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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.

He trained in tai chi under Master Wu and in ju jitsu and Kempo karate under Sifu Bill Aguiar of the Black Dragon Fighting Society; in fiction under Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Margot Livesey, Maria Flook, and Michael Klein at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; in poetry under Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins.

He is an Emeritus Professor of European History at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and has completed a novel, Jewdysseos, and published poetry. His creative non-fiction saw print in publications as diverse as Black Belt Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Jewish Magazine (August 2008).

His short stories "Mr. Christian," "Students," and "Direct Pressure, " have appeared in Poetica, Word Catalyst, and Fiction at Work in 2009. His play, "The Presence,"  was read at Murfreesboro Little Theatre in April, 2009; his short plays "P-Town" and "Alexa and Dan" are still being revised.

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.