Being the ‘Other’: Teaching U.S. History as a Fulbright Professor in Egypt

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen A. Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Western History ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
World Vision ◽  
University History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

If for Russell Johnson the experience of teaching the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Turkey was that of being in a “not so strange land,” my four months as a Fulbright professor at the University of Alexandria in Egypt were often quite the opposite. There I was truly a stranger in a strange land. But it is important to note right from the start that by strange I mean foreign in the sense that American history of any sort is not part of the Egyptian university curriculum. So much so that before I arrived in Egypt I had been given only a hazy idea of what I might be teaching. Once there I quickly found that I had to jettison the proposal that I had submitted for the Fulbright competition – to teach about the processes and ideas of democracy in U.S. history, most especially in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The reasons for my inability to teach what I had proposed help explain much about the place of U.S. history, indeed all of “western” history, in Egyptian universities, and how the situation differs enormously from those described for Canada, Mexico, and Turkey. In these “post-eleventh September” days, it seems to me especially important to understand that while in the U.S. we seek to expand our university history curricula into a world vision, in Egypt exactly the opposite has been happening. Why this should be so in the age of globalization, and what lessons it has for U.S. historians, I think are among the valuable insights that can be gained from a Fulbright teaching fellowship in the Arab world.

Revising The Response to Industrialism: Changes in Perspective over Forty Years, 1955–1995

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Samuel P. Hays
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
American History ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
The Way

When I retired in 1991 my first project was to revise The Response to Industrialism, which covered the years from 1877 to 1914. These, of course, are the years we call the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. When the University of Chicago Press asked if I would undertake a revision as part of their desire to update several books in the History of American Civilization Series, I readily agreed. I did so with some instinctive understanding that much about the book would undergo revision, but just what I did not have clearly in mind. Much had changed in the profession, and much had changed in the way I thought about that period in American history. As I worked my way through the first edition the details of those changes became more clear. And so I prepared an introduction to the revision that outlined for the reader just what had changed in my thinking over those forty years.

scholarly journals New Perspectives on Socialism II Socialism and Capitalism Reconsidered

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Richard Schneirov
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Socialist Party Of America

The July 2003 special issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era revisited the history of the Socialist Party of America during the Progressive Era. This second issue on “New Perspectives on Socialism” examines socialism largely outside the party context, thereby challenging the tendency of scholars and non-scholars alike to identify socialism with a party-based political movement. To the degree that the essays collected here examine party-based socialism, they focus on the gradualist or revisionist wing of the party, whose socializing and democratic reforms, programs, and ideas helped establish a context for the Progressive Era and thereafter, when a “social democratic” type of politics became intrinsic to the mainstream American politics.

Roman Catholicism in the University of Cambridge: St Edmund's House in 1898

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. LUBENOW
Keyword(s):  
History Of Education ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
University History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The question in 1898 of the recognition by Cambridge University of St Edmund's House, a Roman Catholic foundation, might initially seem to involve questions irrelevant in the modern university. It can, however, be seen to raise issues concerning modernity, the place of religion in the university and the role of the university itself. This article therefore sets this incident in university history in wider terms and examines the ways in which the recognition of St Edmund's House was a chapter in the history of liberalism, in the history of Roman Catholicism, in the history of education and in the history of secularism.

scholarly journals History of Bermudagrass Turfgrass Breeding Research in Tifton, GA

HortScience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 1560-1561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Baxter ◽  
Brian M. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Breeding Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
Agricultural Research Service ◽  
The U.S

Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) is the foundation of the turfgrass industry in most tropical and warm-temperate regions. Development of bermudagrass as a turfgrass began in the early 1900s. Many of the cultivars commercially available today have been cooperatively released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and the University of Georgia at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, GA.

Wenger, Susanne (1915–2009)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Probst
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Local School ◽  
Western History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Exclusive Focus ◽  
Applied Arts

Susanne Wenger was an Austrian artist and an instrumental figure in the history of Nigerian modernism. Born on July 4, 1915 in the city of Graz, Austria, Wenger first attended the local School of Applied Arts before she moved to Vienna to continue her art education, first at the School of Graphic Design and then, from 1933 to 1935, at the Academy of Art. Like other students, Wenger’s interest was in contemporary post-secessionist movements. The few works remaining from Wenger’s Viennese phase exemplify different styles ranging from pencil studies of plants and animal bodies, executed with an almost photographic precision, to expressionistic and cubist paintings, to surrealist crayon drawings. After the war she moved from Vienna to Paris, where she met editor Ulli Beier (1922–2011). The encounter with Beier marked a profound and lasting shift in Wenger’s life. The two fell in love and decided to spend the next years in Nigeria, where he got a job as a lecturer at the University of Ibandan. What they thought would be an adventure became a confrontation with the colonial reality. The colonial curriculum had an exclusive focus on Western history and culture. Interaction between Nigerians and members of the British faculty hardly existed. While Beier reacted to the colonial reality by seeking refuge in the newly established extramural department, which allowed him to work outside the campus, Wenger’s response was more private and personal. After a severe illness, she embarked on a journey—both spiritual and artistic—which resulted in the so-called "Osogbo experiment."

