Sentences with phrase «leading historian»

He kept this emphasis when other leading historians of education, particularly Lawrence Cremin, turned their attention «to the many agencies that educate.»

The survey of leading historians rated Reagan number 11 in 2000.

Offering fascinating investigations into this crucial chapter in space history, this collection of specially commissioned essays from leading historians opens new vistas in our understanding of the development of planetary science.

Lauded by such leading historians of abstraction as Charles Estienne, Michel Ragon and Dora Vallier, and championed by dealers Denise René and Dina Vierny, Poliakoff drew the interest of many private collectors.

The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis, Ph.D., one of the nation's leading historians of African - American photography.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

One of our leading historians, whose studies of Victorian England are acclaimed as definitive, here applies her talents to an exercise in «contemporary history.»

The ambition to present a synoptic account of the multiple sixteenth - century movements for religious «reform,» Catholic and Protestant, has led some historians to search for a single interpretative framework for the reform impulse, to suggest that fundamental similarities underlay sixteenth - century religious reform wherever it occurred.

The evidences cited here are typical of the clues which have led historians to accept the theory that Islam came to Indonesia through Iran and the west coast of India.

A leading historian of the Christian church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he was also deeply involved in the advancement of science, as a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and president of what later came to be known as the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.

RM: You are known as a leading historian of political history and in particular the formation of ideas around human liberty.

One of England's most distinguished scholars, Quentin Skinner is a leading historian of political thought and an outstanding advocate of a contemporary republican viewpoint.

Janssen, a leading historian of Einstein and relativity, has selected this book as one of the «most important books that have appeared in the last decade or so bearing on Einstein and general relativity».

Soon after, the German atomic effort turned from bomb making to nuclear - reactor design, leading some historians to believe that Heisenberg helped maneuver the research toward more peaceful purposes.

Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education.

A leading historian of education and expert on education research, Lagemann led the Ed School through a period of transition and progress.

«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.

A leading historian of American education, Graham served as dean of the Ed School from 1982 through 1991.

In any case, according to Diane Ravitch, who is probably America's leading historian of education, vertical penmanship probably wasn't any worse than a lot of other panaceas offered since — particularly panaceas offered in recent times.

Leading historians have considered him either the last great master of European Surrealism or the great precursor of American Abstract Expressionism, or even as one of its innovators.

Dr. Willis is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, and was named one of the «100 Most Important People in Photography» by American Photography magazine.

Dr. Willis is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, and was named one -LSB-...]

To prove that it does, Chippendale's creatively secured the services of Rachel Shteir, the director of DePaul University's theater school and a leading historian of American burlesque theater.