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Bruce Thompson

Bruce Thompson   
Bruce Thompson
    Title:  Lecturer
    Type:  Lecturer
    Concentration:  Europe
    Email:  brucet@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3467 Office
(831) 459-2555 Message
    Office:  276 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:30-4:00pm

Courses Taught 
HIS-155-01 - History of Modern Israel
HIS-178C-01 - European Intellectual History
HIS-178E-01 - Modern Jewish Intellectual History
HIS-196E-01 - Modern Irish History
HIS-74-01 - Introduction to Modern Jewsih History
HIS-75-01 - Film and the Holocaust
HIS-80K-01 - Spies: History and Culture of Espionage

Research Focus 
European intellectual and cultural history, French history, American Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage

Education History 
Ph.D., Stanford University

Selected Publications 
The Literal Imagination: Selected Essays by Ian Watt Palo Alto: SPOSS, 2003

Entries in Reader's Guide to British History: "Burke, Edmund," "Fiction—Romantic Era," "Drama—1914-present"; "Painting—Holbein to Hogarth"; "Painting—Gainsborough to Sickert" London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003

"Restoring the Rhine: Salmon 2000," in History in Dispute: Global Water Issues Since 1945, Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc./Manly, 2001

Critical History: The Career of Ian Watt, Stanford Humanities Review (co-editor) Palo Alto: SPOSS, 2000

Entries in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing: "Jerome Blum" (pp. 96-97), "Robert Brenner" (pp. 124-125), "Felix Gilbert" (pp. 465-467), "Leszek Kolakowski" (pp. 652-653), "Garrett Mattingly" (pp. 785-786), "Barrington Moore" (pp. 835-836), "Simon Schama" (pp. 1057-1058), London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999

"Ernest Gellner and the Conditions of Liberty," Stanford Humanities Review, 5:2, pp. 287-290, 1997