Dr. Marvin Stern
Associate Professor

Office:    S230
Phone:   (248)-204-3526
E-mail:    stern@ltu.edu

Office hours by appointment.

Dr. Marvin Stern is completing his eleventh year of teaching at Lawrence Technological University.  Dr. Stern has five degrees, including the Ph.D., in Ancient and Modern History, and his degree-awarding universities are Harvard, Yale, and Brandeis.  Dr. Stern became a tenured Associate Professor at Lawrence Technological University in Spring 1999.

Thorn and Briars (1991) is Dr. Stern's history of bonding, death and grief in British aristocratic families.  The book was given a very favorable review by the notable historian of medicine and science, Roy Porter ("I got a huge amount of pleasure out of reading it.  It is written by Marvin Stern with a sure touch." Etc.  The review of Thorns and Briars appears in a recent issue of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography.)  In February 2001, Dr. Stern's "A British Military Family," was published in Contemporary Review (Oxford).  In the spring of 2001, the Editor of the most widely-circulated journal in his field, Eighteenth-Century Studies, asked Dr. Stern to review three of the most significant reference books that were published during the past decade.  The six-thousand-word review/essay, entitled "Fundamental Reference Works," appears in the summer issue 2002 and is one of the longest review/articles ever to appear in this publication.  In October 2001, Dr. Stern was commissioned by Oxford to write the life of Maria Holroyd -- Lady Maria Josepha Stanley for the largest reference work in the English language, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  These volumes were published in September 2004. Oxford and Cambridge have published several of Dr. Stern's essays/articles.

Among his current writings, Dr. Stern is preparing GIBBON'S MEMORIES, an intellectual and personal exploration into the life of the author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  Another book that is underway is MARIA, the life of Maria Holroyd, First Lady Stanley of Alderly -- the great-grandmother of Bertrand Russell.

Dr. Stern joined the U.S. Army when he was seventeen, and earned an Honorable Discharge.  In 2001-2002, Dr. Stern was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford.  He is a member of the Harvard Club of New York City and the Oxford and Cambridge Club of London.