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Faculty Emeriti

  • Bonnie Smith
  • Bonnie Smith
  • Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emerita of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Rochester
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1990-2015

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Right now I’m putting the finishing touches on a book about the global production of the West—its institutions, social structures, culture and arts, and patterns of everyday life--from the seventeenth century to the present.  Other projects include a history of modern empires from the fifteenth century to the present and a history of women in world history.

PUBLICATIONS

Modern Empires, A Reader Modern Empires, A Reader

Oxford University Press, 2017
  • The Making of the West Concise, co-author with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin, and Barbara Rosenwein, 4th edition (Bedford St Martins’s 2013)
  • Women’s Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2013)
  • The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Chinese edition, 2012.
  • The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, co-author with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin, and Barbara Rosenwein, 4th edition.  (Bedford St. Martin’s 2012)
  • Sources of Crossroads and Cultures with Marc Van de Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, and Kris Lane (Bedford St. Martins, 2012).
  • Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples, co-author with Marc Van de Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, and Kris Lane (Bedford St. Martins, 2012)
  • Women and Gender in Postwar Europe, co-ed. with Joanna Regulska (Routledge 2012).
  • “Decentered Identities: The Case of the Romantics,” History and Theory, May 2011.
  • “Women in World History: An Overview,” for CLIO, twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Janurary 2011
  • “Gender and the Republic,” in Vincent Duclert, Christophe Prochasson, and Edward Berenson, eds. The French Republic: History, Values, Debates.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
  • “Europe and Russia” with Donald R. Kelley in Jerry Bentley, ed.  Oxford Companion to World History. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • “Historians” with Donald R. Kelley for Ulinka Rublak, ed., Oxford Companion to Historical Writing. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • “Women in the Twentieth Century World” in  Michael Adas, ed. Twentieth Century World History. Temple University Press, 2010.
  • “Women’s History: A Retrospective from the United States,” SIGNS, 2010.
  • “Gender and History,” in Angelika Epple and Angelika Schaser, eds.  Gendering Historiography (Berlin: 2009).
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, general ed., 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  [Booklist Editors’ Books of the Year, American Library Association Outstanding Reference Work Award.]
  • Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present.  Boston: Bedford Books,  2008.

 

  • Donald Roden
  • Donald Roden
  • Associate Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Univ of Wisconsin, 1975
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1975-2019
  • Specialty: Modern Japan: History of Education and Gender

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My work has focused mainly on the history of education in modern Japan, especially preparatory schools for the Imperial Universities.  I am also interested in problems related to gender and culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

  • 508:352  Japan’s Rise to World Power
  • 508:450  Society and Culture  in Japan
  • 506:112  Patterns in Civilization: Love (with Rudolph Bell)
  • 506:113  Patterns in Civilization: Death (with Rudolph Bell)
  • 506:401  History Seminar: Gender and Culture in Japan

PUBLICATIONS

  • Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite (University of California, 1980)
  • “Baseball and the Quest for National Dignity in Meiji Japan,” AHR (June 1980)
  • “Taisho Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence” in Thomas Rimer, ed, Culture and Identity (Princeton University Press, 1990)
  • “Thoughts on the Early Meiji Gentleman” in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard, 2005).
  • Stephen Reinert
  • Stephen Reinert
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D. in History (Byzantine, western medieval, medieval Balkans), UCLA (1982)
  • Additional Degree(s): M.A. in Near Eastern Languages & Cultures (Turcology), UCLA (1981) B.A. in History, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington (1972)
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1985-2024
  • Specialty: Late Byzantine & Early Ottoman History

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Throughout my forty-three years of service at Rutgers my research and teaching revolved around a variety of themes in late Byzantine, Crusades, Balkan, and Early Ottoman history.  I was (and still am) particularly interested in the reciprocal perceptions of religion (Christianity, Islam) among the populace of these regions.  I retain a fascination for two political figures (the emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, the sultan Bayezid I), and finally have the time to sort through dozens of papers and book ideas to see if I have anything worthwhile to contribute, at this stage.

One of the true joys of retirement is opening horizons to other interests and research projects.  I have two that engage me now.  I have always been intrigued by my "DNA" as a descendant of immigrants from Germany and Luxembourg, and I am lucky enough to have a dossier of thirty or so letters of a great-great-grandfather, somehow collected, documenting his life as a Homesteader in Kansas.  I am struggling to decipher the German script (Kurrent) and translate coherently, though this ancestor was from the Emsland and spoke and wrote in Plattdeutsch, which feels a lot like Dutch.  In the first letter, he complains how cold it was that winter of 1891 on the Kansas plains.  I'm equally intrigued by the history of the house my spouse Joe and I own in southern Burgunndy, first attested in 1399, but with a raft of documents (most notarial) running almost to the present.  Learning that handwriting, legal jargon, and sorting out details of petty seigneurs (fighting over land) is entertaining. 

