Barry Rothaus
Barry Rothaus |
Barry Rothaus, Director of the School of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, is a graduate of Hunter College (CUNY) and the University of Wisconsin (M.S. and Ph.D.) He is a tenured Professor of History at UNC and has served here for many years, twenty-four as Chair of the Department of History. In 2002, he was given a University award for Excellence in Academic Leadership. His major fields of research are the French Revolution and Napoleon, and the European Holocaust. He has co-edited a two-volume historical dictionary of the French Revolution, along with publishing articles in several journals dedicated to the Revolution. Among his other professional responsibilities was the editorship for a decade of the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. He has won grants from the American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Holocaust Educational Foundation for study at Yad Vashem in Israel, and the United States Holocaust Museum.
