Curriculum Vitae: Ira Klein  

 

Personal Information: 

 

Ira Klein

4523 Fessenden Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20016

H: 202-686-4214; O: 885-2458

 

Education:                  

 

Ph.D. (1968); M.A. (1960); B.S. (1956), all from Columbia University;

Ph.D. dissertation: The Diplomacy of British Imperialism in Asia, 1880-1914.”

 

Employment:              

 

Editor, writer, Columbia University Press, 1960-64;

Lecturer, Queens College, CUNY, 1967-68;

Asst. Prof., American University, 1968-72;

            Assoc. Prof., American University, 1972-present.

 

Honors, Awards:         

 

     American University

 

Outstanding Teacher, College of Arts and Sciences, 1990-91, co-recipient;

Distinguished Service, National Golden Key Society, AU chapter, 1993.

Outstanding Service, Community Service Network, Student Life, AU, 1994;

Outstanding Service, Community Service Network, Student Life, AU, 1996.

Oustanding Service,  College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-01, co-recipient.

 

Publications:

 

Book:  

 

The Age of Great Kings, Western Press, N.Y., 1964 (popular history).

 

Book Chapters:           

 

1)  “Urban Development and Public Health,” in G.L. Gupta, ed., Urban India, Vikas Publishers, New Delhi, 1983, 23 pp.

2)      “Roads, Railways and Malaria in Bengal,” Ian Copeland, ed., The Burden of Empire, Oxford U.P., Sydney, 1991, 5

pp. (abridgement).

3)      “Population, Environment and Disease,” A.K. Bagchi and S. Battacharya, eds., India: A  Colonial Economy,

Oxford U. P., forthcoming? c. 55 pp.; accepted 1993, publication delayed.

4)      “Western Medicine, Plague and Popular Resistance in British India,” Chittabrata Palit, ed., Medicine and

Empire, Orient Longman’s, forthcoming, c. 30 pp.; no publication date.   

5)  “Malaria and Mortality in Bengal” (reproduction), Palit, Medicine, forthcoming, c.35 pp.; no publication date.

5)      “Medicine and Culture in British India,” in Sandeep Sinha, ed., Explorations, Corpus Research Institute, Calcutta, forthcoming, c. 30 pp.

 

 Scholarly Articles (refereed):

 

1)  “Utilitarianism and Agrarian Progress in Western India,” Economic History Review, Dec. 1965, 21 pp.

2)  “Politics and Public Opinion in Lytton’s Tariff  Policy,” Journal of Indian History, August 1967, 16 pp.

3)  “British Expansion in Malaya,” Journal of Southeast Asian History, March 1968, 20pp.

4)  “Salisbury, Rosebery and the Survival of Siam,” Journal of British Studies, Nov. 1968,         21pp.

5)  “Britain, Siam and the Malay Peninsula,” Historical Journal, spring 1969, 17 pp.

6)      “Wilson vs. Trevelyan: Finance and Modernization in India after 1857,” Indian Economic and Social History

Review, June 1972, 31 pp.

7)  “The Anglo-Russian Convention and the Problem of Central Asia,” JBS, Dec. 1971, 21pp.

8)  “English Free Traders and Indian Tariffs,” Modern Asian Studies, July 1971, 21 pp.

9)  “British Imperialism in Decline: Tibet, 1914-22,” Historian, Nov. 1971, 16 pp.

         10) “Malaria and Mortality in Bengal,” IESHR, June 1972, 29 pp.        

         11) “Cholera, Dysentery and Development in Eastern India,” JIH, Golden Jubilee Ed., 1972, 25 pp.   

         12) “Whitehall, Washington and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance,” Pacific Historical Review, Dec. 1972, 23 pp.

         13) “British Intervention in the Persian Revolution,” HJ, Winter 1972, 22 pp.

         14) “Nationalism and Anti-Materialism in India: the Roots of Gandhian Economics,” South Asia, Aug. 1973, 12 pp.

