Kurt M. Boughan

Associate Professor

Director, Joint Masters Program

427D Capers Hall
843-953-4855
kurt.boughan@citadel.edu

Kurt Boughan (Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2006) is the department specialist in Early Modern Europe and the History of Science and Medicine. His research interests are later medieval Italian scholastic medical theory and early Renaissance Italian urban culture. He has published in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching and Medieval Perspectives.

Boughan is also interested in the application of digital technology in the humanities. He is the designer and manager of this website. He also is the technical consultant and web designer for the Citadel Oral History Program. He designed the promotional website for the Society for French Historical Studies 2011 conference, and managed the Society's first live webcast of a conference panel. He encourages all non-Apple users to embrace the freedom, power, and flexibility of the Linux operating system (any major distribution), and all humanities scholars to learn coding for the Web.

Boughan is the Director of the Department's Joint Masters Program with the College of Charleston Department of History.


  1. Maymester 2013 Course Materials
  2. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Syllabus and Course Schedule PDF
  3. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Greek Science & Philosophy PDF
  4. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - First Exam Study Guide PDF
  5. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Paper Assignment PDF
  6. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Islam PPT
  7. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - The Clergy of the Middle Ages PPT
  8. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - The Commercial Revolution PPT
  9. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Second Exam Study Guide PDF
  10. HIST 103 - Western Civilization to 1648 - Revised Course Schedule, 5/17-5/24 PDF