Dr. Jodi Campbell Associate Professor of History Reed Hall 306 TCU Box 297260 (817) 257-6616 j.campbell@tcu.edu Spring 2008 office hours: MWF 9-10, TR 9-11 & by appt.

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Spring 2008

HIST 10213, The World Expanded: Europe 1348-1789
·    MWF 10:00-10:50

HIST 49973, History Major Seminar: Europe
·    TR 2:00-3:20

Fall 2008 (proposed)

HIST 20203, Origins of Western Civilization: Europe to 1348 (Honors)

HIST 30953, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

Students registered for these courses will have access to more information through the eCollege course companion at www.tcuglobal.edu.


There is a vast difference between "the past" and "history."  The past is what really happened.  History is what people, professional and non-professional alike, say happened.  And, if history is one of the building blocks of our personal and national identity and perspective, it always offers something of a skewed perspective of ourselves.  History is a memory of the past.  And, like memory, some of the past is lost; some is ignored; some is deliberately buried; some is incompletely remembered; some of it reflects more of the present than of the past; some is read into; some is distorted when remembered... History views and shapes the past in its own image.   --  Louis Schmier

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The courses I teach include:

          ·    HIST 10203, Origins of Western Civilization:  Europe to 1348
          ·    HIST 20203, Origins of Western Civilization:  Europe to 1348 (Honors)
          ·    HIST 10213, The World Expanded:  Europe 1348-1789
          ·    HIST 20213, The World Expanded:  Europe 1348-1789 (Honors)
          ·    HIST 30203, The Renaissance (fall 2007)
          ·    HIST 30243, History of Spain to 1830
          ·    HIST 30xx0, Popular Culture of Early Modern Europe (fall 2008)
          ·    HIST 30970, Special Topics: Spanish Civil War
          ·    HIST 49973, History Major Seminar: Europe
          ·    HIST 70303, Seminar:  Readings in Early Modern Europe
          ·    HIST 70403, Seminar:  Readings in Modern Europe

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My research interests center on the politics and culture of early modern Spain, including Golden Age theater, representations of royal power, and criminality.  My book Monarchy, Political Culture and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid:  Theater of Negotiation was published in 2006 by Ashgate.  I am currently editing, with Doug Catterall, an essay collection entitled Women in Port:  Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800, and beginning a research project on representations of faces in early modern Spain.

You can see my CV here.

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Links of interest:

The Guernica Project, commemorating the 70^th anniversary (in April, 2007) of the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica

History News Network

Cronaca

Why Become A Historian?

Why Study History?

The History Major and the Liberal Arts

The American Historical Association

The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

H-Net:  Humanities and Social Sciences Online

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