CURRICULUM VITAE
J. Calvitt Clarke III
Professor
History Department
Jacksonville University
2800 University Blvd. N.
Jacksonville, FL
32211
(904) 745-7211
(904) 221-3571 (H)
(904) 745-7154 (Fax)
jclarke@ju.edu
http://users.ju.edu/jclarke
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
*Russia and Italy Against
Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement of the 1930s.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.
In Progress
*An
Alliance of the Colored Peoples of the World: Japan and Ethiopia Before the
Second World War.
*A
History of Children, Incorporated.
Book Chapters
*With Mariko A. Clarke. “Yamato wo
meguru Bei-Kaigun no Joho-Katsudo" [Intelligence Activities of the US Navy
Concerning the Yamato], 162-196. In Senkan
Yamato [Battleship Yamato]. Edited by Youichi Hirama. Tokyo: Kodan-sha, 2003.
*"The Politics of Arms Not
Given: Japan, Ethiopia, and Italy in the 1930s." In
Girding for
Battle: Arms Sales in a Global Perspective, 1800-1950. Edited by Donald J.
Stoker and Jonathan A. Grant. Westport, CT: Praeger
Publishers, 2003, 135-53.
*"Italo-Soviet Military Cooperation
in the 1930s." In Girding for Battle: Arms Sales in a Global
Perspective, 1800-1950. Edited by Donald J. Stoker and Jonathan A. Grant.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003, 177-99.
Articles
Refereed
*“Feodor
Konovalov and the Italo-Ethiopian War (Part I)." World War II Quarterly 5
(Win. 2008): 4- 37.
*"Foreign
Minister Heruy’s Mission to Japan in 1931: Ethiopia’s Effort to Find a
Non-Western Model for Modernization.” Selected
Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians (Mar.
2007): 17-28.
*"The
‘I’ in History: An Historian’s Self-Indulgent Foray into Family History—The Calvet’s From France to the American Frontier.”
Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida
Conference of Historians 13 (Apr.
2006): 46-59.*
*"Dashed Hopes for Support: Daba Birrou's and Shoji Yunosuke's Trip to Japan,
1935." In
Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of
Ethiopian Studies. Hamburg: Aethiopistische Forschungen, 2005.
*"The
Fog of War: American Perceptions of the Japanese Battleship Yamato."
Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 12 (Feb.
2005): 27-41.
*
"Seeking a Model for
Modernization: The Japanizers of Ethiopia." Selected Annual Proceedings
of the Florida Conference of Historians 11 (Spr. 2004): 35-51.
"Dashed Hopes for Support: Daba Birrou's and Shoji Yunosuke's Trip to Japan,
1935." Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians
10 (Spr. 2004): 7-22.
*"Mutual Interests: Japan
and Ethiopia Before the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-36." Selected
Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 9 (Feb. 2002):
83-97.
*"Marriage Alliance: The
Union of Two Imperiums: Japan and Ethiopia?" Selected Annual
Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 7 (Dec. 1999): 105-16.
*"Japan and Italy Squabble
Over Ethiopia: The Sugimura Affair of July 1935." Selected Annual
Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 6 (Dec. 1999): 9-20.
*"Periphery and Crossroads:
Ethiopia and World Diplomacy, 1934-36." In Ethiopia in Broader
Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies.
3 vols. Edited by K. E. Fukui and M. Shigeta. Kyoto: Shokado Book Sellers,
1997, 1: 699-712.
*"Search for Areas of
Cooperation: Italian Precursors to the Nazi Soviet Pact of 1939. Preliminary
Comments." Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of
Historians 5 (Dec. 1997): 8-20.
*"Soviet Appeasement,
Collective Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." Selected
Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians 4 (Dec. 1996):
115-32.
*"Italy and the Nazi-Soviet
Pact of August 23, 1939." Selected Annual Proceedings of the
Florida Conference of Historians 3 (Dec. 1996): 30-39.
