University of Michigan - Flint

Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1988; M.A., University of Hawaii, 1978; B.A., University of Hawaii, 1976.

Field:
East Asia; Japan

Research Interests:
Modern Japan; Asian economic history.

Representative Publications:

• Thomas William Kinder and The Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875. Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 1999.
• “In the Midst of Western Imperialism: Japanese-Hawaiian Relations during the Mid-nineteenth Century,” Study of Economic History, 3 (1999): 143-167.
• “The Japanese Imperial Mint and the Issue of Jurisdiction Over Foreign Employees, 1869-1875,” Journal of Asian History, 30 (1996): 1-26.
• “Nagasaki beki-keibi ni kansuru ichi shiry [A Source Concerning the Nagasaki Trade and Defense]," Seinan chiikishi kenKysh [Southwestern Area Historical Review], vol. 5. Edited by Hidemura Senz. Kyoto: Shibunkaku shuppan, 1988: 353-401.

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okuma@umflint.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1974; M.A., Michigan State University, 1968; B.A. Michigan State University 1967.

Field:
Modern America

Research Interests:
Michigan history; Sports history; American Indians and the American West; Political History.

Representative Publications:

• Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State. Co-author Lawrence E. Ziewacz. Harlan Davidson, 2007 (Fourth Edition) 
• "Chicago in the World Series: The Cubs and White Sox in Championship Play, 1903-2005". McFarland & Co., 2006
• "George Armstrong Custer," Great Lives From History (Salem Press, 1987).
• "To Destroy a Culture: Indian Education in Michigan," Michigan History, Summer 1976.

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rubenste@umflint.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994; M.A., University of Michigan, 1982; B.A., University of Michigan, 1979.

Field:
Modern Southwest Asia and North Africa; Islamic Civilization; World History.

Research Interests:
Muslim/non-Muslim Relations; Ottoman Empire; Historiography of World History.

Representative Publications:

• Introduction to, and translation of a chapter from, Abd-al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, “Umm al-Qura,” in al-Amal al-Kamila lil-Kawakibi ( Beirut: Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-Arabiyya, 1995), pp. 358-367, as “Summary of the Causes of Stagnation” in Charles Kurzman, ed., Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Source Book, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 152-157.
• “Some Socio-Economic Observations on the Relationship Between the Mountain and the Coast in Early 17th Century Ottoman Syria.” In The Mamluks and the Early Ottoman Period in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archeology. Proceedings of ARAM’s 10th International Conference, American University, Beirut. Edited by the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. Vol. 9-10 (1997-1998): 419-430.
• “Ethnocentric and Stereotypical Concepts in the Study of Islamic and World History,” The History Teacher, Vol. 32, No. 4 ( August 1999): 473-494.
• “Namik Kemal’s Constitutional Ottomanism and Non-Muslims,” Journal of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, Vol. 10, No.1 (March 1999): 23-39.

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jygr@umflint.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, 1985; B.A., History and French, Dominican University of San Rafael, CA, 1967.

Field:
East Central Europe; Poland

Research Interests:
Modern Poland; Jewish civilization in Polish lands

Representative Publications:

• Regions of the Great Heresy. A Biographical Portrait of Bruno Schulz by Jerzy Ficowski (W.W. Norton, 2003). Editor and translator.
• “Jerzy Ficowski”; “Jadwiga Maurer,” in Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work, 2 vols., ed. By S. Lillian Kremer, (New York: Routledge, 2002).
• “Imagery and History in the Stories of Bruno Schulz. The Motif of the Railroad,” in Czytanie Schulza [Reading Schulz], ed. Jerzy Jarzebski (Cracow: TIC, 1994).

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teddyrob@umflint.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., Boston College, 1997; M.A., University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1995; B.S. Eastern Michigan University, 1990.

Field:
Western Europe; British Isles and Empire

Research Interests:
Nationalism and national identity in the British Isles; Modern Wales and Ireland

Representative Publications:

• Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
• “Celt versus Teuton; Race, Character and British National Identity, 1850-1914,” in Pol O’Dochartaigh, ed., Yearbook for the Centre of Irish-German Studies 2002. Limerick: University of Limerick, 2003.
• “The Degenerate and the Martyr: Nationalist Propaganda and the Contestation of Irishness, 1914-1918,” Eire-Ireland (Fall/Winter 2001): 7-33.
• “The ‘Methods of Barbarism’ and the ‘Rights of Small Nations’; War Propaganda and British Pluralism,” Albion 30, 1 (Spring 1998): 49-75.

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ellisjs@umflint.edu

STUDENT RESOURCES:
Map 9.1 Early Expansion of Muslim Rule
Map 10.4 The Crusades
Map 17.1 The Atlantic World
Map 28.2 Cold War
Map 30.2 GNP

Degrees:
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 2005; M.A., University of Maine- Orono, 1998; B.A., University at Buffalo, 1996.

Field:
The Early Republic and Antebellum America; the Atlantic World

Research Interests:
The Antebellum South; race, gender, and culture in American History

Representative Publications:

• “We Are All Brothers: Secret Fraternal Organizations and the Transformation of White Male Political Culture in Antebellum Virginia” (Ph.D. Diss., University at Buffalo, 2005)

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pfljack@umflint.edu

Degrees:
Post-Graduate- University of Virginia, International Center for Jefferson Studies. M.A., Oakland University; B.A. University of Michigan Flint.

Field:
Colonial America and the Young Republic, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Eras, the Progressive Era and American Military History

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greghav@umflint.edu

Dr. Mohamed Daassa
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daassa@umflint.edu

Dr. Michael B. Kassel
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mkassel@umflint.edu