SPECIALIST IN U.S. HISTORY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26523, 11 September 1951, Page 6

SPECIALIST IN U.S. HISTORY

COURSE BY PROFESSOR VAN DEUSEN

Dr. Glynden Garlock Van Deusen, Professor of American History at Rochester, New York, will visit Canterbury University College next week to lecture in the history department. Honours and stage 11 students, working in Professor Van Deusen’s special field. Will receive instruction on similar lines to the course he gave as a visiting lecturer last term at the University of Otago. ‘•American attitudes to foreign affairs” will be discussed by Professor Van Deusen at a semi-public lecture next Tuesday afternoon. The following morning he will address the Staff Club of Canterbury University College. Professor Van Deusen has a long association with the University of Rochester. He graduated there in 1925, took a master of arts degree at Amherst College the following year,, and then a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Columbia in 1932. Since then he has worked in the history department at Rochester as instructor (lecturer), assistant professor, associate professor and in his own chair. A member of various national and New York State historical associations, Professor Van Deusen has written a number of books and has contributed extensively to periodicals.