Thomas Spira | |
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Born | December 28, 1923 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
Died | September 26, 2005 Charlottetown, Canada |
(aged 81)
Education | B.A., City College of New York; M.A., Ph.D., McGill University |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of Prince Edward Island |
Title | Professor Emeritus |
Thomas Spira (1923–2005) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Prince Edward Island and editor of the Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, the first academic journal devoted to the study of nationalism. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Spira moved to the United States just before the outbreak of World War II . He enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program at the City College of New York in 1964, and later completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in History at McGill University in Montreal. Spira began teaching at the University of Prince Edward Island in 1980, and was named Professor Emeritus by its Board of Governors in 1998.