Miami University Department of History

	Marguerite S. Shaffer, associate professor and Director, American Studies Program Ph.D. (1994) Harvard University shaffems@muohio.edu 125 MacMillan Hall; 513-529-7527 American Studies Program American Studies, Public Culture, U.S. Environmental History Marguerite S. Shaffer specializes in U.S. cultural history with an emphasis on conceptions of nature and the construction of public culture. She is the author of See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001) and a number of articles on tourism, national parks, scenery, and regional identity of the American West. She has worked as a research associate for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and served as a consultant for the Autry Museum of Western History. Her current research focuses on the expressions and activities of popular environmentalism.
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	Robert W. Thurston, Phillip R. Shriver professor Ph.D. (1980) University of Michigan thurstrw@muohio.edu 273 Upham Hall; 513-529-5136 Office hours: M 3-4:30, F 10-12 personal home page Stalinist Russia, Early Modern Witch Crazes, Coffee, Lynching in the U.S. Robert W. Thurston is author of Liberal City, Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914; Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941; and A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America. He is also co-editor and contributor to The People's War: Popular Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. His current research interests are lynching in the United States and the world, and the history of coffee, especially of images related to it of social life, globalization, and the poorer areas of the earth.
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	George Vascik, associate professor Ph.D. (1988) University of Michigan vascikgs@muohio.edu 590 Mosler Hall, Hamilton Campus; 513-785-3290 Modern Germany, European Economic History George Vascik's research has centered on German economic and political history. He is working on a book project entitled Fashioning the Political Man: Diederich Hahn and the Transformation of Politics in Wilhelmine Germany and a digital Imperial German Elections Atlas. He has recently given presentations on history and computing, and his article "Computer-Assisted Analysis and Plotting of Village Returns in German National Elections, 1893-1912" appeared in the Journal of the American Association for History and Computers.
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	Allan M. Winkler, distinguished professor Ph.D. (1974) Yale University winkleam@muohio.edu http://www.users.muohio.edu/winkleam/amw.htm 244 Upham Hall; 513-529-5132 Office hours: M 11-11:50, T R 9:30-10:30 20th Century U.S., Social History of the Nuclear Age, U.S. Experiences in Africa Allan M. Winkler is a scholar of the United States in the 20th century and the author of Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945; Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom; and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America. His most recent book (with publication in 2009) is "To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song. He co- authored the college history textbook The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society and the high school textbook America: Pathways to the Present, and is author of a children's book entitled Cassie's War. He is director of Miami University's Humanities Center. He is also active as a historian who speaks to the general public and contributes frequently to newspapers and magazines around the United States and the world.
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	Edwin M. Yamauchi, professor emeritus Ph.D. (1964) Brandeis University yamauce@muohio.edu Ancient History, Biblical Archaeology, Early Church History The field in ancient history flourishes under the direction of Edwin M. Yamauchi, who teaches courses in ancient Near Eastern (Mesopotamian and Egyptian), Greek and Roman history, and early Christianity. He has authored and edited numerous books including Greece and Babylon, Persia and the Bible, The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor, Harper's World of the New Testament, Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins, and Pre-Christian Gnosticism. A co-edited work, Peoples of the Old Testament World, received a prize from the Biblical Archaeological Society. He has recently edited Africa and Africans in Antiquity. His writings have been translated into a dozen languages.
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	Judith P. Zinsser, professor Ph.D. (1993) Rutgers University zinssejp@muohio.edu 252 Upham Hall; 513-529-5131 Office hours: W R 1:30-3 European Women's and Intellectual History 16th- 18th Centuries, Topics in Comparative World History since 1500 Judith P. Zinsser co-authored the two-volume A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, which has achieved international recognition. In Feminism and History: A Glass Half Full, she described the impact of feminism on history and the historical profession in the United States. As part of her work in world history, she wrote on the United Nations Women's Decade for the Journal of World History. Her critical biography, Emilie Du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment, was one of many of her projects on this unorthodox 18th century woman (including collaboration with the writers of a NOVA special, the planners of an exhibition about Du Châtelet at France's Bibliothèque nationale, and the author of a winning play for the Pacific Coast Repertory Theater). A translation of a selection of Du Châtelet's writings done with a French colleague will appear in the series, The Other Voice of Early Modern Europe. She has served as president of the World History Association, and is a trustee of The Journal of Women's History. Connect to personal web site: zinssejp Return to faculty list