AU History - Faculty Info


	Philip J. Stern Assistant Professor PhD, Columbia University Battelle 131 stern@american.edu 202-885-2418 Office Hours: Tues. 3:30-6pm, Wed. 2:30-5pm Curriculum Vitae Course Syllabi Spring 2008 HIS 222 History of Britain II HIS 637 Graduate Seminar: Britain and Indian, 1600-1947 Fall 2007 HIS 221 The History of Britain I HIS 296 Naval Gazing: Seas and Oceans in World History Fields of Interest Britain and British Empire, Mughal and British South Asia, history of exploration and cartography, theories of imperialism Professor Stern’s publications include “Rescuing the Age from a Charge of Ignorance: Gentility, Knowledge, and the British Exploration of Africa in the Later Eighteenth Century,” in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840, and the prize-winning “Not Withstanding the Efforts of the Ancients and the Wishes of the Moderns: the Authority of Cartography in the Origins of the Modern British Exploration of Africa,” in The Portolan. Stern’s current research interests include the East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and nineteenth-century British exploration of Africa

Philip J. Stern