Carol Gayle
Associate Professor
History

Phone 847-735-5083
E-mail gayle@lakeforest.edu

Specialization
Russian and East European History
European History
Women's History
History of Education
Cast-Iron Architecture

Interests
Russian history, Russian literature and film, Cast-iron architecture, James Bogardus and the Origins of Cast-Iron Architecture in America 

Education
Certificate, Russian Institute, Columbia University
M.A., History, Columbia University
B.A., Swarthmore College

Courses Taught
History 214, History of Russia
History 235, World War II: The European Experience
History 315, 20th Century Russia
History 343, Literature and Society in Russia
History 213, Europe in the 20th Century
History 212, Europe Under the Old Regime
History 233, Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

Books
Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus. co-author with Margot Gayle (NY: WW Norton, 1998)

Economic History of Europe: Twentieth Century, co-editor with S. B. Clough and T. Moodie (NY: Harper & Row, 1968)

European Economic History: Documents and Readings, edited with Shepard B. Clough (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1965)

Articles
"The Emergence of Cast-Iron Architecture in the United States: Defining the Role of James Bogardus," APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology 29, no. 2 (Fall 1998).

"The New York Crystal Palace: America's Progress, Power, and Possibilities," co-authored with Margot Gayle and Gretchen Ellsworth, Nineteenth Century 15, no. 1 (Spring 1995).

"S. T. Shatskii and His Essay 'My Development as an Educator' (1928)," Slavic and European Education Review 1, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1977).

"Martov and Menshevism," Politics [Australia] 2, no. 2 (Nov. 1967).

Invited Talks
"Cast-Iron Architecture in America," slide lecture for the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Preservation Foundation, 2000

"Inventing Cast-Iron Architecture," Urban Center (NYC), Spring 2000

"James Bogardus and Cast-Iron Architecture," The Cooper Union (NYC), Spring 1999

Other Talks
"The USSR Since Gorbachev," talk to the American Association of University Women of Deerfield, IL, November 2000.

Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa