Homepage of Karl Qualls
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History
Field work outside Sevastopol, Ukraine (October 2004)
Welcome to my website at Dickinson College's Department of History. I hope that you will find some useful information in this site. The navigation bar will take you to several pages from which you can gather more information about my courses and interests. Enjoy!
My objectives at Dickinson are to provide students with the opportunity to explore the past and improve their skills at the same time. I place great emphasis on the ability to write and to clearly articulate one's views. Moreover, students will learn how to read primary and secondary sources with great care. These skills and the course content of historical study should provide our students with the ability to actively engage the world rather than passively accept "knowledge" and dominant U.S. socio-cultural norms.
Hot off the presses: Karl D. Qualls, “'Where Each Stone is History': Travel Guides in Sevastopol after World War II," in Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, eds., Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Cornell, 2006).