose State University. |
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BiographyI have worked on campus since 1991 in Social Science, Sociology and currently History Department. Since joining the History department in 2002, I have had the pleasure of working with great students and a wonderful group of faculty.Back to Top
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