Robert W. Thurston, Date of Birth

    

Robert W. Thurston

American historian

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1949

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Robert W. Thurston

  • Robert W.
  • Thurston is an American historian and author.
  • He is professor emeritus at Miami University (Ohio) and founder and managing partner of Oxford Coffee Company, a roastery and coffeehouse.
  • His most recent publications have been on coffee (Coffee: From Bean to Barista, Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry).
  • Perhaps primarily known for his work on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Thurston has also written on early modern witch hunts (The Witch Hunts in Europe and North America: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America, a revised edition of Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: The Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America).
  • He is also co-founder and managing partner of the Oxford Coffee Company, a roastery and coffeehouse in Oxford, Ohio.He has given talks in recent years in the U.S., Britain, France, Nicaragua, and China on coffee and consumption patterns.
  • He has been interviewed regularly on coffee, for example for BBC 4, the Food Network, and Dr.
  • Oz The Good Life.
  • His trips to coffee "origin," the industry term for coffee farms, have taken him to ten countries.
  • He has been interviewed several times on WVXU, Cincinnati's NPR station, on several topics ranging from populism to coffee to the history of land preservation in the U.S.
  • Podcasts with him are discussions of lynching and the witch hunts and film. He has written occasionally on current issues in Ukraine and on how people get their history from romance novels. His current writing project is The Body in the Anglo-Saxon World, 1885-1920: Reshaping Race, Sexuality, and Civilization, book.
  • This study examines presentations of the body in the circus, photography, ads, sports, and the new field of anthropology, and how treatment of images of the body affected discussion of what human beings were and how they behaved.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also