John W. Boyer - "The University of Chicago: A History"

John W. Boyer will discuss The University of Chicago: A History.

Presented in Partnership with The Department of History at The University of Chicago 

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About the author: John W. Boyer, the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History, was reappointed to a sixth term as Dean of the College in 2017. He became Dean of the College in 1992.

During his tenure as Dean of the College, Boyer has broadened the College curriculum to include many new Core courses and new programs of advanced study, as well as strengthening the College's admissions program and establishing the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Boyer was also deeply involved in the founding of the University of Chicago Center in Paris. He has worked to create many new opportunities for College students involving foreign study, internships, and foreign language instruction; to broaden student research opportunities; to enhance the relationship of the College to the professional schools; to build three major on-campus facilities for residential life and to enhance faculty leadership of the College’s residential system; to strengthen programmatic and financial resources for student life; and to provide strong career advising programs for College students.

Boyer recently published The University of Chicago: A History with the University of Chicago Press in October 2015, which seeks to elucidate major themes in the institutional, curricular, and financial evolution of the University since its founding in 1890. His major work in progress is the Austria, 1867-1983 volume for the Oxford History of Modern Europe Series, which will provide a comprehensive interpretation of the political systems of Imperial and Republican Austria, set in the broader context of Central European history. In 2004 Boyer was awarded the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, by the Republic of Austria. He received the 2006 Austrian State Prize for Modern History. He is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2015, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire.

Boyer regularly teaches the history of European Civilization in the College, and courses on religion and politics in modern European history and on the history of the Habsburg Empire and modern Germany.

About the book: The University of Chicago: A History seeks to elucidate major themes in the institutional, curricular, and financial evolution of the University since its founding in 1890.