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TEXAS STATE VITA
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I. Academic/Professional Background
A. Name: Dennis Dunn Title: Professor and
Director
B. Educational Background
Degree Year University Major Thesis/Dissertation
PhD 1970 Kent State
University
History Stalinism and the Vatican, 1939-
1949
MA 1967 John Carroll
University
History Demetrius Gallitzin and Western
Pennsylvania
Certificate
in
Russian/East
European
Studies
1967 John Carroll
University
NA
BACL 1966 John Carroll
University
History and
Classical
Languages
NA
C. University Experience
Position University Dates
Director of International Studies Texas State University 1984 to
present
Professor of History Texas State University 1980+
Associate Professor of History Texas State University 1975-80
Assistant Professor of History Texas State University 1970-75
Instructor Cleveland State University 1968-69
Instructor Borromeo Seminary, Cleveland,
Ohio
1968
II. TEACHING
A. Teaching Honors and Awards:
Graduate College Student Mentoring Nominee, 2015
Everette Swinney Teaching Award (Texas State University Faculty Senate), 2014
Alpha Chi Professor, Texas State University, 2014
Piper Professor Nominee, 2014
Honorary Professor of International Studies, 2016-19, 2013-16, 2010-13, 2006-10
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Highest ranking on student evaluations, Dept. of History, TX State, 1974 to present. Highest ranking on student evaluations, Center for International Studies, 1984+ Merit Awards for Teaching Excellence, Dept. of History, TX State, 1974 to present.
B. Courses Taught:
Hist. 4334 Hist. 4334 Russia and Eurasia Since 1917, new hybrid (on-line and face-to-
face format) version, 2014-16
IS 4380 International Studies Senior Seminar, new hybrid (on-line and face-to-
face format) version, 2014-16
Hist. 2310 Western Civilization to Seventeenth Century
Hist. 2320 Western Civilization from Seventeenth Century
Hist. 2311 World Civilization to Seventeenth Century
Hist. 2312 World Civilization from Seventeenth Century
Hist. 4333 Russia and Eurasia to 1917
Hist. 4334 Russia and Eurasia Since 1917
Hist. 4335 20th Century East European History
Hist. 4318 Interpretations of Modern European History. 7 Course offerings:
Hist. 4388 Problems in History
Hist. 5335 Seminar in Modern Russia
Hist. 5336 Seminar in Modern East Europe
Hist. 5390 Problems in Historical Research
Hist. 5395 World History: Comparative Religions & Modernization
Hist. 5398 General Research Seminar
Hist. 5399A Thesis
Hist. 5399B Thesis
Honors 3391 Russia: Change and Continuity
Honors 2390: The Cold War
Honors 3391: Russia and Religion
IS 4380 International Studies Senior Seminar
IS 4687 International Studies Internship
IS 4387 International Studies Internship
IS 5387 International Studies Internship
American History to 1865 (at Cleveland State University)
American History from 1865 (at Cleveland State University)
Founder and director, Center for International Studies, including the curriculum that APR Teams call “the best IS program” between Univ. of Kentucky and Univ. of Arizona and “a stellar unit” that “is on a par” that of “Georgetown University.”
