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John R. Gillis (1939–2021)

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John R. Gillis, professor emeritus at Rutgers University, died in Berkeley, California, on December 7, 2021. Born in 1939 in Westfield, New Jersey, he graduated with a BA from Amherst College in 1960 and a doctorate from Stanford University in 1965. After serving as an instructor in Stanford’s Western Civilization course, John joined the Princeton University history department in 1966. In 1971, he left for a long career at Rutgers, from which he retired in 2004.

Of John’s long, productive career, many elements stand out. First is its remarkable variety; few historians have written about so many subjects. His first book, based on his dissertation and his only major work about Germany, was The Prussian Bureaucracy in Crisis, 1840–1860: Origins of an Administrative Ethos (Stanford Univ. Press, 1971). When spending the 1969–70 academic year at the University of Oxford, he became attracted to the dawning field of British social history. The result was a series of books and articles on various aspects of family life

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John Gillis

John Gillis or Gillies may refer to:

  • John Gillies (minister) (1712–1796), Church of Scotland minister and theological writer
  • John Gillies (historian) (1747–1836), Scottish historian
  • John Gillies (botanist) (1792–1834), Scottish naval surgeon, explorer and botanist
  • John P. Gillis (1803–1873), U.S. Navy officer
  • John Gillies (New Zealand politician) (1802–1871), New Zealand local politician (Otago Provincial Council) and church elder
  • John Lillie Gillies (1832–1897), New Zealand politician
  • John Gillies (Canadian politician) (1837–1889), Ontario farmer and political figure
  • John Gillies (Australian politician) (1844–1911), Scottish-born Australian politician
  • John F. Gillis (1846–1899), physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island
  • John Joseph Alban Gillis (1882–1965), physician and politician in British Columbia, Canada
  • John Hugh Gillis (1884–1913), Canadian track and field athlete
  • John Gillies (footballer) (1918–1991), Scottish footballer
  • John Gillies (doctor) (fl. 1970s–2010s), Scottish general practitioner
  • John Gillis (historian) (born 1939
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    John Gillis and the Creation of Coastal Studies

    By Christopher L. Pastore, Jack Bouchard, Claire Campbell, Kevin Dawson, Isaac Land, Steve Mentz, Anna Pilz, and Dyani Taff

    Author of Islands of the Mind (2004), The Human Shore (2012), and a co-edited volume titled Fluid Frontiers (2015), as well as numerous essays exploring the connections between humans and the ocean, historian John R. Gillis (1939–2021) played a central role in establishing the field of coastal studies.1 Gillis had published earlier works on topics as diverse as the Prussian bureaucracy, British marriage, youth culture, and “family values,” but it was around the turn of the twenty-first century that he identified a “blue hole” in the humanities and began to fill it.2 Drawing from human geography, anthropology, the history of science, and environmental history and literature, Gillis began to investigate the ways that humans shaped and were shaped by their interactions with the sea. Humanists, he believed, had much to contribute to oceanic understanding, and his enthusiasm for the topic

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