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Jeffers Engelhardt

芝加哥大学博士，阿默斯特学院民族音乐学副教授，电影和媒体研究系、欧洲研究系和五校民族音乐学证书项目成员

PhD, University of Chicago. Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Amherst College, where he is an affiliate of Film and Media Studies, European Studies, and the Five College Certificate in Ethnomusicology

Engelhardt教授教授民族音乐学课程，关注基于社区的民族志，音乐和宗教，声音，以及对于音乐与声音的分析法。他的研究范围广泛，包含了音乐、宗教、欧洲个人身份和传媒。他的作品包括了《Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia》（牛津大学出版社，2015），并参与合著了《Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual》（牛津大学出版社，2016）。他正在编写与牛津大学出版社合作的《Music and Religion》，他也现任《Yale Journal of Music and Religion》的主编，在2020年还将担任《Journal of the American Musicological Society》的电子与多媒体编辑。

Professor Engelhardt teaches courses in ethnomusicology focusing on community-based ethnography, music and religion, voice, and analytical approaches to music and sound. His research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His books include Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia (Oxford, 2015) and the co-edited volume Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (Oxford, 2016). His current book project is Music and Religion (under contract with Oxford University Press), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion and incoming (2020) Digital and Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Ellen Boucher

哥伦比亚大学博士，阿默斯特学院历史学系副教授，欧洲研究系主席

Ph.D., Columbia University. Associate Professor of History and Chair of European Studies, Amherst College.

作为一位现代欧洲的社会和文化历史学家，Boucher教授教学并研究了19世纪和20世纪与帝国、童年和战争历史有关的各种主题。她的第一本书《Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World 1869-1967》 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) 通过英国儿童移民的故事探讨了帝国政治与儿童福利政策的交集：大致9万名贫困儿童和孤儿由慈善机构和政府官员送往加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰和南罗得西亚的“白人统治区”开始新的生活。她目前正在撰写一本新书《Be Prepared: Empire, War, and the Risk Imagination in Modern Britain》，该书探讨了人们在新时代经历了如空中轰炸、毒气袭击、核威胁等毁灭性战争形式后，如何改变了对风险的理解和应对风险的能力。

Trained as a social and cultural historian of modern Europe, Professor Boucher teaches and researches on a variety of topics related to the history of empire, childhood, and warfare in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first book, Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World 1869-1967 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), explored the intersection between imperial politics and child welfare policy through the story of Britain’s child migrants: the roughly 90,000 poor or orphaned children who were sent by charities and government officials to start new lives in the “white dominions” of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Rhodesia. She is currently writing a new book, Be Prepared: Empire, War, and the Risk Imagination in Modern Britain, which examines how people’s understandings of risk – and their ability to prepare for it – changed in the modern era, as civilians experienced new and sometimes apocalyptic forms of warfare, such as aerial bombing, gas attacks, and the nuclear threat.

法国大革命

因为法国大革命在近代史中的重要意义，它成为了一代又一代的政治家、社会活动家与历史学家们讨论、思辨、批判与赞颂的永恒话题。本课程将跟随法国大革命的历史脉络，从国王与平民的旧王朝时代梳理大革命的社会、政治与思想起源，并探寻这些因素如何导致1789年法国君主制的覆灭。课程的第二部分将讨论大革命对法国社会与大西洋彼岸的加勒比地区的深刻影响。我们将分析民意及殖民地的剧变如何影响法国正在成形的 “自由，平等，博爱”的革命性社会新秩序。最终，本课程会追溯大革命在欧洲及世界各地留下的不同遗产，以探究其深远影响。通过对历史文献的开放式讨论和批判阅读，学生们将提升他们的学术写作与辩论能力。

Often viewed as one of the defining events in modern history, the French Revolution has been debated and discussed, criticized and celebrated by generations of politicians, activists, and historians. This course examines the nature of the revolutionary process as it unfolded in late eighteenth-century France and its empire. Beginning in the “old regime” of kings and commoners, it untangles the social, political, and intellectual roots of the Revolution and investigates the extent to which these factors contributed to the overthrow of the French monarchy in 1789. It then follows the expansion of the Revolution throughout French society and across the ocean to the Caribbean, analyzing how popular and colonial upheavals influenced the revolutionary new order of “liberty, equality, and brotherhood” that was taking shape in France. Finally, the course explores the aftermath of the Revolution by tracing its varied legacies for Europe and the world. Through open discussion and the critical reading of primary documents from the period and secondary sources written by scholars, students will also practice the skills of argumentative writing and debate.

Lyle McGeoch

曾任卡内基·梅隆大学博士，阿默斯特学院计算机科学系数学与计算机科学教授，已故（2019年10月）

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Brian E. Boyle ’69 Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science. Professor McGeoch passed away in October 2019.

McGeoch教授是一位从事数据结构和算法领域的理论计算机科学家。他的研究领域包括NP困难问题和动态图计算的启发式算法，尤其以竞争性在线算法闻名。在阿默斯特学院，McGeoch 教授曾开设从编程和算法思维的入门到理论和组合优化等主题的高级选修等各种课程。

Professor McGeoch was a theoretical computer scientist who works in the area of data structures and algorithms. His interests included heuristics for NP-hard problems and dynamic graph algorithms, and he was best known for his research on competitive on-line algorithms. He taught a wide range of courses at Amherst, from introductory courses on programming and algorithmic thinking to advanced electives on topics such as theory and combinatorial optimization.