*"Ital'ianskii fashizm i russkii
kommunizm" [Italian Fascism and Russian Communism]. Rossiia i
sovremennyi mir: Problemy mneniia diskussii sobytiia [Russia and the
Contemporary World (Russian Academy of Sciences)] (1996): 291-316.
*"Italy and Plan
Barbarossa." Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference
of Historians 2 (Sept. 1994): 81-103.
In Progress
*“History
of Ethiopia: Fedor Evgenievich Konovalov.” World War II Quarterly,
forthcoming.
*“The
Rise of Ethiopia’s Educated Elite and Racial Tensions with Foreigners in
Ethiopia.” Florida Conference of Historians, forthcoming.
Not Refereed
*"Russia Loses Control of
Eastern Europe." Kokusai
Kankei Kenkyu [Studies in International Relations] 14 (Feb. 1994):
57-78. (The publication of a guest lecture at the College of International
Relations, Institute of International Relations, Nihon University, Mishima,
Japan).
*"The Soviet Union. . . Oh, .
. . The Former Soviet Union." Compass 24 (Fall 1992): 10-12.
*"Manifestations of
Cordiality."
Naval History 3
(Spr. 1989): 24-28.
Encyclopedia Articles
*"Italy, Relations with."
Encyclopedia of Russian History. 4 vols. New York:
Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
**"Ultranationalist
Japanese Supporting Ethiopia."
Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007.
Children, Incorporated Newsletter
“A Word from the Board.” 82 (2006): 3.
“El Puerto, A Beacon of Hope.” 83 (2006): 4.
Translation Projects:
Published
*John R. Pritchard. "Changes in
Perception: British Civil and Military Perspectives on War Crimes Trials and
Their Legal Context (1942-1956)." In Nichi-ei Koryu-shi, 1600-2000
[History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: 1600-2000]. Volume 3: Gunji
[Military]. Edited by Yoichi Hirama. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan-kai, 2001,
306-23. English translated to Japanese by Jay and Mariko Clarke (mclarke@ju.edu).
*A. Hamish Ion. "Commanding the Sea:
Anglo-Japanese Military Relations Before and During the Nineteenth
Century." In Nichi-ei Koryu-shi, 1600-2000 [History of
Anglo-Japanese Relations: 1600-2000]. Volume 3: Gunji [Military]. Edited
by Yoichi Hirama Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppan-kai, 2001, 8-20. English
translated to Japanese by Jay and Mariko Clarke (mclarke@ju.edu).
*Michio Asakawa. "British Influence
on the Establishment of the Bakumatsu and Meiji Military: The Japanese Perspective."
In
The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000. Vol. 3: The
Military Dimension. Edited by Ian Gow, John Chapman, and Yoichi Hirama.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 13-34. Japanese to English by Jay and Mariko Clarke (mclarke@ju.edu).
*Yoshito Kita. "The Japanese
Military’s Attitude Toward International Law and the Treatment of Prisoners of
War." In The History of Anglo-Japanese
Relations, 1600-2000. Vol. 3: The Military Dimension. Edited by Ian
Gow, John Chapman, and Yoichi Hirama. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003,
255-79. Japanese to English by Jay and Mariko Clarke (mclarke@ju.edu).
Paper Presentation
*"Anglo Japanese Military
Relations, 1800-1900: Japanese Perspectives," by Michio Asakawa, Tokyo Rika University. Paper
delivered at Sheffield College,
England, September 1998. Japanese to English by Jay and Mariko Clarke (mclarke@ju.edu).
Editor
*Editorial
Committee, The Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of
Historians, 2001-02; 2004-05.
*The Selected Annual Proceedings of the
Florida Conference of Historians,
1993-96.
Scholarly Book Reviews
*David
Wolff, Steven G. Marks, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye,
John W. Steinberg, and Yokote Shinji, eds. The Russo-Japanese War in
Global Perspective: World War Zero. Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2007, in
Russian Review,
forthcoming
*G.
Bruce Strang. On the Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares for War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, in
Journal of Modern History
77 (Dec. 2005); 1125--27.
