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Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
Lisa Brooks is a historian, writer, and professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present.
Gross graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, and later earned an M.A from Columbia University in 1968, followed by a Ph.D. in 1976. He taught at Amherst College from 1976 to 1988, at the University of Sussex from 1981 to 1983, and the College of William and Mary from 1988 to 2003.
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for
Jen Manion is a social and cultural historian, author, and professor of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. [1] Manion is the author of Female Husbands: A Trans History and Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America.
Craig was born on November 15, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the Hawken School.A member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1937, and subsequently studied English at Harvard University receiving an M.A. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1947. [2]
Johnson holds degrees from Amherst College, [4] the University of Cambridge, and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in History under the direction of Professor Nell Irvin Painter in 1995. [citation needed]
Amherst College Martha Porter Saxton (September 3, 1945 – July 18, 2023) was an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who authored several prominent historical biographies.