Harriet Freidenreich has written on a variety of subjects relating to Jewish history, Eastern Europe, and the history of women. Ira Glazier 's scholarship focuses on economic matters and migration in Italian history, and Lockenour 's work on postwar Germany encompasses German youth and the history of film in addition to his social history of German army officers. Mary Procida 's research examines the influence of the British colonial experience in India on the history of modern Britain, with special emphasis on the role of women. Third World History Third World history plays a larger role in the graduate program at Temple University than in most history departments. Recently, faculty and student interest has centered on such themes as women and social change, peasantries as a factor in history, the nature of state structures and how intellectuals relate to them, urban structures, and comparative social formations.
Some students undertake work in social science theory in such fields as anthropology or sociology.
A typical student program emphasizes either a particular social problem as it manifests itself in various national histories or a problem focused in a particular national setting with comparative dimensions. A distinctive aspect of the history program is the emphasis on world history and comparative analysis that many Temple historians use in their work. The interdisciplinary and globally-oriented approaches of the Third World historians almost always contain a comparative element. A number of American and European historians also, in varying degrees, have an interest in world and comparative history. Mary Procida teaches a course on European expansion from the eighteenth century to the present.