         15) “Death in India,” Journal of Asian Studies, Aug. 1973, 31 pp.

         16) “Population and Agriculture in Northern India,” MAS, Dec. 1973, 25 pp.

         17) “Who Made the Second Afghan War,” Journal of Asian History, Fall 1974, 25 pp.

         18) “British Society and the Iranian Constitution,” Historian, 1978, 24 pp.

         19) “Imperialism and Nationalism in Iran,” JAH, 1980, 24 pp.

         20) “Cholera: Theory and Treatment in Nineteenth Century India,” JIH, Fall 1983, 17 pp.

         21) “When the Rains Failed,” IESHR, June 1985, 30 pp.

         22) “Urban Development and Death: Bombay City,” MAS, Dec. 1986, 30pp.

         23) “Plague, Policy and Popular Unrest,” MAS, Nov. 1988, 33 pp.

         24) “Population Growth and Mortality in British India: I The Climacteric of Death,” IESHR, Dec. 1989, 17 pp.

         25) “Population Growth and Mortality in British India: II The Demographic Revolution,” IESHR, June 1990, 31 pp.

         26) “Economic Development and Environmental Decay in British India,” JIH, Fall 1991, 31pp.

         27) “Imperialism, Ecology and Disease; Cholera in British India,” IESHR, Dec. 1994, 28 pp.

         28) “Western Medicine, Plague and Popular Responses: Compulsory and Voluntary Policies in British India,” JIH,

            April-Dec., 1998, 30 pp.

         29) “Health, Ecology and Medical Beliefs in India, JIH, c. 30 pp. July, 2000

         30) “Materialism, Mutiny and Modernization in India,” MAS, 35 pp.; July. 2000.

         31) “Development and Death: Malaria in British India Revisisted,” IESHR, c.35 pp., 2001.     

        

Invited Article

 

“Camelot Unattained,” SA, Dec. 1973, 8 pp.

 

 Miscellaneous Articles:

 

“Roots of Turmoil in Iran,” lead article, Outlook, Washington Post, Dec. 1978

 

Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 1963, most of the leading articles on modern British and    European history and political science, and many on literature and other subjects, including: United States, Great Britain, British Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Churchill, De Gaulle, Marx, Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Chatham, Pitt, Louis Napoleon, Fascism, Nazism, Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, History, United Nations, Industrial Revolution, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Feudalism, Manorial System, Russian literature, Dutch literature, Danish     literature, Yugoslavian literature, Icelandic literature, Welsh literature, Provencal literature, Dante, Cervantes, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Mann, Petrarch.

 

Columbia Dell Viking Encyclopedia, rev. ed., 1964, almost all articles on Asian and African countries, among them: India, Japan, China, Pakistan, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Laos, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran,    Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Republic of the Congo, Congo Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Dahomey, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, South Africa.

 

Refereed Conference Papers:

 

1) “Death and Population: The Demographic Revolution in India,” Assoc. for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, 1979.

2) “Environmental Decay, Irrigation and Disease in India,” Assoc. for Asian Studies,” D.C. , 1980.

3) “The Demographic Revolution and the Human Condition in India,” Assoc. for Asian Studies, Middle Atlantic

     Region, Lehigh University, 1987.

 

Other Conference Papers:

             

1) “Utilitarianism and Agrarian Conditions in British India,” American Institute of Indian Studies, Poona, 1967.

2) “Crowding and Death in India,” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1972.

 

 

 Printed Papers:

 

1)      “Cholera: Theory and Treatment in British India,” Papers in Asian Studies, Center for Asian Studies, I, No. 1,

1980.

2)      “Population and Death: The Demographic Revolution in India, 1890-1947,” Papers in Asian Studies, Center for Asian Studies, VIII, No. 1, 1991.

 

  Work in Progress:

 

“Development and Human Consequences; The Impact on Progress, Health, Environment and Population in India and England, 1860-1990,” book manuscript.

