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Dr. Joel Benson
Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Miami
University, 1987
- M.A., University
of Cincinnati, 1983
- B.A., Miami
University, 1977
Courses Taught
- American
Historical Survey
- European History From 1500 to the
Present
- English History to 1715
- Contemporary European History
- French History to 1789
- German History
Since 1648
- American Historical Survey
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Western Civilization I
- Comparative World Cultures
- History of Science and Technology
- Freshman Seminar
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- Humanities
- The Medieval World
- The Historian's Craft
- Nineteenth-Century
European History
- Tudor-Stuart
England
- Imperial
Britain
- The
Rise of Modern Nationalism
- American
Military History
- Early Modern Europe
- Western
Civilization II
- Research
Methods and Historiography
- England: From
Stonehenge to Versailles
- Senior
Seminar
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Academic Interest
- Tudor-Stuart England
- Anglo-Dutch
relations in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
- Modern Britain
- Early Modern and Modern
Europe
- Military History
Scholarly Activity
Paper
presented to the Missouri Conference on History
Springfield,
Missouri, 16-18 April 2009
"English
Perception of the Dutch and the Trade Depression of the 1620s"
Paper
presented to the National Social Science Association,
Fall
Professional Development Conference
San
Francisco, California, 4-6 October 2009
"New
Woolens - New Markets"
Paper
presented to the Missouri Conference on History
Kansas
City, Missouri, 14-15 April 2011
Elizabeth,
the Dutch, and Other Nonsuch"
Book: The Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
First Men, America's Presidents Series -
Barbara Bennett Peterson, Series
Editor.
Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova
Publishers, 2010.
Student Group Advisement
- I
serve as head of Graduate Studies for
the department.
Other Professional Experiences
- I
serve as a lay speaker for the Methodist Church.
