drjhorgan
drjhorgan
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| Member | Aug 18, 2009 (16 years) |
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Bio
Dr. John C. Horgan earned his B.A. in history and political science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his M.A. in history at Marquette University and Doctor of Arts in Modern World History at St. John’s University in New York, New York. In addition to his service at CUW, he taught history at Milwaukee Area Technical College, Suffolk County Community College (New York) and the New School for Social Research (New York).
At Concordia he teaches courses in Western and American civilization, the Non-Western World, Modern Europe, France, Germany, America, and Africa. In recent years, Dr. Horgan has offered courses in the history of diseases & epidemics, food, superheroes, and monsters. In 2004 he presented a paper to the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on economic sanctions, American churches and South Africa. In 2007 his articles on French perspectives of the United States and international perspectives of U.S. environmental policy were published in Global Perspectives on the United States (Berkshire Publishing). In 2009, he contributed an article on natural and man-made disasters in Chinese history to the Encyclopedia on China (Berkshire Publishing). His recent scholarship includes short entries about Aesop’s Fables and Justinian’s Plague for the on-line Ancient History Encyclopedia. Both entries have been tuned into TED-ED lessons which include brief videos on each topic, short quizzes, references and an online discussion. His on-going reading and research interests include civilian relief during World War I, plagues and diseases in world history and food history.
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