EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of
Virginia, August 1991.
Dissertation: "Count Sergei Stroganov and the
Development of Moscow University, 1835-1847."
Advisor:
Professor Walter Sablinsky.
M.A., History, University of Virginia,
August 1986.
Thesis: "Evgenii Varga: A Soviet View of the Postwar
Capitalist World."
B.A., History, and B.S., Electrical
Engineering, University of Notre Dame, May 1982.
EMPLOYMENT
Professor of History, Division
of Humanities, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun campus, 2002-present
Associate Professor, Division
of Humanities, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun campus, 1998-2002
Assistant Professor, Division
of Humanities, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun campus, 1993-98
Instructor, Division of Humanities, Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun campus, 1991-93.
Instructor, Department of History, University of Virginia, Fall 1988
Instructor, Division of Continuing
Education, University of Virginia, Spring 1988
Teaching Assistant, Department
of History, University of Virginia, 1985-90
Electrical Test Engineer, Newport
News Shipbuilding and D.D. Co., Newport News, VA, 1982-84. Responsible
for the supervision of on-board testing and construction of electrical control
systems for submarine nuclear power plant.
GRANT AWARDS
Spring 2008, National
Endowment for the Humanities, proposal writer for the Community College
Huamnities Association, "Bharata Darshan: The Past and the Present in
the Study of India’s History and Culture," summer institute (not included in dollar calculation below)
Fall 2007, Northern Virginia Community College,
Professional Development College-wide Initiative to support "The
Humanities in the Twenty-First Century" Project
Fall 2007, National Endowment for the
Humanities, director of a faculty humanities workshop, The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
Spring 2003, Northern Virginia Community
College Educational Foundation, Educational Foundation Award to purchase database
software for support of distance education courses.
Spring 2001, Northern Virginia Community
College, Technology Grant Award to direct the continuing development of the
Dogwood Project.
Spring 2000, Northern Virginia Community
College, Technology Grant Award to direct the development of a pilot virtual learning
community, Dogwood.
Fall 1999, National Endowment for the Humanities, director of a
national education project entitled Advancing the
Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges.
Summer 1999, Ford Foundation, American Historical Association-Community
College Humanities Association partnership, co-director of a summer research seminar at the Library of Congress on
Globalizing Regional Studies.
Spring 1999, Northern Virginia Community
College, Technology Grant Award to direct the development of a pilot virtual learning
community, Dogwood.
Spring 1999, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to develop a series of web-based study modules
for history of Western Civilization and
Contemporary World
Civilization courses.
Fall 1998, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to develop an interactive multimedia program dealing with the
Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Summer 1998, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to study the work of the Russian Islamicist
Vasilii Barthold.
Spring 1998, National Endowment
for the Humanities, director of a focus grant entitled Teaching the Humanities
in a World Wide Web Environment.
Fall 1997, Virginia Community
College System Courseware Project Request-for-Partners Award to Develop a
World Wide Web Course Model.
Summer 1997, Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Grant for application of Multimedia Technology
to Teaching the Western Civilization Courses.
Spring 1997, Northern Virginia
Community College, Course Development Stipend.
Spring 1997, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to develop a CD-ROM of Resources for
Teaching the History of Western Civilization.
Summer 1996, National Endowment
for the Humanities, director of a national institute to study Islamic History
and Cultures.
Summer 1994, National Endowment
for the Humanities, director of a summer faculty study grant at Northern
Virginia Community College to study Islamic History and
Culture.
Fall 1995, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to develop a Multimedia Approach to
Teaching World History.
Fall 1995, Perkins Tech-Prep Grant
for development of a Historic Preservation Program.
Summer 1995, Virginia Community
College System, Research Grant Award to research Islamic Studies in Imperial
Russia.
Spring 1993, Northern Virginia
Community College, "Classroom of the Future" Project for a Multimedia Laboratory
at the Loudoun Campus.
Summer 1992, Annenberg/CPB course
development stipend as part of a grant for distance education history
courses.
Summer 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994,
1993, Summer Research Library, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Academic Enhancement Program
Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1989-1991.
