David A. Meier, Ph.D. Home Address Email Business 1398 9th Street East [email protected] 291 Campus Drive Dickinson, ND 58601 Internet Address Dickinson, ND 58601 (701) 225-9272 www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/ (701) 483-2116 Homepage.html Career Overview 2002- Dickinson State University, Full Professor 2000- Chair, Department of Social Sciences 1999- Tenured, Dickinson State University, Associate Professor 1996- Dickinson State University, Associate Professor 1993-1996 Dickinson State University, Assistant Professor 1992-1993 Radford University, Visiting Assistant Professor 1991-1992 Pomona College, Visiting Assistant Professor 1990-1991 Illinois State University, Visiting Assistant Professor 1989 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant 1988 Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Research Assistant, (December 1988) for Dr. Wolfram Werner on his work Der Parlamentarische Rat, 1948-1949. Akten und Protokolle. Band 4. Ausschuß für das Besatzungsstatut 1986 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant Administrative Experience 2000- As chair at a smaller institution, the breadth of my experience is one of my strengths: Program Review for Social Sciences (History, Political Science, Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Work, and (beginning in 2003) Economics). Tenure and post-tenure review processes. Faculty plans. Merit raises. Review of student applications for admittance to teacher education program and graduation. Creation of Pre-Law and Criminal Justice programs. Development of internship programs with Dickinson Museum Center, Dickinson Police Department, and many more. Expansion of existing programs through additional multidisciplinary cross-listings with Agriculture, Music, and Art. Major-equivalency evaluations for North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and as service to local teachers. Budget issues. Equipment purchases. Faculty development funds. Development of honors program. Development of undergraduate student research and history honors program (Phi Alpha Theta). History Day competition. Participation on Vice President for Academic Affairs Council. Chair of faculty search committees within Social Sciences for American History, Political Science, and Geography/ Anthropology. Institutional search committees for Dickinson State University President and Head Librarian. From 2000-2012 reported only to VPAA. Teaching Experience: Courses 1993- Dickinson State University: World Civilizations (HIST 211 (also online with Moodle) and HIST 212), Women in History (HIST 303) – only as Online course, Modern Germany (HIST 335), Middle Ages (HIST 375) ) – also as Online course, Modern Britain (HIST 330), Imperial Russia (HIST 350), History of the Soviet Union (HIST 355), History of Eastern Civilization (History 360), Cultural/Intellectual History of Modern Europe (HIST 380) (also online with Moodle), Europe in the 19th Century (HIST 399), The World since 1890 (HIST 400), The World since 1945 (HIST 440) as IVN class, Seminar in History/Political Science (HIST 491/POLS 491) (also online with Moodle), Seminar in Sociology (SOC 491), Second World War (HIST 499), History of the Spanish Inquisition (HIST 499), Rituals of Retribution (HIST 499), Adolf Hitler (HIST 499), Historical Jesus (HIST 499), History of Modern Anti-Semitism (HIST 499), Cold War Spies (HIST 499), Europe in the 17th Century (HIST 499), The Holocaust (HIST 382) – in-class and as Online course, as well as Holocaust Resource Center Teachers' Workshops and CommUniversity. 1992-1993 Radford University: Europe in the 20th Century, Western Civilization since 1500, Germany since 1848, and Germany since 1945. 1991-1992 Pomona College: Europe in the 19th Century, Europe in the 20th Century, Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, and Europe since 1945. 1990-1991 Illinois State University: World History to 1650, World History since 1650, Modern Germany. 1989-1990 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Teaching Assistant): Second World War, World in the 20th Century, Russian History since 1801, and Russian History to 1801. Academic Preparation 1990 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Modern European History. Doctoral Examinations Passed with Distinction, April 1986. 1987-89 University of Mainz (Fulbright Scholar) 1983-85 University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. in Modern European History. 1982-83 University of Frankfurt am Main (DAAD Grant Recipient) 1979-82 Eastern Illinois University, B.A. in History and German. Doctoral Dissertation 1990 Managing the West Germans: The Occupation Statute of 1949 from Gestation to Burial, 1945-1955, examined the political and social interaction of West Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States towards improving relations and ,terminating controls over the West German state. Scholarships and Awards 2012 Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University 2011 Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, June 11-22 2010 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, NEH Institute, July 6 - August 11. 