Faculty Profiles

New Faculty for Fall 2009

Rainer Buschmann

Associate Professor
History, UNIV

rainer.buschmann@csuci.edu

Rainer F. Buschmann studied anthropology at the University of Illinois (AB) and the University of Hawai`i (M.A.) before receiving a doctorate (Hawai`i) in history. He previously taught at the Hawai`i Pacific University and served as a founding faculty member in the History Department at the California State University Channel Islands. He has developed a keen interest in the global historical development of the world's largest oceans. He is currently engaged in the writing process of a monograph entitled The Chimera of the Pacific: Spain and Oceania's Eighteenth-Century Exploration. He is author of Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 (Hawai`i) and Oceans in World History (McGraw-Hill) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Professor Buschmann will arrive on the Purdue campus in January of 2010.




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