Department of History                                                                                                   1115 S. Kline
Northern State University                                                                                             Aberdeen, SD 57401
Aberdeen, SD 57401                                                                                                      (605)229-2713
                                                                                                                                         (605)626-2608
 
 

EDUCATION

 Ph.D., History, University of California, Davis, August 1988. Dissertation: Eschatological Solutions to Ethical and Evangelistic Dilemmas in the Ante-Nicene Church.  Advisor: Dr. Stylianos Spyridakis.

 Master of Arts, History, California State University, Sacramento, January 1986.

 Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Stanford University, April 1974.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

 Major field: Ancient History
 Additional teaching fields: Medieval History, New Testament

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 Assistant Professor/Associate Professor, Professor, Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy, Northern State University, 8/88--present.

 I teach on a regular basis History 121 (Survey of World Civilization to 1600), History 122 (Survey of World Civilization from 1600 to the Present), and upper-division seminars in Greek, Roman, and Early Church history.  Additional courses taught in past semesters include: History 152 (U.S. History from 1877 to the Present), SEED 415 (Special Methods for Secondary Social Studies Teachers), SS 300 (South Dakota Native American), Educational Foundations 475 (Human Relations), and IDL 199 (College Success).

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

 Department Coordinator, Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy, Northern State University, 1991--2002.

GRANTS

 "What's In a Date?  The Collision of Mythological Chronology and History."  Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Study Grant.  Summer 1995.

 "Integrating Computer Technology in the Social Science Special Methods Class."  Governor Janklow Faculty Award for Teaching with Technology.  Summer, 1998.

 "Classroom Observation and Peer Review."  Office of Instructional Services Mini-Grant.  Fall, 1998.

 "On-line Study Aids for History 121 (World Civilizations I).  Office of Instructional Services mini-grant.  Fall, 1998.

 "On-line Study Aids for History 122 (World Civilizations II).
 Office of Instructional Services mini-grant.  Fall, 1999.

“Computer Technology and Distance Learning in the Social Science Methods Class.” Governor Janklow’s Advanced Award for Teaching with Technology. Summer 2001.

"Computer Technology for the English/History Learning Community."  Governor Janklow's Advanced Award for Teaching with Technology. Summer 2002.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

 Presentations:

 "The Impact of the Frontier on the History of the Church."  Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fall 1993.
 
 "Shtick and Tricks: The Easy Road to Teaching Stardom."  Northern Conference on Teacher Education, August 1993.

 "Classrooms Full of Stars: Theater Games Across the Curriculum."  Northern Conference on Teacher Education, August 1994.

 "Socrates Gets What He Deserves."  Northern Conference on Teacher Education, August 1995.

 "Did Wishing Make it so?  Prophecy, Propaganda, and Political Change in Rome and Persia."  Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fall 1995.

 "Stand Up and Shake the Hand of Someone You Can't Stand: Tolerant Bigotry in America."  South Dakota Humanities Conference, Fall 1995.

 "Excellence: Is it Worth the Effort?"  Hoven High School Graduation, Spring 1996.

 "Helping Students Make History: The Term Paper as a Work of Art."  Northern Conference on Teacher Education, Fall 1996.

 "What did Zoroaster Really Say?  What Our Students Ought to Know about Zoroastrianism."  Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fall 1997.

 "The Tragedy of the Common Bureaucrat: Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Its Sources."  Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Spring 1999.

 "Eschatological Inconsistency in the Ante-Nicene Fathers?” Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring 2001.

“God within the Shadow: The Biblical Framework of Shakespearian Theater.” Northern Great Plains Early British Literature Conference, Spring 2001.

 “Why Johnny Can’t Translate: The 1611 Versions and Their Modern Equivalents.”  Northern Great Plains Early British Literature Conference, Spring 2002.

 On-Campus and Local Community Presentations:

 "Love, Sex, and the Fragile Egos of Men."  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 1993/Fall 1997.

