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UH History Professors Fishman and Buzzanco Recognized for Teaching Excellence
by Susan Kellogg, Department Chair
Posted: April 21, 2006
Sarah Fishman, Professor of History and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of CLASS, has been recognized with a University Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Fishman is the model of the active teaching scholar. Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard, she teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in modern European history, focusing especially on France, social history, and women s and gender history. She also teaches an excellent graduate historiography course. Her consistently strong classroom performance is symbolic of the History Department s teaching commitment and Dr. Fishman s own devotion. In addition to this fine teaching, she has served as Undergraduate Director and currently serves as the college s Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies. While in that position, she has continued to teach and do the same outstanding job. Dr. Fishman is also a well published scholar. Her books We Will Wait and The Battle for Children have both been published by Harvard University Press to excellent reviews. She is currently working on two projects, a book about recent French family history and a textbook on French history.
Professor Robert Buzzanco has received the University s Distance Education Teaching Award. A highly respected and well published scholar in the field of American foreign relations, Professor Buzzanco is known in and beyond the History Department as a dedicated teacher. Regularly teaching the U.S. history survey, through the large sections he teaches he is well known among undergraduate students. He also teaches a variety of on-campus upper division and graduate courses in his particular areas of expertise, especially the history of the Vietnam War, 1960s America, and U.S. foreign policy. Five years ago, Dr. Buzzanco decided he wanted to bring that expertise to a wider and different audience by offering his Vietnam War class (HIST 3322) as an ITV course. He believed that Distance Education could serve as a vehicle for him to stress the themes, readings, and ideas about U.S. history that most interest him. This he has done energetically in the years since, and a very large number of students have benefited. In addition, after 9/11, he developed a new Distance Education course, War, Globalization and Terror (HIST 3394) that, again, he has taught to large numbers of students. Professor Buzzanco is never one to be shy about expressing his opinion; whether students agree or disagree, they never fail to view his classes without being challenged and without having the opportunity to think about his lectures and the many supplementary materials he has invested an enormous amount of time in putting together. He excels at every type of teaching, and the amount of time he puts into preparing course materials and working with students is impressive. As Dr. Buzzanco s ITV teaching suggests, he remains willing to try new modes of course delivery.
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