*David Carlton. Churchill and the
Soviet Union. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, in
Russian
Review 61 (Jan. 2002): 139.
*Kevin McDermott and Jeremy Agnew.
The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, in Russian
Review 57 (July 1998).
*Caroline Kennedy-Pipe. Stalin's
Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe, 1943 to 1956. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1995, in Russian History/Histoire Russe.
*Geoffrey Roberts. The Soviet
Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German Relations and the
Road to War, 1933-1941. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, in Russian
Review 56 (Jan. 1997).
*Robert A. Jones. The Soviet
Concept of 'Limited Sovereignty' from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Brezhnev
Doctrine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990, in Soviet and Post-Soviet
Review.
*Sergiu Verona. Military
Occupation and Diplomacy: Soviet Troops in Romania, 1944-1958. Foreword
by J. F. Brown. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991, in Russian
History/Histoire Russe.
*Izidors Joseph Vizulis. The
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case. New York: Praeger, 1990,
in Soviet Union-Unione Sovietique.
*Geoffrey R. Roberts. The Unholy
Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1989, in Soviet Union-Unione Sovietique.
PARTICIPATION AT SCHOLARLY
CONFERENCES
*“Fedor
Evgenievich Konovalov’s Eyewitness Memoirs of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of
1935-36”
Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville,
FL, Feb. 2008.
“Seeking an Alliance
of the World's Colored Peoples: Foreign Minister Heruy’s Mission to Japan in
1931."
Association for Third World Studies,
Lima, Peru, Nov. 2007.
*“A
Japanese Scoundrel’s Skin Game: Japanese Economic Penetration of Ethiopia
and Diplomatic Complications Before the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.”
XVIth
meeting of the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies,
*Trondheim,
Norway, July 2007.
*“A
Japanese Scoundrel’s Skin Game: Japanese Economic Penetration of Ethiopia
and Diplomatic Complications Before the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.”
Florida Conference of Historians,
Orlando, FL, Mar. 2007.*"Foreign
Minister Heruy's Mission to Japan in 1931: Ethiopia's Effort to Find a
Non-Western Model for Modernization."
Florida Conference of Historians. Miami, FL, May
2006.
*"Ethiopia's
Failed Search for an Ally: Daba Birrou's Mission to Japan During the
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36."
Association for Third
World Studies.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Nov. 2005.
*"Forging an Alliance of the 'Colored Peoples' of the
World: Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Heruy's Mission to Japan, 1931."
International Studies Association.
Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2005.
*"The 'I' in History: An Historian's Self-Indulgent Foray
into Family History: The Calvet's from France to the American Frontier."
Florida Conference of
Historians. Mar. 2005.
*Chair. "Japan's Diplomacy." Meeting of International Studies Association. Istanbul,
Turkey, Aug. 2005.
*Discussant. "Integration in East Asia." Meeting of International Studies Association. Istanbul,
Turkey, Aug. 2005.
*"Ethiopia's
Non-Western Model for Modernization: Foreign Minister Heruy's Visit to Japan in
1931." International Studies
Association, South. Columbia, SC, Oct. 2004.
*"Soviet
Russia and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36." Southern
Conference on Slavic Studies. Roanoke, VA, Mar. 2004.
*"The
Fog of War: American Perceptions of the Japanese Battleship Yamato."
Florida Conference of Historians. Lake City, FL, Mar. 2004.
*"The Fog of War: American
Perceptions of the Japanese Battleship Yamato." Southeast Conference/Association for Asian Studies. Gainesville,
FL, Jan. 2004.
*"Dashed Hopes for Support: Daba
Birrou's and Shoji Yunosuke's Trip to Japan, 1935." Meeting of the XVth International
Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Hamburg, Germany, July 2003.
*"Dashed Hopes for Support:
Daba Birrou's and Shoji Yunosuke's Trip to Japan, 1935." Annual
meeting of Florida Conference of Historians. Jacksonville, FL, Feb. 2003.
"Seeking a Model for Modernization: The Japanizers of Ethiopia."
Florida Conference of Historians.
