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The History of Academic Departments–Call for Respondents

The History of Academic Departments

As part of an effort to bring attention to the history of academic departments and to develop the subject as a distinct area of historical inquiry, the three of us named below are seeking 1) to identify historians and others, with an eye on a future volume of essays or a special issue of a journal, who are currently writing or have written such histories and 2) to compile a bibliography of all book and article-length studies, both published and unpublished, written about specific academic departments.  If you can lead us to anyone who may be pursuing the subject or to any works relating to aspects of it, please respond to one of us via email.  We will be grateful for all assistance.

James M. Banner, Jr.              Andrew Jewett                        Jonathan Strassfeld

Washington DC                      Johns Hopkins University       Johns Hopkins University

[email protected]            [email protected]                     [email protected]

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