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Interchange: History in the Professional Schools
| Perhaps more than any other academic field, history is practiced all across the campus. Nearly every college and university has a history department, but few of those departments contain all the historians in their institutions. The social sciences, the language departments, and the arts and humanities pay serious attention to history. Even professional schools, which are physically, bureaucratically, and intellectually far removed from colleges of arts and sciences, always pay some attention to history and often have a historian or two on their faculties. The experience of those historians, the scholars and teachers who practice history in professional schools, is the subject of this edition of "Interchange." |
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When historians have their academic homes in professional schools, do they practice history differently? Is history taught differently? Is it imagined and written differently? Is the purpose of historical study different in a professional school than in a college of liberal arts? Is academic life better or worse for historians who make their way outside the history department? Those are the kinds of questions explored in "Interchange," 2005.
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| The participants in the conversation are historians who work in six different professional schools: business, divinity, education, journalism, law, and medicine: |
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JAMES L. BAUGHMAN is professor in and director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 (1997); a third edition is to appear in late 2005. He is completing a history of 1950s television. He holds the Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. |
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CATHERINE BREKUS is associate professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845 (1998). She completed the Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University. Readers may contact Brekus <cbrekus@uchicago.edu>. |
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MARY L. DUDZIAK is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor at the University of Southern California Law School, with joint appointments in history and political science. She is visiting professor at Harvard Law School for the 2005–2006 academic year. She is the author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000). She completed the J.D. and the Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University. Readers may contact Dudziak at <mdudziak@law.usc.edu>. |
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NANCY F. KOEHN is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her most recent book is Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell (2001). She holds the Ph.D. in European history from Harvard University. |
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