DAVID DOELLINGER
curriculum vitae
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of History (Maaske 220)
503-838-8254
doellind@wou.edu
website: http://www.wou.edu/~doellind/home.htm
Ph.D. (History) –
Dissertation: “From Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-Based Dissent on the
Emergence
of Civil Society in
Republic”
M.A. (History) & Certificate of Advanced Study in East European Studies –
B.A. (History) –
Associate Professor, Department of History,
Assistant Professor, Department of History,
World History (HST 104D, 105D & 106D)
Modern German History (HST 437D, 438D, 439D)
Russian/East European History (HST 447D/547, 448D/548, 449D/549)
Stalin’s
Revolutions of 1989 (HST 407D/507, Summer 2007)
Nations and Nationalism: The Austrian Empire (HST 407D/507, Fall 2007)
Philosophies of History (HST 420W)
Visiting Instructor, Department of History,
Cultural Perspectives I & II
War and
Peace in 20th Century
Teaching Fellow
& Assistant, Department of History, University of
Western Civilization
East European History
Imperial
Soviet
Course Development,
Department of History,
Us and the Other (Spring 1997)
Twentieth-Century
European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective (Fall 1996)
“Promoting Peace through Reconciliation: Aktion Sühnezeichen
and the
German Democratic Republic,” in Religion and Philosophy: New Developments in East
“The 1985 Pilgrimage at Velehrad: Slovak Catholics and the Creation of a Public Space,”
Book review, published in the winter 2005 issue of Slovo [journal of the National Czech &
Memoirs
of the Communist Persecution of the
Slovak Cardinal (
Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002).
“Prayers, Pilgrims, and Petitions: The
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP IN PROGRESS
Book manuscript (From
Prayers to Protests: Testing the Boundaries of State Power in Slovakia
and
the German Democratic Republic) under revision for the
“Reconciliation and Atonement in Postwar GDR and East
Summer Camps,” article submitted
Contemporary European History, currently under peer-review
“Constructing Peace: Conscientious Objectors and the Independent Peace Movement in the
GDR, 1964-1968,” article under revision for publication in a volume edited by organizers
of “The East European History of Christianity” workshop and conference
“Free Spaces and Religion in
“Czech National Identity Today,” paper presented at the Birmingham International Symposium
on Czech Nationalism,
“Conscientious Objectors and the Boundaries of State Power in East Germany, 1962-1990,”
paper presented at the national conference of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies,
“Constructing Peace: Conscientious Objectors and the Independent Peace Movement in the
GDR, 1964-1968,” presented at the “East European History of Christianity” conference,
German Historical Institute in
“Promoting Peace through Reconciliation: Aktion Sühnezeichen
and the
German Democratic Republic,” paper presented at the VII World Congress of the
International Council for Central
and East European Studies in
2005
“The East European History of Christianity Project,”
workshop participant, at
“Pope John Paul II and Slovak Pilgrimages in the 1980s: A Challenge to Communist Power,”
paper presented as the Thomas
Kukucka Memorial Lecture at the
“Bicycles, Trees and Peace: Environmental Activism and the
Lutheran Church in
American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies,
2004
“Aktion Sühnezeichen: The Peace Movement, the Political
Opposition and the
in East Germany, 1958-1989,” paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Western Slavic
Association/Western Social Science
Association Conference,
Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar,
“Bausoldaten for Life: Conscientious Objectors and Independent Peace Initiatives in the German
Democratic Republic, 1964-1989,” paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic
Conference,
“Slovak Catholics and the 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad,” paper presented at the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,
“Democracy in
presentation, Mid-Atlantic Slavic
Conference,
“The Visegrad Countries and the Road to the European Union,” roundtable presentation,
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,
“A Church in Transition: The Slovak Secret Church, 1948-1998,” paper presented at the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,
“Cooperation and Conflict:
Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference,
“Civil Society in
Center for Russian and East
European Studies,
26, 2000
“The Movement for Civil Freedoms: A New Dissident Strategy
and its Impact in
-1989,” paper presented at the
Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference,
“The Emergence of a Civil Society: The Role of the
Atlantic Slavic Conference,
“Observations from the Bosnian Municipal Elections, September 1997,” presentation at the
Center for Russian and East
European Studies,
1997
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Chair, Department of History,
Chair, Social Science Division Curriculum Development Committee, September 2006 – present
(member of committee since
September 2004),
International Education and Services Committee, Social Science Division Representative,
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Library and Media Services, Hamersly Library,
Honors Thesis adviser for Daniel Van Winkle, “An Examination of the Use of History in the
Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in the Republics of the Former Socialist Federation of
Primary Reader, History Senior Theses:
Erin Fleener, “Peter the Great as a Constructive Revolutionary” (2006-2007 academic
year)
Derick
Handley, “Broadcasting a Revolution: Radio Free
Revolution (2006-2007 academic year)
Francesca Morrison, “Paramilitaries, Propaganda and Pipelines:The NATO Attack on
Samuel Summers, “Leninism: Pathway to Dictatorship?” (2006-2007 academic year)
Scott Seidler, “Unabashed
Patriotism: How Thomas Mann Came to Embrace the
Republic” (2005-2006 academic year)
Jeff Neal,
“
Travis Moore, “An American Response to the European Revolutions of 1848: John C.