C. Graduate Theses/Dissertations or Exit Committees (if supervisor, please indicate):
Director of 22 MA theses for following students and member of theses committees for over 160
students. Thesis students include:
Dylan Harmon-Donovan, “A History of the Soviet Diaspora in the Post-Cold War Era
(1989-2015): Case Studies of Russian-Speakers in South Korea, Cambodia, and
The Netherlands,” 2015 (won Best Thesis in IS Award)
Maksat Abamov, “The Flower in the Desert: Turkmenistan’s Road to
Independence,” 2015 (won second place in Best Thesis in IS Award)
Steven Thompson, “General Philip Faymonville: Lend-Lease Administrator
at the Moscow Embassy,” 2012 (won Best Thesis in History)
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Stacey Mardock, “Secret Mission: Edward Flynn’s Visit to Moscow,” 2007
Whitten Smith, “Charles de Gaulle’s Trip to Moscow in 1944,” 2006
Cynthia Dinsmore, “The Truth About Religion in Russia: Religious
Propaganda During World War II,” 2004
Joan E. Reed, “Peter the Great, Great Britain, and the Modernization of
Russia’s Armed Forces,” 2003
John Barlow, “The Soldier Diplomat: Walter Bedell Smith, American
Ambassador to Moscow, 1946-1949,” 2003
Georgia T. Spaeth, “In the Hands of Roosevelt: Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
and the Washington Meetings,” 1998
Gregory L. Marquardt, “The Military Justification Behind the Liberation
of Czechoslovakia During the Second World War,” 1997
David Hildebrandt, “Reports from St. Petersburg: The British Embassy’s
Evaluation of Sergei Witte’s Economic and Industrial Policies,” 1995
Larry McNamee, “Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin: A Study in
Contrasting Personal and Political Character,” 1994
Nona J. Farris, “The Austrian Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the
Context of Russo-British Relations,” 1994
Emily A. Willms, “The Western Allies and the Soviet Union: The Fate of
the Baltic States. 1939-1943,” 1994
Mark A Van t’ Hooft, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign
Policy Toward Yugoslavia, 1939-1945, “ 1995
Mary C. Hiderbrandt, “The Roman Catholic Church and the Polish
Nation,” 1990
John Carhart, “Soviet Arms Diplomacy, 1975-1984: An Analysis of
Soviet Arms Aid to Angola, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua,” 1988
Robert Keith Jones, “Political Order in a Disordered Society: A View of
Soviet Involvement in Afghanistan,” 1986
Larry P. Knight, “Soviet Press Portrayal of Sino-Soviet Relations
During the Khrushchev Years, 1953-1959,” 1985
Jill D. Glenwinkel, “The Middle East Crisis of 1967: A Case Study
in American-Soviet Relations,” 1985
Allen Dean Wright, “Iran and the Superpowers, 1941-1955,” 1981
Mark E. Lemaster, “William Harrison Standley: United States
Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1942-43,” 1979
Director of honors theses for the following students:
Adam Odomore, “Challenges to Female Education in the Developing World and
International Efforts to Address Those Challenges,” 2016.
Marilyn A. Del Bosque, “From neutrality to war: what the Russian Revolution had to do
with Wilson's decision to enter the Great War," 2009.
Ryan Gorman, “Dostoevsky’s Answer to the Grand Inquisitor,” (second reader),
2003.
Amber G. Messenger, “The Russian Coup of 1993: Birth of Democracy or Return
To Authoritarianism?” 1998
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Gary Hartman, “Baltic Nationalism and the Quest for Independence,” 1991
D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development:
Developed new interdisciplinary Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies with a grant
from the U.S. Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign
Language Program, $189,000, 2009-12
Developed and managed MOUs with University of Kosovo, Group Zrinski (Zagreb,
Croatia), Thamassasat University (Bangkok), and Pannasastra University of
Cambodia, 2015; and National University of Laos, 2011.
Developed new Business and ESL Program for Kazakh Executives in association
Texas State College of Business and Crown Worldwide, Inc., 2012
Developed proposal for PhD in International Studies at TX State, 2007+
Co-developed (with Jack Mogab) the joint BAIS—International MBA Five-Year Degree
Program, US Department of Education’s International Business Program, 2006-8
Enhanced Asian Studies (undergraduate and graduate) with Kenneth and Verena Wilson
Endowment for Faculty/Student Exchanges in Asian Studies, 2006-7; and Ken
And Verena Wilson Asian Endowed Scholarship Program in Cambodia, 2007
Developed proposal for collaborative graduate degree in International Studies to
be offered by TX State, Monterrey Tech-Guadalajara, and University of
Alberta, 2006
Developed proposal for offering masters in international studies to the US
Army (San Antonio and Washington, DC), 2006
Developed new Certificate in Interamerican Studies, US Department of Education,
International Studies and Foreign Language Program, 2003-6
Organized conference to advance Canadian Studies with grant of $20,000 from
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, January-
April 2002
Developed and organized interdisciplinary curriculum in the Masters of Art with a
major in International Studies, 2001+
Developed major in Russian/East European Studies with a grant from the US
Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 1991-93
Developed Teacher Summer Seminar Program, Dept. of History, 1977-88
Developed and organized interdisciplinary curriculum in the Bachelor of Art
International Studies Degree (7 major tracks and a minor), 1984+
E. Funded External Teaching Grants and Contracts:
Developed new Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies with a grant from the US
Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 2009-12, $189,000
Developed new Certificate in Interamerican Studies with a grant from the US
Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 2003-6 (with emphasis upon Canada and Latin America), $157,000
Organized conference to advance Canadian Studies with grant of $20,000 from
