J. Calvitt Clarke III Professor Emeritus History Department Jacksonville University Jacksonville, FL 32211
80 Meadow Heights Lane Lexington, VA 2450 540-261-8861 [email protected]
EDUCATION * Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1988 (Russian/Soviet History). Dissertation: "Russia and Italy Against Germany: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement of 1933 and 1934" (Directed by Clifford Foust). * M.A. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1975 (Modern European History). Thesis: "David Lloyd George and the Irish Settlement, 1916-1921" (Directed by John Wood). * B.A. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 1969 (European History; Sociology).
PUBLICATIONS Monographs * “Always More Hungry Children Than Sponsors: The Life and Times of Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke,” in progress.
* Russia and Italy Against Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement of the 1930s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. * Alliance of the Colored Peoples: Ethiopia & Japan Before World War II. Oxford: James Currey, 2011.
Book Chapters * “An Alliance of the ‘Colored’ Peoples: Ethiopia and Japan.” In Collision of Empires: Italy’s Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact. Edited by Bruce Strang. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, 231-60. * “Soviet Appeasement, Collective Security, and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936.” In Collision of Empires: Italy’s Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact. Edited by Bruce Strang. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, 261-86. * With Mariko A. Clarke. "Yamato wo meguru Bei-Kaigun no Joho-Katsudo" [Intelligence Activities of the US Navy Concerning the Yamato], 162-96. 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 * “The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi’s First Chancellor.” FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians 20 (May 2013): 1-10. http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_20.pdf
* "An Enterprising Spirit: Richard Hamilton, 1811-1819." FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, 18 (Mar. 2011): 49-64. http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_18.pdf
* "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 14 (Mar. 2007): 17-28. http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_14.pdf
* "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: Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006, 224-32.
* "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. http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/wizzi.html http://jcalvittclarkeiii.weebly.com/wizzi.html
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).
* "Italy, Relations with." Encyclopedia of Russian History. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
Translation Projects * Assisted, "Questions and Answers: Erminio Bagnasco." Interview by Robert von Maier and Vincent P. O'Hara. World War II Quarterly 6 (Win. 2009): 40-51.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* "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.
Editor *Editorial Committee, Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, 2001-02; 2004-05. *Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, 1993-96.
Scholarly Book Reviews * David R. Stone, ed. The Soviet Union at War, 1941-1941. South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2010, in Russian Review, 70 (July 2011): 532-533. * 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, 67 (Jan. 2008). * 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 * “The Second Life of the Reverend J. Calvitt Clarke: Popular Novelist.” Florida Conference of Historians, St. Augustine, FL, Feb. 2014. * “The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi’s First Chancellor.” Florida Conference of Historians, Lake City, FL, Feb. 2012. * "An Enterprising Spirit: Richard Hamilton, 1811-1819." Florida Conference of Historians, Wakulla Springs, FL, Feb. 2010. * "Integrating Russia into Teaching Russian History." Annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlottesville, VA, Mar. 2009. * "Red and White in Ethiopia Before the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 and 1936." Florida Conference of Historians, Ft. Myers, FL, Feb. 2009. * "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.
* “The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi’s First Chancellor.” FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians 20 (May 2013): 1-10. http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_20.pdf
* "An Enterprising Spirit: Richard Hamilton, 1811-1819." FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, 18 (Mar. 2011): 49-64. http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_18.pdf
OTHER PRESENTATIONS * "Impact of the Russian Revolution: Ideology Matters." Comments to the Meeting of the Western Front Association, Jacksonville, FL, May 1998.
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.
TEACHING RECORD * Jacksonville U., Jacksonville, FL, 1990-2008. Professor Emeritus. * 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.