The Social Relations of Tudor Oxford

1977 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. McConica
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Land Market ◽  
The Social ◽  
University History ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
English Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
The University

If study of the university can have any place in the general history of society, it must be understood as a part of a much larger historical phenomenon, of whose vastness and complexity the university's records themselves make us aware. In the sixteenth century we are conscious of powerful currents of social change and energy upon which the universities floated with little or no power of control: a rapidly growing population, geographically and economically on the move; a burgeoning school system; urban wealth growing and changing location, but always under the massive dominance of London; an active land-market; rise in prices; and the work of governments, both national and local, concerned with education and its consequences. This is the setting of Tudor society, and only special optical devices will enable us to pick out the university and set it in the foreground. In the process some distortion is inevitable. An indication of the problems that occur in university history may be found in the view of a recent student of Tudor Cambridge who, while acknowledging that one contribution of the universities to the complex change within English society was ‘the creation of a more refined and integrated cultural and intellectual milieu’ centred upon London and the court, finds the truly significant contribution in a more informed, vigorous and tenacious local solidarity in the ‘country’. Another historian of Elizabethan England tells us that in the universities, ‘the interesting thing, as so often in English life, is the extent and intimacy of the social mixture’.

Alessandro Bausani and ‘Muslim Languages’, Forty Years After

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-210
Author(s):  
Adriano V. Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
The University

Abstract Resorting to personal memories from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the author, who defended in 1971 at the University of Rome a thesis entitled Iranian Elements in Brahui, under Prof. Bausani’s direction (later revised and published under the title Iranian lexical elements in Brāhūī [Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1979]), reconstructs the political and cultural climate in which – at the end of the 1970s – a major subject of enquiry was the problem of the nature of the national unity among the countries of the Arab world. At the urging of Biancamaria Scarcia, Bausani decided to publish at the Institute of Islamic Studies of the University of Rome a volume of historical and linguistic essays coordinated by himself and B. Scarcia (Mondo islamico tra interazione e acculturazione [Roma: Istituto di studi islamici, 1981]). In this volume, Bausani published an essay on the concept of ‘Islamic language’ that took stock of his previous proposals made over more than twenty years (starting with his speech at the 1966 Ravello conference on a comparative history of the Islamic literatures). The author demonstrates that notwithstanding his use of linguistic terminology, Bausani’s main interest has always been the investigation of the possibility of identifying minimum distinctive traits present in the different literary typologies of various countries of Islamic culture.

Jeremiah Jenks: A Pioneer of Industrial Organization?

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howard Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Jeremiah Whittle Jenks currently ranks as one of the more obscure academic economists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. While other prominent economists of the era such as Richard T. Ely and John Bates Clark have been the subject of many books and articles (Everett 1946, Rader 1966, and Henry 1996, for example) Jenks remains almost unknown and unheralded. For instance, he is scarcely mentioned in the relevant volume of Joseph Dorfman's The Economic Mind in American Civilization (Dorfman 1948, III), despite his very substantial scholarly and public roles in the economics of the day. He was likewise below the radar of Joseph A. Schumpeter's (1954) magisterial, History of Economic Analysis, and Mark Blaug's (1985) Economic Theory in Retrospect. Where Jenks's career has attracted scholarly notice, the aspects examined have focused less on his economic scholarship and more on his public policy roles. (Green 1956, Weinstein 1968, Furner 1975, Parrini and Sklar 1983) The reasons for Jenks's relative neglect are unclear, although several hypotheses will be entertained below.

scholarly journals The University Age: Historical and Legal Notes to the Centenary of the Ural State Law University

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-14
Keyword(s):  
Academic Culture ◽  
State Law ◽  
History Museum ◽  
University History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
The University

The Ural State Law University solemnly celebrated its centenary. It updated the appeal to the past of the university, to the traditions of Russian legal education and science. The anniversary became simultaneously an event, an object of study, and a strategy for learning the legal-university history. The aim of the article is to defie promising, largely interrelated historical and legal subjects of the history of the law university. Multifaceted signifiance of the anniversary for the law university is considered: its role in the development of academic culture and corporate commemorative practices, in promoting the image of the university, in gaining new knowledge on the university, in studying the pre-institute period of its history (1918–1931). The problem of the sources of knowledge on the history of the USLU is defied. The particular importance of legitimizing the transition periods is described. For example, the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of 1919 explicitly recognized the university in Irkutsk and the faculty of law as the basis of our university. The author raised the question of the need to interpret sources that are not typical for the law university history’ such as oral history, museum subjects. The article noted the importance of politics and ideology in the history of law university, as well as the prospects of its consideration through the prism of the anthropological approach.

scholarly journals “Nada humano me es ajeno”. Una aproximación a la historiografía sobre la historia de la Universidad española = Nothing Human Can Be Alien to Me. An Approach to the Historiography on the University History in Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer
Keyword(s):  
University History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
History Of Universities ◽  
The University

Resumen:  El presente trabajo trata sobre el desarrollo de la disciplina de la historia de las Universidades en España por épocas y temas, y pretende reflejar cómo se han abordado los aspectos intelectuales, científicos, estudiantiles y políticos que rodean a la institución universitaria. Se revisa la producción desde su inicios desde las diferentes áreas académicas, deteniéndonos en las personalidades singulares que impulsaron esta especialización, la creación de revistas ligadas a este ámbito y la celebración de congresos, señalando los aspectos más relevantes de esta aportación de la historiografía española al conjunto de la historia de las Universidades europeas.Abstract: The present work deals with the development of the study of the history of universities in Spain in terms of periods and themes, and tries to reflect how the intellectual, scientific, student and political aspects that surround the university institution have been approached. I revise the contributions of the different academic areas from their very beginning, focusing on the unique personalities who promoted this specialization, the creation of journals linked to this area and the celebration of congresses, pointing out the most relevant aspects of this contribution of Spanish historiography to the history of European Universities.Palabras clave: España, historia de las universidades, historiografía, educación.Keywords: Spain, history of universities, historiography, education. 

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