From the Chair
Faculty members in the Department are committed to excellence in narrative and analytical historical reading and writing. They offer a variety of services to students who wish to improve their reading or writing skills, or who wish to pursue a historical problem in more depth than class time permits. Students may also study with members of the faculty on independent reading or research projects. —Marie Marianetti
Faculty Spotlight
Amanda Wunder’s research focuses on the cultural and art history of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She teaches history classes at Lehman on early modern (1450-1750) Europe as well as more specialized courses on Spain in the Golden Age. Prof. Wunder, a former fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gives gallery talks at that institution, and works closely with New York City museums for her own research. As a result of this work, she often incorporates museum visits into her courses. This May, her undergraduate and graduate students visited an exhibit on the Alhambra gardens at the Botanical Society; students also made trips to the museum of the Hispanic Society of America in Washington Heights (click here for pictures).
Prof. Wunder has recently completed a book-length manuscript entitled “Worldly Glory: Artists, Aristocrats, and the Creation of Baroque Seville.” The book is an interdisciplinary study of history and art history that tells the story of social and artistic transformations in Seville between 1503 and 1717, when the city was the exclusive port of trade between Spain and the Americas. According to Prof. Wunder, “The title is inspired by a gruesome painting by the Sevillian artist Juan de Valdés Leal called Finis Gloriae Mundi (The End of Worldly Glory), which depicts the inevitable destruction that death brings to all worldly pleasures and privileges—a fitting metaphor for what happened in Seville as the city rose and then fell with the fortunes of the Spanish Empire.”
News and Announcements
Burke to head Conference for Historical Journals
Martin Burke, an Associate Professor in the department who teaches Irish and American history, has been elected president of the Conference for Historical Journals, the professional associaton of editors of historical journals. For the past six years Prof. Burke has served as executive co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, the oldest and most prestigious international journal in intellectual history. Read more.
Dauben wins prestigious award
Dr. Joseph W. Dauben, a Distinguished Professor of History and the History of Science at Lehman College, has received the 2012 AMS Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize. The coveted award is presented to a scholar only once every three years by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Read more.
Visit History on Facebook!
The History Department now has a facebook presence: click here to learn more about its programs and events, and to join faculty and students in conversations about the past.
Click here to read about Faculty recognition award recipients in History (2010-11).
Last modified: Jan 27, 2012
