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Benjamin Braude
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard University

Middle East; general trends in European history, culture and politics since 1500; history of Islamic civilization, religion, political and military trends, social and economic tensions; anti-Semitism through history; religious, racial, and ethnic identities in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim culture; Ottoman history; Jewish history. Author of the book The Jews of Trieste and the Levant Trade in the Eighteenth Century; co-author of the bookChristians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society. Courses have included: "Islamic Civilization in the Middle East"; "Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire."

617.552.3787
benjamin.braude.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/braude_benjamin.html

Roberta Manning
Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Rice University, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University

20th century Russia; social and political history of Stalin era; the Cold War; the Gorbachev era; Yeltsin; peasant studies; conditions of women in Russia. Has traveled to Russia. Author of numerous books and articles on Russia and the Soviet Union, including The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; co-editor of Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Served for more than 15 years as managing editor of Russian History. Serves as director and editor-in-chief of an international project that involves 40 scholars from six nations (Russia, US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and South Korea) collectively exploring documents in the five major central Moscow archives. The project will result in the publication of a five-volume documentary history (in Russia and in English) on Stalinism in the Soviet countryside, 1927-39. Courses have included: "Modern History: Political and Intellectual History of Europe"; "Russia and the Cold War"; "Twentieth Century Russia"; "Stalin."

617.552.2795
roberta.manning.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/manning_roberta.html

Thomas O'Connor
University Historian
Professor Emeritus, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. Boston College, Ph.D. Boston University

History of Boston–including its political history and its neighborhoods; the significance of immigration and the growth of ethnic politics and racial conflicts; the Irish in Boston; Irish-Brahmin relations; Puritanism; contemporary Boston politics set against a historical backdrop; the Irish famine. United States history, the age of Jackson, the Civil War. Dubbed "the dean of Boston History," he is author of many books, including The Hub: Boston Past and Present; Boston A to Z; Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People; Civil War Boston: Homefront and Battlefield; The Boston Irish: A Political History; Lords of the Loom: The Cotton Whigs and the Coming of the Civil War; Bibles, Brahmins and Bosses: A Short History of Boston; Fitzpatrick's Boston; South Boston My Home Town: A History of an Ethnic Neighborhood; and Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950-1970. Course areas include American civilization and the Civil War.

617.552.8454
thomas.oconnor.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/oconnor_thomas.html

Kevin O'Neill
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Director, Irish Studies Program
B.A. Marquette University, M.A. Loyola University of Chicago, Ph.D. Brown University

Modern Ireland (1700-resent); Irish social and political history; Ireland/Northern Ireland; European social and economic history; peasant studies, including the interaction between peasant and urban society and economy; social and economic determinants of demographic changes in rural Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries; famine. Co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the culture and society of Ireland; co-editor of the Irish Literary Supplement; historical advisor to the Famine Museum Project in Ireland. Author of the book Family and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland. Author of articles including "The Bonds of Neighbourhood: Women and Rebellion n a Kildare Village: 1798"; "Almost a Gentlewoman: Gender and Adolescence in the Diary of Mary Shackleton," and "Looking at Pictures: Art and Artfulness in Colonial Ireland." Courses include: "Europe and the Atlantic Community"; "Famine and Social Crisis"; "Irish History."

617.552.3793
kevin.oneill.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/oneill_kevin.html

Alan Rogers
Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

Early America, especially the American Revolution and US Constitution; murder and capital punishment in Massachusetts from 1630-present; analysis of the formation, organization and major decisions of the Supreme Court from 1788 to modern times, with emphasis on the court's relationship to social change; law and medicine in 19th century. He is chair of the Seminar in Early American History at the Massachusetts Historical Society, an officer of the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, and President of the New England Historical Association. Co-author of the books Boston: City on a Hill and This Momentous Affair: Massachusetts and the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Courses include: "Modern History: Europe and the Atlantic Community", "The Tradition of Law", "American Trials", "Capital Punishment and American Culture"; "American Constitutional History."

617.552.3782
alan.rogers@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/rogers_alan.html

Robert Savage, Jr.
Associate Director, Irish Studies Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Boston College

Modern Irish history; current events in Ireland and Northern Ireland; issues of censorship in Ireland and Britain, modern Irish social and cultural history, Irish and British media, Irish film. Co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the culture and society of Ireland. Author of the books Sean Lemass and Irish Television: the Political and Social Origins. Courses include: "Unrest in Ireland", "Ireland Since the Famine", "19th Century Ireland," "Twentieth Century Ireland: A Political and Social History"; "Ireland from the United Irishmen to Partition."

617.552.3966
robert.savage@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/savage_robert.html

Frank F. Taylor
Associate Professor, History Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A. University of the West Indies; Ph.D. University of Geneva

Economic, social, political and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; black social and political thought; tourism in the Third World; Cuban politics and foreign policy; African-American history. Author of the book To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaica Tourist Industry. Courses have included: "Revolutionary Cuba"; "Slave Societies in Caribbean and Latin America"

617.552.3239
frank.taylor@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/history/faculty/alphabetical/taylor_frank.html