“The Making of Modern India, 1830-1980,” book manuscript.

“Comparative Population Theory and Demographic Transition: England and India,” scholarly essay.

 

 

Research Grants:

 

Fulbright Fellowship, 1965-66; American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship, 1966-67; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1972; American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship, 1975-76; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1975-76; American Council for Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1975-76; Ford-Rockefeller Foundations: Population and Development Policy Fellowship, 1979-80.

 

Editorial Activity:

 

Board of Editors, Journal of Indian History, 1980-present.

 

 

 

Teaching:

 

Independent Studies Supervised

 

APEL portfolios supervised.

 


Curriculum Development:

 

New Courses:

 

“Modern Revolutions”; “Civilization and Modernization: Asia”; “Imperialism and India”; “China and Japan”; “Twentieth Century World I”; “Twentieth Century World II”; “Imperialism and Revolution”; “The West in Crisis 1900-45”; “Democracy vs. Totalitarianism”; “War and Diplomacy: Napoleon to Bismarck”; ‘War and Peace: Bismarck to   Hitler”; Honors: “War and Revolution”; “Money and Love.”

 

New or Revised Programs: 

 

University Honors: lead role in developing University Honors Program, including much of   the University Honors curriculum, consolidation of Departmental and University Honors,    graduation with University Honors and its requirements, Honors dorm floor, Honors Essay Contest, Honors extra-curricula program, selecting Honors students.

 

General Education: major role in developing current, five field, sequenced Gen. Ed. Program.

 

Community Service-Learning: lead role in developing Community Service Learning projects for academic credit, Service Learning academic minor “Race, Class, Community,” Community Service Faculty Support Network, Community Service dorm floor.

 

Interdisciplinary Majors: lead role in ongoing effort to establish articulated, organized                       Interdisciplinary Major packages.

 

Diversity: lead role in Diversity Coalition’s academic program, articulating new minors in “Ethnic Studies”: a) “The African and African American Experience,” and “Comparative Ethnic Experience.”

 

Departmental and University Service:

 

Dept. of History:

 

Chair, Grievance Committee, 1981-82, 1996-present; Chair, Undergraduate Committee, 1971-         72, 1980-81, 1989-96; Chair, Personnel Committee, 1987-88; Chair, Graduate Committee, 1978-79; Chair, Development Committee, 1976-77; Deputy Chair, 1981-90; Honors Coordinator, 1989-present; APEL liaison, 1977-present; Library liaison, 1990-present; Chair, Latin Americanist Search Committee, 1991-92; Chair, Southeast Asianist Search Committee, 1972-73; Personnel Committee member, 1974-present; Undergraduate and Graduate Committee member, various.

 

College of Arts and Sciences:

Educational Policy Committee, 1970-73; Dean Selection Committee, 1970.

 

 

University:

 

Chair, University Senate Equity Committee, 2001-present; University Senate Student Relations Committee 1998-2001; Acting Chair, Student Relations Committee, part of fall 1997 and spring 1998; Faculty Senate, member, fall 1998-present; Coordinator, Community Studies and Service, 1992-present; Chair, Faculty Grievance Committee, 1988-97; Vice-Chair, Committee on General Education and Honors, 1985-87; Director, University Honors Program, 1980-85; Director, General Education Program, 1983-85; Chair, Senate Task Force on General Education, 1983-85; Acting Chair, Senate Undergraduate Studies Committee, winter, 1981-82; Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1980-85; Jewish Studies Advisory Board, 1970-72; Director, Center for Asian Studies, 1973-74; Graduate Fellowship Committee, various and current.

 

Membership and Professional Activities:

 

Reception Committee, American Historical Association, 1992-93; Director, Washington Area South Asia Center, 1973-76; University Representative, American Institute of American Studies, 1978-79; American Historical Association; Association for Asian Studies.

 

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