Bard, A Place to Think - Master of Arts in Teaching

Faculty

Wendy Urban-Mead

History Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Program

Phone: 845-758-7144 * E-mail: wum@bard.edu

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University at Albany; Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include African history, with emphasis on southern Africa; European imperialism; history of Christianity in Africa; religion and gender. Taught secondary school social studies for five years in Red Hook and Arlington, New York, school districts. Member, American Historical Association, African Studies Association, Coordinating Council of Women Historians. Awards: German Academic Exchange Service Grant (1984 85), Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1995 2000), Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Grant (1999). Editorial board, Le Fait Missionaire (Lausanne, Switzerland). Articles in Le Fait Missionaire, Women's History Review, and Women in African Colonial Histories (Indiana University Press, 2002).