Teaching and Administration
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers
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content: 1947-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0266, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: This series is comprised of teaching and administrative files compiled by Melvin Kranzberg during his forty years as a college professor.  He began as a student teacher for the History Department of Amherst College in 1941.  After a four-year hiatus from teaching, Kranzberg became an instructor and a tutor for Harvard University's Division of History, Government, and Economics (1946) and then an instructor for the Department of Humanities of Stevens Institute of Technology (1946-47).  In 1947, he returned to Amherst as an assistant professor of History.  Between 1952 and 1958 he taught at Case Institute of Technology, first as an assistant professor with the Department of Social Studies, then later as an associate professor with the Department of History.  When Case Institute merged with Western Reserve University in 1958, Kranzberg became a full professor for the History Department of the newly formed Case Western Reserve University.  In 1972, he became the Callaway Professor of the History of Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remained until his retirement in 1988.  This series illustrates Kranzberg's colorful but pragmatic approach to teaching.