Joseph L. Arbena
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1970
jose@clemson.edu
Professor Arbena retired in 2006 after a 41-year tenure at Clemson. Twice honored with Fulbright Fellowships, he is a specialist in both Latin America history and sports history; his course on the history of baseball was a university favorite. He also taught geography. The author or editor of dozens of books and essays, and a former editor of the Journal of Sport History (1993-1996), Professor Arbena's books include Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean (2002) and Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography (1999).
Selected Publications
Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999 (Greenwood, 1999)
Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport (Greenwood, 1989)
Editor, Sport and Society in Latin America (Greenwood, 1988)
George W. Burnett
Donald M. McKale
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1970
Class of '39 Award for Excellence (2007)
Field: Modern Germany, Holocaust
Phone: (864) 656-5367
Office: 106 Hardin Hall
Email: mckaled@clemson.edu
Professor McKale has been Class of '41 Memorial Professor of the
Humanities since 1988. He is recognized as one of the leading
specialists in the Holocaust and Modern Germany, and his courses on
those topics, as well as World War II in Europe, are university
favorites. His newest book, Hitler’s Shadow War (2002), is a study of
the inextricable connection between German war goals and the Holocaust;
it was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, as well as a
selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Traditions. His other books
include Hitler: The Survival Myth (1981; 2001), and War by Revolution
(1998), which won the Charles Smith Award from European Section of
Southern Historical Association. He has taught at Clemson since 1979.
Selected Publications
Hitler’s Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II (Cooper Square Press, 2002; selection of History Book Club, Book of the Month Club, and Traditions Book Club).
Hitler: The Survival Myth (Stein and Day, 1981; updated ed., Cooper Square Press, 2001).
War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I (Kent State, 1998; received Charles Smith Award, 1999-2000, from European Section of Southern Historical Association).
Editor, Tradition: A History of the Presidency of Clemson University (Mercer, 1988; 2nd ed. with J.V. Reel Jr., 1998).
Editor, Rewriting History: The Original and Revised World War II Diaries of Curt Pruefer (Kent State, 1988).
Curt Pruefer: German Diplomat from the Kaiser to Hitler (Kent State, 1987)
The Swastika Outside Germany (Kent State, 1977).
The Nazi Party Courts (Kansas, 1974).
James A. Miller
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1981
Field: Cultural Geography, Middle East, Africa
Phone: (864) 656-1640
Office: 204 Hardin Hall
Email: miller3@clemson.edu
Professor Miller has taught geography at Clemson since 1980. He is a specialist in the peoples and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Miller teaches courses in World Regional Geography, Political Geography, and the Geography of the Middle East and North Africa, among others. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he has published Imlil: A Moroccan Mountain Community in Change (1984), the geography textbook World Regional Geography: A Question of Place (1989); his current work, Sijilmasa: The Last Civilized Place, is under contract with the University of Texas Press. Professor Miller, who has also been a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State and served in the Congo, was on leave 2003-2006 serving as Director of the Center for Studies of the Maghrib (Centre des Etudes Maghrebines) in Tunis.
Dr. Miller directed the undergraduate minor in geography. See his images of Morocco on the GeoImages project at: geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Miller/millerone.html.
You may also visit Professor Miller's Kuba art site by clicking on the link.
Selected Publications
Co-author, World Regional Geography (Wiley, 1989).
Imlil: A Moroccan Mountain Community in Change (Westview, 1984).
David Nicholas
Ph.D., Brown, 1967
Email: dmnicholas@nctv.com
Dr. Nicholas retired in 2006 as Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History. He came to Clemson in 1989 from the University of Nebraska, where he taught for 22 years. Professor Nicholas is the author or editor of sixteen books and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. At Clemson, Dr. Nicholas taught courses in Medieval History, The Era of the Hundred Years War, pre-modern urbanization, the European family, and the History of England to 1688.
For Dr. Nicholas' curriculum vitae, click here.
Selected Publications
The Northern Lands. Germanic Europe, c. 1270-c.1500 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Urban Europe, 1100-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600 (London: Edward Arnold, 1999).
The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (London: Longman, 1997).
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The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 (London: Longman, 1997).
Trade, Urbanization and the Family: Studies in the History of Medieval Flanders (Variorum, 1996).
The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500 (Longman, 1992).
Medieval Flanders (Longman, 1992).
The van Arteveldes of Ghent: The Varieties of Vendetta and the Hero in History (Cornell, 1988).
The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390 (Nebraska, 1987).
The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in 14th-Century Ghent (Nebraska: 1985).
Town and Countryside: Social, Economic and Political Tensions in 14th-Century Flanders (Bruges, 1971).
William F. Steirer
Jr.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Associate Professor and Alumni Master Teacher
202 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-5375
steirew@clemson.edu
Professor Steirer taught at Clemson for more than 30 years. His long career in teaching has also been a distinguished one: he is one of the Department's Alumni Master Teachers, and his discussion-based courses are all university favorites. He taught environmental history, colonial history, and the American Revolution; the latter using a role-playing method that has proven very popular with students. Dr. Steirer also taught South Carolina history. He has written on journalism in the Revolutionary era and edited a collection of essays, Historians of the American South.
Selected Publications
Editor (with Rameth Owens), Historians of the American South (Greenwood, forthcoming)
The Evolution of South Carolina Water Law, 1783-1985 (Thurmond Institute, 1987)
Eugene D. Genovese: Marxist Romantic Historian of the South, Southern Review (1974)