Contact: Margaret Kovar
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Modern history professor Michael Bentley is the March speaker for Mississippi State's Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series.
His presentation, "Historiography: What it does and why it matters," takes place Tuesday [March 6] at 4 p.m. in the McCool Hall Atrium. The program is free and open to all.
A faculty member at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Bentley is an internationally recognized specialist in the fields of British political and intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the philosophy of history and historiography.
He is the author of major works on British history of the1800s, including "Politics without Democracy, 1815-1940," "Lord Salisbury's World" and "The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God."
Recently awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Bentley currently is writing a comparative analysis of Western historiography since the Enlightenment.
For information about MSU's Institute for the Humanities, visit www.msstate.edu/dept/IH/Humanities.html.