ROBERT WATERS
Associate Professor of History
School of Humanities and Global Cultures
Office: Hill Memorial 211
525 S. Main Street
Ada, OH 45810
[email protected]
Phone: 419-772-3966
Fax: 419-772-2593
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Biography:
Robert Anthony Waters Jr. is an associate professor of history at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He was selected as a College of Arts & Sciences “Outstanding Teacher” during 2005-06. Until Hurricane Katrina, he was an associate professor of history at Southern University of New Orleans, a historically Black university. Waters has also worked as a civil rights lawyer. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of California before quitting to attend the University of Mississippi, where he earned his doctorate and juris doctor.
Waters is author of the Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press) and articles on Africa and Guyana published in The Political Science Reviewer and The Journal of Caribbean History. He is co-author (with Gordon Daniels of Mississippi Valley State University) of articles on the United States and Guyana published in Diplomatic History, the Revue Belge de Philologie et D’Histoire, and Cold War History. Along with Geert van Goethem, director of the Archive and Museum of the Belgian Labor Movement, Waters co-edited American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan). He is completing an article with Jan Koura of Charles University in Prague on Guyana’s Cold War relations with Czechoslovakia.
Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1994
Dissertation: Only Ninety Miles Away: A Narrative History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Second Field: Africa
J.D., University of Mississippi Lamar Law Center, Oxford, Miss., 1993
Member: South Dakota Bar, 2001-
M.A., Government, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif., 1987
Thesis: The Strong Presidency: Promise, Failure, Future
University of California, History,Berkeley, California, 1982-86
B.A., History and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,Cum Laude, Philadelphia, Pa., 1982
Publications:
Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press, 2009)
American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War, edited with Geert Van Goethem, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Research Interests:
Havana, Cuba, April 2008
Assisted in contracts and assessment for Undergraduate “Quarter in Cuba” Program
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2006
International Institute of Social History
The Hague, the Netherlands, March 2006
National Archive
Brussels, Belgium, March 2006
International Confederation of Trade Unions Archive
Interviews with Rwanda Specialists
London, England, December 2001
Public Records Office, Kew
Georgetown, Guyana, November 2001
National Archive
Interviews with Guyanese Political and Labor Leaders
Gaborone, Botswana, August 1999-January 200
National Archive
Travel to Eight Southern African Nations
Unpaid consultant for creating University of Botswana Center for Strategic Studies
Associate Professor of History
School of Humanities and Global Cultures
Office: Hill Memorial 211
525 S. Main Street
Ada, OH 45810
[email protected]
Phone: 419-772-3966
Fax: 419-772-2593
Listen to My ONU Story...
Biography:
Robert Anthony Waters Jr. is an associate professor of history at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He was selected as a College of Arts & Sciences “Outstanding Teacher” during 2005-06. Until Hurricane Katrina, he was an associate professor of history at Southern University of New Orleans, a historically Black university. Waters has also worked as a civil rights lawyer. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of California before quitting to attend the University of Mississippi, where he earned his doctorate and juris doctor.
Waters is author of the Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press) and articles on Africa and Guyana published in The Political Science Reviewer and The Journal of Caribbean History. He is co-author (with Gordon Daniels of Mississippi Valley State University) of articles on the United States and Guyana published in Diplomatic History, the Revue Belge de Philologie et D’Histoire, and Cold War History. Along with Geert van Goethem, director of the Archive and Museum of the Belgian Labor Movement, Waters co-edited American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan). He is completing an article with Jan Koura of Charles University in Prague on Guyana’s Cold War relations with Czechoslovakia.
Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1994
Dissertation: Only Ninety Miles Away: A Narrative History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Second Field: Africa
J.D., University of Mississippi Lamar Law Center, Oxford, Miss., 1993
Member: South Dakota Bar, 2001-
M.A., Government, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif., 1987
Thesis: The Strong Presidency: Promise, Failure, Future
University of California, History,Berkeley, California, 1982-86
B.A., History and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,Cum Laude, Philadelphia, Pa., 1982
Publications:
Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press, 2009)
American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War, edited with Geert Van Goethem, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Research Interests:
Havana, Cuba, April 2008
Assisted in contracts and assessment for Undergraduate “Quarter in Cuba” Program
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 2006
International Institute of Social History
The Hague, the Netherlands, March 2006
National Archive
Brussels, Belgium, March 2006
International Confederation of Trade Unions Archive
Interviews with Rwanda Specialists
London, England, December 2001
Public Records Office, Kew
Georgetown, Guyana, November 2001
National Archive
Interviews with Guyanese Political and Labor Leaders
Gaborone, Botswana, August 1999-January 200
National Archive
Travel to Eight Southern African Nations
Unpaid consultant for creating University of Botswana Center for Strategic Studies