Sentences with phrase «academic historians in»

Given that popular taste is often anticipated in the academy, it is noteworthy that in American universities the study of British history is shrinking (if not drastically): membership of the US association of academic historians in the field has dropped from 1,000 members a decade ago to some 750 today.

I suppose this is a matter of being a responsible academic historian in the modern university, but I would rather Eire wrote history from an objective, Catholic perspective, instead of relativizing all the elements of faith to «what people believed.»

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Some of this has to do with the enduring quest to make history resemble a science, a vision that took hold in earnest in the nineteenth century and has never entirely lost its appeal among academic historians.

This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary AmericIn When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary Americin Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary Americin the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary Americin contemporary America.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologiaIn short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologiain a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of academic freedom had relatively little place in American higher education prior to this century.

Then David turns to Professor Simon Szreter — social historian and founder of «History & Policy» — to discuss how academics are trying to find ways of restoring the public's faith in politics, and bridge the gap between the politicians» narrow view of the world and how the voters see it.

Richard J Aldrich, an academic historian who works in intelligence, has used open sources but little help from friends within the system, in producing GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Harper Press # 30).

The medical doctor, once aspired to lead the NPP as its flagbearer, placing second to the late Prof. Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen; Ghanaian academic, historian and politician in the lead up to the 1992 elections.

Two of the academics in the Lords, historian Paul Bew and philosopher Onora O'Neill, raised concerns about the consequences for research.

They began in 1909 and consist not simply of film critics like other groups but also film historians, enthusiasts, academics and students.

Their pick of The Post was pretty surprising to most but in hindsight makes a certain amount of sense with the group partly consisting of academics and historians.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

Her genius was in the construction of a public identity of partial affiliation — a university - based historian who never wrote an academic dissertation, a former government official whose career in public service lasted less than two years, an overseer of the national testing program with no particular expertise in testing, and a champion of public school teachers who has never taught in a public school.

In its editorial, the Journal Gazette team relied on historian Diane Ravitch's opinion as its sole source of evidence, quoting, «No voucher study anywhere has ever shown academic gains; not in Milwaukee, not in D.C., not in Cleveland.&raquIn its editorial, the Journal Gazette team relied on historian Diane Ravitch's opinion as its sole source of evidence, quoting, «No voucher study anywhere has ever shown academic gains; not in Milwaukee, not in D.C., not in Cleveland.&raquin Milwaukee, not in D.C., not in Cleveland.&raquin D.C., not in Cleveland.&raquin Cleveland.»

It wasn't until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy's heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence - in the form of obscure retellings of the «Manic Miner» folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long - obsolete machines - that the whole truth was finally revealed.»

Despite contemporary and localizing references in The Little Patriots, such as the dome of the Pantheon in the background or the paving - stone barricade to the left, the pall of the academic poncif hangs heavier over the painting than the smoke of revolutionary fervor; one is made all too aware, in the pose of the little patriot in the center — reminiscent of that of Donatello's David, and so appropriate in its iconographic implications — that Jeanron was an art historian as well as an artist.

Examples from Rythm Master were featured in light - box displays in «Mastry,» the artist's retrospective (2015 - 2017); the series inspired «Above the Line,» a hand - painted mural installed along the High Line, the elevated park in New York City (2015 - 2016); and was the subject of an academic paper by art historian and curator Ellen Tani, delivered in 2016 at the Black Portraiture [s] III conference in Johannesburg.

The style of Gérome's oriental works, realistic in content and classicizing in technique, is often described as «academic realism» or «Academism» and thus provide great documentary value to historians.

In line with this academic bent, The Phillips hosted a public symposium with two of the exhibition curators Elsa Smithgall and Erica Hirshler, John Davis of the Terra Foundation, and art historians Isabel Taube and Fred Baker.

Next to his artistic practice, he has also been developing the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (CTRS) since 2013, a (fictional) institution which conducts «studies» on a (lost) territory in the Dutch East Indies called Tanah Runcuk, involving historians, anthropologists, fellow artists, and academics.

As an art historian that primarily researches in Latin America, I, like many colleagues, am highly anticipating the arrival of the second edition of PST, as it presents an important moment to take stock of the state of our academic field as it is made visible in museums across the city.

Etienne Wynants (Art historian, managing editor of art publication the Witte Raaf, and business coordinator of the Etablissement d'en face in Brussels) Hans Theys (Art critic and curator, author of more than 30 books on Contemporary art, lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp and Ghent) Sam Steverlynck (Art critic for publications such as De Standaard, H ART, Damn magazine, and Artsland; curator of the exhibition «A Simple Plan» in a private villa designed by Stéphane Beel) Liesbeth Huybrechts (Author, researcher on topics such as digital media, lecturer for various academic art institutes such as LUCA and Mondriaan Foundation) Hans De Wolf (Art historian, professor, author of numerous publications on contemporary art, distinguished specialist on Marchel Duchamp) Pierre - Yves Desaive (Art historian and critic specializing in contemporary art, curator at the Musuem of Royal Arts, Brussels) Eric Rinckhout (Art, architecture, and literature writer for De Morgen; author of three books on Willem Elsschot)

In an attempt to better understand the period's ambitions and anxieties, Brannon storyboards and stages, not as a historian, academic or politician, but obliquely (in the sense of Derrida) as an artisIn an attempt to better understand the period's ambitions and anxieties, Brannon storyboards and stages, not as a historian, academic or politician, but obliquely (in the sense of Derrida) as an artisin the sense of Derrida) as an artist.

While art historians, archeologists, sociologists and other academics ponder whether there are such things as universal aesthetics and meanings, New York artist Matthew Craven digs up images from diverse cultures in order to reveal pervasive themes, symbols and forms...

Designed to be «high level» these Institutes were to attract faculty who were otherwise respected professionals in the law library community, leading scholars, academics, authors, think tank specialists, futurists, philosophers, jurists, lawyers and historians.

Mr von der Dunk, an architectural historian, well known for his sometimes rather confronting publications in Dutch academic circles and newspaper articles, held a highly original speech, tracing the history of the Peace Palace from its origins, referring to the Roman Empire, the League of Nations, the Korean war, right to the problems of modern times.

A Historian typically works in the academic field and researches and records facts about the past, often focusing on a specific subject or time period.