Foreign Language Area Studies
Fellowship, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Virginia,
1988-1989.
Governor's Fellowship and Henry
Clay Marchant Fellowships, Department of History, University of Virginia,
1987.
Summer Foreign Language Institute
Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1987.
Total grant funding awarded = $1,018,589
PUBLICATIONS
(with Jennifer Lerner) Project Pedagogy: Ideas for Better Teaching (2005); Second edition as Project Pedagogy: Some Ideas for Better Teaching (2009).
Instructor's Resource Manual for
Twentieth-Century World, 6th ed., by Carter Findley and John Rothney (2006).
"Project Outcomes [Determinants of
Successful Web Development Projects]." Community College Humanities Review.
23 (Spring 2002): 7-18.
Editor and Introduction. "Advancing the
Humanities through Technology at Community Colleges." Community College Humanities Review.
23 (Spring 2002).
Editor and Introduction. "Globalizing
Regional Studies: Crossing Intellectual, Institutional and International
Borders and Strengthening Area Studies through World History." Community College Humanities Review,
special issue (forthcoming).
"Vasilii Barthold:
Orientalism in Russia?" Russian History. 26 (Spring 1999): 25-44.
"Berezin, Il'ia
Nikolaevich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian,
Soviet, and Eurasian History, volume 4. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic
International, 1999.
"Bartold, Vasilii
Vladimirovich." The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian,
Soviet, and Eurasian History, volume 3. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic
International, 1999.
"Teaching the History Survey Course
Using Multimedia Techniques." American Historical Association
Perspectives, 36 February 1998): 17-19.
Editor and Introduction. "Studies
in Islamic History and Culture." Community College Humanities Review,
special issue (Fall 1997).
"Studying Islamic History and
Culture." Virginia Community College Association Journal, 10
(Spring 1996): 6-10.
"Debate in the Soviet Union? Evgenii
Varga and His Analysis of Postwar Capitalism, 1946-50." Essays in
History, 32 (1989): 1-17.
Review of The Compleat Handbook
and Glossary of Soviet Education, by George Fletcher, and Russian
and Soviet Education, 1731-1989, by William Brickman. In East/West
Education 14 (Fall 1993): 174-75.
Review of Vergleichende
Bildungsforschung und Systemwandel im östlichen Europa, by Wolfgang
Hörner. In East/West Education, 15 (Spring 1994):
92-93.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Islamic History and Culture in
the Humanities Curriculum." Community College Humanities Association Conference,
New Orleans, October 1997.
"Multimedia and the Introductory
History Survey Course." Envisioning the Future Conference, H-NET: Humanities
and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, September
1997.
"Incorporating Islamic History
and Culture in the Humanities: Report on a NEH-Sponsored Summer Institute
at Northern Virginia Community College." Community College Humanities Association
Conference, Washington, DC, November 1995.
PRESENTATIONS
"Practical
Applications of Educational Technology," Community College of Rhode Island, 12 May 2000.
"The Changing Nature of
History Instruction and Technology," Roanoke College, 1 June 1998.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2001 Virginia Community College System Technology in Education Award
1997 Outstanding Service to the
College Award, Northern Virginia Community College Educational
Foundation
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Russian, French, German and
Italian
MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies
American Historical
Association
Community College Humanities Association
Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers
Southeast Regional Middle East
and Islamic Studies Seminar
Southern Conference on Slavic
Studies
OTHER
Former Faculty Abstractor for Historical
Abstracts published by ABC-CLIO.
Former Book Review Editor for East/West
Education.
Contributor to the Supplemental
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.
Faculty manuscript reviewer for St. Martin's,
Houghton-Mifflin, Harper-Collins and other publishers.
Spring 1993, participated in "Science
across the Curriculum," a seminar sponsored by a Department of Education
FIPSE grant.
Summer 1990, studied Russian for
five weeks in the Soviet Union.
Spring 1989, organized a graduate
colloquium on nineteenth-century Russian history for Professor Walter
Sablinsky
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