University of New England

Paul Burlin
Professor 
Ph.D., Rutgers University, American History
A.B., Heidelberg College, Philosophy

Office: Decary126
Phone: (207) 602-2238
Email: pburlin@une.edu
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Professor Burlin’s specialty is 19th-century American diplomatic history. He has published a number of articles in this area and has completed a book titled Imperial Maine and Hawai'i: Interpretative Essays in the History of Nineteenth Century American Expansion  that traces connections between Maine and Hawai’i as a way to explore large issues related to American imperialism in the 19th century. He also has an interest in the perceptions and insights “foreigners” have about U.S. history, culture and society. He is particularly interested in Brazilian observations about the United States. In addition, he has an interest in questions dealing with contemporary American culture.

Elizabeth De Wolfe
Chair, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston University, American and New England Studies
MA, SUNY at Albany, Anthropology
AB, Colgate University, Social Science

Office: Marcil Hall 307
Phone: (207) 602-2322
Email: edewolfe@une.edu
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Professor De Wolfe's scholarly interests include American communal groups, popular print culture, and 19th-century women's history. Her current research examines the 1849 death of a Maine mill girl and the fictionalized accounts that described her life and tragic death. This work, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, is forthcoming (2007) from the Kent State University Press. Her previous book, Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (Palgrave 2002), combined Dr. DeWolfe's scholarly interests in women's history and communal societies in exploring the life and antebellum anti-Shaker campaign of Mary M. Dyer of New Hampshire. Shaking the Faith was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2003 "Outstanding Publication Award" for the best new work in the field of communal studies. In addition to articles on anti-Shaker activities published in Religion and American Culture, Communal Societies, and in two anthologies Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture (Purdue Univ. Press, 1999) and Intentional Communities: An Anthropological Perspective (SUNY Press, 2001), De Wolfe is also the co-editor (with Thomas S. Edwards) of Such News of the Land: American Women Nature Writers (Univ. Press of New England, 2000).

Theodore DiPadova
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., City University of New York, European History
M.A., Brooklyn College of the City of New York, History
B.A., The College of Wooster, History with minor in French
Office: Marcil Hall 306
Phone: (207) 602-2223
Email: tdipadova@une.edu

After completing his doctorate in European history, teaching a variety courses in his field and publishing articles on the French Revolution, Professor DiPadova served a 26-year career in academic administration and leadership. He has been an associate dean and then dean of graduate studies at three different institutions. He has worked at the University of New England since 1993, first as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and then, for three years, as interim vice president for academic affairs. Since returning to the classroom, Professor DiPadova has been teaching Human Traditions and various courses in the field of European history.

Professor DiPadova's scholarship has focused on the French Revolution. His early work on the views of the Girondin faction in the French National Convention aroused a productive debate in French Historical Studies, one of the leading journals in his field. More recently, Professor DiPadova has pursued a growing interest in world history and culture as they relate to UNE's core course, Human Traditions, and he continues his interest in European history and France.

Dr DiPadova enjoys teaching at UNE because of the courses and the students. Courses such as Human Traditions are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, enabling the teacher as well as the students to explore ideas well beyond the immediate boundaries of history. Dr. DiPadova finds his students at UNE to be both diverse in their interests and personally very nice people.

Jeffrey C. Sanders
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, History
M.A., Boston University, History
B.A., University of Washington, History and Comparative History of Ideas
Office: Marcil Hall 308
Phone: 207-288-2238
Email: jcsanders@une.edu
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Professor Sanders specializes in the study of U.S. social and cultural history, environmental history, and the history of the U.S. West. His teaching emphasizes the dynamic between distinct places, landscapes, and communities and the broader forces of change over time in the US and World history. His recent scholarly work focuses on the development of the post-World War II environmental movement in the context of rapid suburbanization, the “urban crisis,” and the 1960s counterculture in the United States. His dissertation, Inventing Ecotopia: Nature, Culture, and Urbanism in Seattle, 1960-2000, won the Institute for Pacific Northwest History Dissertation Prize for 2006. He is currently revising a manuscript that explores how different urban actors debated the meaning of public space, nature, and “sustainability” in Seattle after 1960.

Recent projects include McClellan Park: The Life and Death of an Urban Green Space (Albuquerque Museum Press, 2004) and forthcoming essays “Building an Urban Homestead” in the series “Studies in International Environmental History” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) in conjunction with the German Historical Institute, and “Madonna on the Road: Public Art, Memory, and Mobility in 1920s New Mexico,” ed. Amy Scott, in City Dreams and Street Scenes (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2007).

Ariel Yablon
Assistant Professor, History
Office: Marcil 310
Phone: (207) 602-2310
Email: AYablon@une.edu
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Professor Ariel Yablon’s specialty is late 19th century Latin American political history, with an emphasis on Argentina. Currently, he is researching the connections between the perception of political corruption and democratic legitimacy in modern Argentina. In addition, he is interested in intellectual and cultural histories, particularly regarding the ways Latin Americans viewed the Western world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the consequences of borrowing ideas and developmental models from Western Europe and the United States.

Dr. Yablon has published several articles on Argentina’s cultural history, particularly on the ways cinema and literature shaped national identities during the 20th century. At the moment, he is preparing articles on the connections between clientelism, corruption, and the formation of the Argentine state during the 1880s.


Affiliated Faculty

Ali Ahmida
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, Political Science
M.A., University of Washington, Political Science

Office: Marcil Hall
Phone: (207) 602-2804
Email: aahmida@une.edu
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