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Robert Detweiler

Robert DetweilerProfessor – Part-time Instructor (FERP)
US history; Colonial and Revolutionary America; Civil War America
E-mail:  rdetweil@calpoly.edu
Office:  Bldg. 47, 25D
Phone:  (805) 756-6585

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of Washington

  • MA, San Francisco State University

  • BA, Humboldt State University

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Colonial America; American Revolution; Civil War America; American slavery

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

  • “Was Richard Hakluyt a Negative Influence on the Settlement of Virginia?” North Carolina Historical Review (1971)

  • “Charles Beard, the Constitution and the Historians,” in American Government and Politics, ed. By Ronald C. Moe and William A. Schultz (Charles Merrill Publishing Co., 1971)

  • “Robert Rose, 1704-1751:  Effective and Popular Minister of Colonial Virginia,” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1971)

  • “Retreat from Environmentalism:  A Review of the Psychohistory of
    George III,” The History Teacher (1972)

  • “Political Factionalism in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1730-1776,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (1971)

  • “Shifting Perspective on the Salem Witches,” The History Teacher (1975)

  • Robert Detweiler and Jon N. Sutherland, eds, Environmental Decay in Its Historical Context (Scott, Foresman & Co., 1973)

  • Raymond Starr and Robert Detweiler, eds., Race, Prejudice and the Origins of Slavery in America (Alfred Schenkman Co., 1975)

  • Robert Detweiler and Ramon Ruiz, eds., Liberation in the Americas:  Comparative Independence Movements in Mexico and the United States (San Diego State University Press, 1978)

  • Richard Bland and the Origins of the Revolution in Virginia (Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1981)

SERVICE

30 years of administrative service: department chair and dean (San Diego State University); vice president (California State University, San Bernardino); president (California State University, Dominguez Hills); and vice president and provost (California Polytechnic State University).  40 years of volunteer work with diverse community service organizations, including United Way, Red Cross, Community Foundation, YMCA, Private Industry Council, and 25 years of military reserve service. 

 

COURSES

  • History 207 – Freedom and Equality in American History

  • History 320 – Colonial and Revolutionary America

  • History 321 – Civil War America

  • History 402 - American Revolution and the New Nation

  • History 404 – The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

  • History 460/461 – Senior Project

  • History 505 – Graduate Seminar in U.S. History