Curriculum Vitae

MICHAEL B. BARRETT

Residential Address:

 

 

 

 

1170 Chersonese Round

 

Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

 

(843) 971-6536 (h)

 

Business Address:

 

 

History Department

 

The Citadel

 

171 Moultrie Street

 

Charleston, SC 29409-0250

 

(843)953-4855 (o)

 

(843) 953-7020 (f)

EDUCATION

B.A. 1968

The Citadel

Modern Languages

M.A. 1969

University of Massachusetts

History

Ph.D. 1977

University of Massachusetts

History

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2006-

Professor, The Citadel

 

1982-2006

Associate Professor, The Citadel

 

1978-1982

Assistant Professor, The Citadel

 

1976-1978

Instructor, The Citadel

 

1976-1978

Instructor, University of Massachusetts

RECENT RESEARCH

A. Work in Progress

The Austro-German Campaign in Romania, 1916

 

 

"Trenches in the Ocean? Geography and the Russian Defense of the Baltic Sea, 1912-1917." 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography, Quebec City, Canada, 18-21 June 2007.

 

B. Books

Operation Albion: The Invasion of the Baltic Islands, 1917. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 2007 (forthcoming December).

 

C. Articles or Chapters

co-authored with H.P. Willmott, . "E-articles" in the United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society project for ABC-Clio. The articles are in World War II ("Overview," "Causes: Immediate, Intermediate, and Long-Term," "Opponents: USSR, Great Britain, United States, France, Germany, Japan and Italy. Each has two areas: overview and role in the war," and "Consequences: Immediate, Intermediate and Long-Term," and in Arab-Israeli Wars, time line section, "Final Solution/Holocaust" and "Pius XII." These articles will be published this year.

 

 

"Chapter 1" (The Coming of the War) in World War II, H.P. Willmott, Charles Messenger, and Robin Cross (ed.). Dorling Kindersley: New York, 2004.

 

 

___________________ Albion; Armistice; Below, O.; Ebert, F.; Falkenhayn, E.; Freikorps; Goltz, R.; Groener, W.; Hindenburg, P.; Hoffmann, M.; Krafft v. Dellmensingen, K.; Kress v. Kressenstein, F.; Ludendorff, E.; Mackensen, A.; Noske, G.; Rupprecht of Bavaria; Seeckt, H.; Storm Troops; Stresemann, G.; Wetzell, G. (13,000 words) in Encyclopedia of World War One, Spencer Tucker, ed., 5 vols., Clio: Sanata Barbara, 2004.

 

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Revolutionary Activity and Combat Effectiveness. Albion: A Case Study." Western Front Association, Tampa, FL, 18 August 2006.

"A German Geographer in the South: Friedrich Ratzel after 130 Years." Presented at the Centennial Ratzel Conference, University of Leipzig, Germany, November 19, 2004.

"WEBCT use" at 3rd Annual LowCountry Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30 May 2003.

"Military Adventurism in the Baltic Region, 1918-1920." Western Front Association East Coast Regional Meeting here in Charleston in 1999.

"The Dash to Amerongen. Luke Lea and the Attempt to Kidnap the Kaiser," Western Front Association, Annual Meeting, 1996.

"The German Invasion of the Baltic Islands, 1917," Invited paper at First Baltic Studies Conference in Europe, Riga, Latvia, 1995.