Richard Soloway
Eugen Merzbacher Professor and
Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
B.A. University of Iowa, 1955
M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1956
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1960
Research Interests
Richard Soloway's research and teaching interests are in modern British social history. Initially he concentrated upon religion and industrialization in the early nineteenth century, publishing among other works Prelates and People: Ecclesiastical Social Thought in England, 1783-1852 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969). Since then his primary concentration has been on the history of eugenics, birth control and population change in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Research into these areas has resulted in several articles and two books published by the University of North Carolina Press, Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930 (1982) and Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain (1990; new paperback edition, 1995). Currently he is working on a book that examines the history of contraceptive research in Britain and America in the years between the first and second world wars.
Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 157 -- English History Since 1688
- HIST 474 -- Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1901
- HIST 475 -- Great Britain in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 775 -- Studies in Modern English History
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone: (919) 962-2353