History
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Dr. Don Schilling
| Affiliation | Faculty | | Title | Professor and Chair | | Office | Fellows 428 | | Email | schilling@denison.edu | | Phone | 740-587-6588 |
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Don Schilling, Professor of History, has had the pleasure of working
with generations of Denison students since his arrival on the campus
in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin. His research and teaching
have largely focused on German history, and more specifically on the
historiography of World War II and the Holocaust. In 1998 he edited
and wrote the introduction to Teaching the Holocaust in a Changing
World, volume II in the Lessons and Legacies series published by
Northwestern University Press. His historiographical essays have
appeared in World War II in Europe, Africa and the Americas; The
Holocaust and Justice; Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for
Teachers and Scholars; and in various scholarly journals. His most
recent scholarship, however, is on the history of Granville in the
first half of the 20th century. His three chapters on this period
appear in Granville, Ohio: A Study in Continuity and Change, Volume I,
A Purpose, A Plan, A Place, published for the 2005 bicentennial.
Strongly committed to service, Schilling has twice been chair of the
history department and of the Denison faculty. He also served as
dean of the first-year students (where he was known to students as
"Dean Don of Doane") from 1997 to 2002. He has returned to Doane
for 2006-07 to serve as Associate Provost. The voice of the women's
basketball team and a member of the Concert Choir for over a decade,
Schilling just completed his three year tenure as holder of the Charles and Nancy Brickman
Distinguished Service Chair.
