Bruce A Thompson
| Title | Lecturer |
| Division | Humanities Division |
| Department | History Department, Literature Department |
| Affiliations | Jewish Studies |
| Phone | 831-459-3467 (office), 831-459-2555 (message) |
| FAX | 831-459-3334 |
| Office | 276 Stevenson College |
| Office Hours | Spring 2013: MWF @ 2:00-3:30 |
| Campus Mail Stop | Stevenson Academic Services |
| 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA |
Research Interests
European intellectual and cultural history, French history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage, environmental history.Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Stanford UniversitySelected Publications
Co-Editor, Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse, (University of Delaware Press, 2010)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
Co-Editor, Tact and Intelligence: Essays on Diplomatic History and International Relations by Gordon A. Craig
Co-Editor, Knowledge and Power: Essays on Politics, Culture, and War by Gordon A. Craig
Teaching Interests
European intellectual and cultural history, French history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage, environmental history.Courses Taught
HIS 70B, Modern European History, 1815-presentHIS 74, Introduction to Modern Jewish History
HIS 75, Film and the Holocaust
HIS 155, History of Modern Israel
HIS 170B, French History: The Nineteenth Century
HIS 174, Spies: History and Culture of Espionage
HIS 178C, European Intellectual History, 1870-1970
HIS 178E, Modern Jewish Intellectual History
HIS 196E, Modern Irish History
HIS 196F, European Environmental History
HIS 196N, Eastern European Jewish Social History
HIS 70A, Modern European History, 1450-1815
LTMO 144D Jewish Writers and the American City: New York
LTMO 144A Jewish Diaspora, Urbanism, Ethnicity