M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University

Phone: (931) 598-5789
Office Location: Walsh-Ellett 301
Email: jflynn@sewanee.edu

Areas of Specialization
European political, social, and intellectual history since 1750. Germany 1500 to the present, European Women's History, European Politics since 1900.

Courses Taught
Forces of Change in Europe since 1750, European Women's History since 1750, Politics and Society in Europe since 1914, Junior Tutorial, Politics and Society in Europe,1815-1914, German History Since 1500 I, II., Ploitics and Society in Europe 1815-1914, The Revolutionary Era, Intellectual History of Contemporarty Europe.

Biography
John Flynn, who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and his B.A. at Boston College, has been a member of the Sewanee Faculty since 1966. His general interests concern the political, social, and intellectual history of Europe since the French Revolution. His specialized research deals with developments in Germany since 1870 and contemporary European feminism. His awards include the following: the Jesse Ball duPont summer seminar at the National Humanities Center, By-Fellowships, Churchill College, Cambridge University, a Fulbright German Summer Seminar, two National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowships, a Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Award from Vanderbilt University, a Wye Faculty Fellowship from the Aspen Institute, and an Institute of European Studies-Exxon Foundation Grant. Mr. Flynn has published five articles and numerous book reviews in leading historical journals. Currently he is preparing a book dealing with case examples of British and American initiatives to meet the challenge of the political education of German women during the post war years 1945-1952.