Former College History Instructor and Author

Lawrence R.

I earned my Ph.D. in American and European history from the University of Florida. I have taught survey courses in early and modern American history and an upper division class in American intellectual history. I have served as an adjunct faculty member at California State University at San Marcos, Grossmont College, and MiraCosta College in San Diego County, California. The University of Massachusetts Press published my Ph.D. dissertation, Walking Away from Nuremberg: Just War and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility in the American Military Profession, in the fall of 2007.

In addition to general survey courses in American, European and world history, I feel substantially prepared to teach specific courses in military, diplomatic, and intellectual history with a particular emphasis on the Holocaust. Over the past five years I have worked as a licensed city historian, tour guide and designer / researcher for private walking tours.

My personal background as a military professional and a human rights activist provides an in-classroom advantage not available to educators with only a formal academic experience in these fields. In addition to my experience as an instructor in state and community colleges, my experience as an educator in the US Army, and other life experiences in the fields of human rights activism, nursing, politics, and counseling have also reinforced my ability to educate students from diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Working with me will be fun.