James Albisetti | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

James Albisetti

Professor

Emeritus

I was born in Delaware, attended high school in Clarence, New York (suburban Buffalo), graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, and earned by Ph. D. from Yale University, where Peter Gay was my advisor. I have taught in the Department of History and the Honors Program at UK since 1979.

Honors and Awards

German Studies Association Book Prize, 1985
University of Kentucky Research Professor, 1989-90
Associate Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 1993-98
Executive Committee, International Standing Conference for the History of Education, 1994-95
President, History of Education Society, 2002-03

Contact Information

jcalbi01@uky.edu

Education

Ph.D., Yale, 1976

Research Interests

History of education and the professions; social history of the middle classes; women's history
*Professor Albisetti is not currently accepting graduate students.*

Affiliations

History

Office Hours

Fall 2019: MT 1:30-3:15

Research

Nineteenth-century German and western European history, with teaching interests extending through the twentieth century. My current project is a study of the German Crown Princess/Empress Victoria (1840-1901), not as a great “what if” of German history if her husband had reigned for more than three months, but as an active reformer. Areas of focus are her efforts to expand educational and employment opportunities for women, to improve various areas of public health (especially for children), and to refine aesthetic sensibilities through arts (primarily the decorative arts).

History of education and the professions, social history of the middle classes, women’s history.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Secondary School Reform in Imperial Germany (Princeton, 1983)
Schooling German Girls and Women: Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 1988; German translation, Bad Heilbrunn, 2007)
over 40 articles and chapters in German, Austrian, French, Italian, British, American, and comparative history, including ones published in Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and England.
over 110 book reviews in twenty different journals.

*Currently not accepting new graduate students.