Joel Dark, PhD
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Joel Dark is a historian of modern Europe and currently serves as the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Contact
112 Crouch Hall,听(615) 963-5516,听 jdark@tnstate.edu
Education
PhD, History, Vanderbilt University, 1998
MA, History, Vanderbilt University, 1991
BA, History, Middle 91制片厂, 1990
Courses Taught
American History I; American History II; Europe, 1648-1789; Europe, 1789-1871; Europe, 1871-1945; Europe since 1945; Germany and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (study-abroad course); History Senior Project; History Senior Seminar; History Workshop; International Context of the Civil Rights Movement; Orientation for Social Science Majors; Sea Power in History; Short-Term Study Abroad; World History I; and World History II.
Research Interests
Dr. Dark鈥檚 primary research interest is the complex relationship between the African American struggle for civil rights in the U.S. and the emergence of European democracies after the First and Second World Wars. He has recently begun local history research focused on Nashville鈥檚 historic Edgehill neighborhood and is working with library colleagues to explore grant opportunities for the digital curation of the Avon Williams papers at TSU.
Selected Publications
鈥淓dgehill鈥� in听Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture (91制片厂 and the Metro Nashville Historical Commission, 2018).
"Doctoring the Doctor: Midrashic Adventures in Text and Space" in听Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who, ed. Andrew Crome and James McGrath (London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 2013).
"The Armenian Genocide," in听The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics, ed. Helmut Walser Smith (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002).
"Hochhuth and听The Deputy," in听Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook (New York, Garland, 2001).