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Dr. Elizabeth Morrow Clark

Dr. Elizabeth Morrow Clark

Associate Professor of History

Office: Old Main, Room 403D
Email: eclark@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2422

Professional Profile

Dr. Clark is an historian of Russia and East Central Europe.  She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond, where she double-majored in German and international studies/modern Europe.  Her M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Kansas. Dr. Clark also has studied at the Westphalische Wilhelms Universitat (Germany), Jagiellonian University and the University of Gdansk (Poland).

Teaching and Related Service

As the modern Europeanist in the department, Dr. Clark teaches topics from Napoleon to nationalism, from Stalin to solidarity. Her classes on Nazi Germany and modern Russia are especially popular.

She advises the University's Scribes Chapter of Mortar Board, a senior honor society recognizing leadership, scholarship and service.

In 2008, Dr. Clark will escort the WTAMU Readership Ambassadors to Oswiencim (Auschwitz) Poland and will lead an Honors Seminar on Polish history in Warsaw and Krakow. 

Research and Creative Activity

A Polish historian by training, Dr. Clark focuses on the relationship between Poles and Germans in the interwar era and the unique character of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk) during that time. A Fulbright alumna, she also has held a grant from the Institute for the Study of World Politics and was a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow at the University of Kansas. Dr. Clark is active in the German Studies Association, is a list editor for Humanities-Net's H-Russia, and recently presented a paper at the Polish-American Historical Association national meeting.

Personal Sketch

If you ask her how many languages she speaks, the answer will be: German, Polish, enough Russian to get into trouble, and enough Japanese to get out of it!