Curriculum Vitae

This vitae does not include some data, such as the numerous articles written by Dr. Pickett or the many papers presented. For a full curriculum vitae, please contact Dr. Pickett.

PERSONAL DATA

Academic Address:

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803
(812) 877-8303

Home Address:

3224 Oak Street
Terre Haute, IN 47803
(812) 234-8462

Marital Status:
Date of Birth:

Married, two children
March 12, 1940

 

EDUCATION

B.A.

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota - 1962

M.A.

Indiana University, Bloomington - 1968

Ph.D.

Indiana University, Bloomington - 1974

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1982 - present

Professor of History, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

2002 – March-May                       

Visiting professor, American University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

1990 - January-July

Visiting Lecturer, University of Maryland, Asian Division, Korea

1989 - 1990

Fulbright Visiting Professor, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan

1976 - 1982

Associate Professor of History, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

1972 - 1976

Assistant Professor of History, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

1969 - 1970

Research Assistant, Oral History Project, Indiana University

1968

Associate Instructor, U.S. History Survey, Indiana University

1962 - 1966

Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

The Information Age

U.S. to 1865
U.S. since 1865
U.S. since 1945
The American City
American Diplomacy
Russia to 1861
Russia since 1861
The Russian Dissenters
American Arms and Strategy
U.S. Between the Wars
U.S. in World Affairs

The History of Computing

Russia in the 20th Century
Western Europe to 1815
The Industrial Revolution
Europe and the German Army
Western Europe since 1815
American Conservative Thought
The Atomic Bomb

Japanese-American Relations
    in the 20th Century
The American Civil Rights Movement
    in the 20th Century

 

HONORS

President, Vigo County Historical Society, 1977-1980.
Fulbright Lectureship to Japan, 1989-1990.
Award of Merit for Homer E. Capehart: A Senator's Life, Ohio Museum Association, 1991.
Rose-Hulman Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award, 1991.
President, Indiana Association of Historians, 1992.

Chairman, Indiana Council for History Education, 2002 – 2008

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Indiana Historical Society
Vigo County Historical Society
Society for Military History
Indiana Association of Historians
Indiana Council for History Education
International House of Japan, Inc.

Past memberships:  The Society for the History of Technology

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Advisory Board to the Indiana University Oral History Project, 1980-1

Advisory Committee to the Indiana Historical Bureau, 1980-90

Editorial Advisory Committee of the Indiana Magazine of History, 1981-3

Advisory Committee, Resource Protection Planning Process, Indiana State Department of Natural Resources, secretary history discipline group, 1982

Screening panel for Indiana Heritage Research Grants, Indiana Council for the Humanities, Indianapolis, 1991 and 1992

Screening Committee, Journal of Military History, 1996

RESEARCH COMPLETED

Participant ROTC Workshop on Military History, United States Military Academy, West Point, June-July 1982.

Performed research at the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, for a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January to August 1983.  

Participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored symposium at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis entitled "New Modes of Historical Inquiry," 1984 to 1986.

As recipient of a Lily Endowment East Asian Studies curriculum development grant, did research to prepare course entitled "Japanese-American Relations in the 20th Century" (June-August, 1987).

Performed research at Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas, for book on Eisenhower's decision to seek the presidency, July 1991 and June 1992.

Performed research at the University of Minnesota library and the Charles Babbage Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for two books on the origins of the World Wide Web, spring of 2004.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Pickett, William B., “New Look or Containment? George f. Kennan and the Making of Republican National Security Strategy,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXVI, Number 2, Winter 2005: 303-312.

 

Pickett, William B., “Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair: A Forty-Six-Year Retrospective,” in J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson, eds. Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2007: 135-153.

 

Pickett, William B., “Dwight D. Eisenhower: His Legacy in World Affairs,” in Virgil Dean, ed., John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006: 278-305.

 

Pickett, William B., “General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster: Managing National Security,” in David L. Anderson, ed. The Human Tradition in America since 1945. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003.