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Irwin M. Wall
Professor of History (Emeritus)
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968
(951) 827-1985
irwin.wall@ucr.edu

 

  • Fields of Interest: modern Europe with an emphasis in French history.

     A graduate of Columbia University (B.A., 1961; M.A., 1962; and Ph.D., 1968), Irwin Wall has been a member of the Department of History since 1970. He taught previously at Illinois State University, Colorado State University, and Smith College. He teaches the history of modern Europe and specializes in twentieth-century French and international history. He has held grants from the Hoover Institution and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945-1962; The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 (also available in a French edition) and numerous articles on the history of French socialism and communism that have appeared in the following journals: The Journal of Contemporary History, Vingtieme Siecle, French Historical Studies, International Review of Social History, Diplomatic History, Contemporary French Civilization, International Labor and Working Class History, and French Politics and Society. His most recent book, France, the United States, and the Algerian War, 1954-1968, will be published by UC Press in March 2001.

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