Lawrence J. Kazura

Special Scholarly Interests:

• Early American History (especially the period of earliest colonial settlements)
• Ancient American History (pre-Columbian)
• American Indian History (Avid collector of American Indian artifacts)
• United States environmental history
• History of the American West
• Religious History (especially the churches of the Anglican Communion and those of Eastern Orthodoxy)
• History of sexuality
• Educational travel (frequent travel to Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, places with a long and still visible history)

Courses Currently Taught:

HI 30: Europe and the World in Transition
HI 231: Jefferson's America, 1750 - 1850
HI 253: Colonial America, 1584 - 1750
HI 260: The Indian in American History
HI 331: Era of the American Revolution, 1763 - 1800
HI 362: The Frontier: Man, Nature and the American Land

Research:

• Field archaeological during two summers at 1619 Flowerdew Hundred in Tidewater Virgina.
• The visitation of a great many archaeological sites in the Americas

Education:

• Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan, 1958
• Queens College of the City University of New York. A.B. Summa Cum Laude, 1962. Admitted to Phi Beta Kappa there in junior year (1961)
• Clark University, Master of the Arts in History, 1966. Completed all doctoral course work (ABD)
• Graduate credit work from New York University in Anthropology and from the University of Virginia in Archaeology

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