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Dr. Stephen E. Balzarini has been teaching at Gonzaga University since 1978. His academic interests include 19th and 20th century European political and diplomatic history, modern British history and military history. Dr. Balzarini's interest in military history arose out of research on interwar European disarmament and summer participation in the ROTC Military History Workshop at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Dr. Balzarini also has an interest in local and Pacific Northwest history that has been stimulated by his students' work in the Historical Methods class. He has won the Gonzaga University teaching excellence award (1992) and has been recognized in Who's Who in American Teachers (1998). When not studying history, Dr. Balzarini enjoys reading British mysteries and playing golf.

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Professor of History Robert Carriker is in his thirty-eighth year of teaching at Gonzaga University where he has twice won scholar awards. Together with his wife, Eleanor, he has published on a variety of topics, but most notably in the fields of Jesuit missions, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the Columbia River.

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Dr. Kevin Chambers received his doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. Dr. Chambers teaches upper division courses in Latin American history and Historical Methods, lower division courses in United States history. His research in Latin American History centers on the experience of Paraguay, especially the Guarani-speaking populations. He received a Fulbright Fellowships for research in Paraguay in 1996. While teaching at Gonzaga, Dr. Chambers has published chapters about Paraguay in The South American Handbook, an edited volume concerning the history of Latin American countries since 1945.

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Eric Cunningham has been at Gonzaga since 2003. A specialist in modern Japanese history, Dr. Cunningham also teaches courses in world and East Asian history. He earned his BA in History from the University of Colorado in 1984, an MA in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon in 1999, and a PhD, History, also from the University of Oregon in 2004. Dr. Cunningham's other areas of scholarly interest include intellectual history, popular culture, postmodernism, literary critical theory, Zen Buddhism, and eschatology.

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MW 1-2 Tues 11-12

Biography: Ph.D. History, University of California Santa Barbara, 1982
M.A. History, University of California Santa Barbara, 1977
B.A. History, Santa Clara University, 1974
Research Fields: Social and cultural history of medieval England; aristocratic women

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Professor Donnelly earned his Ph.D. from Marquette University, M.A. from Portland State University, and B.S. at Western Oregon University.

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Professor Betsy Downey is an American Historian whose interests, in keeping with her American Studies degree, are wide-ranging. In addition to her work in American History and American Literature at the University of Denver, she has also studied the Cold War, the New Deal, women in American Literature, and women in European History in post- doctoral seminars at Stanford University and the University of Connecticut. She has published on the Cold War, domestic violence on the frontier, and the works of Mari Sandoz. She has given numerous papers on these topics and also on preservation of the buffalo, the Cascade Crest Trail, and women in ski patrolling. A serious photographer, she has used photography in many of her presentations, and her photographs were used in a book on early childhood by faculty in the School of Education.

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Dr. Andrew L. Goldman has been a member of the Gonzaga History Department since the fall semester of 2002. His fields of special interest are ancient history (Roman and Greek), classical archaeology, and the classical languages (Latin and Greek). He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1988, and his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He has spent several years living and teaching abroad: he lived in Ankara, Turkey, as a Fulbright Fellow and instructor at Bilkent University (1995-97), and in Rome as a teacher at Duke University's Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (1999-2000). Since 1992, he has been an active member of the excavation team at the ancient site of Gordion (central Turkey), where he has been studying the economic and social history of the small Roman-period town that flourished there between the 1st and 5th centuries AD. He has recently published several Latin inscriptions and the funerary finds from the Roman cemeteries at Gordion. During the summer of 2004 and 2005, with the aid of a Loeb Foundation Grant from Harvard University, he directed a team of archaeologists and assistants in what was the first systematic excavations of the Roman town on the site. In the course of this fieldwork, Roman weapons and armor were unearthed, providing the first concrete evidence for the hypothesis that the town was a minor Roman military site. The material, dating from the first and second centuries AD, is some of the earliest Roman military equipment excavated in the Roman East, and the site is the only Roman military base of its period to ever have been explored in Turkey.

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Dr. Ted Nitz teaches world, Middle Eastern, Islamic, and modern European history, and is the director of International Studies for Gonzaga University. His research and scholarly interests include imperial and Weimar Germany, the early history of the Nazi Party in Hessen-Darmstadt, church and state relations, and European relations with the Middle East. Before beginning his doctoral studies at Washington State University in 1991, he served as an officer in the US Air Force for 23 years with assignments in Germany, the Republic of Turkey, and the United States while traveling throughout Europe and parts of the Middle East.

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