Arquivo F1167 - John Sherwood fonds

John Sherwood (1931-1986), Professor of History at Queen's University, was first appointed to the faculty of Arts and Science in 1964. His undergraduate work was done at St. Peter's College, Jersey City (1953), after which he served as a French translator in the U.S. Army for two years. Following his M.A. from Columbia in 1959, a Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to study for two years in Paris. His major publication was Georges Mandel, a biography of a leading French politician of the interwar period. It was published in 1970 after considerable revision of his doctoral thesis (Columbia, 1967). Two other long studies were published in 1980 and 1985.At the time of his death in 1986 Dr. Sherwood was involved in four major projects