PAUL ELOVITZ

Associate Professor of History, Psychohistory and Interdisciplinary Studies
B.A., University of Connecticut
M.A., Ph.D. Rutgers University

Year Joined RCNJ: 1971as a Founding Faculty Member

Courses Offered:

• Children, and Youth in History; English History; History Seminar; Historiography; Hitler, the Holocaust, and Genocide; Nineteenth Century Europe; Historiography: Presidents and Presidential Candidates; Psychohistory: War, Peace, and Conflict Resolution; and (forthcoming) World History and Topics on Democracy and Electronic Communications.

Teaching Interest:

• How to get students to do research and think in a historical manner, using the latest technologies and tbeir life experiences, while remaining loyal to the canons of our historical profession.  Encouraging interested students to study psychohistory.

Research Interest:

• Biographies and psychobiographies of presidential candidates and presidents; the methodologies of history, psychohistory, and teaching; the impact of trauma on history and society; research projects with students; and The Makers and Making of Psychohistory Research Project.  Every year Professor Elovitz usually makes five or six professional presentations in the U.S. and abroad.

Recent Publications:

• Fifteen of Elovitz' over 200 publications went into print in 2007; ten more are published or forthcoming in 2008; and a new edition of his edited Applying Psychology to Current Events, History, and Society ( xii, 236 pages, September, 2006) is expected out in 2008.  He is also the founding editor of the publication Clio's Psyche.