Michael D. Gubser is Assistant Professor of History.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.  Dr. Gubser teaches courses in European and Intellectual History, as well as Modern World History and Historical Methods.

       Dr. Gubser's research interests span: Modern Central European Intellectual History; Historiography; Ethics and Phenomenology in Modern
European Thought; International Development; Applications of History and Historiography in Developing-Country Contexts.

       Publishing highlights include:

Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in fin-de-siecle Austria, from Wayne State University Press, published in January, 2006

"Time and History in Alois Riegl's Theory of Perception"
Journal article to be published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 2005

"Science Advising and Science Policy in Postwar West Germany: The Example of the Deutscher Forschungsrat," Co-written with Cathryn Carson (UC Berkeley), article published in Minerva 40 (2002)

Michael Gubser
( Full-time faculty)
History Department
JACK 222
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 6187
e-mail: gubsermd@jmu.edu