DAVID DOELLINGER

curriculum vitae

 

 

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of History (Maaske 220)   

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, Oregon 97361

503-838-8254

doellind@wou.edu

website: http://www.wou.edu/~doellind/home.htm

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. (History) – University of Pittsburgh, December 2002

Dissertation:      “From Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-Based Dissent on the

                        Emergence of Civil Society in Slovakia and the German Democratic

                        Republic”

M.A. (History) & Certificate of Advanced Study in East European Studies –

University of Pittsburgh, August 1997

B.A. (History) – Valparaiso University, May 1992

 

 

TEACHING

 

Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Oregon University (September 2007-present)

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Oregon University (September 2003-September 2007):

            World History (HST 104D, 105D & 106D)

            Modern German History (HST 437D, 438D, 439D)

            Russian/East European History (HST 447D/547, 448D/548, 449D/549)

            Yugoslavia (HST 407D, Fall 2005)

            Stalin’s Russia (HST 407D/507, Summer 2006)

            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, Samford University (August 2002-July 2003):

            Cultural Perspectives I & II

            War and Peace in 20th Century Germany (Hist 499W)

 

Teaching Fellow & Assistant, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (August 1995-August 2002):

            Western Civilization

            East European History

            Imperial Russia

            Soviet Russia

 

Course Development, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh:

Us and the Other (Spring 1997)

Twentieth-Century Europe (Spring 1997)

European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective (Fall 1996)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Promoting Peace through Reconciliation: Aktion Sühnezeichen and the Lutheran Church in the

German Democratic Republic,” in Religion and Philosophy: New Developments in East

Central Europe, ed. Thomas Bremer (Palgrave, forthcoming December 2007)

 

“The 1985 Pilgrimage at Velehrad: Slovak Catholics and the Creation of a Public Space,”

Slovakia 39, nos. 72-73 (forthcoming Fall 2007).

 

Book review, published in the winter 2005 issue of Slovo [journal of the National Czech &

Slovak Museum and Library]: Ján Chryzostom Korec, The Night of the Barbarians:

Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of the Slovak Cardinal (Wauconda, Illinois:

Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002).

 

“Prayers, Pilgrims, and Petitions: The Secret Church and the Growth of Civil Society in

Slovakia,” Nationalities Papers 30, no. 2 (June 2002): 215-240.

 

 

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 University of Illinois Press.

 

“Reconciliation and Atonement in Postwar GDR and East Central Europe: Aktion Sühnezeichen

Summer Camps,” article submitted October 15, 2006 for publication in the journal of

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

 

 

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

 

“Free Spaces and Religion in Slovakia and East Germany” paper presented at the University of

Washington, Seattle, March 8, 2007

 

“Czech National Identity Today,” paper presented at the Birmingham International Symposium

on Czech Nationalism, Birmingham, Alabama, February 24, 2007

 

“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, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2006

 

“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 Warsaw, Poland, June 2006

 

“Promoting Peace through Reconciliation: Aktion Sühnezeichen and the Lutheran Church in the

German Democratic Republic,” paper presented at the VII World Congress of the

International Council for Central and East European Studies in Berlin, Germany, July 28,

2005

 

“The East European History of Christianity Project,” workshop participant, at Calvin College,

Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 6-10, 2005

 

“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 University of

Pittsburgh, April 10, 2005

 

“Bicycles, Trees and Peace: Environmental Activism and the Lutheran Church in Leipzig, East

Germany, 1981-1989,” paper presented at the national conference of the

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, December 4,

2004

 

“Aktion Sühnezeichen: The Peace Movement, the Political Opposition and the Lutheran Church

in East Germany, 1958-1989,” paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Western Slavic

Association/Western Social Science Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

April 24, 2004

 

Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,Wye

Conference Center, Maryland, August 8-11, 2003

 

“Bausoldaten for Life: Conscientious Objectors and Independent Peace Initiatives in the German

Democratic Republic, 1964-1989,” paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic

Conference, Hunter College, March 22, 2003

 

 “Slovak Catholics and the 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad,” paper presented at the American

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 23, 2002

 

“Democracy in Slovakia: Straddling the Fast and the Slow Lanes to Consolidation,” roundtable

presentation, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Cornell University, March 31, 2001

 

“The Visegrad Countries and the Road to the European Union,” roundtable presentation,

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,

Denver, Colorado, November 12, 2000

 

“A Church in Transition: The Slovak Secret Church, 1948-1998,” paper presented at the

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference,

Denver, Colorado, November 10, 2000

 

“Cooperation and Conflict: Slovakia’s Prospects for EU Integration,” roundtable presentation,

Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Princeton University, March 25, 2000

 

“Civil Society in Slovakia: Emergence, Transformation and Future,” paper presented at the

Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, January

26, 2000

 

“The Movement for Civil Freedoms: A New Dissident Strategy and its Impact in Slovakia, 1988

-1989,” paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, New York University,

March 20, 1999

 

“The Emergence of a Civil Society: The Role of the Secret Church,” paper presented at the Mid-

Atlantic Slavic Conference, Temple University, March 21, 1998

 

“Observations from the Bosnian Municipal Elections, September 1997,” presentation at the

Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, November 18,

1997

 

 

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

 

Chair, Department of History, Western Oregon University, June 2006 – present

 

