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Curriculum Vitae
James Thomas Baker
Western Kentucky University Distinguished Professor of History
Address: 335 Sumpter Avenue
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Tel: 270-843-2377 (H)
270-745-5741 (O)
270-745-2950 (F)
E-mail: james.baker@wku.edu
Education:
*Bachelor of Arts, Baylor University
*Graduate Study, University of Chicago
*Master of Divinity, Southern Seminary
*Master of Arts, Florida State University
*Doctor of Philosophy, Florida State University
Career:
*Assistant Chaplain, Florida State University 1964-68
*Instructor, Humanities Program, Florida State University 1965-68
*Professor of History, Western Kentucky University 1968-Present
*Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Seoul National University, Korea (1975), and
Tamkang University, Taiwan (1984)
*Professor of Church History, St. Mark’s Catholic Seminary
for Belated Vocations, South Union, Kentucky 1980-84
*Member of the Executive Board of Directors,
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad 1984-99
*Director of and Teacher for British Studies Programs,
Kings College, London; Teacher in Programs in Scotland and
Ireland; Director of Programs at Oxford and Cambridge 1979-99
*Director of Canadian Parliamentary Internship Program,
Ottawa, Canada 1998---Present
*Creator and General Editor, Historical Series Creators
of the American Mind, published by Harcourt-Brace 1995-2003
*Instructor in Kentucky Institute of International Studies,
Segovia, Spain 2001
Published Scholarship:
*Thomas Merton: Social Critic, University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
*Faith for a Dark Saturday, Judson Press, 1973.
*Under the Sign of the Waterbearer (a play), Love Street Books, 1976.
*A Southern Baptist in the White House, Westminster, 1977.
*Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Newbury Press, 1978.
*Eric Hoffer, G.K. Hall, 1982.
*Ayn Rand, G.K. Hall, 1987.
*Brooks Hays, Mercer University Press, 1989.
*Study Guide for Jackson Spielvogel’s Western Civilization,
West Publishing Company, 1991, two volumes. Second edition, 1993.
Third, 1997. Fourth, 1999. Fifth, 2002. Sixth, 2005. Brief edition, 1998.
Second edition, 2002. Third, 2004.
*Studs Terkel, Macmillan, 1992.
*Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America, Harcourt-Brace, 1997.
*Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Harcourt-Brace, 1998.
*Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth, Harcourt-Brace, 1999.
*Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron as American Hero, Wadsworth, 2002.
*Holidays with Sundae: Conversations with my Cat, Green Hills Press, 2002.
Second printing, 2004.
*Instructor’s Manual for Cannistraro and Reich’s The Western Perspective,
Wadsworth, 2003.
*Dogs To Men, Green Hills Press, 2005.
*Documents in American Religious History, 2 volumes, Thomson, 2005
Author of over 60 articles, appearing in such publications as Christian Century, Commonweal, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, and The American
Benedictine Review, some of them anthologized, and articles for a number of encyclopedias, including The
Encyclopedia of Religion and American Law, The
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, The Dictionary of British Biography, and The Encyclopedia of American Lives.
Reader of over 50 papers, delivered in the United States, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, China, and other Asian countries.
Reviewer of over 100 books, published in newspapers and both popular and scholarly journals, broadcast on
local public radio affiliate.
Honors:
*Member: Honors Societies of Alpha Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Delta.
*Fulbright-Hays Senior Lectureships in Korea (1977) and in Taiwan (1983-84).
*Robert D.W. Conner Award for Best Article of 1977-1978, North Carolina
Historical Review.
*Award for Scholarly Research, Western Kentucky University, 1980.
*Award for Research/Creativity, Potter College of Western Kentucky
University, 1994.
*Sabbatical Leaves for Research in Italy, 1975; China, 1991.
*Instructor in KIIS Program in Spain, 2001.
*Named Distinguished University Professor 2001 - 2006.
