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International McGovern Center Academic and Program Committee

Donald Simmons
     Director, McGovern Center
Associate Professor
Dakota Wesleyan University
Ph.D., History and International Studies
University of Denver
  
 
Vince Redder
  Assistant Professor of English
Chairman, Humanities Division
Dakota Wesleyan University
Ph.D., Renaissance Literature
University of South Carolina
 
 
Elena Dianova
  Professor of Foreign Languages
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia
Ph.D., American Studies and Intercultural Communication
Moscow State Pedagogical University
 
 
Thomas J. Knock
  Associate Professor of History
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Ph.D., History
Princeton University
 
 
S. Lily L. Mendoza
  Associate Professor in Culture and Communication
University of Colorado, Denver
Ph.D., Intercultural Communication
Arizona State University
 
 
Tracy Campbell
  Professor of History
Director of the Wendell Ford Center
University of Kentucky
Ph.D., 20 th Century US & Kentucky History
Duke University
 
 
Charles C. Bolton
  Professor and Head, Department of History
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D., History
Duke University
 
 
Loraine (Rainey) Duke
  Professor of English
Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Ph.D., Literature
University of Tennessee
 
 
Abdul Karim Bangura
  Professor of Global Peace Studies
School of International Service
American University, Washington, D.C.
Ph.D., Linguistics
Georgetown University
 
 
Robert P. Watson
  Associate Professor of Political Science
Lynn University (Florida)
Ph.D., Public Policy and Administration
Florida Atlantic University
 
 
John Husmann
  Assistant Professor of History
Dakota Wesleyan University
Ph.D., United States History
University of Nebraska
 
 
Nancy Tystad-Koupal
  Director
South Dakota State Historical Society Press
M.A., History
Morehead State University, Kentucky
 

Committee members have been selected by the Dakota Wesleyan University administration and McGovern Center director. Special regard has been given to ensuring membership diversity with regard to underrepresented populations, academic fields and geographic location. The McGovern Center director serves as the chair for the committee.

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