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PAUL JOSEPH WILSON
Addresses
P.O. Drawer 2089305 Levert Drive
Thibodaux, LA 70310Thibodaux, LA 70301
(985) 448-4463(985) 446-0922
Email:
Fax: 985-448-4617
Education
Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 1997
M.A., Mississippi State University, 1991
B.A., Nicholls State University (Louisiana), cum laude, 1987
Experience
Interim Department Head, Department of History and Geography, 2009-
Associate Professor of History, Nicholls State University, 2007-
Assistant Professor of History, Nicholls State University, 2000-
Instructor of History, Nicholls State University, 1997-2000
Additional Experience
Coordinator, University Honors Program, Nicholls State University, 1999-2002
Chair, Honors Committee, Nicholls State University, 1999-2002
Coordinator, Department of History, Nicholls State University, 1999-2001
Chair, Honors Task Force, Nicholls State University, 1998-1999
Awards and Honors
Mack Thomas Nolen Endowed Professor of History, 2010-
Outstanding Honors Teacher, Nicholls State University, 2001-2002
Fellow, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2001 Summer Institute (Northwestern University,
Illinois)
Who’s Who Among American Teachers
Courses Taught
Hitler and Nazi Germany, Twentieth Century Europe, Nineteenth Century Europe, The Conservative Tradition in America, America in the 19th Century, Hitler’s Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film, American History For Teachers, Seminar in History, Early U.S. History, Modern U.S. History, African-American History,Early Western Civilization, Modern Western Civilization, Twentieth Century Europe, Early World History, Modern World History
Fields of Specialization
Modern European History, Hitler and Nazi Germany, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Modern U.S. History; African-American History
PAUL JOSEPH WILSON
Books
Study Guide. Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. Volumes I and II.
Coauthored with Margaret Minor (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004; revised 2009)
Himmler's Cavalry: The Equestrian SS, 1930-1945 (Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2000).
Articles
The 1919 Chicago Riots,The Watts Riots, and The Crown Heights Riot, in Stanley Kutler, ed., Dictionary of American History (2003).
Bayard Rustin, Saudi Arabia, and Sammy the Pimp, in Robert L. Jenkins and Mfanya Donald
Tryman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Malcolm X (2002).
The Watts Riot, in Lloyd Chaisson ed., Three Centuries of American Media (1998).
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Book Reviews
Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s, by Mark Inabinett. Journal of Mississippi History, LVIII (Winter 1996) pp. 417-18.
The Color Line, by John Hope Franklin. Journal of Mississippi History, LVI (May 1994) pp.
160-61.
Conferences and Presentations
Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi in the Post World War II Era,Gulf South History and
Humanities Conference, Gulfport, Mississippi, fall 2010.
The Equestrian SS and the Nuremberg Trials, Southern Historical Association, Birmingham,
Fall 2006
The Chicago Defender, Nazi Germany and World War II, Gulf South History and Humanities
Conference, October, 2004.
Panel Discussant, "European Anti-Government Tradition, Southwestern Social Science
Association, Corpus Christi, Spring 1998
The Chicago Defender, Nazi Germany, and World War II, Southern Regional Honors
Conference, Baton Rouge, Spring 1997
The Chicago Defender and the Double V Campaign, Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Spring 1997
Works in Progress
The Chicago Defender in World War II
Shipbuilding in Southeastern Louisiana, Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, and Shipbuilding in Mobile and
Bayou La Batre and in South Louisiana (three separate articles submitted in fulfillment of consulting duties to the United States Department of Minerals Management Service for a three-volume study on shipbuilding along the Gulf Coast)
PAUL JOSEPH WILSON
Grants
Consultant, Gulf Coast Communities and the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry: A
Comparative Community Study, United States Minerals Management Service, 2006-09
Principal Investigator, Teaching American History Grant. United States Department of
Education, 2004-2007
Teaching American History, Principal Investigator. United States Department of Education,
2003-2004
Grant Coordinator, Education Enhancement Grant, Louisiana Department of Education,
(2003-2004)
Hitler’s Holocaust in History, Literature and Film. Summer Teacher Institute sponsored by the
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. July 2003.
Research Grant, Faculty Research Council, Nicholls State University, 1998
Memberships
Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Alpha Theta
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