Paul A. Fideler
Professional Title: Professor of History and Humanities
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
British Social Welfare; Victorian Britain; British Empire; Modern European and World History; Political Philosophy; World Religions; Historiography
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: History and Humanities Teaching and Research
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
History: Modern Europe from the French Revolution to the EU, Victorian Britain, Twentieth Century World History; Modern India; Modern South Africa; Historiography; Humanities: Western and Non-Western Philosophy; World Religions; Political Philosophy; Postmodern Historiography and Literary Criticism
Education: BA, St. Lawrence University; MA, PhD, Brandeis University; American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
Books:
- Political Thought and the Tudor Commonwealth (Routledge, 1992)
- Social Welfare in Pre-Industrial England (Palgrave, 2006).
Articles and Reviews have appeared in:
- Change Magazine
- Lesley Magazine
- Societas
- Albion
- Journal of British Studies
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Making History: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing
- ACLS Occasional Paper 23
- The Historian
- Sixteenth Century Journal
Fun Facts: I am a bicyclist, a daily stretcher and moderate weight lifter, and an avid consumer of Classical music, theatre, films, and lectures in Cambridge-Boston.
My courses are conceptually interdisciplinary, including not only history and the humanities, but the natural and social sciences, as well.