Knoll

Arthur J. Knoll 

B.A. Bates College; M.A. New York University; Ph.D Yale University

Phone: (931) 598-1322
Office Location: Walsh-Ellett 307
Email: aknoll@sewanee.edu

Areas of specialization
Africa, Middle East, Imperialism, Military History

Courses taught
Modern Africa (Spring 1999); Contemporary Middle East (Spring 1999); British India (Spring 1999); Art of War from Earliest Times to the Present; War and Society; Topics in the History of Imperialism; Twentieth-Century Europ (2003); Modern Africa (2003); War and Society in the Modern Period (2003)

Biography
Arthur J Knoll, Professor of History, teaches African and Middle Eastern history at the University. He is a graduate of Bates College (B.A.), New York University (M.A.) and Yale University where he received the Ph.D. in 1964. Dr. Knoll has also done postgraduate work at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he was a three-time Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. His teaching specialty is European imperialism in Africa, a topic on which he has written a book entitled Togo Under Imperial Germany: A Case History in Colonial Rule (1978). His most recent work, of which he is general editor, is Germans in the Tropics: Essays in Colonial Rule (1987). His last two articles are: "Die amerikanische protestantische Mission in deutschen Mikronesien" in Hermann J. Hiery, Die Deutsche Suedsee, 1884-1914: Ein Handbuch (2001) and "An Indigenous Law Code for the Togolese:the Work of Dr. Rudolf Asmis," in Ruediger Voigt and Peter Sack, eds., Kolonialisierung des Rechts: Zur kolonialen Rechts-und Verwaltungsordnung (2001). Dr. Knoll has also participated in a number of National Endowment Summer Seminars for College Faculty, the last one at the University of Texas, Austin in 1988. In July 1991 he read a paper on colonial education at the Second International Colonial' Historical Symposium in Berlin. In January 1993, Knoll became the first recipient of the David E. Underdown Chair in Modern European History. He was also a James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky in the summer of 1993. His last National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute was at the Mansfield Center, University of Montana, June and July 1995; it was entitled "America?s Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach." For the spring semester of 1998 Knoll was the John B. Stephenson Fellow at the University of Kentucky where he worked on a documentary collection about German imperial activity in Africa and in the Pacific during the years 1884 to 1919. In June 2000 Knoll was chosen by the Associated Colleges of the South as one of three representatives for a study tour in Turkey to help initiate a Global Partners'Program there.