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, January-
April 2002
Teacher Seminar Grant ($3,000), United States Business & Industrial Council
Education Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1997
Developed major in Russian/East European Studies with a grant from the US
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Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, $133,000, 1991-93
Teacher Seminar Grant ($500), United States Business & Industrial Council
Education Foundation, 1991-1992
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($13,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1988
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($14,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1987
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($12,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1986
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($14,800), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1985
World Speakers Teacher Grant, West Foundation, $5,000, 1984-85
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($17,600), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1984
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($10,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1983
Global Affairs Teaching Grant d ($22,435), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1982
Diplomacy and World Politics Grant ($20,000), National Strategy Information Center,
New York, 1981-82
International Studies Teaching Grant ($14,000), American Bar Association (Chicago),
1981-85
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($7.875), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1981
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($5,450), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1981
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($4,500), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1980
Teaching the Free Enterprise System Grant ($13,000), Texas Bureau For Economic
Understanding, Fort Worth, 1978-82
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($4,500), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1979
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($4,500), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1978
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($3,00), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1977
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($10,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1976
Global Affairs Teaching Grant ($10,000), Texas Educational Association Foundation,
1975
F. Secured Endowments and Gifts for student scholarships:
Helen Ratliff Cleaves Presidential Scholarship ($50,000), 2015 Piersol-Dunn Presidential Scholarship ($50,000), 2015 Margaret and Dennis Dunn Presidential Scholarship, $50,000, 2015 Dennis Dunn Family Scholarship Award, $5,000, 2015 Ivar Gunnarson F.I.R.S.T. Endowment, $100,000, April 2012 Thomas L. and Helen E. Cox Endowed Scholarship, $25,000, 2012 Aaron and Margaret Dunn Thorburn Pass-Through Scholarship, $1,000 annually
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Carol Fredericks Pass-Through Scholarship, $5,000, 2014 Dennie Burden Pass-Through Scholarship, annual commitment of $1,000, 2011+ Helen Ratliff Cleaves Memorial Fund, 2007-12, $225,000 (Honduran Faculty/Student Exchange and other initiatives) Kenneth and Verena Wilson Endowment for Faculty/Student Exchanges in Asia ($450,000+), 2006+ CIS Board of Director Scholarship ($6,000), 2010+ (annual awards) Ronald and Collette Johnson Pass-Through Scholarship (for International Studies majors), annual commitment of $1,000. 2006+ Crown Scholarship (endowment from W. Ross and Martha King, $25,000), 2009+ Ann Brunson Scholarship Endowment for International Studies Students, $25,000, 1996
G. Submitted, but not Funded, External Teaching Grants and Contracts:
U.S. Department of Education, 2005, to enhance Asian Studies
Pacific Cultural Foundation, 1988, 1992
FIPSE—to internationalize curriculum, 1992, Title VI, DOE, Asian Studies, 2004
Canadian Embassy, 2006, to establish faculty exchange with the University of
Alberta
III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE
A. Works in Print
1. Books (if not refereed, please indicate)
a. Scholarly Monographs:
“The Struggle for Souls: The Catholic Church and Soviet Russia, 1917-1939,”
(287 pp. ms. (waiting for editorial board approval, Routledge Publishing)
“I have no hesitation in fully recommending this book. It is very well structured,
beautifully written, draws on a wide range of archival sources and advances the latest
research in the field.” Routledge’s reviewer’s report.
A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, in press, to be released in summer 2016)
“A pioneering effort to show the influence of religio-political values on international
history, political identity, and contemporary politics” and “is provocative…insightful…engaging, insightful, and fascinating.” Palgrave-Macmillan’s reviewer’s report
The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars, and
Commissars: London: Ashgate Publishers, 2004.
(“standard account of the political history of Catholicism in Russia,” Church History)
Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin: American Ambassadors in Moscow
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. (Mezhdu Ruzvel’tom I
Stalinym: Amerikanskie posly v Moskve. Translated into
Russian by Mikhail Grebnev, Sergei Mitrich Publisher, Moscow, 2004.
(“An excellent book…by one of the finest scholars,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies)
Détente and Papal-Communist Relations, 1962-1978. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 1979, 261pp.
(”Breakthrough in the field,” Sabrina Ramet, co-editor of Cambridge University’s
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Politics and Religion)
The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government, 1939-
1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977, 267pp.
