![]() Table of Contents Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World Part I Professor Biography.i Course Scope.1 Lecture One The Importance of the West. ©2006 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership Bucholz is occasionally asked to comment on British history and the activities of the British royal family to the Chicago media, most notably “Chicago Tonight” with John Calloway and “Extension 720” with Milt Rosenberg. Bucholz is past president of the Midwest Conference on British Studies and the organizer of the Center for Renaissance Studies/Society for Court Studies Seminar on Courts, Households, and Lineages at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Bucholz’s work has been solicited and commented upon by HRH, the Prince of Wales. Bucholz’s week-long stay at Windsor coincided with the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.) This talk was repeated in 2000 and published in 2001 in The Court Historian. ![]() Bucholz was named Prince of Wales Foundation Scholar for Architecture in America, which led, in turn, to his being invited to speak on the etiquette of the public rooms and the experience of going to court in the 17th and 18th centuries to Royal Collection Studies at Windsor Castle in September of that year. ![]() The database was launched online by Loyola University in 2005. He is the project director of the Database of Court Officers, which contains the career facts of every person who served in the British royal household from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. (Institute of Historical Research, London, 1997−1998) and, with Professor Newton Key of Eastern Illinois University, Early Modern England, 1485−1714: A Narrative History (Blackwell, 2003). He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (Stanford, 1993) with Sir John Sainty, KCB, Officials of the Royal Household, 1660−1837, 2 vols. Bucholz’s primary research interest is the English court and royal household for the period from 1660 into the 19th century. He was also the Honors Program Faculty Member of the Year in 19. He has received several awards for his teaching, most notably, in 1994, in the first year of its presentation, the Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, the College of Arts and Sciences’ highest such award. Bucholz teaches both halves of the Western Civilization survey, as well as upper-division courses in Early Modern (Tudor-Stuart) England, English Social History, and Early Modern London. He currently holds the rank of professor. He taught at Cornell, UCLA Extension, Cal State Long Beach, and LoyolaMarymount Universities before joining the faculty in history at Loyola University of Chicago in 1988. He took his doctorate in modern history from Oxford in March 1988. He graduated in 1980, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, whereupon he received a Keasbey Memorial Scholarship for study at Oxford University. He received his undergraduate education in history at Cornell University, where he also earned his letter in cross-country and track. ![]() Professor of History, Loyola University of Chicago Robert Bucholz was born March 17, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World Part I
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