Faculty and Staff
Walter L. Arnstein
Professor Emeritus of History
WALTER LEONARD ARNSTEIN served as a member of the Department of History from 1968 to 1998, and he holds the titles Professor of History Emeritus and Jubilee Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus. He served for four years as department chair and for four others as department Director of Graduate Studies, and in 1987 he won the all-campus award for excellence in undergraduate teaching; he also supervised twenty-five successfully defended Ph.D. dissertations in British History. He taught courses in British History since 1688 at every level from the introductory survey to the doctoral seminar. He is the author or editor of seven books including Britain Yesterday & Today: 1830 to the Present (1966; 8th ed., 2001), The Bradlaugh Case (1965, 1984), and Queen Victoria (2003). In the course of his career he also taught at Northwestern University (where he earned his Ph.D. in 1961), the University of Chicago, and Roosevelt University. He has served as president of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association (1977-1980), the Midwest Conference on British Studies (1980-82), and the North American Conference of British Studies (1995-97).