 "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People."  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Spring 1994.

 "Dragons, History Professors, and Other Hazards of College Life."  Lutheran Student Organization, Fall 1995.

 "Cheated, Lied to, Stepped on and Broken: How Education Fails Students."  Dorm Presentation, Spring 1995.

 "How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to Change a Hypocrite?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Spring 1995.

 "Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?"  Horizons Noon Forum, Fall 1995.

 "Welfare Reform: What Can and Should Be Done?"  Horizons Noon Forum, Spring 1995.

 "Educational Excellence: Is it Worth it?"  Phi Eta Sigma Banquet, Spring 1995.

 "The Death of Love."  Dorm Presentation, Spring 1996.
 
 "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Spring 1996.

 "California Proposition 209 and the 1996 Elections."  Horizons Noon Forum, Spring 1996."

 "Why Not Inhale?"  Dorm Presentation, Fall 1996.

 "Welfare Reform: Was it Necessary or Merely Popular?"  Horizons Noon Forum, Fall 1996.

 "The Incredible Shrinking Christian."  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Spring 1997.

 "Men, Women, and Other Mythological Creatures."  Dorm Presentation, Spring 1997.

 "How to Find What You're Not Looking For: Adjusting to College."  Freshman Orientation Workshop, Fall 1997.

 "What's All this Hype About the Millennium?"  Horizons Noon Forum, Fall 1997.

 "Right this Way to the Ditch (or) What's Lovely About a Muck?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 1997.
 
 "Love, Sex, and the Fragile Egos of Men."  Dorm Presentation, Jerde Hall, Fall 1997.

 "Cheated, Lied to Stepped on and Broken: How Education Fails Students."  Dorm Presentation, Steele Hall, Fall 1997.

 "Accept No Imitations?"  Rosehill Evangelical Free Church, Fall 1997.

 "The Constitutionally-Guaranteed Right to Foolishness."  Horizons Noon Forum, Spring 1998.

 "Love, Sex, and the Fragile Egos of Men."  Dorm presentation.  Jerde Hall, Spring 1998.

 "Passover: Jewish and Christian."  Rosehill Evangelical Free Church, Spring 1998.

 "How to Find What You're Not Looking For: Adjusting to College."  Freshman Orientation Workshop, Fall 1998.

 "1001 Ways to Fail Totally and Completely at Life."  Dorm presentation.  Jerde Hall, Fall 1998.

 "Effective Lying: Dishonesty and Its Rewards."  Dorm presentation.  Jerde Hall, Fall 1998.

 "Does Anybody Really Know What Time Management Is?  Does Anybody Really Care?"  Dorm presentation.  McWelsh Hall, Fall 1998.

 "Men, Women, and Other Mythological Creatures."  Dorm presentation.  Kramer Hall, Fall 1998.

 "When is a Religion not a Religion?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 1998.

 "To Tell the Truth."  Community Christian Church, Summer 1998.

 "The Gap."  Redfield Baptist Church, Fall 1998.

 "Vision."  Redfield Baptist Church, Fall 1998.

 "What's All this Hype About the Millennium?" (Interview on South Dakota Public Radio, December 31, 1999).

 "How to Find What You're Not Looking For: Adjusting to College" (Presentation at student orientation, Fall 1999).

 "Excuse me, but Could You Tell Me the Best Way to Get to the Next Millennium? (Dorm presentation, Briscoe Hall, Spring 1999).

 "Who Died and Made You God?"  (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 1999).

 "Love, Sex, and the Fragile Egos of Men" (Dorm Presentation, McWelsh Hall, Fall 1999).

 "How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to Change a Hypocrite?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 1999).

 "Where's Louis Armstrong When You Really Need Him?"  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Spring 1999).

 "Idolatry" (Community Christian Church, Aberdeen, SD,  February 1999).

 "Passover: Symbols and Significance" (Rosehill Evangelical Free Church, Langford, SD, Spring 1999).

