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Timothy Walker

Professor

History

Contact

508-999-8970

508-999-8809

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Balsam Hall 9177

Teaching

Programs

Courses

Introduces students to historical method and perspective through comparative study of human societies and cultures. The concept of "civilization" is examined in varied contexts through comparisons of social, economic, and political institutions, as well as systems of thought and religion, from pre-history to around 1400.

Continuation of World Civilization; the study of World Civilizations from 1400 to the present.

Research

Research awards

  • $ 25,000 awarded by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation for Whaling Climate Logbooks Research Project

Research interests

  • Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, the Portuguese and their Empire
  • Maritime History and European Global Colonial Expansion
  • The Adoption of Colonial Indigenous Medicines by Europeans
  • Climate Data Derived from Colonial-Era Archival documentation
  • Slave Trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

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