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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

History and Political Science

Research areas

American and International Communism, maritime studies, labor history and the Spanish Civil War

Education

PhD, Twentieth Century United States/ Soviet Union, Georgetown University, United States, 1994

MA, World History, Indiana State University, United States, 1987

BS, History, Indiana State University, United States, 1985

Professional experience

Professor Of History, International Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2022 - Present

Professor Of History And Head Of Department, Department Of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2014 - Present

Professor Of History, University of Great Falls, Montana, United States, 2006 - 2014

Associate Dean For Academic Affairs And Student Services, Montana State University - Great Falls, Montana, United States, 2003 - 2006

Associate Vice-president For Academic Affairs And Dean Of Faculty, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, 2001 - 2003

Assistant/associate Professor Of History, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, 1994 - 2001

Visiting Professor Of American Studies, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, 1996 - 1998

Adjunct Faculty, Shepherd College, West Virginia, United States, 1991 - 1994

Memberships

Member, Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, Indiana, United States, January 2010

Vice-President, Historians of American Communism, United States, March 2003

Overseas member, Bulgarian American Studies Association, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2001

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 4463

Dr. Vernon Pedersen

Professor

PhD, Georgetown University, United States

Vernon Pedersen is a specialist in the history of American and International Communism with emphasis on the maritime unions and the Spanish Civil War.' His teaching areas include American and Soviet history, European history, history of the Cold War and espionage,'as well as maritime history and international security.' He has taught at Shepherd College in West Virginia, the American University in Bulgaria, the University of Great Falls (now University of Providence) and the American University of Sharjah. He is the President of the Historians of American Communism and the author of The Communist Party of Maryland, 1919-1957 and The Communist Party on the American Waterfront: Reform, Revolution and the Quest for Power.

Publications

Vernon Pedersen, James Ryan And Katherine Sibley. Inroduction and Myth, Memory and the Spanish Civil War: The World the Vetrans Made, 2021

Vernon Pedersen. The Communist Party on the American Waterfront: Revolution, Reform and the Quest for Power, 15 February 2020

Conference Presentations

True Lies: Major Laurence Milner and the case of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast Branch – American Historical Association,, August 2020

Keeping up the Good Fight: the Legacy of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, First Annual History Forum, 29 October 2019

Fighting the Good Fight: The Communist Party and the Spanish Civil War, One Hundred Years Of American Communism In The Usa: The Cpusa At Home And Abroad Since 1919,, 10 November 2018