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Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the ...
Emily Joan Greble is a historian of the Balkans and Eastern Europe and a specialist on the history of Muslims in Europe. She is currently chair of the Department of History [1] and Professor of History and of German, Russian, and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. [2]
Edwin Mims (B.A. 1892, M.A. 1893) – chair of the Vanderbilt University English Department (1912–1942), taught many members of the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians; Merrill Moore (B.A. 1924) – Ericksonian psychologist, poet, taught neurology at Harvard Medical School, research fellow of the Harvard Psychological Clinic [49]
Vanderbilt University has shaped Nashville — and the nation — for 150 years now. Take a look back and ahead with a walk through campus. Vanderbilt University aims for excellence in divided ...
Upon ending her fellowship, Crawford accepted a position in Vanderbilt University's history department. [2] She wrote her first book in 2004 called Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France, which focused on how the French monarchy adapted to women rulers when the appointed King was unfit to serve.
From 1988 to 1991, she taught as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UF Department of History. In 1992 she moved to Vanderbilt University, where she taught in the department of history from 1992 to 1999 as assistant professor, from 1999 to 2010 as associate professor and since 2010 as professor. She has been Vanderbilt's Gertrude Conaway ...
Schwartz earned his B.A. from Columbia University and PhD from Harvard University. [3] He taught at Harvard University, and has been teaching at Vanderbilt since 1990. [1]His specialization includes the history of America's foreign relations and twentieth century American history.
Jefferson Cowie is an American historian, author and an academic. He is a James G. Stahlman Professor of History and the Director of Economics and History Major at Vanderbilt University; [1] a former fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford University; a fellow at the Society for Humanities at Cornell University, and at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UC ...