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Number of experts found: 59

 
Gar Alperovitz

Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
History/future of nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament strategies; political-economic issues including state/local responses to globalization, national fiscal crisis, wealth inequality, innovative responses to job outsourcing, social security reform, progressive trade policy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

(202) 387-8775

garalper@ncesa.org

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Elsa Barkley Brown

Associate Professor, Affiliate Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
African American political culture with an emphasis on gender. US History, African-American History, African-American Women's History

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4290

ebarbrwn@umd.edu

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Sabrina A. Baron

Visit Asst Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
Censorship, book collectors, the book trade, and news writing, as well as the history of reading and culture of publication in early-seventeenth-century England / Great Britain.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2906

sbaron@umd.edu

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Herman J. Belz

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Prof. Belz is an internationally known expert on American constitutionalism, as well as Civil War and Reconstruction history. He has written and appeared in the media to talk about everything from the Supreme Court to President Lincoln.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4287

redbelz@comcast.net
hbelz@umd.edu

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Ira Berlin

Distinguished University Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
US History, African-American History, Slavery; Reparations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4266

202-3636310

iberlin@umd.edu

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Stephen G. Brush

Distinguished University Professor, Affiliate Professor

History / Institute for Physical Science & Technology

Expertise Key Words:
The history of science and technology, the philosophy of science.

Professor Brush's long-term project is a comparative study of theory-evaluation in different sciences, by detailed study of several cases from the history of modern science.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4846

brush@umd.edu

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Suheil B. Bushrui

Affiliate Prof, Res Prof; Director, Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Project

College of Behavioral & Social Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
W.B. Yeats; international authority on the works of Kahlil Gibran; author of numerous scholarly articles on topics such as Arabic and English literature, interreligious understanding, intercultural communication, conflict resolution, and global issues.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6391

sbushrui@umd.edu

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Vincent Carretta

Prof

English

Expertise Key Words:
Writings and representations, both verbal and visual, of people of African descent in the English-speaking world during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. Transatlantic literature and culture in general during the same period in the English-speaking world.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3759

vac@umd.edu

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Melinda Chateauvert

Assistant Professor

African American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Sexuality, Gender, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Labor, history, queer politics, citizenship, race, racism, homosexuality, public policy, GLBT issues, reproductive justice, desegregation of higher education, African Americans, prostitution, sex work, Louisiana, death penalty, Maryland, baby boomers.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1164
202 262 2632

mchateau@umd.edu

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Bernard D. Cooperman

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, college-level teaching, Jewish History, early modern history, urban history. Current research: The development of communal institutions and political thought among Jews in Early Modern Italy.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4271

cooperma@umd.edu

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Katherine David-Fox

Asstant Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4281

kdavidf@umd.edu

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David Freund

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
20th-century U.S. history, urban and suburban change, racial politics, and the impacts of public policy on economic opportunity, built environments, and popular ideology.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1062

dmfreund@umd.edu

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Robert D. Friedel

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
My primary fields are the history of technology, with a focus on invention and innovation, and environmental history, particularly on the relationship between technology and environment.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4327

friedel@umd.edu

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Robert N. Gaines

Professor

Communication

Expertise Key Words:
History of Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Philodemus of Gadara, Marcus Tullius Cicero

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6526

gaines@arsrhetorica.net
gaines@umd.edu

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James B. Gilbert

Dist Univ Prof, Affiliate Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
American Cultural History including film.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4308

gilbertj@umd.edu

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Saverio Giovacchini

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
20th Century US Intellectual History, Film and Society, Euro-American Cultural Relations after WWII

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0542

saverio@umd.edu

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Andrea S. Goldman

Assistant Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Chinese history; early modern China; gender & sexuality; popular culture; Chinese drama.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4314

goldman@umd.edu

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Julie Greene

Assoc Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
I am a historian of labor and the working-class, with special interests in U.S. and Latin American history, politics and the state, and foreign policy and international relations. My work also deals with issues of race, ethnicity and immigration, and gender.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4265

jmg@umd.edu

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Maxine L. Grossman

Asstant Professor

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Religious Studies, Biblical Studies, ancient Judaism and early Christianity, Dead Sea Scrolls; Religion and Gender, Religion and Popular Culture, Methods and Theories in the Study of Religion

