I have been a member of the Department of History and Anthropology since 1997, where I teach courses in modern European, German, and Russian history. I have a B.A. in German and Russian language from UNC-Chapel Hill, an M.A. in Russian from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota. Before joining the faculty at SEMO, I worked for the US Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations as a war crimes investigator.