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Steven Mintz |
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| SMintz@uh.edu | ||
| (713) 743-3090 |
Currently serving as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication, Steven Mintz is a leading authority on the history of the American family. He has also written extensively on social reform, slavery, ethnicity, and popular film.
His goal as an education is to teach students to think "fourth-dimensionally": to understand that every aspect of life has a history, and that our very values, institutions, and identities are a product of historical processes. He is convinced that history, more than any other field, reveals human nature in its full complexity and has immense power to teach about the way that power, evil, yes, and idealism too, function in society.
A winner of the Cooper Teaching Excellence Award, the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication Master Teacher Award, and the UH Research Excellence Award, Mintz has been active in efforts to encourage interdisciplinary study and to incorporate new technologies into teaching and research. He is co-founder of the American Cultures Program, which seeks to treat the peoples and cultures of the Americas from a hemispheric perspective, and he moderates scholarly electronic discussion groups on slavery and film history.
His books include The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil War, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, Moralists & Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers, and A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture.