DAVID DOELLINGER
curriculum vitae
Associate Professor
Department of History (HSS 212)
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon 97361
United States
503-838-8254
doellind@wou.edu
website: http://www.wou.edu/~doellind/home.htm
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
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)
Germany: The Nineteenth Century (HST 422D/522)
Germany: 1914-1945 (HST 423D/523)
Postwar German History (HST 424D/524)
Dissent & Opposition in East Central Europe (HST 407D/507)
Russia to Peter the Great (HST 431D/531)
Imperial Russia (HST 432D/532)
Soviet Russia (HST 433D/533)
Yugoslavia (HST 407D, Fall 2005)
Yugoslavia’s Collapse in Film & Literature (HST 407D/507, Summer 2009)
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)
Postwar East Europe (HST 407D/507, Winter 2008)
Philosophies of History (HST 420W)
Senior Seminar (HST 499W, Spring 2008)
Politics & Culture of East Central Europe (HST 610)
Nations and Nationalism (HST 600)
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)
“Constructing Peace: Conscientious Objectors and the Independent Peace Movement in the
GDR, 1964-1968,” in Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, eds. Bruce R.
Berglund and Brian Porter-Szűcs (Central European University Press, May 2010)
“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, 2008)
The Bratislava Five, “Announcement of a Protest in Bratislava.” Making the History of 1989,
Item#124 (accessed May 26 2008, 3:46 pm), online at:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/124
“The 1985 Pilgrimage at Velehrad: Slovak Catholics and the Creation of a Public Space,”
Slovakia 39, nos. 72-73 (2007): 99-116.
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 Project, “From Prayers to Protests: Testing the Boundaries of State Power in Slovakia and
East Germany.” The manuscript is revised and finished. I am currently seeking an
academic press.
Paper, “Pacifism in East German Church-State Relations: The Lutheran Church, Military
Conscription and Conscientious Objectors, 1962-1964” to be presented at the national
conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Los
Angeles, CA, November 20, 2010
Conference discussant for panel entitled “Fico’s First Term: The Origins, Achievements and
Prospects of the Center-Left in Slovakia,” at the national conference of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Los Angeles, CA, November 18,
2010
New Book Project, “Conscientious Objectors and the Boundaries of State Power in East
Germany: Constructing Peace and Building Networks, 1964-1989”. Currently analyzing
archival documents from previous research trips to Berlin.
“No Longer Secret: Slovak Catholics Twenty Years since the Velvet Revolution,” paper
presented at the national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 2009
“The Catholic Church in Slovakia: From the Underground to the Velvet Revolution,
and 20 Years Later,” presented at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic, Washington,
D.C., October 17, 2009.
“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
Faculty Senator, Social Science Division Representative, Western Oregon University, April
2009-present
WOU representative, OUS German Board, Spring 2008-present
Chair, Department of History, Western Oregon University, June 2006 – June 2009
Graduate Director, Master of Arts in History Program, Western Oregon University, 2008-2009
academic year
Graduate Studies Committee, Social Science Division Representative, Western Oregon
University, September 2008 – June 2009
Faculty Representative, for Western Oregon University at the Faculty Partnership Conference,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany, June 2008
Chair, Social Science Division Curriculum Development Committee, September 2006 – June
2008 (member of committee since September 2004), Western Oregon University
International Education and Services Committee, Social Science Division Representative,
Western Oregon University, September 2004 – Spring 2008
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Library and Media Services, Hamersly Library,
Western Oregon University, summer and fall 2007
Honors Thesis adviser for WOU Honors Program:
Ashley Kuehlwein, “The Media Effects on the Perceptions and Foreign Policies
Surrounding the Chechen Fight for Independence between 1985 and 1995”
Betsy McDonald, “Museum and National Identity: The Case of the Parthenon
Sculptures” (2008-2009 academic year)
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 academic year)
Primary Reader, History Senior Theses:
Kira Noble, “Nationalism, Human Rights and John Paul II: The First Papal Pilgrimage to
Poland, June 1979” (2009-2010 academic year)
Kristopher Schendel, “Stalin’s Collectivization: From an Idealistic View to Defensive
Stance, 1928-1934” (2009-2010 academic year)
Nolan Kinney, “Positivism in Poland” (2008-2009 academic year)
Michael Myers, “Carl von Clausewitz’s Military Theory: An Examination” (2008-2009
academic year)
Danile Wilson, “The Jewish Question in the New Republic, 1919-1924” (2008-2009
academic year)
Betsy McDonald, “Museum and National Identity: The Case of the Parthenon
Sculptures” (2008-2009 academic year)
Matthew Bond, “Ivan the Terrible: Centralization in Sixteenth Century Muscovy” (2007
-2008 academic year)
Kelly Gordon, “The Peace of Westphalia and the Origins of Westphalian Sovereignty,”
(2007-2008 academic year)
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:
Hannah Marshall, “Voluntary Food Conservation: The United States Home Front in
WWI” (2009-2010 academic year)
Zachary Mintzer, “The Heterogenous Cristero Identity” (2009-2010 academic year)
Samuel Dollarhide, “’In the Name of Almighty God’: Gregory VII and the Investiture
Controversy” (2009-2010 academic year)
Jordan Kasler, “’Say Uncle’: Reagan Doctrine and Nicaragua” (2009-2010
academic year)
Amber Ferris, “Bartolome de Las Casas Revisited” (2008-2009 academic year)
Joe Lovatt, “Sword and Spirit: Bushido in Practice from the Late Sengoku Era through
the Edo Period,” (2008-2009 academic year)
Jeffrey Thompson, “Sic Semper Tyrannis: Justification of Caesar’s Assassination” (2008
-2009 academic year)\
Joshua Woods, “Homeland Insecurity: United States and East German Internal Security
Practices in the Cold War” (2007-2008 academic year)
Sarah Coelho, “Theodoric the Great versus Boethius: The Conflict of 524 A.D.” (2007
-2008 academic year)
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 of Graduate Examining Committees for Master of Arts in History students:
Vivian Reed (Spring 2010, written and oral exam committee)
Jonathan Tipton (Spring 2010, written and oral exam committee)
Robert Moore (Spring 2010, written and oral exam committee)
Betsy McDonald (Spring 2010, written and oral exam committee)
Tyler Laughlin (Fall 2009, written and oral exam committee)
Member of Graduate Examining Committees for Master of Science in Education students:
Ernie Sowards, Winter 2005
Sarah Reed, Spring 2004
Jerald Schierling, Spring 2004
Member, Fulbright Exam Committee in conjunction with WOU Study Abroad Office, for a
WOU student (Geoffrey Bock), October 18, 2006.
Advisor for Social Science Division at sessions for incoming WOU students:
Early Bird Registration, May 14, 2010
SOAR session, July 25, 2009
Preview Day, April 12, 2008
SOAR session, July 8, 2006
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
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
Discussant of Conference Panels:
“Christian-Communist Encounters in the Soviet Bloc 1959-1987” at the national
conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 12, 2009
“Church and State in East Central Europe in the Communist Era,” at the national
conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18, 2007.
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
External Grant Reviewer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New
York, November/December 2006 and March 2010.
External Program Reviewer, proposal to create a new Bachelor of Arts in History at the
University of Washington, Tacoma, September 2009.
Presenter, “Bausoldaten and the Independent Peace Movement in East Germany, 1964-1989,”
Monmouth-Independence Rotary Club, December 4, 2008
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.
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 - 207
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
Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors)
Certificate of Recognition for commitment and support of students with disabilities at Western
Oregon University, October 2009.
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, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009 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
Faculty Development Grant, Category III, Western Oregon University, awarded winter 2008 to
support archive research in Berlin, Germany, June 26-August 1, 2008
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
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
FILMOGRAPHY
“Past-Present,” Director of Photography, 48 Hour Film Project, 2009
“The Decision,” Director of Photography, 48 Hour Film Project, 2008
“8veU,” documentary film, Director and Director of Photography, Willamette Valley Film
Collective, International Documentary Challenge, 2008
“Visual Vitriol,” documentary film, Photography, Willamette Valley Film Collective,
International Documentary Challenge, 2007
“Five Cups of Coffee,” Director of Photography, 2006, [Official entry in the 2007 Mid-Valley
Video Festival]
“Flight Animal,” documentary film, Photography, Willamette Valley Film Collective,
International Documentary Challenge, 2006
LANGUAGES
Slovak, German