Western Civilizations - Combined Volume

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Carol Symes is University Scholar, Dean's Professorial Scholar, and Professor of History, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She received the Ph.D from Harvard and became a member of Actors' Equity in 1999; she also holds a B.A. from Yale, an M.Litt from Oxford, and a Certificate in Stage Combat from the Society of British Fight Directors (earned during professional training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School). Her first book, *A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras* (Cornell University Press, 2007), has been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association, the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Bevington Prize of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Fundamentally, her research focuses on the history of communication and transmission: the means by which people in the past exchanged ideas and information, and the processes by which artifacts and understandings of the past are transmitted to future generations. Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and his B.A. from Brown University in 1983. His research and teaching deal primarily with the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and he has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. He is the winner of several book awards, including the J. Russell Major Prize from the American Historical Association, the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial History Society, and a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council. Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author