Derek S. Zumbro
Assistant Professor
Phone: (850) 857-6038
E-mail: dzumbro@uwf.edu
Office: Bldg. 50, Room 145

Courses Taught

Western Perspectives II, The First World War, Nazi Germany, The Second World War, Modern Military Leaders, American Military History, The French Revolution.Graduate Seminars: Modern Military Leaders, The Second World War.

Specialties

Europe Since 1500, Modern Germany, Military History.

Current Research Interests

Nuremberg during the Third Reich 1933 - 1946

Education

Ph.D. , History, Louisiana State University, 2006; M.A., History, University of Southern Mississippi, 2001; B.A., Anthropology, University of Southern Mississippi,1980;
Other Institutions: University of Heidelberg,2001/ 2002.

Awards and Honors

• Military Awards/Citations
• United Nations Peace-Keeping Medal, 1986
• LSU Studies Abroad Exchange Scholarship (University of Heidelberg), 2001 - 2002
• Miller Prize for Outstanding Dissertation (Louisiana State University), 2006

Affiliations

• American Historical Association
  
• Organization of American Historians
  
• Omohundro Institute for American History and Culture
  
• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Publications

Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006 (Main Selection of the Military Book Club; Alternate Selection of the History Book Club).

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front. Translated/Edited by Derek S. Zumbro. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001 (Main Selection of the History Book Club; Alternate Selection of the Military Book Club).