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 Joe P. Dunn
Chair and
Charles A. Dana Professor of History and Politics
Humanities Division Coordinator
Director of Summer Programs
joe.dunn@converse.edu
Phone:
(864) 596-9101
Office:
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| Joe P. Dunn is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History &
Politics, Department Chair, Humanities Division Coordinator, and Director of Summer Programs at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, where he is in his 32nd year. He received a B.S. degree in history from Southeast Missouri State University (1967), an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) in history from the University of Missouri, and he completed post-doctorate work in political science at Duke University (1981). |
| He has published five books,
Teaching the Vietnam War: Resources and Assessments (1990),
The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (1991),
Desk Warrior: Memoirs of a Combat REMF (1999; second edition, 2005),
Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective on the Twentieth Century (2003), and A Good and Ordinary Life (2007), a memoir/history of his mother and the communities in rural Southeast Missouri that shaped her life. He is working on his next book, on the life of James Hutchison Kerr, a Missouri and Colorado educator, entrepreneur, politician. He has published more than 75 articles and 500 professional book reviews, given 65 conference papers, and made nearly 500 community presentations. He has been a guest scholar/lecturer at the Army War College, Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, and the Naval War College. He was a member of the Board of Scholars of the Vietnam Veterans Institute, and he has been interviewed in
The New York Times, Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times, Christian Science
Monitor, U.S. News & World Report,
USA Today, and others. In 2003 he gave the
Friend-Bollinger Regional History Lecture, an endowed distinguished professor honor at his alma mater. |
| Dr. Dunn serves as Executive Director of the Carolinas Committee on U.S.-Arab Relations and editor of its newsletter. He has been a Joseph J. Malone Faculty Fellow in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain (1990), Israel/Palestine and Egypt (1992), Lebanon and Syria (2001); Faculty Delegation Leader for the Kuwait Studies Program (2000) and the Arab League Exchange Program in Cairo (2003); and participant in the Council on International Educational Exchange International Faculty Development Seminars in Croatia and Bosnia (2002) and Jordan (2004). He has participated in missionary construction protects in the Dominican Republic, Peru, Egypt, Ghana and Cuba. He raised money to build an orphanage and churches, which are named in his honor, in the latter country. In January 2005 he was a visiting professor of history at the University of Iceland. |
| He received Converse College’s Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award, the Above and Beyond Award for Exceptional and Extraordinary Service to Students, and the Outstanding Campus Organization Adviser Award. He is a four-time South Carolina Governor's Distinguished Professor, three-time nominee for the CASE United States Professor of the Year, and recipient of the Outstanding Teaching in Political Science citation by the American Political Science Association and the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. |
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Dr. Dunn's teaching interests include the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, American foreign policy, recent political history, international relations, Islamic and Middle East Studies, and Women in Africa and Asia. |
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Download NEWSLINES (in PDF)The Newsletter of the Carolinas Committee on U.S.-Arab Relations by Joe P. Dunn
Volume XIII, No. 2
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| Read Professor Dunn's Journey to Jordan article. |
| Noted
Authority on Arab World Pens Opinion Article
Concerning Terrorist Attack, Spartanburg Herald-Journal |
| War's
changing front: If U.S. goes to war, what role
will it play in aftermath, GoUpstate.com |
| Read
Professor Dunn's account of travel and study in Croatia
and Bosnia/Herzegovina. |
| Opinion
Article on Rebuilding of Iraq, GoUpstate.com |
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