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Welcome to the Web Page of... Carole Elizabeth Adams, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies
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About Dr. Adams:
Dr. Adams has been at UCF since 1994, when she joined the faculty to become the Director of Women's Studies, where she remained for three years. Since that time, she has been a member of the History Department, teaching both history and Women's Studies. Before moving to Florida, Dr. Adams lived in Sydney, Australia, where she taught in similar fields and helped to set up, and directed, the Women's Studies Program. She has also lived in Germany for a number of years, including a year of high school in which she was an exchange student.
Teaching:
For Dr. Adams, teaching is both a way to pass on knowledge and a way to help students learn skills of critical thinking and analysis, which are essential to attaining NEW knowledge. She enjoys both classroom and online teaching; in both, student participation, discussion, and involvement are central.
Teaching fields for Dr. Adams include medieval through modern Europe, modern Germany, history of science, and women's history.
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To see some of Dr. Adams's courses, visit the sites below: |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~euh2000 | Western Civilization I (prehistory to 1600) |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~euh2001 | Western Civ II (1600-1950) |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~euh3142 | Renaissance and Reformation History |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~euh4610 | Women in European Society |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~his3462 | A History of Science |
| http://reach.ucf.edu/~wst3015 | Introduction to Women's Studies |
Research:
Dr. Adams is the author of Women Clerks in Wilhelmine Germany: Issues of Class and Gender. Her research has included the areas of First Wave women's movements, women's work, German social and political change before World War I, and social and political policy. She is currently undertaking research on feminist biography and is writing a biography of Julia Dent Grant, who was married to general and president Ulysses S. Grant.
Educational Background:
| Ph.D. 1984 | Harvard University History Department |
| non-degree | Ludwigs University, Munich, Germany |
| non-degree | Free University, Berlin |
| B.A. 1968 | Radcliffe College, Harvard University Program on History and Science |
| -magna cum laude -elected to Phi Beta Kappa |