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| | Named Professorships, Deanships, and Directorships -- The Johns Hopkins University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | The University's first professor of history, HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS, came to Hopkins during its first year of operation in 1876 as a teaching fellow and went on to chair the History and Political Science Department. |
 | | A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History, is a specialist on colonial Latin America and the Portuguese-influenced world. |
 | | His wide-ranging interests are reflected in publications on economic, social, administrative and urban history, history of art, institutions, medicine, epidemiology and public health, technology, the family, women, race and ethnicity, comparative slavery, and on historiography. |
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