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4980

mgrossma@umd.edu

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Judith P. Hallett

Professor, Affiliate Professor

Classics

Expertise Key Words:
Prof. Hallett specializes in Latin language and literature; ancient Roman and Greek civilization; women, sexuality and the family in classical antiquity; and the classical tradition in America.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2024

301-229-2706

jeph@umd.edu

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Christopher T. Hanson

Assistant Professor

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Expertise Key Words:
Journalism, Journalism's role in pop culture, air crash and disaster coverage, American history, First Amendment, foreign policy, national security, environmental policy, politics and elections, space exploration, ethnic and gender stereotyping, public perceptions of crime.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6049
202 257 7921

202 342 5539

202 257 7921

chanson@umd.edu

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Sharon Harley

Associate Professor & Chair,; Affiliate Associate Professor

African American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Afro-American history, black culture, women's history and women and work.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1163

sharley@umd.edu

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James F. Harris

Dean and Professor

College of Arts & Humanities

Expertise Key Words:
Modern European and German History.

Dean Harris is also chairing the main campus committee overseeing the 150th Anniversary Celebration running from fall, 2005 through 2006.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2095

jfharris@umd.edu

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James A. Henretta

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Early American History;
legal and political history.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4269

henretta@umd.edu

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Jeffrey C. Herf

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern European and German intellectual, political and international history; memory and politics in Europe after 1945; Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism during World War II and the Holocaust; old and new elements in contemporary terrorism; facing difficult pasts in comparative perspective.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7667

jherf@umd.edu

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Miriam Isaacs

Visiting Associate Professor

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Yiddish Language and Culture including theater and film, Sociolinguistics, multiculturalism, fantasy and the supernatural in Yiddish literature, Holocaust and post-Holocaust literature.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0264

misaacs@umd.edu

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Meyer Kestnbaum

Assoc Prof

Sociology

Expertise Key Words:
Modern state citizenship war-making popular political uprisings revolution military obligation military service military mobilization the enemy noncombatant immunity civilian casualties guerrilla militia lack of restraint in war-making targeting civilians masculinity memory of war experience of war

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6431

mkestn@umd.edu

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James F. Klumpp

Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof

Communication

Expertise Key Words:
History of public speaking, political communication, argument, presidential speaking, debate,

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6520

jklumpp@umd.edu

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John R. Lampe

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Eastern European History, Economic History.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4370

jrlampe@umd.edu

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Hayim Lapin

Professor and Director

History

Expertise Key Words:
Ancient History, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, World of the Rabbis, Women in Judaism, Early Christianity

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4296
301 405 4720

hlapin@umd.edu

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Jacqueline Letzter

Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
French literature, eighteenth and nineteenth century, women, music, opera, Belgium

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4024

jletzter@umd.edu

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Yelena Luckert

Librarian III

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
Collection Management Librarian for History, Jewish Studies, Slavic Studies and Women's Studies.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9365

yluckert@umd.edu

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Victoria M. MacDonald

Assistant Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
Latino/Hispanic Education History of Education in the U.S., Relations between Blacks and Latinos in Education Higher Education Policy and Latinos

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7109

240-205-6061

vmacdona@umd.edu

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Lisa R. Mar

Assistant Professor

History & Asian American Studies Program

Expertise Key Words:
Immigration, race & ethnicity; Asian American Studies, Asian Canadian Studies Chinese immigration, Canada.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7051

lmar@umd.edu

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Marlene J. Mayo

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern Japanese History, East Asian History

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4309

mmayo@umd.edu

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Douglas P. McElrath

Curator, Marylandia/Rare Books/National Trust Library

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
History of books and printing, Maryland state history and culture, Maryland state government information, Maryland authors, rare books, fine press books, book collecting, book values, historic preservation of structures and sites.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9210

dmcelrat@umd.edu

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Alfred A. Moss

Associate Professor, Affiliated Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Slavery, African American history, reconstruction, segregation, American social and religious history, Anglican / Episcopalian history, civil rights, human rights. John Hope Franklin.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4317

almoss@umd.edu

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Robyn Muncy

Associate Professor, Affiliate Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
United States women's history;
history of social policy;
twentieth century U.S. history;
history of health policy;
welfare state history;
Nancy Drew.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8406

rmuncy@umd.edu

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William M. Nolte

Research Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Intelligence and National Security; Intelligence and Homeland Security; The Ethics of Intelligence; Congress and the American Intelligence Community

