Present | Associate Professor of History, Campbell University ‐ Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2016 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2015 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2012 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2011 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2010 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2009 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2008 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
2005 | Course Development Stipend for Honors 350, Popular Culture and the Sacred |
College or Arts & Sciences, Campbell University | |
2004 | University Summer Research Grant |
Campbell University | |
1995 | Myrna Bernath Research Fellowship |
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations | |
1995 | Research/Travel Grant |
English Speaking Union of the United States-Atlanta Branch | |
1994 | Research/Travel Grant |
English Speaking Union of the United States-Atlanta Branch | |
1994 | Research/Travel Grant |
Institute of International Education |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2017 - Present | Member, Strategic Initiative Committee on Academic Advisement | 2016 - Present | Faculty Advisor, History Club | 2016 - Present | Member, Presidential Committee on University-Wide Commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation | 2010 - Present | Chair, Student Advisement Committee | 2014 - 2016 | President, Campbell University Friends of the Library | 2012 - 2014 | Vice-President, Campbell University Friends of the Library | 2009 - 2012 | Member, Library Committee | 2009 | Member, Faculty Grievance Committee | 2009 | Member, Quality Enhancement Program Topic Selection Committee | 2008 - 2009 | Member, Student Executive Conduct Committee | 2001 - 2009 | Faculty Co-advisor, College Democrats | 1999 - 2009 | Member, Cultural Activities Committee, Lecture Symposium | 2007 - 2008 | Member, Faculty Development and Evaluation Committee | 2007 - 2008 | Member, Library Committee | 2006 - 2008 | Member, Greek Life Study Committee | 2004 - 2008 | Member and Vice-Chair (2006-2008), Faculty Senate | 2006 - 2007 | Member, Benefits Ad Hoc Committee | 2003 - 2004 | Member, CU External Scholarships Ad Hoc Committee | 2001 - 2004 | Member, United Ministry Council | 2000 - 2004 | Faculty Advisor, Campbell Catholic Community |
Honors and Awards
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, College of Arts & Sciences, May 2016
- Student Government Association, Professor of the Year nominee, April 2012
- Student Government Association, Professor of the Year nominee, April 2008
- Honorary Member, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, April 2005
- Coach of the Classroom (Women’s Basketball), Department of Athletics, March 2003
- Coach of the Classroom (Men’s Basketball), Department of Athletics, January 2001
- Coach of the Classroom (Women’s Basketball), Department of Athletics, November 1999
- Neill Achievement Award (Political Science), 1987
- Phi Alpha Theta (History honor society), 1988
- Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science honor society), 1988
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, 1987
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1986
Courses
- Soviet History through Film, Literature, and Culture
- Historiography and Historical Methods
- The United States in the Twentieth Century
- The United States in the Nineteenth Century
- American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
- Eastern Europe: An Area Study
- The Presidency
- Congress and the Presidency
- Western Civilization I and II
- United States History I and II
- American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
- Revolutionary Europe
- Twentieth Century America
- Nineteenth Century America
- Popular Culture and the Sacred
- Revolutions in Modern History
- An Exploration of Modern Conservatism
- The Soviet Union and World War II
- Soviet History Through Literature
- History and Memory of World War I
- Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Politics
- American Environmental History and Policy
- Women in America
- The Historical Presidency
- Research in Twentieth Century US Foreign Policy
- Russia since 1900
- Eastern Europe: An Area Study
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russia
- Women in the Gulag
- The Social Context of American Law
- Crime and Cold War in Eastern Europe
2001 | Ph.D., Emory University ‐ American History | |
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1994 | M.A., Emory University ‐ History | |
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1988 | B.A., Washington State University ‐ Political Science | |
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