European History
Welcome to the European History
home page at FIU!
In these pages we present some
of the features that make the Department of History's track on Europe
so special. Among them are the faculty's exceptional training and
exciting research areas, the University's comprehensive commitment to
the study of world cultures and the location of Miami as a historical
gateway to the US, the Caribbean and Latin America from Europe.
You will also find information
about the comprehensive examination procedures for students
concentrators on Europe, and links that will take you to the
application process. FIU's master's and doctoral programs in History
both offer a concentration on European history. The master's
degree provides a strong foundation for professional or further
academic work, while the doctoral program's
emphasis on the Atlantic world affords European history students the
opportunities to pursue cross-cultural research.
The graduate track in European
History serves as a foundation of the Department of History's
comparative doctoral preparation. The European component of the
doctoral program affords students the needed breadth of coverage across
time and space in general courses, while offering thematic focus in
seminars. Requirements for the Master's and Ph.D. programs, along
with graduate courses and seminars in the areas of Latin America,
Europe, United States, and Africa are available from the Department's on-line
catalog.
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Faculty
The
Faculty concerned with European History make up one of the largest
blocs within the Department. They present a wide variety of interests,
skills and approaches to the study of history.
The
Europeanists can be divided into two groups, the medievalists and
early modernists and the modernists. All, however, have wide interests
and frequently teach outside these narrow areas of specialty.
Medievalists and Early Modernists
Gwyn
Davies concentrates
on the classical world with a particular interest in military history.
Howard
Kaminsky (emeritus) is still active in research, with interests
in Medieval European History.
Felice
Lifshitz is mostly concerned with early medieval hagiography
and historiography.
Joseph
Patrouch works on early modern Central Europe, especially
Austria and the Czech-Slovak territories.
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Modernists
Rebecca
Friedman studies nineteenth-century Russia, with a
particular interest in gender.
Lara
Kriegel is interested in nineteenth-century Britain,
especially
consumer culture.
Brian
Peterson concentrates on twentieth century German and Russian
history.
Aurora
Morcillo works on modern Spain and gender.
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Environment &
Resources
The Green
Library. The eight-story Steven and Dorothea Green Library,
completed in 1998, towers above the University Park campus and
serves as a landmark for the surrounding area. With its
state-of-the-art electronic and networking capabilities, the library
offers some of the most advanced text retrieval mechanisms in the State
of Florida. FIU's library forms part of the powerful consortium
of Florida libraries, the FCLA. The holdings on Europe are
strong, with complete runs of some journals, e.g. Analecta
Bollandiana.
There are several bodies within the university which
supply other centers of European excellence. Beyond the faculty in
History, students have at their disposal European experts spanning
several social science and humanities departments, including Political Science, Sociology & Anthropology,
International Relations,
Modern Languages
and Economics. There
are also several non-departmental resources, e.g. the Institute for Jewish Studies,
Center for Transnational
and Comparative Studies and the Certificate in
European Studies.
The Wolfsonian
Museum on Miami Beach provides a superb resource. The collection of
over 70,000 objects focus on European material culture of democracy,
capitalism, socialism, Communism, Nazism and Fascism in the period
1885-1945.
The History Department is also involved in a major
new program, the Working
Group for Pre-Modern Cultures, spearheaded by Dr. Felice Lifshitz
and currently run by Dr. Gwyn Davies.
