Dr. Beth A. Griech-Polelle

Associate professor of modern European history
Expertise: German history; Nazism; the Holocaust; anti-semitism; European women’s history; Catholicism and the
German State
Credentials: Ph.D. and M.A. from Rutgers University; bachelor’s degree from Chestnut Hill College.
Office phone: 419-372-9478
E-mail: bgriech@bgsu.edu

Dr. Walter E. Grunden

Associate professor of history
Expertise: Science and technology policy; weapons of mass destruction; nuclear proliferation; biological and chemical warfare; World War II; modern Japan; contemporary China; the Koreas.
Credentials: Ph.D. in history from the University of California-Santa Barbara; master’s degree in history and bachelor’s degree in Japanese from Ohio State University.
Office Phone: 419-372-8639
E-mail: wgrund@bgsu.edu

Dr. Gary Hess

Distinguished Research Professor of history
Expertise: U.S. national security policy; the Vietnam War; presidential leadership and war making; U.S. diplomatic history.
Credentials: The author of six books, including the 1990 book, “Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War,” “The United States at War 1941-1945” (Harland Davison, rev. ed. 2000) and “Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). He was a Fellow at the University’s Institute for the Study of Culture and Society in the fall of 2004. Hess is working on a book for Blackwell Publishing that traces and analyzes the debate over Vietnam, beginning with the teach-ins of 1965. He is the author of “Presidents and War Resolutions, 1991 and 2003,” a comparison of the leadership of George Bush Sr. and his son George W. Bush, in the Spring 2006 edition of Political Science Quarterly. President-elect of the Ohio Academy of History, he is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1991) and a former chair of the U.S. State Department’s Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. He also has been a consultant and lecturer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and served as a consultant on long-range planning of U.S. foreign policy to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002. A four-time Fulbright lecturer in India, he was a member of the board of editors for the journal Diplomatic History from 1998-2000.
Office Phone: 419-372-6806
Home Phone: 419-353-0721
E-mail: ghess@bgsu.edu

Dr. Kenneth F. Kiple

Distinguished University Professor of history
Expertise: History of diseases; the history of food.
Credentials: Ph.D. in history and Ph.D. in Latin American studies from the University of Florida; author of books on both areas of expertise.
Office Phone: 419-372-8163
Home Phone: 419-354-1337
E-mail: kkiple@bgsu.edu

Dr. Scott C. Martin

Associate professor of history and American culture studies; chair, Department of History
Expertise: U.S. social and cultural history; 19th-century U.S. history; history of leisure; alcohol and drug history.
Credentials: Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh; M.S. in applied history and social science from Carnegie Mellon University; B.A. in history from Yale University.
Office Phone: 419-372-8767
Cell Phone: 419-410-9293
E-mail: smartin@bgsu.edu