Recent professional activities by James Turner, Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus, History Department and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science

Author: Kelli Brown

James Turner

Publications:

“From Philology to the Humanities: Fragmentation and Discipline Formation in the United Kingdom and the United States,” in Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches, ed. Herman Paul (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 47-64.

“Discipline Formation and Research Training: Chicken or Egg?” in A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950, ed. Ku-ming Kevin Chang and Alan Rocke (History of Universities 34, no. 1 [2021]), 11-26.

Invited lectures:

Centennial Lecture, Texas Tech University, April 2023 (on the development of American higher education from late medieval Oxford and Cambridge to twentieth-century Lubbock).

Queen’s University Belfast, February 2021 (on the retreat of religion and rise of the humanities in American liberal education).

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