History of modern Europe — France and the Third Republic — Poverty and social welfare — Industrialization — Gender — Philanthropy

Steven M. Beaudoin
Paul L. Cantrell Associate Professor of History
B.A., Bates College; M.A., University of Maine; M.A., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
859-238-5756
steve.beaudoin@centre.edu

Has published on the development of the European welfare state, charity in Third Republic France, the industrial revolution, poverty in world history, and the history of childhood and gender socialization. In addition, teaches classes on modern China, world history, modern Europe, industrialization, and gender in Europe and the United States.

The former Soviet Union — Russia — Ukraine — Conflict in the Balkans — History of Europe

Michael F. Hamm
Ewing T. Boles Professor of History
B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
859-238-5264
michael.hamm@centre.edu

Scholarly expert on the history of eastern Europe. Author of Kiev: A Portrait 1800-1917, editor of The City in Russian History, and editor of The City in Late Imperial Russia. Guest editor of a special issue of Nationalities Papers on Moldova. Guest lecturer in Kazakstan on American politics and culture during the fall of 1995. Research grants in the Soviet Union (Fulbright and IREX). Has taken Centre students on travel-study programs to Eastern Europe on five occasions.

British Civil War — Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Amos Tubb
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California
859-238-5261
amos.tubb@centre.edu

Research interests include the British Civil War and the Commonwealth. Published such articles as Printing the Regicide of Charles I and Mixed Messages: Royalist Newsbook Reports of Charles I’s Execution and the Leveller Uprising.