Monday, April 26, 2010
Quick Information: A New Course for Fall 2010
Dr. Skip Knox will be offering his HIST 380: History of the Late Middle Ages, online, in Fall 2010.
Walker Wins Fellowship to Israel
David Walker, one of our faculty members, has been named an academic fellow by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and willtravel to Israel in June for an intensive course in terrorism studies and how democracies can defeat the worldwide terrorist threat.
Walker, a special lecturer in the Department of History, teaches classes in military and diplomatic history as well as world history, historiography and historical methodology. His current research investigates the links between military innovation and imagining future war.
The FDD Academic Fellows program provides a 10-day learning experience to U.S.-based teaching and research professionals to provide them with cutting edge information about defeating terrorist groups. The program will be conducted at Tel Aviv University May 29-June 9 and includes lectures by academics, and military and intelligence officials, as well as diplomats from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States. It also includes “hands on” experience through visits to police, customs, and immigration facilities, military bases, and border zones to learn the practical side of deterring and defeating terrorists.
“I’m hopeful for a fresh perspective on how people that live with terror as a daily threat adapt and confront that threat,” Walker said. “There are few places in the world that can offer a better view on the shifting nature of fighting terror than Israel.”
Walker, a special lecturer in the Department of History, teaches classes in military and diplomatic history as well as world history, historiography and historical methodology. His current research investigates the links between military innovation and imagining future war.
The FDD Academic Fellows program provides a 10-day learning experience to U.S.-based teaching and research professionals to provide them with cutting edge information about defeating terrorist groups. The program will be conducted at Tel Aviv University May 29-June 9 and includes lectures by academics, and military and intelligence officials, as well as diplomats from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States. It also includes “hands on” experience through visits to police, customs, and immigration facilities, military bases, and border zones to learn the practical side of deterring and defeating terrorists.
“I’m hopeful for a fresh perspective on how people that live with terror as a daily threat adapt and confront that threat,” Walker said. “There are few places in the world that can offer a better view on the shifting nature of fighting terror than Israel.”
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