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Dr. Alan Levy
Professor of History
Phone: 724.738.2405
Fax: 724.738.4762 |
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Professor Levy received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his A.B. from
Washington and Jefferson College.
Dr. Levy is the
author eight books including: Musical Nationalism,
a study of the American composers who came to prominence
amidst the expatriate era of the 1920s; Elite Education
and the Private School, a discussion of the vagaries of
private secondary education at one of the nation's
premier academies; Radical Aesthetics and Music
Criticism, which looks at the
relationship of leftist political ideologies to the
realms of music and aesthetics; Government and the Arts,
a history of the debates over the subject of the Federal
Government's support for the arts; a biography of the
American composer Edward MacDowell; a biography of the
zany, brilliant baseball player of the early 20th
century, Rube Waddell; and Tackling Jim
Crow, a study of the origins, breakdowns, and legacies
of racial segregation in professional football. His
latest book is a biography of Joe McCarthy. He has
also given legislative testimony and made conference
presentations on the subject of academic freedom and its
enemies in modern higher education.
Undergraduate Courses
Twentieth-Century World
Colonial America to 1825
Nineteenth-Century America
20th-Century America
Russian History: To 1855 and Since 1855
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Outstanding Americans |
Graduate
Courses
Gilded Age and Progressivism
Eighteenth-Century Europe
Russian History, 1855-present |
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