HENRY STARUK

hstaruk3@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Coursework, Department of History, University of Tennessee, 2002-2005

            Group I and II Comprehensive Examinations Passed, Fall 2004

            Faculty Advisor:   Dr. Vejas G. Liulevicius

            Fields of Study:     Modern Europe, Modern Germany, World Civilization

Master of Arts: History major, University of Tennessee, May 2002

            Thesis Title:           “After the Liberation: The American Administration of the

                                         Concentration Camp at Dachau”

            Thesis Advisor:    Dr. Vejas G. Liulevicius

            Fields of Study:    Twentieth-century Germany (major field), Modern Europe,

                                          War and Society

Bachelor of Arts: English major, University of Tennessee, 2000

TEACHING AND SERVICE

Graduate Assistant, Department of History, University of Tennessee, 2001-2002

            History 241: Western Civilization from Antiquity to 1715

            History 261: World History, Origins to 1500

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Tennessee, 2003-2005

            History 242: Western Civilization, 1715 to the Present

            History 241: Western Civilization from Antiquity to 1715

            History 262: World Civilization, 1500 to the Present

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Evaluation Committee Member, Department of History,

            University of Tennessee, Spring 2004

Panelist, Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium: "Preparing for the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams,"

            University of Tennessee, Spring 2005

Volunteer Assistant Coach, Ice Chalet Youth Hockey, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2005

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Post-liberation Allied administration of former Nazi concentration camps

“Baumholder: A Town and its Troop Training Area, 1934-2004”

AWARDS

Max Kele Award

            Southern Historical Association, European History Section, 2004

Bill and Rena Johnson Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in European History

            Department of History, University of Tennessee, 2004

Cobble Award for Best Undergraduate Paper on a German Topic

            “Radicalizing Tradition: The Ideological Foundations of the Early Nazi Party,”

            Department of Modern Foreign Languages, University of Tennessee, 2000

PAPERS AND PUBLICATION

"Review of Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr, Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of

            the Bulge," H-German, H-Net Reviews, November, 2006.

"Between Liberation and Repatriation: The American Administration of Post-Liberation

Buchenwald," Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida,

March 2005

"From Rehabilitation to Repatriation: Spring in Dachau, 1945," Society for Military

History Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2004

“Hochhuth’s The Deputy: Representing Reality,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional

            Conference, Lee University, February 2003 (Won Outstanding Paper Award)

“‘The End of the Camp By No Means Meant the End of the Dying’: KZ Dachau

            After the American Liberation,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, East

            Tennessee State University, February 2002 (Won Graduate Paper Prize)

LANGUAGES

German: basic oral and reading knowledge

Spanish: basic reading knowledge