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Feb 22, 2023 · He was prolific and interdisciplinary. He was a leader and a mentor, a generous colleague and a creative scholar. The through line of his professional life was the connection between sociability and intellectual rigour, the intersection of the personal and the scholarly.
John Randall Gillis (/ ˈɡɪlɪs /; January 13, 1939 – December 7, 2021) was an American historian. He was Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. Gillis in 2010.
Dec 2, 2022 · Exploring the legacy of historian John R. Gillis (1939–2021), this special issue introduction examines the evolution of coastal studies as a field. It shows how Gillis did much to inspire a new gen...
Jul 19, 2023 · He was prolific and interdisciplinary. He was a leader and a mentor, a generous colleague and a creative scholar. The through line of his professional life was the connection between sociability and intellectual rigour, the intersection of the personal and the scholarly.
The historian John Gillis has spent almost half a century of summers at Great Gott Island, off the coast of Maine. Clamorous and gusting, Superstorm Sandy blew ashore last fall with a force...
Jun 27, 2023 · Author of Islands of the Mind (2004), The Human Shore (2012), and a co-edited volume titled Fluid Frontiers (2015), as well as numerous essays exploring the connections between humans and the ocean, historian John R. Gillis (1939–2021) played a central role in establishing the field of coastal studies. 1 Gillis had published earlier works on ...
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Dec 1, 2022 · It shows how Gillis did much to inspire a new generation of interdisciplinary oceanic scholarship that draws from human geography, Atlantic history, global history, environmental history, the history of science and technology, and blue cultural studies.