“This is a book which we have long been awaiting….[It] is a fully documented, objective and
clearly major work….On almost every page one admires the presentation of new material.”—
Times Literary Supplement
“The author deserves commendation for covering, as no one else has, the causes and course of
rocky-Soviet-Vatican relations in the 1940s, and the predicament of Eastern Europe’s Catholics
and Uniates traversing a most lethal decade.”—American Historical Review
b. Textbooks:
Co-author with Jerry Dawson, Folktales and Footprints: Stories from the
Old World. Austin, TX.: W. S. Benson & Company, 1973.
c. Edited Books:
Editor and contributor, Religion and Nationalism in the Soviet Union and
East Europe. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1987, 216pp.
“Editor [provided] overview... on nationalism and religion in Communist countries and their
interrelationship with the Marxist systems.”—Slavic Review
Editor and contributor, Religion in Communist Society.
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Slavic Studies, 1983, 250pp.
“Skillfully edited ”—Slavic Review
Editor and contributor, Religion and Modernization in the Soviet Union.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1977, 414pp.
“This book is particularly good.”—Slavic Review
d. Chapters in Books:
"Religion, Revolution, and Order in Russia," in Niels C. Nielsen, Jr., ed.,
Religion After Communism: Social, Political, and Cultural Struggle in
Russia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994, pp. 15-28. (Requested by
Niels C. Nielson of Rice University.)
"The Vatican, the Kremlin, and the Ukrainian Catholic Church," in David J.
Goa, ed., The Ukrainian Religious Experience. Edmonton, Alberta:
University of Alberta Press, 1989). Pp. 131-142. (Requested by
David Goa of University of Alberta; all expenses paid to Edmonton).
“Nationalism and Religion in Eastern Europe,” in Dennis J. Dunn, ed., Religion
and Nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Boulder: Lynne
Reinner, 1987, pp. 1-14.
“American-Soviet Relations Under Roosevelt,” in Michael Pap, ed., Russian and
Soviet Imperialism (Cleveland, Ohio: Institute for Soviet & East European
Studies, 1985, pp. 50-75 (Requested by Michael Pap of John Carroll
University; all expenses + stipend paid to present in Cleveland.)
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“The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government in the Baltic States, 1940-41,”
in V. Stanley Vardys, ed., The Baltic States in Peace and War, 1918-1945.
College Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978, pp.149-
58. (Requested by V. Stanley Vardys of University of Oklahoma.)
“Definitions and Summaries,” in Dennis J. Dunn, Religion and Modernization
in the Soviet Union. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1977, pp. 1-7.
(Conference grant from American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, the preeminent professional association for scholars of
Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia in the United States.)
“The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government in Soviet Occupied East
Europe,” in De George and Scanlan, eds., Marxism and Religion
In Eastern Europe (Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel Publishing, 1976):
107-118. (Requested by James Scanlan of Ohio State University.)
“The Papal-Communist Détente, 1963-1973,” in Bernard Eissenstat, ed., The
Soviet Union: The Seventies and Beyond. Lexington, MA: Lexington
Books, 1975, pp. 121-40. (Requested by Bernard Eissenstat of Oklahoma
State University.)
“The Irish Community of Cleveland,” in Michael S. Pap, ed., Ethnic Communities
of Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio: John Carroll University Press, 1973, pp.
179-86. (Requested by Michael Pap of John Carroll
University; all expenses + stipend paid to present in Cleveland.)
The Italian Community of Cleveland,” in Michael S. Pap, ed., Ethnic
Communities of Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio: John Carroll University
Press, 1973, pp. 187-200. (Requested by Michael Pap of John Carroll
University; all expenses + stipend paid to present in Cleveland.)
2. Articles
a. Refereed Journal Articles:
“From Revolution to Alliance,” review essay of Norman’s Saul’s Friends or Foes?
The United States and Russia, 1921-1941, Diplomatic History, January
2009, pp. 141-45.
“The Catholic Church in Russia Today: Part 1,” East-West Church Ministry
Report (Winter 2006), pp. 13-14.
The Catholic Church in Russia Today: Part 2,” East-West Church Ministry
Report (Spring 2006), pp. 7-9. (Both articles resulted from request
Of Mark Elliott, editor, to provide snapshot of Catholicn Church in
Russia today.)
“The West,” Commentary, June 1997, pp. 16-17.
“Nationalism and Religion,” Occasional Paper of the East European Program,
The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, January 1986, pp. 30-41.
(Invited paper and expenses paid to present paper at the Wilson Center.)
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“Papal Ostpolitik: A Current Assessment,” Journal of International Affairs,
Vol. 36/No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1982/83): 247-255.