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Apr. 2002.
*"Seeking a Model for
Modernization: The Japanizers of Ethiopia." Annual meeting of the Association for Third
World Studies. Savannah, GA, Oct. 2001.
*Chair and Discussant. "The
Economics and Sociology of Globalization." Meeting of the International Studies Association. Hong Kong,
PRC, July 2001.
*"The Politics of Arms Not
Given: Japan and Ethiopia in the 1930s." Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians.
Tallahassee, FL, Mar. 2001.
*Chair and Discussant. "Japan:
Medieval and Modern." Annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians.
Tallahassee, FL, Mar. 2001.
*"Mutual Interests? Japan and
Ethiopia before the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-36." Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians.
Orlando, FL March 31-April 1, 2000.
*"Japan and Ethiopia: Two
Imperiums United by Marriage?" Annual meeting of the Association for Third
World Studies. San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov. 1999.
*"The Union of Two Imperiums: Japan
and Ethiopia?" Annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians.
Fort Myers, FL, Apr. 1999.
*Chair. "The
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936: Young Historians Explore the Nature and
Meaning of Conflict." Annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians.
Fort Myers, FL, Apr. 1999.
*"Japan, Collective
Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36." Third Pan-European International Relations
Conference and Joint Meeting with the International
Studies Association. Vienna, Austria, Sept. 1998.
*"Japan and Italy Squabble Over
Ethiopia: The Sugimura Affair of July 1935." Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians.
Daytona Beach, FL, Mar. 1998.
*Chair. "Historical
Research, Teaching, and the Internet." Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians.
Daytona Beach, FL, Mar. 1998.
*"Russia, Japan, and the
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." XIIIth International Conference of
Ethiopian Studies. Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 1997.
*Chair. "History (IV):
Italian Occupation." XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies.
Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 1997.
*"Periphery and Crossroads: Ethiopia
and World Diplomacy, 1934-36." Annual meeting of Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations. Washington, DC, June 1997.
*Discussant. "The U.S.
Military: Occupation and Assistance." Annual meeting of the World War II
Conference. Siena College, Loudonville, NY,
May 1997.
*"Search for Areas of Cooperation:
Italian Precursors to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. Preliminary Comments."
Annual meeting of the Florida
Conference of Historians. Jacksonville, FL, Mar. 1997.
*"Soviet Appeasement, Collective
Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." Annual meeting of
the World War II Conference. Siena College,
Loudonville, NY, May 1996.
*"Prologue to the Nazi-Soviet Pact:
The Italo-Soviet Agreements of Early 1939." Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians.
Broward, FL, Mar. 1996.
*Chair. "Art in Early
Modern Europe." Annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians.
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Mar. 1996.
*"Prologue to the Nazi-Soviet Pact:
The Italo-Soviet Agreements of Early 1939." Annual meeting of the Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies. Asheville, NC, Mar. 1996.
*"The Soviet Union, Japan, and the
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." Meeting of the African and
African-American Development, Education, Research and Training, Springfield,
MA, Dec. 1995.
*"Soviet Appeasement and the
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936." Annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies. Washington, DC, Nov. 1995.
*"The First World in Third World
Struggles: The Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." Annual meeting of
the Association for
Third World Studies. Jacksonville, FL, Oct. 1995.
*Chair. "Imperialism and
Crisis in Nigeria." Annual meeting of the Association for Third
World Studies. Jacksonville, FL, Oct. 1995.
*"The Soviet Union, Japan, and the
Outbreak of the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-36." Annual meeting of the Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies. Norfolk, VA, Mar. 1994.
*"Italy and Plan Barbarossa."
Annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, Panama City, FL, Mar.
1994.
*"Italy and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941." Annual
meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Miami, FL, Nov. 1991.
*"The Soviet Union, Italy and the
Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939." Annual meeting of the Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies, Charlottesville, VA, Oct. 1989.
*"Italo-Soviet Military
Relations in 1933 and 1934: Manifestations of Cordiality." Annual meeting of
the Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 1988.
