Dr. John Dunn
Professor of History
- Ph.D. in History
Florida State University (1996) - M.A. in History
Florida Atlantic University (1987) - B.A. in History
Florida Atlantic University (1978)
Teaching Fields: Islamic World, Modern China, World Military History and Slavic Europe
A historian of military evolutions in the long 19th Century, Dr. Dunn authored Khedive Ismail’s Army (2005), and placed articles in: The Journal of Military History, War in History, Polish-American Studies, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Education About Asia, National Defense University Scientific Quarterly, Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Naval History, Journal of Central Asian Studies. He helped edit two books, produced seven book chapters, and 94 encyclopedia entries.
Dunn obtained a USAID Grant to study in Egypt (1994-1995), Fulbright-Hayes travel grant to visit Uzbekistan in 1997, West Point Summer Seminar in Military History grant in 2007, and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies travel grant to Israel in 2009.
Joining VSU as an adjunct in 1996, Dunn rose to professor in 2012. He served as chair of History from 2016-2019. His university service included Chair of the Faculty Senate Grievance Committee, Promotion and Tenure Committees at all levels, faculty and chair search committees, plus directed study abroad programs for History.
Dunn argues that history is not only interesting, it teaches the attentive how to gather data, judge data, and turn that judgement into a report. Students who seriously embrace these skills sets can start many different career paths.