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CATEGORY: History
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Dan Cohen
Director, Center for History and New Media; Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History
Expertise: Digital History, Archiving, New Media, Open-source software, History of Science, Intersection of History and Computing
Cohen is the co-writer of "Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and author of "Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). He has published articles and book chapters on the history of mathematics and religion, the teaching of history, and the future of history in a digital age in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Rethinking History. He is an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship.
At the Center for History and New Media he has co-directed, among other projects, the September 11 Digital Archive and Echo, and have developed software for scholars, teachers, and students, including the popular Zotero research tool.
He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton, master's from Harvard, and doctorate from Yale.
Media Contact: Tara Laskowski, 703-993-8815, tlaskows@gmu.edu
Martin Sherwin
Professor of History and Art History
Expertise: History of Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Strategy, World War II
Sherwin's most recent book, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (A. A. Knopf, 2005), cowritten with Kai Bird, was the recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer in the biography category. His first book, "A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance" (Vintage Books, 1977), was the runner up for the 1976 Pulitzer. Sherwin’s scholarship explores the development of nuclear weapons in the United States and the Soviet Union. In particular, his scholarship on nuclear strategy is relevant considering the state of contemporary world affairs.
Media Contact: Tara Laskowski, 703-993-8815, tlaskows@gmu.edu
Richard Norton Smith
Scholar-in-Residence of History and Public Policy
Expertise: Presidential history, presidential libraries
Smith is a presidential historian and former head of six presidential libraries. He can discuss presidential trivia, trends and movements in presidential history, past elections, and most anything and everything related to the presidency.
He has published numerous books, including “An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover” (1984), “The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation” (1986) and “Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation” (1993). His book, “Thomas E. Dewey and His Times,” was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize.
Between 1987 and 2003, Smith served as director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center in Abilene, Kan.; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the Reagan Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, Calif.; the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Library in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor, Mich., respectively; and Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
He is a nationally recognized expert on the American presidency and appears regularly on C-Span and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” as part of the show's roundtable of historians.
Media Contact: Tara Laskowski, 703-993-8815, tlaskows@gmu.edu
Jeffrey Stewart
Professor of History and Art History
Expertise: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, African American Studies
Distinguished historian Jeffrey C. Stewart, recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship, received his PhD from Yale in 1979. He has served as director of research at the Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and director of African American Studies at Mason. Stewart's "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen" (Rutgers University Press, 1998) served as a companion to a traveling exhibition marking the centennial anniversary of Robeson's birth on April 9, 1898. The book brought together 18 scholars and historians for the most detailed and balanced look at Robeson to date. An associate fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, Stewart has written several other books, including "1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History" (Main Street Books, 1998). In 2003, he was a Fulbright professor of American intellectual history at the University of Rome III in Italy.
Media Contact: Tara Laskowski, 703-993-8815, tlaskows@gmu.edu