The History Department at College of the Ozarks offers students the exciting opportunity to explore the development of world civilizations and cultures and study the foundation of American heritage. Wide-ranging survey courses on Western Civilization and the American Experience—all part of the general education core—provide students an informational and conceptual introduction to these fields.
Title: Distinguished Professor of History and Elizabeth Hoyt Clark Chair of Humanities
Email: dalton@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: 19th Century American history, South
Education: B.A., Western Kentucky University, 1980; M.A., Western Kentucky University, 1982; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1991
David Dalton received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and he holds the Elizabeth Hoyt Clark Chair of Humanities and is Professor of History at College of the Ozarks where he has taught since 1988.
Dr. Dalton has received several fellowships, including from the Aspen Institute and the Virginia Historical Society. He has twice been selected by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Institute for advanced study at Yale University (Slave Narratives in 2008) and the University of Virginia (Causes and Consequences of the Civil War in 2021).
He was the recipient of the 2000 Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in College Teaching and the 2009 Eugene Charles Wittick Teaching Excellence Award and the 2018 Five-Fold Mission Award (Veteran Faculty Member) from College of the Ozarks.
His latest publication, “‘He Died on the Field of Glory’: Felix Kirk Zollicoffer and the Confederate Defeat at Mill Springs” appeared in Confederate Generals in the Western Theater. He is currently preparing a manuscript tentatively entitled, “Blessed are the Peacemakers? The Southern Protestant Clergy and the Secession Crisis.”
Title: Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of Academic Assessment
Email: dparrish@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: British history; Atlantic History; American History; History and Memory; World Regional Geography
Education: B.A., College of the Ozarks, 2006; M.A., University of Arkansas, 2008; Ph.D., University of Glasgow, 2013: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, 2013
Dr. David Parrish joined the history department in 2014. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow.
Before coming to College of the Ozarks, Dr. Parrish was a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, located in London, UK. He is a specialist in early eighteenth century Britain and the Atlantic World. His publications include Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1727 (2017) and “A Party Contagion: Party Politics and the Inoculation Controversy in the British Atlantic World, c.1721-1723”, in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016).
Title: Assistant Dean of Institutional Effectiveness Associate Professor of History
Email: bpardue@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Western Civilization, European History, Church History, Historical Research, Big Questions
Education: B.A., Mercer University, 2002; M.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2010
Dr. Brad Pardue is Associate Professor of European History. He also serves as Assistant Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Director of the Center for Faithful Education. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Pardue joined the History Department at College of the Ozarks in 2014. He is a recipient of the Eugene Charles Wittick Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Pardue is a specialist in Early Modern Europe, Church History, and the English Reformation, and serves as a member of the editorial board for the book series “Studies in the History of Christian Traditions” published by Brill Academic Publishers. His publications include:
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Title: Associate Professor of History
Email: jwestern@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Medieval European History, Ancient History, Church History, Byzantine History, History of Western Civilization
Education: B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004; M.A., Concordia Seminary-Saint Louis, 2007; M.A., Saint Louis University, 2010; Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2017
Dr. Joseph Western joined the history department at the College of the Ozarks in 2017. His research focuses on the medieval Mediterranean. His current project examines the relationship between Greek and Latin Christianity in Byzantine southern Italy during the Middle Ages and the effect of this relationship on political allegiance to the various states competing in the region. His publications include “Historical Thinking and Vocation,” in Restoring the Vocation of a Christian College (Wipf and Stock, 2022), “Local Priorities and Religious Identities in Byzantine Southern Italy,” in Routledge Handbook of Identity in Byzantium (Routledge, 2022), “‘Doing’ History Well: Faithfully Educating in History,” in Faithful Lives 3 (2018): 67-78, and “The Papal Apocrisiarii in Constantinople during the Pontificate of Gregory I (590-604)” in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66, no. 4 (2015):697-714.