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William L. Chew III, PhD

Full Professor, History
Associate Dean for External Relations

Tel. +32 2 626 14 14 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: wchew@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Modern Europe: 1848 to Present
  • Modern Europe: 1648 to 1848
  • Development of the Major Powers: 1815-1945
  • American History: Colonization to Cold War
  • History: Methods and Problems
  • Selected Topics in History: 1715 to 1815
  • Germany under National Socialism, 1933-1945

Education:
Universität Tübingen
PhD, History - 1986
Germany

Universität Tübingen
Staatsexamen - History and French - 1981
Germany

Research Interests:
  • Image Studies : Imagological research into French and American perceptions of each other in cultural and historical sources
  • Cultural history: American travelers in France during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era  

Select Publications:

“Life Before Fodor and Frommer? Yesteryear Americans in Paris from Jefferson to John Quincy Adams , French History 18 (Mar 2004) 25-49.

“Yankees Caught in the Crossfire: The Trials and Travails of Americans in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 32 (2003): 297-322.

"National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in France–Frenchmen in America." (Ed.) William L. Chew III. Rodopi Press: Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2001 (Studia Imagologica–Amsterdam Studies in Cultural Identity 9).

Languages:
English, German, French and Dutch

Nationality:

American and Belgian