Calhoun v. the Reformists and Revolutionaries” (2005-2006)
Daniel Van Winkle, “An Examination of the Use of History in the Rise of Ethnic
Nationalism in the Republics of
the Former Socialist Federation of
Liz Saufley, “Women in the German Democratic Republic: The Discrepancy Between
Socialist Rhetoric and Daily Practice” (2004-2005)
Jenny Cournoyer, “Jews and the Former Habsburg Empire: Joseph Roth, Franz Werfel
and the Concept of
Nationalism in Interwar
Secondary Reader, History Senior Theses:
Chris Breyer, “Culpability and Concealed Motives: An Analysis of the Parties involved
in the Diversion on the Fourth Crusade” (2006-2007 academic year)
Eli Kem, “The Making of Australian Federation: An Analysis of the Australasian
Convention Debates, 1891, 1897-1898” (2006-2007 academic year)
Emily Holmes, “From Side Eddies to Man Stream: The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504 Sit-Ins” (2005-2006 academic year)
Kevin Jeffries, “The Propaganda of Augustus Caesar: How Peace, Power, and Stability
was Achieved During the Age of Augustus” (2005-2006)
Mat Leslie,
“Augustus Caesar and the City Plebes: How the Commoners of
Prosperity under Augustus” (2005-2006)
Andy
Erickson, “Fidel Castro and the Economic Dependence Cycle in
2006)
Rob Moore, “Imperialism in the 8th and 9th Centuries: An Examination of Charlemagne
and the Frankish Empire” (2005-2006)
Toni Kelly, “’She Left an American’: Hilda Satt Polacheck, Jewish Assimilation and the
Role of the Settlement House,” (2003-2004)
David Shewey, “Athenian Ambitions for the Delian League” (2003-2004)
Member, Fulbright Exam Committee in conjunction with WOU Study Abroad Office, for a
WOU student (Geoffrey Bock),
Advisor, Social Science Division, SOAR session,
Advisor, Social Science Division, Early Bird Registration,
Member, WOU International Students Scholarship Committee,
Presenter, “Peace, Reconciliation, and Summer Camps for
Youth in
Social Science Symposium series,
Panelist, New Faculty Orientation,
Faculty Panelist, Learning Seminar, sponsored by WOU Office of Academic Advising, Spring
2005
Member of Graduate
Examining Committees for a Master of Science in Education students:
Ernie Sowards, Winter 2005
Sarah Reed, Spring 2004
Jerald Schierling, Spring 2004
Session facilitator, Eyes on the Prize screening for African American History Month, sponsored
by the Social Science Division,
Organizer, “Middle Eastern Film Series,” International
Awareness Week,
University,
Academic Advisor, student practicum and Hamersly Library exhibit entitled “1936 Olympics in
Guest speaker, “The Allied Intervention in
International Awareness Dinner,
Denis Moran Memorial Lecture Series Committee (ad hoc),
2003 & Winter 2004
Discussion leader, Vaclav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless,” Honors Book Club,
Reader and Panel Chair, Student Showcase 2003,
Honors Council,
PROFESSIONAL AND
PUBLIC SERVICE
External Grant Reviewer,
National Geographic Educational Grant coordinator, brought
two local
schools (
grant application entitled “The Great Roads: The Czech Republic.” This grant (not
awarded) was designed to make educational resources (textbooks, lesson plans, Google
Earth computer software, maps and workshop training) on Czech history and culture
available to participating social studies
teachers in
Consultant (unpaid) to the organizers of the
Roads: The
Chair of Conference Panels:
“Church and State in Early Communist Eastern Europe, 1944-1956,” at the national
conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
“Women, Family Formation, and the
State in Twentieth-Century
national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies,
Anonymous Peer Reviewer, seven chapters of a new world
history textbook entitled Conflicts
and Connections (Longman Publishers), spring 2005.
Officer-At-Large, Slovak Studies Association, November 2003 - present
Lecturer, “Samizdat Publishing: The Underground Press in
Heritage Festival,
Lecturer, “
Guest speaker, “The 1997 Bosnian Municipal Elections,”
Pleasant Hills Rotary Club,
Elections Supervisor, Organization for Security &
Cooperation in
Municipal Elections,
Current membership in academic associations:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Slovak Studies Association
Rocky Mountain Western Slavic Association
Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors)
Nominated, by a WOU student with a disability, for contributing significantly to their success,
Office of Disabilities Services,
Nominated, Outstanding Academic Faculty Advisor of the Year,
2004-2005 and 2006-2007 academic years
“1998 Graduate Student Essay Prize,” awarded by the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies,
“Best Graduate Student Paper,” awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Spring 1998
Faculty Development Grant, Category III,
support archive research in
Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar award,
Scholars/American Council of
Learned Societies,
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002
Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, West European Studies, 2001-2002 (declined)
Cho-yun Hsu Fellowship for Summer Research,
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), scholarship for intensive language study at the
Thomas Kukucka Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Slovak Studies Program, University of
Studia Academia Slovaca Scholarship, Slovak Ministry of Culture, 1997 and 1994
Czechoslovak Nationality Room Scholarship,
Editor, Center for West European Studies Newsletter,
-April 1998
History & English Teacher, Evanjelicke Gymnazium (
(Czecho)
LANGUAGES
Slovak, German