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Stewart Weaver
Professor, Department Chair
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of History
Areas of expertise: Modern British history; British imperial history; labor history; Irish history.
Press contact:
Susan Hagen
susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585.276.4061
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Biography
Stewart Weaver, history professor, department chair, and scholar of modern British history, coauthored with Maurice Isserman (PhD Rochester 1979) Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes (Yale University Press, 2008). Hailed by the New York Times as an “awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling,” the work has earned several awards including the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award. Weaver, an expert in British and Irish history, has also penned books on John Fielden, the leader of the British factory reform movement in the 1830s and '40s, and J. L. and Barbara Hammond, the first historians of the Industrial Revolution. He teaches courses on English, Irish, and Indian history.