"The Vatican: Global Reach," The Wilson Quarterly
(Autumn 1982): 113-23. (Request for article from Cullen Murphy,
editor of the quarterly journal of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars; stipend paid.)
“Solzhenitsyn and the West,” lecture published in the Proceedings of the Pacific
Cultural Foundation, Taipei, 1983. (All expenses and stipend paid by
Pacific Cultural Foundation to write and present paper in Taipei.)
“Roosevelt and His Ambassadors in Moscow: American-Soviet Relations, 1933-
1945,” lecture published in the Proceedings of the Pacific Cultural
Foundation, Taipei, 1983 (stipend paid by Pacific Cultural Foundation.)
“Religion, Nationalism, and Modernization in the USSR and China,” Problems of
Communism (March-April 1980): 64-67 (Invited review essay by United
States Information Agency’s premier journal on study of Communism.)
“Religious Renaissance in the U.S.S.R.,” Journal of Church and
State Vol. 19. No. 1 (1977): 21-36.
"Papal-Communist Detente: Motivation," Survey: Journal of Soviet and East
European Studies (spring 1976): 140-54. (Invited essay by Leopold
Labedz, editor of best journal on Soviet studies in the United Kingdom.)
“The Kremlin and the Vatican: Ostpolitik,” Religion in Communist Lands (Winter
1976), pp. 16-19 (Invited essay by Michael Bourdeaux, editor.)
“Pre-World War II Relations Between Stalin and the Catholic Church,”
Journal of Church and State Vol. 15, No. 2, 1973, 193-204.
“Stalinism and the Catholic Church During the Era of World War II,”
The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. LIX, No. 3 (October, 1973):
404-428.
“The Disappearance of the Ukrainian Uniate Church: How and Why?”
Ukrains’kyi Istoryk, Nos. 1-2 (1972): 57-65. (Requested essay by
Liubomyr Vynar, editor of quarterly of Ukrainian Historical Studies,
Boulder, Co.; managed by Harvard Ukrainian Studies Institute.)
“Gallitzin and Western Pennsylvania,” Western Pennsylvania Historical
Magazine, No. 4 (1972): 347-58.
5. Book Reviews: Hundreds of book reviews written for American Historical Review, Catholic
Historical Review, Slavic Review, Problems of Communism, International Affairs, Choice, Canadian
Journal of History, and many other journals. I cite a few recent, representative examples:
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B. Works not in Print
1. Invited Talks, Lectures, Presentation (invited, paid lectures and presentations)
C. Grants and Contracts
1. Funded External Grants and Contracts:
U. S. Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 2009-12, $189,000
U.S. Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 2003-6, $157,000
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, January-
April 2002, $20,000
U. S. Department of Education’s International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 1991-93, $133,000
D. Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
Visiting Research Scholar, Vatican City, 2013-14 Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin cited as basis for Julius Wachtel’s novel Stalin’s
Witnesses (KRP, 2013) and Diane West’s American Betrayal (St. Martin’s 2013) Visiting Fellow, Blackfriars College, Oxford University, 2007 Awardee, Dean’s Golden Apple Award for Research, Texas State, 2010 Selected as “Russian Expert” (with J. Arch Getty of UCLA) for film documentary
Called “Witness to Terror” by Pacific Street Films, 2005
Awardee, Dean’s Golden Apple Award for Research, Texas State, 2005 Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin: American Ambassadors in Moscow translated
into Russian and featured at Non-Fiction Book Fair, U.S. Embassy, Moscow,
December 2-5, 2004 (also listed on U.S. Dept. of State’s “Recommended Reading List)
Nanovic Institute for European Studies Lecture: “Religion and the Decline of the Soviet Empire,” University of Notre Dame (expenses & stipend), April 2004
Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin: American Ambassadors in Moscow nominated for “Best Book on Diplomacy” by the American Academy of Diplomacy (2000)
Invited Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1980-99 (annual lecture, stipend and expenses
paid)
Ranked first for Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship by the College of Liberal Arts Council, 1999 Dean’s Golden Apple Award for Research, 1999. Barnes and Noble Booksellers “Featured Author,” April 9, 1998, and May 15, 1998 Featured worldwide on C-SPAN television discussing U.S.-Soviet ties, August 1998) Invited Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 1991-98 (annual stipend) Invited Lecturer (US-USSR Ties and Catholic Church in USSR), John Carroll University, 1976-
96 (annual lecture, stipend and expenses paid)
Invited Guest, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Spasso House, U.S. Embassy, Moscow,
September 23, 1993.
