VINCENT ARNOLD
Professor/Chair
History
Specialty:
Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
Modern Russia
Research:
CURRENT RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
• “Athletics, Architecture, and Authority in Fascist
Italy.”
• Manuscript under development for publication.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
• “Totalitarian Dictatorships and World War II.”
Chapter contribution for a new Western Civilization textbook. General
Editor, Jerry Pattengale. Publication in 2005.
• “The History of Academic Regalia” for the Inaugural
Program for President Thomas Thomsen. (October, 1999)
• “The Illusion of Victory: Fascist War Propaganda and
the Second World War.” New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1998.
Interests:
Current events in Italy
Education:
B.A., Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, Ohio
M.A., Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio), Oxford, Ohio
Post Doctoral studies, Universita degli studi di Roma, Rome, Italy
Contact: arnold@cord.edu
RICHARD M. CHAPMAN
Assistant Professor
History
Specialty:
U.S. and Latin American history
Social history
Local and Minnesota history
Research:
• “Writing them in or Writing them off?
Migrant Agricultural Workers and Refugees in the “Fargo Forum,”
1970-1992,” paper presented at Northern Great Plains History
Conference, Minneapolis, October 2002.
• “Was the U.S. Established as a Christian Nation?”
Communiversity Freedom Lecture, 3 March 2002.
• “Philanthropy and Jewish Communal Politics in Minneapolis,
1909-1931.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas (November 2001): 53-60.
• “Mixing New and Old Wine in Minnesota: Spirituality,
Ecumenism, and Religious Traditions in Ferment.” Dædalus
129, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 161-190. Republished in Stephen R. Graubard,
ed. “Minnesota, Real and Imagined: Essays on the State and
Its Culture” (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2001), 135-158.
• “Religion, Philanthropy, and the Politics of Jewish
Identity in Minneapolis, 1909-1931,” paper presented at Northern
Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, October 1999.
Interests: Community, religion, social
welfare, philanthropy studies; church and state issues; poverty,
development, and the church in Latin America
Education:
B.A., Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.
M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mineapolis, Minn.
Contact: (218) 299-4177 office, chapman@cord.edu
LINDA L. JOHNSON
Professor
History
Specialty:
Japan and China, history and contemporary
Research:
• Linda L. Johnson, “The Cultural Nationalism of Tsuda
Umeko,” in Japanese Cultural Nationalism ed. Roy Starrs,
(Global Oriented Publishers) 2003
• Linda L. Johnson, “Agricultural Development and
Technological Innovation in Pre-War Japan: The House of Homma in
Shonai.” “Essays in Economic and Business History,”
William R. Childs, ed. Economic and Business Historical Society,
1998
• Linda L. Johnson, “The Feminist Politics of Takako
Doi and the Social Democraqtic Party of Japan.” Women’s
Studies Internation Forum XV:3, 1992
• Linda L. Johnson, “Transforming Lives: Women’s
Study Circles in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective.”
Feminist Teacher. IV: 1
• Linda L. Johnson, “Women’s History in Cross-Cultural
Perspective.” “Women’s Studies Quarterly,”
XVI:1&2. Spring/Summer 1989
Education:
B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Contact: (218) 299-4187 office, ljohnson@cord.edu
JOY K. LINTELMAN
Professor
History
Specialty:
Immigration and ethnic history, particularly Swedish immigration
U.S. women’s history
History of rural childhood
U.S. social history
Research:
• Swedish immigration, especially immigrant women
• Domestic service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• U.S. Dakota conflict of 1862
• Rural girlhood
• Swedish immigrant childhood
Interests: U.S. diversity/multicultural
issues, past and present
Education: B.A., Gustavus Adolphus
College, St. Peter, Minn.
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Contact: 218-299-3491 office
CAROLL ENGELHARDT
Professor Emeritus
History
Specialty:
United States history and American thought and culture
Research:
• “On Firm Foundation Grounded: The First Century of
Concordia College” (1891-1991)
• “Twin Cities of the Northern Plains: Fargo, ND, and
Moorhead, MN,” 1871-1900 (book in progress)
Education:
B.A., University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Ph.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Contact: cengelha@cord.edu,
218-233-6738 office
DAVID SANDGREN
Professor
History
Specialty:
World history
Africa
Orientation and reentry issues for students
Studying abroad
Research:
• African nationalism and its connections with
Christianity
• East African elites
• Study abroad outcomes for faculty and students Publications:
• One book and several articles; (book in progress
on African Elites)
• I taught in an African High School (1963-67), went back
and interviewed 75 former students in 1995-96 about their lives
since high school. Their life narratives form the core of the research
on the formation of African Elites.
Education:
B.A., Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Contact: sandgren@cord.edu,
218-299-3502 office
SONJA P. WENTLING
Assistant Professor
History
Specialty:
U.S. history
U.S. foreign relations
Middle East
Arab-Israeli conflict
Modern European history
Nazism and Holocaust
American Jewish history
Research:
• “The Engineer and the Shtadlanim: Herbert Hoover and
American Jewish non-Zionists,1917-28”
American Jewish History Vol 88,3 (September 2000)
• “Hoover, Palestine, and the American Jewish Community,”
American Jewish Archives Vol. 53 (2001).
• “A Non-Zionist on Eretz Israel: Observations and Suggestions
by Max Warburg in a letter to his brother Felix.” Translation
and Annotation in American Jewish Archives Vol. 51 (1999).
Interests:
Jewish history, Zionism, international relations, contemporary Europe,
cultural perceptions and differences between Europe and the U.S.
Education:
B.A., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
M.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
Ph.D., Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Contact: wentling@cord.edu