Chair, Social Science Division Curriculum Development Committee, September 2006 – present

(member of committee since September 2004), Western Oregon University

 

International Education and Services Committee, Social Science Division Representative,

Western Oregon University, September 2004 - present

 

Member, Search Committee for Dean of Library and Media Services, Hamersly Library,

Western Oregon University, summer and fall 2007

 

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

Yugoslavia,” WOU Honors Program, 2004-2005 academic year

 

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 Europe and the Hungarian

Revolution (2006-2007 academic year)

            Francesca Morrison, “Paramilitaries, Propaganda and Pipelines:The NATO Attack on

Serbia and Kosovo, 1999” (2006-2007 academic year)

            Samuel Summers, “Leninism: Pathway to Dictatorship?” (2006-2007 academic year)

Scott Seidler, “Unabashed Patriotism: How Thomas Mann Came to Embrace the Weimar

Republic” (2005-2006 academic year)

            Jeff Neal, “Muscovy and its Rise to Power” (2005-2006)

            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 Yugoslavia,” (2004-2005)

Katie Lane, “Vikings in the East: Scandinavian Influence in Kievan Rus,” (2004-2005)

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 Europe (1918-1938)” (2003-2004)

 

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 Rome Found

Prosperity under Augustus” (2005-2006)

            Andy Erickson, “Fidel Castro and the Economic Dependence Cycle in Cuba” (2005-

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), October 18, 2006.

 

Advisor, Social Science Division, SOAR session, July 8, 2006

 

Advisor, Social Science Division, Early Bird Registration, May 20, 2006

 

Member, WOU International Students Scholarship Committee, April 7, 2006.

 

Presenter, “Peace, Reconciliation, and Summer Camps for Youth in East Germany,” WOU

Social Science Symposium series, January 25, 2006

 

Panelist, New Faculty Orientation, Western Oregon University, September 15, 2005

 

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, February 8, 2005

 

Organizer, “Middle Eastern Film Series,” International Awareness Week, Western Oregon

University, November 15-17, 2004

 

Academic Advisor, student practicum and Hamersly Library exhibit entitled “1936 Olympics in

Berlin,” Winter and Spring 2004 

 

Guest speaker, “The Allied Intervention in Vladivostok, 1918-1920,” Model United Nations,

International Awareness Dinner, Western Oregon University, October 24, 2003

 

Denis Moran Memorial Lecture Series Committee (ad hoc), Western Oregon University, Fall

2003 & Winter 2004

 

Discussion leader, Vaclav Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless,” Honors Book Club,

Samford University, May 14, 2003

 

Reader and Panel Chair, Student Showcase 2003, Samford University, May 9, 2003

 

Honors Council, Samford University, August 2002-July 2003

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE

 

External Grant Reviewer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New

York, November/December 2006

 

National Geographic Educational Grant coordinator, brought two local Oregon public middle

schools (Central School District and Salem-Keizer School District) into a multi-state

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 Oregon, Georgia and Alabama.

 

Consultant (unpaid) to the organizers of the Birmingham (Alabama) International Festival “Great

Roads: The Czech Republic” project, September 2006-present.

 

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,

Washington, D.C., November 18, 2006

“Women, Family Formation, and the State in Twentieth-Century East Europe,” at the

            national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic

Studies, Boston, MA, December 7, 2004

 

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 Slovakia, 1948-1989,” Slovak

Heritage Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1999

 

Lecturer, “Slovakia’s Secret Church Under Communism,” Slovak Heritage Festival, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania, November 1, 1998

 

Guest speaker, “The 1997 Bosnian Municipal Elections,” Pleasant Hills Rotary Club, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania, November 1997

 

Elections Supervisor, Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Bosnian

Municipal Elections, Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Hercegovina, September 4-19, 1997

 

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)

 

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

 

Nominated, by a WOU student with a disability, for contributing significantly to their success,

Office of Disabilities Services, October 26, 2005.

 

Nominated, Outstanding Academic Faculty Advisor of the Year, Western Oregon University,

2004-2005 and 2006-2007 academic years

 

“1998 Graduate Student Essay Prize,” awarded by the American Association for the

Advancement of Slavic Studies, September 26, 1998

 

“Best Graduate Student Paper,” awarded by the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Spring 1998

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

 

Faculty Development Grant, Category III, Western Oregon University, awarded winter 2005 to

support archive research in Berlin, Germany, July 3-30, 2005

 

Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar award, Woodrow Wilson International Center for

Scholars/American Council of Learned Societies, August 8-11, 2003

 

Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002

 

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, West European Studies, 2001-2002 (declined)

 

Cho-yun Hsu Fellowship for Summer Research, University of Pittsburgh, 2000

 

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), scholarship for intensive language study at the

University of Leipzig, Germany, Summer 1998

 

Thomas Kukucka Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Slovak Studies Program, University of

Pittsburgh, 1997 and 1995

 

Studia Academia Slovaca Scholarship, Slovak Ministry of Culture, 1997 and 1994

 

Czechoslovak Nationality Room Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh, 1996

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Editor, Center for West European Studies Newsletter, University of Pittsburgh, January 1996

-April 1998

 

History & English Teacher, Evanjelicke Gymnazium (Lutheran High School), Tisovec,

(Czecho)Slovakia, September 1992-August 1993

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

Slovak, German