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Ellen Wurtzel

Assistant Professor at Oberlin College — History

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Disciplines

Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, Law and Society, and Urban Studies

Departments

Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Law and Society

Degrees

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007
M.Phil., Columbia University, 2000
M.A., Columbia University, 1998
M.S., Bank Street College of Education, 1995
B.A., Duke University, 1992

Geographic Expertise

Time Periods

1000 - 1700

Thematic Interests

Languages

French Advanced

Courses Taught

These are the regularly taught courses tracked by ObieMAPS that Ellen has taught.

Course	Listings	Semesters
Heretics and Infidels: Muslims, Christians, Jews and the Legacy of the Middle Ages	First-Year Seminar Program 089	Fall 2014
History Senior Projects	History 500	Spring 2015 and Fall 2015
Medieval and Early Modern European History	History 101	Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, and Fall 2015
Of Miracles and Microscopes: A History of Science from 1200-1800	History 208	Spring 2014 and Spring 2015
Possession and Property in Medieval Europe	History 303	Fall 2010 and Spring 2012
Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World	History 335	Spring 2015
The City in Europe, 1100-1789	History 209	Spring 2010, Spring 2011, and Spring 2012
The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe	History 456	Spring 2014

Related faculty/staff members

The City in Europe, 1100-1789

Course

Listed As	History 209
Taught By	Ellen Wurtzel
Areas Covered	Europe
Time Periods	1100 - 1789
Themes	Capitalism Cities European History Political Reform Popular Protest Urbanization

Medieval and Early Modern European History

Course

Listed As	History 101
Taught By	Joseph Reidy Daniel Wasserman Ellen Wurtzel
Areas Covered	Europe
Time Periods	450 B.C. - 1700 A.D.
Themes	Christianity Early Modern Europe European History Italian Renaissance Medieval Europe Protestant Reformation Scientific Revolution Secular Monarchies Urbanization

The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Course

Listed As	History 456
Taught By	Ellen Wurtzel
Areas Covered	Europe
Time Periods	1000 - 1700
Themes	Early Modern Europe Gender Gender And Sexuality Gender Studies Medieval Europe Medieval Society

Joseph Reidy

Faculty/staff member

Departments	History
Courses Taught	Byzantine History Crusade Historiography Food and Drink in History Medieval and Early Modern European History Medieval Historical Method
Geographic Expertise	Europe
Time Periods	284 - 1600
Languages	French (Basic) German (Basic) Greek, Ancient (Intermediate) Latin (Intermediate)
Thematic Interests	Byzantine Empire Crusades Heresy And Social Dissent Mediterranean World

Readings in 20th Century Urban History

Course

Listed As	History 479
Taught By	Annemarie Sammartino
Areas Covered	Europe United States
Time Periods	1900 - 2000
Themes	Commemoration Gentrification Immigration Modernism Suburbanization Urban History Urbanism Urban Planning

Annemarie Sammartino

Faculty/staff member

Departments	First-Year Seminar Program Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies History Russian and East European Studies
Courses Taught	Europe 1945-Present Everyday Life Existentialsm in European Hist Fascism Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle Gender in Modern Europe Marx and Marxism Modern European History Modern Germany and Eastern Europe, 1848-1989 Politics and Culture in the Weimar Republic/Politik und Kultur in der Weimarer Republik Readings in 20th Century Urban History Senior Honors
Geographic Expertise	Eastern Europe Northern Europe Southern Europe Western Europe Czech Republic Germany Hungary Poland Romania Slovakia
Time Periods	1789 - 2000
Languages	French (Advanced) German (Native speaker)
Thematic Interests	Asylum Policy Built Environment Citizenship Human Migration Social Engineering Transnational History Urban Communities Utopianism World War I

Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World

Course

Listed As	History 335
Taught By	Ellen Wurtzel
Areas Covered	Europe
Time Periods	1050 - 1450

Modern European Theater

Study away program

Provided By	British American Drama Academy
Hosted By	Sarah Lawrence College
Locations	Europe Northern Europe United Kingdom London, United Kingdom
Languages	English
Themes	British Drama Costume Design Directing Dramatic Criticism Irish Drama Playwriting Theater Theater And Society

Europe’s Crisis of Modernity, 1871-1914

Course

Listed As	History 203
Taught By	Rebecca Mitchell
Areas Covered	Europe
Time Periods	1871 - 1914
Themes	Interdisciplinarity Modernity Philosophy Urbanism

Leonard V. Smith

Faculty/staff member

Departments	History
Courses Taught	International Relations Theory for Historians Modern European History The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World World War II and the Making of the 20th Century
Geographic Expertise	France
Time Periods	1789 - 2012
Languages	French (Advanced)
Thematic Interests	French Colonialism French Revolution Modern Europe World War I