Harold J. Goldberg, Professor of History, teaches Russian and Asian history, with specific courses on Russia and the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and World War II. He obtained his B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his Russian Area Studies Certificate, M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Goldberg is the author of a multi-volume documentary study entitled Documents of Soviet-American Relations.

The four volumes include: Intervention, Famine Relief, International Affairs (1917-1933); Propaganda, Economic Affairs, Recognition (1917-1933); Diplomatic Relations, Economic Relations, Propaganda, International Affairs, Neutrality (1933-1941); and Economic Relations, Military Alliance, Second Front, Plans for Peace (1941-1945). He has also contributed ten articles to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.

In the summer of 1983, Dr. Goldberg participated in a National Endowment Summer Seminar on Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has visited Japan and China in 1988, 2000, 2001, and 2004, the Soviet Union in 1979, 1989, 1993, and 1995, and Vietnam in 1992 and 2006. In 1995, he taught in Moscow at the Russian State Humanities University. Currently he serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies and is on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He served as Chair of the Department of History from 1993-1998 and is currently Director of the Asian Studies Program.

In the summer of 2006, Dr. Goldberg led a study abroad trip for Sewanee students to Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam), and he plans to take students to China in 2007 and to Japan in 2008.

His current research projects deal with World War II. His book entitled D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan is being published by Indiana University Press, and he has a book contract for a study called Voices of World War II in Europe. Dr. Goldberg has visited the D-Day beaches in France many times, and he has lectured in France on this subject. He was recently appointed the American representative of the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France. In this capacity he serves as the liaison between the French museum and the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

In his spare time, Goldberg practices Japanese karate and teaches a course in the Physical Education Department on Martial Arts. He is a certified self-defense instructor and offers a class on this subject for female students each semester.