2009 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), 5-9 January 2009, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2003 U.S. Air War College, Maxwell AFB, National Security Forum, May 25-30 2002 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) on the Concentration Camp System, 7-11 January 2002, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2000 Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University 2000 DSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year from the College of Arts and Sciences 1998 Holocaust Educational Foundation Grant 1996 Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University 1995 Holocaust Educational Foundation Scholar 1995 Fulbright German Summer Studies Seminar 1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant 1994 Holocaust Educational Foundation Scholar 1988-1989 Fulbright Scholar, University of Mainz 1988-1989 Ostkolleg Seminar Fellow (Cologne) 1987-1988 Fulbright Scholar, University of Mainz 1982-1983 DAAD Scholarship and Language Scholarship Internet Activities 1999-Present Online Courses: Holocaust in Historical Context, Women in History, World Civilizations to/since 1500, The World Since 1945, Cultural-Intellectual History, and Modern America. See also Teaching Experience. 1997-2002 H-Antisemitism Moderator (Michigan State University) 1998-2001 Holocaust Educational Foundation Webmaster 1997 Discovery Channel Online Expert Consultant Services and Support Provided to the Following NBC Meyer Television Prentice-Hall Publishers Dickinson Press McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishers Bismarck Tribune Holocaust Educational Foundation Houghton-Mifflin Publishers Baumann, DeSeve, & Landau Yad Vashem (Israel) North Dakota Prairie Public Radio Canadian Broadcasting Corp. RoutledgeFalmer Publishers Longman Publishers Joachim Museum (ND) Collegiate Press Lexington Books Pearson Books, Articles, Presentations, and Various Affiliations (ca. 80) 2015 A Brief Cultural-Intellectual History of the West (National Social Science Press) proposed. 2014 “Anacharsis: Rediscovering History in the 18th Century,” Hawaii University International Conferences On Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, January 4-6, 2014. 2013 “Patriot or Traitor: Assessing Otto John's Motives for "Defecting" in 1954,” German Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 3-6, 2013. 2013 College Board AP World History Reader 2013 “Militia Movement,” in Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West by Steven L. Danver (Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press (Sage), 2013) 2013 “Terrorism & Counter-Terrrorism,” four presentations, CommUniversity, Dickinson, ND, 02/2013. 2012 The Holocaust: An Interactive Text (National Social Science Press). 2011 College Board AP World History Reader 2010 College Board AP World History Reader 2010 “Roosevelt and the Kishniev Pogroms,” presented for the Fifth Annual Theodore Roosevelt Symposium, Dickinson State University, September 16-19. 2010 “A History of Antisemitism,” CommUniversity, four presentations, Dickinson, ND, 02/10. 2009 College Board AP World History Reader 2009 “German War Criminals in the Netherlands, 1945-1989,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 8-11, 2009. 2009 Modern World History: An Interactive Text (National Social Science Press, 2010), Chapters 12 and 18. 2009 “Quentin Roosevelt,” presented for the Third Annual Theodore Roosevelt Symposium, Dickinson State University, Oct. 17. 2009 A Cold War Catastrophe (Create Space). 2009 “The European Enlightenment,” four presentations, CommUniversity, Dickinson, ND, 02/09. 2008 Dickinson State University and Ukrainian Cultural Institute Present Program to Commemorate Famine in Ukraine, July 18, moderator. 2008 “History of the Holocaust: An Overview,” presented at Teaching about the Holocaust sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Fargo, ND, June 11. 2008 “The Holocaust,” four presentations, CommUniversity, Dickinson, ND, 02/2008. 2008 College Board AP World History Reader 2007 “What Should Educated Persons Know?” 4 presentations, CommUniversity, Dickinson, ND, 02/07. 2007 "Superheroes and Philosophy," book discussion lead by Dr. David A. Meier, Stoxen Library, DSU. 2006 “The Stasi Experience and German History” submitted for possible publication in Central European History. 2006 “Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education,” April 10-11, Denver, participant, sponsored by Peter J. Fredlake, Coordinator, Museum Teacher Fellowship Program, Education Division, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2006 “Europe in the 17th Century,”