Paul Lambert

Professor Lambert has been at Nichols since 1995 and served as History program chair from 2014 until 2017.  He has taught a variety of courses in U.S. and World History and in Political Science over the years; he has a particular interest in studying political leadership, seeing political biography as a way to discover what makes leaders tick.  In an effort to promote interest in history outside of the classroom, Professor Lambert founded and serves as the faculty advisor to the Nichols College History Club.  He also initiated and advises Nichols’ chapter of the History honor society Phi Alpha Theta.  In 2022 he became Library Archivist, a task he takes on in conjunction with offering a course on the 200-year history of Nichols as an educational institution.

 

Depending on the semester, Professor Lambert teaches the following courses:

• Ancient Societies
• The Medieval World
• The Modern Age
• World War II
• Modern Europe
• Nichols & Its History
• American Presidents
• Business, Government, & Regulation

Other courses he has taught in the past include surveys in Western Civilization and U.S. History as well as classes on the Age of Napoleon, the World since 1945, Scandals in American Politics, and Introduction to Political Science.

 

Outside of Nichols, Professor Lambert volunteers as a docent at the Samuel Slater Experience, an interactive museum of local and industrial history located in Webster.  He has served as a judge at the the regional and state levels of the annual Massachusetts History Day competition for many years.  He is past president of two professional organizations, the New England Historical Association and the former Central Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies.

Publications

• Review of Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America by Christopher Matthews

  : In The Historian 60 (Summer 1998): pp. 867-868

• “The Effects of Broad Churchmanship on Public Worship: William R. Huntington, Alexander H. Vinton, and Ritual in Low-Church Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1902.”

  : Anglican and Episcopal History 67 (March 1998): pp. 69-92