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Dr. Walter Kretchik

Associate Professor

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College Outstanding Faculty Award Winner

Golden Apple Outstanding Teaching Award Winner

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Dr. Walter Kretchik joined the Department in the fall of 2003 as our specialist in U.S. and transnational Military and Diplomatic History. His regular course offerings include the Department's U.S. Military History course [History 304], an upper-division/graduate course on American Diplomatic History [History 401(G)], and the U.S. survey [History 106]. He also teaches graduate seminars on modern U.S. history and American military and diplomatic history [History 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, and 515].

Prof. Kretchik's research interests include United States government, United Nations, and NATO interventions from 1898 to the present from a military and diplomatic perspective. His major works include books on U.S. interventions into Haiti and Bosnia, as well as numerous articles on similar projects involving the United States, the United Nations, and NATO.

Dr. Kretchik has won numerous teaching and research awards and grants, including the WIU "Golden Apple Award" for Outstanding Teaching and the Military Instructor of the Year Award for Teaching Excellence from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He has been the recipient of a WIU University Research Council Grant, the WIU College of Arts and Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Award for Internationalizing the Campus, and a WIU Foundation Faculty Summer Research Stipend. He has also won substantial research grants from the United States Institute for Peace and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

 

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