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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Howard Spodek''' (born c. 1941) is an American-born [[World History|world historian]], a professor of history and geography and urban studies at [[Temple University]].<ref name="tu">[http://www.temple.edu/history/faculty/index.html Faculty listing, History department, Temple University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316203447/http://www.temple.edu/history/faculty/index.html |date=2010-03-16 }}. Retrieved 2010-03-24.</ref><ref name="gus">[http://www.temple.edu/gus/people/index.htm Faculty listing, Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528101015/http://www.temple.edu/gus/people/index.htm |date=2010-05-28 }}. Retrieved 2010-03-24.</ref> He received a B.A. from [[Columbia University]] in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1972; while a graduate student, he visited India as a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Fellow]].<ref name="tu"/><ref name="ata">About the author, ''The World's History'', 4th ed.</ref> He joined the Temple faculty in 1972.<ref name="ata"/> As well as his faculty position at Temple, Spodek is the treasurer of the World History Association<ref>[http://www.thewha.org/wha_officers.php World History Association officers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130104720/http://www.thewha.org/wha_officers.php |date=2010-01-30 }}, retrieved 2010-03-24.</ref> and a member of the editorial board of ''[[History Compass]]''.<ref>[http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/editorial_board History Compass : Editorial Board], retrieved 2010-03-24.</ref><br />
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Spodek specializes in Indian history, and in particular on the city of [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>[http://temple-news.com/2000/10/19/professor-sees-philadelphia-in-an-indian-city/ Professor sees Philadelphia in an Indian city] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004072201/http://temple-news.com/2000/10/19/professor-sees-philadelphia-in-an-indian-city/ |date=2011-10-04 }}, Temple News, October 19, 2000.</ref> He is the author of ''[[The World's History]]'', a college textbook that is sometimes also used for high school [[Advanced Placement]] history courses and that has gone through four editions.<ref>''[[The World's History]]'', 4th ed., Prentice Hall, 2010, 978-0205708376.</ref> He won Temple's Great Teacher Award in 1993.<ref name="ata"/><ref>A Top Temple Teacher Gets Students Talking Every Year, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', November 27, 1993.</ref><br />
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Spodek is a 1959 graduate of [[Taylor Allderdice High School]] in Pittsburgh, PA.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100603100524/http://www.temple.edu/gus/spodek/index.htm Web site] at Geography and Urban Studies, Temple<br />
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