Teaching Fields:
American Social and Intellectual
American Biography
Canada
Western Kentucky University Distinguished Professor of History
Address: 335 Sumpter Avenue
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Tel: 270-843-2377 (H)
270-745-5741 (O)
270-745-2950 (F)
E-mail: james.baker@wku.edu
Education:
*Bachelor of Arts, Baylor University
*Graduate Study, University of Chicago
*Master of Divinity, Southern Seminary
*Master of Arts, Florida State University
*Doctor of Philosophy, Florida State University
Career:
*Assistant Chaplain, Florida State University 1964-68
*Instructor, Humanities Program, Florida State University 1965-68
*Professor of History, Western Kentucky University 1968-Present
*Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Seoul National University, Korea (1975), and
Tamkang University, Taiwan (1984)
*Professor of Church History, St. Mark’s Catholic Seminary
for Belated Vocations, South Union, Kentucky 1980-84
*Member of the Executive Board of Directors,
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad 1984-99
*Director of and Teacher for British Studies Programs,
Kings College, London; Teacher in Programs in Scotland and
Ireland; Director of Programs at Oxford and Cambridge 1979-99
*Director of Canadian Parliamentary Internship Program,
Ottawa, Canada 1998---Present
*Creator and General Editor, Historical Series Creators
of the American Mind, published by Harcourt-Brace 1995-2003
*Instructor in Kentucky Institute of International Studies,
Segovia, Spain 2001
Published Scholarship:
*Thomas Merton: Social Critic, University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
*Faith for a Dark Saturday, Judson Press, 1973.
*Under the Sign of the Waterbearer (a play), Love Street Books, 1976.
*A Southern Baptist in the White House, Westminster, 1977.
*Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Newbury Press, 1978.
*Eric Hoffer, G.K. Hall, 1982.
*Ayn Rand, G.K. Hall, 1987.
*Brooks Hays, Mercer University Press, 1989.
*Study Guide for Jackson Spielvogel’s Western Civilization,
West Publishing Company, 1991, two volumes. Second edition, 1993.
Third, 1997. Fourth, 1999. Fifth, 2002. Sixth, 2005. Brief edition, 1998.
Second edition, 2002. Third, 2004.
*Studs Terkel, Macmillan, 1992.
*Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America, Harcourt-Brace, 1997.
*Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Harcourt-Brace, 1998.
*Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth, Harcourt-Brace, 1999.
*Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron as American Hero, Wadsworth, 2002.
*Holidays with Sundae: Conversations with my Cat, Green Hills Press, 2002.
Second printing, 2004.
*Instructor’s Manual for Cannistraro and Reich’s The Western Perspective,
Wadsworth, 2003.
*Dogs To Men, Green Hills Press, 2005.
*Documents in American Religious History, 2 volumes, Thomson, 2005
Author of over 60 articles, appearing in such publications as Christian Century, Commonweal, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, and The American
Benedictine Review, some of them anthologized, and articles for a number of encyclopedias, including The
Encyclopedia of Religion and American Law, The
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, The Dictionary of British Biography, and The Encyclopedia of American Lives.
Reader of over 50 papers, delivered in the United States, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, China, and other Asian countries.
Reviewer of over 100 books, published in newspapers and both popular and scholarly journals, broadcast on
local public radio affiliate.
Honors:
*Member: Honors Societies of Alpha Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Delta.
*Fulbright-Hays Senior Lectureships in Korea (1977) and in Taiwan (1983-84).
*Robert D.W. Conner Award for Best Article of 1977-1978, North Carolina
Historical Review.
*Award for Scholarly Research, Western Kentucky University, 1980.
*Award for Research/Creativity, Potter College of Western Kentucky
University, 1994.
*Sabbatical Leaves for Research in Italy, 1975; China, 1991.
*Instructor in KIIS Program in Spain, 2001.
*Named Distinguished University Professor 2001 - 2006.
Teaching Fields:
American Social and Intellectual
American Biography
Canada
Copyright:
Dr. James T. Baker
Last Updated:
07.2007
Dr. James T. Baker
Last Updated:
07.2007