Named Editor of the World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies’ manuscripts relating to religion and history/social sciences, 1980-90.
Invited Guest, US National Guard, Assessment Trip and Briefings by US Ambassadors in
Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, June 1-10, 1988
Invited Lecturer, Southwestern at Memphis, (stipend & expenses) 1987
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Member of Panel Discussion on the Ukrainian Catholic Church, chaired by William Buckley and
taped for broadcast on “Firing Line,” Duquesne University, March 1986.
Invited lecturer, Mississippi State University, (stipend & expenses) 1986
Invited Lecturer, Ohio State University, Portsmouth, (stipend & expenses), 1985
President’s Research Excellence Award, Texas State, 1985 Research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1981, 1984 Research Fellow, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taiwan, Summer 1982 Teaching Grant, American Bar Association (Chicago), 1981-85 Invited Lecturer, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (stipend & expenses), 1980, 1981
Research Fellow, Ford Foundation, Keston College, Oxford, England (with Michael
Bourdeuax, Bohdan Bociurkiw, & V. Stanley Vardys, Oxford’s Keston College, 1975-77
Research and Conference Grant to study religion and modernization in the Soviet Union, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1976-77
Invited Guest, U.S. Embassy Reception, hosted by U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson, London, October 20, 1975
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1975-76 Research Fellowship, Centre d’études sur l’U.R.S.S. et l’Europe Orientales, Ecole
pratique des hautes études, Paris (Summer 1975) Invited Lecturer, King’s College, London, November 1975
Kent State University Research Fellowship, Dissertation Support, 1969-70
Jennings Foundation Scholarship, John Carroll University, summer 1966.
IV. SERVICE
A. International Established and managed MOUs for teaching/student exchanges and study abroad
between Texas State and universities in Cambodia, Poland, Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany, Honduras, and others (covering 1984-2016)
Served as Texas State’s representative to Texas International Educational Consortium and managed Texas State-TIEC program in Malaysia, 1988-99
Served on Editorial board of World Congress of Slavic Studies, 1980-1990 Advised Pacific Cultural Foundation (Taiwan) on faculty exchanges, 1982-85
B. National: Evaluated manuscripts for University of North Carolina Press, University of Kentucky Press,
Indiana University Press, Rutledge Publishers, University of Oxford Press, Westview Press, Ohio State University Press, Ohio University Press, , and many other presses, 1978-2016
Reviewed Grants for National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institute of Peace, and International Studies and Foreign Language Program of the US Department of Education, 1986-2010
Selected with J. Arch Getty of UCLA as “Russian Experts” for film documentary Called
“Witness to Terror” by Pacific Street Films, 2005
President, Southwestern Association for Slavic Studies, 1980-81 Program Chair, American Catholic Historical Association, 1982
C. University:
Member, President’s International Task Force, 2010-11 Member, Financial Aid and Scholarship Committee, 2010-12
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Member, Senate Piper Nomination Committee, 2010-12 Established award of Honorary Professor of International Studies, 2006-16 Chair, President’s (Jerome Supple) Committee on Globalization, 1992-93 University Representative to Texas International Education Consortium, Austin, 1985-90
Organized and am faculty advisor for five student organizations: Sigma Iota Rho Honor Society (1985), Pa Gamma Mu Honor Society (2011), International Studies Club (1984), International Hostel Club (2012), and UNICEF Chapter (2014)
Promoted, organized, and administered Study Abroad Programs, 1984-89, Chair, Organized Research Committee, 1980-85 Member, dozens of University and College committees, 1972-2015 D. Departmental and University: Numerous and continuous departmental service roles, 1970—present, including graduate
committee, personnel committee, search committees, fundrasing committee, and evaluation committee; and memberships and chairs of many University committees.
E. Professional President, Southwestern Association for Slavic Studies, 1983-84 Vice President and Program Chair, Southwestern Association for Slavic Studies,
1982-83 Editor, Souiz, Newsletter of the Southwestern Association for Slavic Studies, 1975-77. Nominations Committee, American Catholic Historical Association, 1976-77 Member of the International Editorial Committee of the World
Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, 1980-90 (served as chief editor for all manuscripts on religion and history/social sciences for
Westview Press, Slavica Publishers, Berkeley Slavic Studies, Lynne
Reinner Publisher)