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Dr. Richard Spall, Jr.


Contact Information

Office: Elliott 402
Telephone: 740-368-3640
Email: rfspall@owu.edu

Specialty

Britain and the Empire / Commonwealth and Ireland

Education

B.A. Wittenberg, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois.

Biography

A specialist in Victorian Britain, Dr. Spall, the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Professor of History, is an expert on 19th-century political, economic, and social reform and has published several articles on the free-trade movement and the founders of Liberalism. In addition to courses on British History, Dr. Spall teaches classes on economic history and on the Reformation. Since 1993, Dr. Spall has served as book review editor of The Historian, one of the largest scholarly history journals in the United States.