 "The Wrath of the Lamb" (Community Christian Church, Aberdeen, SD, Summer 1999)

 "The Wrath of the Lamb" (Bristol Wesleyan Church, Bristol, SD, Summer 1999)

“Men and Other Games of Chance: The Unlucky Card Players Guide to Beating the Odds” (Dorm presentation, Jerde Hall, Fall 2000).

“A Historian’s Perspective on the 2000 Election” (KSDN Radio, November 2000.)

“If You Want to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life…” (Richland Wesleyan Church, Spring 2000).

“The Stone that Can’t be Moved” (Community Christian Church, Summer 2000).

“The Stone that Can’t be Moved” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 2000).

“The Historical and Political Background of the Crucifixion” (Newman Center, March 22, 2000).

“Snakes, Shamrocks, and Campaign Finance Reform: Where is St. Patrick when You Really Need Him?” (Dorm presentation, Jerde Hall, Spring 2000)

“God within the Shadow: The Biblical Background of Shakespearean Theater” (Aberdeen Shakespeare Club, Spring 2001)

“The Folly of Knowledge” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, September 2001)

“The Stone that Can’t be Moved” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 2001)

“The Day of Atonement” (Community Christian Church, September, 2001)

“The September 11th I’ll Never Forget” (Richland Wesleyan Church, October 2001)

“Islam, Terrorism, and History” (KSDN interview, September 2001)

“Men, Women, and other Mythological Creatures” (McArthur-Welsh Hall, October 2001)

“A Man and His Children” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, April 2001)

“Once upon a Rock” (Community Christian Church, December, 2001)

“The Woman that Changed the World” (Community Christian Church, December 2001)

“Jesus: Fact or Fiction?” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, February 2002).

“Who Died and Made You God?” (Aberdeen Family Worship Center Prayer Breakfast, Spring 2002).

“Passover and its Message” (United Campus Ministries, Spring 2002).

“Pascal’s Last Theorem” (Aberdeen Christian High School, Spring 2002).

“Dragons, History Professors, and Other Hazards of College Life” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fall 2002).

“Rusty Armor” (Aberdeen Family Worship Center, Summer 2002).

“Not Quite Only Human” (Community Christian Church, Fall 2002).

“The Expert’s Guide to Backsliding” (Presentation to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, February 2003)

“Passover and Easter” (Presentation to United Campus Ministries, March 2003)

“Passover and Easter” (Presentation to Mound City Church of God, March 2003)

“What’s a Mamzer Like You Doing in a Nice Place Like This?” (Presentation to NSU Neuman Center, April 2003).

“Three Ways to Backslide” (Presentation to Aberdeen Christian High School, May 2003)

“How to Find What You’re Not Looking For: Adjusting to Life After High School” (Presentation to Eden Lion’s Club dinner for Roslyn High School Senior Class, May 2003).

“All the Trumps” (Richland Wesleyan Church, August 2003)

“What’s Inside Their Heads” (Presentation to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, September 2003

“The Incredible Shrinking Christian” (InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, October 2003)

“US History in a Nutshell” (Presentation to the NSU International Students, October 2003)

“Jewish Roots/Jewish Soil” (Presentation to Collegians in Christ’s Service, October 2003)

“Time to Give Up” (Presentation to Community Christian Church, November 2003)

“The Door that Can’t be Shut” (Family Worship Center, December, 2003)

 Book Reviews:

 The Bible and the Literary Critic.  By Amos N. Wilder.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.  Published in Anglican Theological Review 74:1.

 The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology.  By Bryan E. Daley.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.  Published in Andrews University Seminary Studies 30:3.

 Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy.  By Jon D. Mikalson.  Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.  By John P. Meier.  New York: Doubleday, 1991.  Published in Andrews University Seminary Studies.
 
 Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies.  By Kathryn J. Gutzwiller.  Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Gentiles/Jews/Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era.  By Hans Conzelmann.  Translated by M. Eugene Boring.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.  Published in Andrews University Seminary Studies.

 The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant.  By John Dominic Crossan.  San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991.  Published in Anglican Theological Review.

 Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Future Hope in Early Christianity.  By Charles E. Hill.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.  Published in Critical Review of Books in Religion.

 The Criterion of Truth.  By Ralph Doty.  New York: Peter Lang, 1992.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 1.1-2.15.  Translated by R. W.  Sharples.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 The Poem of Empedocles: A Text and Translation with an Introduction.  By Brad Inwood.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Aristotle's Poetics: The Poetry of Philosophy.  By Michael Davis.  Lanham, Maryland: Bowman & Littlefield, 1992.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 The Continuous and the Discreet: Ancient Physical Theories from a Contemporary Perspective.  By Michael J. White.  Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Die Zukunft des Glaubens: Sechs Kapitel über Eschatologie.  By Petr Pokorný.  Arbeiten zur Theologie 72.  Stuttgart: Calwer, 1992.  Published in Critical Review of Books in Religion.

 The Stoics on Ambiguity.  By Catherine Atherton.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Form and Reason: Essays in Metaphysics.  By Edward Halper.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1993.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age. By Paul Oskar Kristeller.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 An Introduction to New Testament Christology.  By Raymond Brown.  New York: Paulist Press, 1994.  Published in Anglican Theological Review.

 Plato's Ethics.  By Terrence Irwin.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy.  Edited by S. Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd, and C.D.C. Reeve.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece.  By John Poulakos.  Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors.  By Dominic Scott.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy.  Edited by J. Peter Euben, John R. Wallach, and Josiah Ober.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Form and Argument in Late Plato.  Edited by Christopher Gill and Mary Margaret McCabe.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Athens from Alexander to Antony. By Philip Habbicht. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

 Posidonius Volume III: The Translations of the Fragments. Translated by I.G. Kidd.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.  Published in Religious Studies Review.

SERVICE

 --History Division Coordinator, NSU (1990-2002)
 --University Wide Committee for Teacher Education, NSU
  (1990-1996; chair, 1994-1995)
 --Library Committee, NSU (1990-1991)
 --Enrollment Management Task Force (1991-1992)
 --Graduate Writing Committee, NSU (1992-1994)
 --Faculty Research Committee, NSU (1993-1994, 1999-present)
 --Academic Affairs Committee, NSU (1994-1996)
 --Honorary Degrees Committee, NSU (1999-present)
 --Retention Committee, NSU (1999-2000)
 --Political Science Search Committee, NSU (1989)
 --History/Geography Search Committee, NSU (1992)
 --History Search Committee (chair), NSU (1994)
 --Dean of Education Search Committee, NSU (1994)
 --History Search Committee, NSU (1995)
 --Dean of Education Search Committee, NSU (1999)
 --NSU Faculty Senate (1999-present)
 --Review Panel, National Standards for Civics and Government
  (Sponsored by Center for Civic Education, 1994).
 --Advisor, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (1990-present)
 --Advisor, History Club (1996-2000)
 --Advisor, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society (1997-present)
 --Advisor, NSU Swim Club (1999-2002
 --English Search Committee (Summer 2003)
 --Assessment Committee (2003--present)

REFERENCES
 
 Jay Ruud, Ph.D.      605-626-2601
 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
 Northern Sate University, Aberdeen, SD 57401

 Jerome (Jerry) Rosonke, Ph.D.    605-626-7795
 Former Chair, Social Sciences and History 605-225-2052
 Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401

 Richard Chuang, Ph.D.     605-626-7795
 Former Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 605-229-0476
 Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401

 Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.     605-626-7796
 Professor of Political Science   605-226-2528
 Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401

 Mark Bartusis, Ph.D.     605-626-2410
 Professor of History     605-229-2354
 Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401