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Dr.
Walter D. Kamphoefner
Professor of History and Graduate
Coordinator, Specializes in
19th-century U.S., American Immigration, Urban, and
Quantitative Methods |
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Walter D. Kamphoefner earned his Ph.D. at University of
Missouri-Columbia in 1978 and came to TAMU in 1988, where he
is now Professor of History and incoming graduate director. He
teaches in the fields of immigration, urbanization, and
quantitative methods. He has published widely in the field of
immigration and ethnicity, with articles in four languages and
three books out in both German and English. One of the
pioneers of transatlantic linkage studies with his monograph
The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (Princeton,
1987), he has now embarked on a larger project involving
overseas tracing to multiple destinations, supported by an APS
Sabbatical Fellowship last year. Other research interests
include bilingual education and the immigrant langua ge
transition.
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