*"Italo-Soviet Military Relations in
1933 and 1934: Manifestations of Cordiality." Annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic
Conference. Albany, NY, Apr. 1988.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
*"Impact of the Russian
Revolution: Ideology Matters." Comments to the Meeting of the Western
Front Association, Jacksonville, FL, May 1998.
*"Hiruy
Wolde-Selassie – The Father of Amharic Literature"
CONFERENCES HOSTED
*Annual
meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians,
Feb. 2008,
Jacksonville University,
Jacksonville, FL.
*Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians, Feb.. 2003, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL.
*Annual meeting of the
Florida Conference of Historians,
Feb. 1997, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL.
*Annual meeting of the Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies, Mar. 1992, Jacksonville
University, Jacksonville,
FL.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
*International
Studies Association Travel Grant Award, May 2005.
*Compensated Leave for Research, Jacksonville University, Fall 2003, Spring 2004.
*Research Grant, Jacksonville University, Sum. 2002.
*Thomas M. Campbell Award, best paper
published in the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of
Historians, Apr. 2002.
*Jacksonville
University’s Faculty Scholarship and Professional Development Award, Mar.
2002.
*International
Studies Association Travel Grant Award, July 2001.
*Research Grant, Jacksonville University, July 2000.
*Thomas M. Campbell Award, best paper
published in the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of
Historians, Mar. 2000.
*Japanese Gaimusho
[Foreign Ministry of Japan] (Translation
project), Dec. 2000.
*International
Studies Association Travel Grant Award, Sept. 1998.
*Compensated Leave for Research, Jacksonville University, Spr.1998.
*Research Grant, Jacksonville University, Spr. 1998.
*Research Grant, Jacksonville University, June 1996.
*Residential Fellowship, Washington DC, Kennan Institute of the Wilson
Center for Advanced Russian Studies, June 1994.
*Research Grant, Jacksonville University, Dec. 1993.
*Tourist Development Grant, Spr. 1992, to
host annual meeting of the Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
(current and recent)
*Florida Conference of Historians
(editor of the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of
Historians, 1994-96; local arrangements and program chair, 1997,
2003; president,
1997-98, 2003-04).
*Southern Conference on
Slavic Studies (local arrangements chair, 1992; member of the executive
board, 1992-95).
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Children, Inc. of Richmond,
VA
TEACHING
EXPERTISE
Western Civilization; World History;
Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Europe; Russia, Soviet, and
Post-Soviet Russia; Colonialism in Africa (European, Russian, Japanese);
Eastern European History; Italian History; Vietnam and Afghan Wars; Modern
Diplomatic History; Modern Political Philosophy (Communism, Fascism, and
Liberal Democracy); Business Ethics.
RECORD
*Jacksonville
U., Jacksonville, FL, 1990-2008. Professor.
*Fort Hays
State U., Hays, KS, 1989-90. Visiting Assistant Professor.
*Cleveland
State U., Cleveland, OH, 1988-89. Visiting Assistant Professor.
*U.S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 1987-88. Visiting Instructor.
*U. of
Maryland University College (Eur. Div.), Heidelberg, W. Germany, 1984-86.
Instructor.
*Program for Afloat College
Education, 1979-84. Instructor, assignments aboard US Navy ships.
*U. of
Maryland University College, College Park, MD, 1978-83. Lecturer.
*U.
of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1976-82. Teaching Assistant.
*James
Madison U., Harrisonburg, VA, 1973-74. Graduate Assistant, Coach.
*Douglas Freeman High School,
Richmond, VA, 1969-72, 1974-75. Teacher, Coach.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Academic Standards Committee; Carnegie Teaching
Initiative Committee; Chair of the Division of Social Sciences; Core Curriculum
Committee; Curriculum Committee; Director, International Education; Honors
Committee; Internationalization Committee; Faculty Administration Council;
Faculty Affairs; Faculty/Staff Evaluation Task Force; Honors Program Director;
Undergraduate Research Committee; University Disciplinary Committee.
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