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Part-time professor, European history

PhD, University of Connecticut, 1972

Robert Michael was educated in survival: in tenement childhood with absentee parents; in the U.S. Army, serving in Army Chief of Staff in Pentagon and in combat outfit (in Bitburg, Germany, C Battery, 4th Missile Battalion, 6th Artillery Regiment, 7th Army); and as editor in New York City publishing.

Dr. Michael has taught at Central European University in Prague, University of Vienna, University of Venice, InterAmerican University (Puerto Rico), Middle Tennessee State University, University of South Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Ringling College of Art and Design.

Most recently, he is the author of:

The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Dictionary of Antisemitism (Scarecrow Press, 2007)
Holy Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) [Nominated for National Jewish Book Award]

Dr. Michael has also written a half-dozen other books and more than fifty articles on the history of Antisemitism and the Holocaust.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Philosophy at Columbia University, and an NDEA Fellow. He lived in Boston, New York City, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Venice (Italy), Sarasota, and Murfreesboro, TN. He follows the advice of Socrates and Captain McNelly of the Texas Rangers—a brave man keeps on keeping on.

Feb. 25, 2010: We are deeply saddened to report the passing on Feb. 25 of Robert Michael, a distinguished scholar who taught part-time for our department for the last several years. Dr. Michael was a Professor Emeritus of European History at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where he taught the Holocaust for nearly thirty years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University in Philosophy, Dr. Michael published poetry and more than 50 articles and 11 books on the Holocaust and the History of Antisemitism. Click here for more on his extraordinary life and career. Our thoughts are with his family and his many, many former students, who learned so much from Bob over the years.