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3331

wnolte@umd.edu

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Michael Olmert

Professor of Practice

English

Expertise Key Words:
The connections between history and literature; the material past; the nature of history, literary history, and architectural history.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3746

410-745-3937

410-924-5433

olmert@umd.edu

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Keith W. Olson

Emeritus Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Presidents of the 20th Century: personalities, politics, elections, foreign relations. Watergate. The GI Bill and Veterans. Eisenhower and Civil Rights.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

802-985-0710
-

802-985-0710

kwolson@umd.edu
-

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Richard N. Price

Prof & Chair, Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
British History, Social History, History of the British Empire

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4277

rnp@umd.edu

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Whitman H. Ridgway

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
US History, Political and Legal History

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4303

ridgway@umd.edu

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Karin Rosemblatt

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Women and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Social Policy, Citizenship in Latin America.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4286

karosemb@umd.edu

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Leslie S. Rowland

Associate Professor; Affiliate Associate Professor; Affiliate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Southern History. The American South. Slavery and Emanciation. Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the United States. African Americans in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4274

lrowland@umd.edu

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Marsha L. Rozenblit

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern Jewish History; History of the Jews in Central Europe; Jewish Social History in Modern Times; Jews in Europe; Jews in the United States; Modern Austrian History; History of Central Europe; Habsburg Monarchy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4289

mrozenbl@umd.edu

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David A. Sartorius

Asst Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
Cuba, Caribbean, empire, colonialism, U.S.-Cuban relations, race and ethnicity, African diaspora, Latin America.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4287

das@umd.edu

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Paul L. Scham

Visit Asst Prof, Executive Director of Gildenhorn Inst. for Israel Studies

Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Middle East Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East peace process, Hamas-Israel relations, Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, Israeli history, Israeli politics and society, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9412

202-363-6094

202-701-3500

pscham@umd.edu
paulscham@gmail.com

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Joseph B. Scholten

Associate Director

Office of International Programs

Expertise Key Words:
Ancient History, Classical archaeology, Hellenistic world, Roman Republic, Roman empire. Ancient Mediterranean State formation. Ancient Mediterranean topography. Greek inscriptions, Latin inscriptions. Ancient numismatics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1559
301 405 8670

scholten@umd.edu

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Larry H. Shinagawa

Assoc Prof & Dir, Assoc Prof

Asian American Studies Program

Expertise Key Words:
--Census; Minority Demographics; Growth of minority communities; Minority Politics
--Asian Americans; Asian American Studies; Asian American demographics; Asian American politics; Asian American immigration and legislation; Intermarriage

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0996
301 405 0879

443 546 3764

lshinaga@umd.edu
larryshinagawa@yahoo.com

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David B. Sicilia

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Business history; economic history; corporate history; history of technology; regulation; Federal Reserve; marketing and consumer culture; U.S. history in the 20th century; Alan Greenspan.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7778

410 465 9659

dsicilia@umd.edu

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Nancy L. Struna

Affiliate Prof, Prof & Chair

American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
The social history of labor-leisure relationships and sport; the making and transformation of the American tavern.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1357

nlstruna@umd.edu

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Donald Sutherland

Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
French History: Revolution, modern, Napoleon

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4294

dsutherl@umd.edu

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Julie Taddeo

Visiting Assistant Professor; Director, Undergraduate Internship Program

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern British and European Cultural History; Gender/Women's Studies

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4304

taddeo@mail.umd.edu

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Anne S. Turkos

Librarian III, University Archivist

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
University of Maryland history; Halloween: Haunted Maryland.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9060

aturkos@umd.edu

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Mary K. Vaughan

Prof, Affiliate Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
Cultural, gender, and educational history of modern Mexico.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4313

mkv@umd.edu

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Daryle Williams

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

History

Expertise Key Words:
20th Century Brazilian cultural history; fine arts and Brazilian slave society. 19th Century Latin America.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4267 x50061

daryle@umd.edu

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Thomas Zeller

Assistant Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
The historical interplay between technology and the environment. Transportation history.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6471

tzeller@umd.edu

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Madeline C. Zilfi

Affiliated Associate Professor, Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
The history of Islam and the Middle East; 20th century Middle East history; gender issues - women and society in the Middle East. Lebanon.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8403

mzilfi@umd.edu

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