I have also become, as part of this all, fascinated by American History and in particular the development of the city where we live (Trenton), and its amazing fabric of ethnic diversity and enclaves.  The architectural remnants of these sometimes remain, though crumbling or transformed into some other use, but I have never before understood so deeply that "diversity" is inscribed in the formation and evolution of the USA, from the beginning, and its history is just as fascinating as Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire, and seigneurial France.

So I can't complain I'm bored and don't have much to do.  Retirees all have medical complaints that a friend has described to me as "our endless organ recitals."  I do try to keep up with my basic yoga exercises, though.
 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

My key articles on late Byzantine and early Ottoman history are published as Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies (Ashgate, 2014). I am also the principal editor of TO ELLENIKON: Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr., vol. 1, Hellenic Antiquity and Byzantium, and vol. 2, Byzantinoslavica, Islamica, the Balkans and Modern Greece (Caratzas, 1993). I am the coordinating translator and editor of the English edition of Matei Cazacu’s Dracula (Brill, 2017).
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Byzantine Studies Association of North America
  • Turkish Studies Association
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • James W. Reed
  • James W. Reed
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D. and A.M., Harvard University
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1975-2013

Additional Degree:

B.A., Louisiana State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

James Reed has professed history at Rutgers since 1975. He got his B.A. at Louisiana State University and his A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard. Among historians he is best known for a book titled From Private Vice to Public Virtue (1978), which is a history of birth control in the U.S. He served as Dean of Rutgers College from 1985 to 1994. His current writing project is a history of biomedical sex research, working title—“Sex Research in America: From Social Hygiene to Liberation Science.”

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • Development of the U.S. I & II
  • Health and the Environment in the U.S.
  • American Social History
  • Sport in History

PUBLICATIONS

  • “Contraception” in The International Encyclopedia of Women’s History, ed. Bonnie Smith (Oxford University Press 2008), vol. 1, pp: 477-486.
  • “Gender Role: The Early History of a Concept,” in Great Interdisciplinary Ideas, ed. William Vesterman (Longman 2007), 492-501.
  • “Young and Pregnant: Teenage Pregnancies in the United States” (with John Spurlock) in Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide, ed. Carolyn Cocca (Praeger 2006):31-44.
  • American National Biography (1999), entries on:
E. G. Boring
Loraine L. Campbell
Robert L. Dickinson
Charles Knowlton
Morton Prince
John Rock
Abraham and Hannah Stone
Robert M. Yerkes
  • "The Birth Control Movement Before Roe v. Wade," Journal of Policy History 7:1 (1995): 22-52. Reprinted in The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control. Ed. Donald T. Critchlow. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
  • "Public Policy on Human Reproduction and the Historian," Journal of Social History 18 (March 1985): 383-398.
  • Karl F. Morrison
  • Karl F. Morrison
  • Lessing Professor Emeritus of History and Poetics
  • Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1961
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1988-2011

Photo Credit: Jim Ballard

Additional Degrees:

M.A., Cornell University, 1957

B.A., University of Mississippi, 1956

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research has always centered on the history of ideas. I have worked on the history of political thought, on historiography (especially Church history), and on the mechanics of tradition. My work began in the early Middle Ages (western Europe), and I retain a continuing enthusiasm for research in that period. Currently, I am studying the history of Christian art in western Europe from the beginning until (arguably) its death in the nineteenth century.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 506:411: Great Historians and the Study of History: Medieval Historians
  • 510:214: The European Intellectual Tradition
  • 510:309: History of Western Morals to 1500
  • 510:313: Renaissances in the Middle Ages
  • 510:315: Reform and Dissent in the Middle Ages
  • 510:391: Historical Studies, Christian Mysticism

Graduate

  • History PDR
  • 510:527: History of Religion

PUBLICATIONS

  • "'I am You": The Hermeneutics of Empathy in Western Literature, Theology and Art." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
  • "History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • "Understanding Conversion." Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.
  • (Co-editor) "Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.

AWARDS

  • McKnight Foundation Award in the Humanities
  • MASUA Honor Lecturer
  • Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Page-Barbour Lecturer, University of Virginia
  • Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America
  • Rutgers University--Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research
  • Carey Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame (Erasmus Institute)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • AHA
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • America Catholic Historical Association
  1. Livingston, James
  2. Lebsock, Suzanne
  3. Lawson, Steven
  4. Kaplan, Temma

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