Augsburg College History Faculty Research

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Help Augsburg's history faculty bring their research to students in the classroom ...

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The History Faculty at Augsburg College is an amazing group of teacher-scholars.

While most of you are familiar with our award-winning teaching, our work as scholars leads to richer classroom experiences, opportunities for student-faculty collaborations, and publications that benefit a range of audiences, both popular and scholarly.

Here are a few examples of how it impacts our students:

  • Jacqueline deVries' research on the development of women's health care in the late 19th century benefited greatly from the research assistance of student Heidi Heller, who is now using portions of that research in her own honors thesis.
  • Phil Adamo had students in his medieval church course read and critique his book on the medieval church in draft form. They made suggestions that eventually helped improve the final book. Two students, Aidan Nancarrow and Andrew Fox, even researched and created a primary source website for the book. 
  • Michael Lansing teaches his senior seminar about the Non-Partisan League, the topic of his forthcoming book. Students learn about this important political movement in history, while their insights have impacted Michael’s work on the topic.
These kinds of experiences are rare in undergraduate programs, but not at Augsburg. Our students benefit, not only from the new knowledge we create and bring into our classroom lectures, but also from the “apprenticeship” they get when we involve them in our research.

But that research does not come cheaply. For example:

  • Bill Green was asked to pay $1500 to create an index for his new book on civil rights during the second half of the nineteenth century.
  • Maheen Zaman, a Ph.D. from Columbia and the newest member of our department, needs to travel to archives across Asia for research on his forthcoming book. Travel costs alone will run in excess of $5000.
  • Phil Adamo’s publisher, the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, asked for a subvention fee of $7000 to publish his book on medieval monks.
Of course, the college has some research support, but this is spread across the entire faculty. And our own salaries cannot cover these extraordinary expenses, like indexing and subvention fees, not to mention the cost of travel to faraway archives, as we try to research the history of the world and bring that research to our students and the broader public.

Please support Augsburg history faculty in their research, so that our students and the wider community can continue to benefit from our work. A donation to the Augsburg History Faculty Research Fund, at the levels listed to right, will help us reach our goal. We appreciate your generosity and support.




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