Kurt M. Boughan

Assistant Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

432B Capers Hall
843-953-5053
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.

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 Department's Director of Graduate Studies.


  1. Spring 2012 Course Materials
  2. HIST 104 - Western Civilization since 1648 - Syllabus and Course Schedule PDF
  3. HIST 104 - The English Civil War PPT
  4. HIST 104 - Louis XIV & Absolutism PPT
  5. HIST 104 - Western Civilization since 1648 - Enlightenment Philosophes PDF
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  7. HIST 340 - The Renaissance - Syllabus and Course Schedule PDF
  8. HIST 340 - Italian Geography Quiz Terms PDF
  9. HIST 340 - The Commercial Revolution PPT
  10. HIST 340 - The Rise of Communes PPT
  11. HIST 340 - First Paper Assignment PDF
  12. HIST 340 - Making of a Guild Republic, 1266-1310 PPT