Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Jonathan Marwil
1 Keppler Court
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103
(734) 662-7333
Born: February 1, 1940
Detroit, Michigan
Schooling
B.A. Brandeis University
M.A. Yale University
Ph.D. University of Michigan
1961 (History)
1965 (History)
1970 (History)
Military Service
U.S. Army 1963-64
Teaching Experience
English Department, Wayne State University: Instructor 1966-70; Asst. Prof. 1971-73
Humanities Department, College of Engineering, University of Michigan: Asst. Prof. 1973-79
History Department, University of Michigan: Asst. Prof. 1973-74; Lecturer, 1988-present
Residential College, University of Michigan: Adjunct Lecturer, Fall 1987
History Department, Oakland University: Visiting Lecturer Winter and Summer 1981;
Winter and Spring 1984
Liberal Arts Department, College for Creative Studies, Detroit: Adjunct Lecturer, 1988-2005
Courses Taught
Western Civilization
War & American Society in the 20th Century
Modern Europe
Tudor England
Historical Novel
Stuart England
Composition
Twentieth Century Europe
War Literature
World War I
Visions of the Past
History by Contemporaries (Thucydides to Trotsky)
Aesthetic Constructions of History
September 11
Publications
Books
The Trials of Counsel: Francis Bacon in 1621, Wayne State University Press, 1976
A History of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Observer Company, 1987; University of Michigan Press, 1990
Frederic Manning: An Unfinished Life, Angus & Robertson (Australia) and Duke University Press, 1988
Book in Progress – out to Publisher
Visitors to a War: Italy 1859
Articles
"Frederic Manning: A Retrospective and Introduction," St. Louis Literary Supplement, June/July 1977
"Combative Companions: Ezra Pound and Frederic Manning," Helix, Spring 1983
"Historians of Their Own Times," Syracuse Scholar, Spring 1985
"Paul Fussell's Wars," Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 1990
"A Lost Classic," American Scholar, Autumn 1991
"How We Remember the Good War," Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, December 1, 1991
"Reading the Wall," Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, November 8, 1992
"Sightings of an Immigrant," Michigan Jewish History, September 1997
"Soldiers' Stories," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1998
"Photography Claims War 1839-1859," History Today, June 2000
"In Mind of War," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005
"The New York Times Goes to War," History Today, June 2005
Reviews
The English People and the English Revolution, 1640-1649, by Brian Manning, Historian, August 1977
Wartime, by Milovan Djilas, St. Louis Literary Supplement, January/February 1978
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A London Life in the Brazen Age: Francis Langley, 1548-1602, by William Ingram, Michigan
Academician, Spring 1979
North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements, by D.B. Quinn, Terra Incognita, July 1979
Commonwealth to Protectorate, by Austin Woolrych, Historian, February 1984
We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of
War, by Lewis H. Carlson, Detroit News, May 14, 1997
Francis Bacon, by Perez Zagorin, Endeavour: A Quarterly Magazine for the History and Philosophy
of Science, March 1999
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture, by John A. Lynn, World War II, November 2004
The Seige of Venice, by Jonathan Keates, History Today, July 2006
Encyclopedia Contribution
"Charles Lindbergh," in Anti-semitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed.
Richard S. Levy, April 2005
” Anti-semitism, Accusations of”, in Anti-semitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and
Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy, April 2005
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