HISTORY LECTURE SERIES - GLOBAL BORDERS: LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD

LECTURER BIOGRAPHIES

October 6

THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR—HOW ELSE MIGHT IT HAVE ENDED?

Professor George Forgie's major teaching fields are U.S. political and cultural history from 1763 to 1877 and the U.S. Constitution. He is now studying Northern political writing during the Civil War and currently serves as Associate Chair of History at The University of Texas at Austin.

October 13

THE RACE GOES ON: BEN-HUR, POPULAR RELIGION, AND AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE 1880

Professor Howard Miller teaches religion in America and American intellectual history. He is the author of The Revolutionary College: American Presbyterian Higher Education, 1707-1837 (1976) and "Texas," in Samuel S. Hill (ed.), Religion in the Southern States (1983). He is currently working on a study of Ben Hur in American culture. He is currently a Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin.

October 20

"I AM A MAN!" RACE, MEMORY, AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVMENT IN THE URBAN SOUTH

Professor Laurie Green's central research areas include social movements, cultural studies, and the politics of race and gender in the twentieth-century United States. Her research was featured on The University of Texas at Austin home Web site in January 2006: Marching on Memphis. Her most recent publication is Battling the Plantation Mentality: Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina, May 2007), in which she analyzes political consciousness in the civil rights era urban South, especially new articulations of freedom emerging from the rural-urban migration experience.

October 27

VISUALIZING GENOCIDE: THE HOLOCAUST IN PHOTOGRAPHS SINCE 1945

Professor David Crew's current research and teaching interests include the history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe; the history and politics of memory; and the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations. Professor Crew is author of Town in the Ruhr: A Social History of Bochum, 1860-1914 (1979) and Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler (1998). He is also editor of Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 (1994) and of Consuming Germany in the Cold War (2003). His most recent publication is Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents in the "Pages from History" series (Oxford University Press, 2005).

November 3

THE MAKING OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMBS

Professor Bruce Hunt specializes in the history of modern science; technology and medicine; and modern British History. His current work focuses on the relationship between technology and science in the nineteenth century, and particularly on the interaction between theory and practice in the Victorian telegraph industry. He also has strong interests in the history of nuclear weapons and of evolutionary theory. Professor Hunt is the author of The Maxwellians (1991, repr. 2005), a study of late nineteenth-century electromagnetic theory, and more than fifteen articles on the history of physics and technology. He is currently completing work on Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein.

November 10

PLAYING CHESS AT MONTICELLO: "REASONING" WITH THOMAS JEFFERSON AT THE START OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Professor Robert Olwell's primary research focuses on Atlantic History; Borderlands; Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Race, Ethnicity and Nation. His research and teaching interests are focused on the eighteenth-century British-Atlantic World and the early American South. Currently, he is writing a book on the British Florida colony, 1763-1783. His most recent publications include Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 (1998), a case study of the political and ethical culture of a slave society in the revolutionary era, and Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, which he edited with Alan Tully (2006).

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