Courses Taught: Undergraduate Courses - EUH 1001 Western Perspectives II, HIS 3002 Methods and Materials, EUH 3990 The Second World War, EUH 4334 Czechs and Slovaks in the Modern World, EUH 4563 Habsburg Monarchy, 1526-1918, EUH 3570 Imperial Russia to 1917, EUH 3576 Soviet Union since 1917, EUH 4462 Germany since 1866, EUH 4245 Interwar Europe, 1918-1939 and EUH 4990 Modern European Agrarian & Social History.

Graduate Courses: Hapsburg Monarchy (Readings), Ideologies and Political Movements in Europe since 1789 (Research), Interwar Europe, 1918-1939 (Research), Peasants and Farmers in European History since 1789 (Readings) and East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1918-present (Readings).

Specialties: Czech and Slovak history dealing with democracy, agricultural politics and land reform, especially between 1918 and 1938.

Current Research Interests: Colonization of the Great Estates during the Land Reform in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (book manuscript, expected date of completion, 2008) and The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) as a Consociational Democracy (book manuscript, expected date of completion, 2013).

Brief Vitae
Education: Ph.D., History, University of Pittsburgh, 1989; M.A., History, University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), 1978; B.A., East European Studies and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1976.

Awards and Honors:

• Agricultural History – Vernon Carstensen Award in 2000 for the best article in 1999 for “Collectivization in the 1970s and 1980s in Zamagurie, Slovakia”
• Dejiny a soucasnost [History and the Present] – Best historical work by a foreign author (tied with one other) for Antonín Svehla–mistr politickych kompromisu, 2002
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace – Visiting Scholar, 1989-1990
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) - Independent research grant to examine the Czechoslovak land reform between the world wars using sources in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 1999-2000
• Open Society Archives (Budapest, Hungary) – Archival research grant to study agricultural collectivization in Slovakia, 1997
• UWF Outstanding Teaching and Advising Award, 1993-1994, 1998-1999, and 2003-2004
• UWF Research grants, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2004
• UWF Teaching Incentive Program Awards, 1993-1994, 1996-1997, and 2003-2004
• Woodrow Wilson Center, East European Program (Washington, DC) – Short Term Research Grant, Summer 1998

Notable Articles/Publications:
Books:
K úloze a vyznamu agrárního hnutí v ceskych a ceskoslovenskych dejinách [The Significance and Meaning of the Agrarian Movement in Czech and Czechoslovak History]. Eds. Jirí Sousa (Charles University, Prague), Daniel E. Miller, and Mary Hrabik Samal (Oakland University, Rochester, MI). Prague: Karolinum–Nakladatelství Univerzity Karlovy, 2001.

Antonín Svehla–mistr politickych kompromisu [Antonín Svehla–Master of Political Compromise]. Trans. Stanislav Pavlícek. Edice Ecce Homo. Prague: Argo, 2001.

Forging Political Compromise: Antonín Svehla and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918-1933. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.