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Steven Mintz (born 1953), is an American historian, Executive Director of the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning and a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Oberlin College, University of Houston, Columbia University, where he directed the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center. In addition to a commitment to pedagogy, interests on which he has published widely include the history of the American family and children, film and history, immigration and ethnic history. ==Life== Born in Detroit, Michigan, he received his B.A. from Oberlin College (1973) and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University (1979). At Oberlin, where he wrote his senior thesis on the Harlem Renaissance novelist Jean Toomer, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Senior Scholar in History. At Yale, he completed his dissertation, "Studies in the Victorian Family," under the direction of David Brion Davis. It was published as ''A Prison of Expectation: The Family in Victorian Culture'' in 1983. After serving as a visiting assistant professor of History at Oberlin College (1978–1980), he joined the History Department at the University of Houston (1981–2007), where he was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program, which offers comparative perspectives on the peoples and cultures of the Western Hemisphere.〔 In 1985-1986, he was a guest professor at University of Siegen, and in 1989-1990, he was at Harvard's Center for European Studies and also taught in Harvard Extension School.〔 〕 In 2006-2007, he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In addition, he taught summer courses at Pepperdine University (1994) and summer institutes for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (1995 to the present) at Yale, Columbia, the New York Public Library, and NYU on slavery, film history, and digital history. He was named director of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center and a member of the History Department in 2008. In September 2012, he became the founding director of the University of Texas System's Institute for Transformational Learning, which was established to promote the use of new technologies and active learning and inquiry- and project-based pedagogies to improve student learning outcomes, accelerate time to degree, and foster innovation across the System's nine academic campuses and six health science centers. He also received tenure in the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin.〔(The Daily Texan ) 11 September 2014〕 He married Maria Elena Solino, a professor at the University of Houston and an authority on Spanish literature and film, in 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Mintz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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