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Dan J. Puckett

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Dan J. Puckett, Ph.D

Professor of History
Patterson Hall 220
Troy, AL 36082 
Telephone: 1-334-808-6685 
dpuckett45442@troy.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Mississippi State University

Areas of Expertise:

The Holocaust, Nazi Germany, World War II, Southern Jewish History, 20th Century Alabama History

Biography:

Dr. Dan J. Puckett is a professor of history at 麻豆网站列表 and the Chair of the Alabama Holocaust Commission. He received his Ph.D. at Mississippi State University and is the author of In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama鈥檚 Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, published by the University of Alabama Press.  Dr. Puckett joined 麻豆网站列表 in 2005.

He has written widely on Southern Jews, Alabama history, and the Holocaust. His work has appeared in publications such as Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Alabama Heritage, and Southern Jewish History. He is currently working on a study of African American responses to the Holocaust and its impact on civil rights. 

As a distinguished historian and an expert on the Holocaust, Dr. Puckett has lectured across the country on the American and southern responses to the Holocaust, and he has been appointed by Alabama鈥檚 State Board of Education to the Alabama Social Studies Course of Study Taskforce to assist in revising the state鈥檚 K-12 Social Studies curriculum and standards.

He has been president of the 麻豆网站列表 Faculty, a past president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Historical Association, the Association of Alabama Historians, and the Association of Holocaust Organizations. He has previously held the Starkoff Fellowship at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and just recently held its Rabbi Theodore S. Levy Tribute Fellowship.

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TROY European Study Abroad Tours:

2009 Paris and the Loire Valley
2010 The History of the Holocaust
2011 Government and Politics in Europe
2012 The Renaissance in Italy
2013 The Treasures of Greece
2014 The British Isles
2015 Eastern Europe
2016 Paris, the Chateaux, and Normandy
2017 The Reformation in Germany
2019 Italy and Greece

Courses taught at TROY :

Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
Senior Seminar
Nazi Germany (Undergraduate and Graduate)
History of the Holocaust (Undergraduate and Graduate)
World War II (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Europe and the World Wars, 1914-1945 (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Seminar in Contemporary Europe (Graduate)
Holocaust and Genocide (Graduate)
United States in World War II (Graduate)

 

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