“I have been a historian ever since I knew the meaning of the word, a life long slave of Clio, the muse of history.”

Military Service: U. S. Navy, 1954-59

Navy Hospital Corpsman, HM1 USNR, attached to the Marine Corps

Education: BA in History, University of Florida, 1962; Dean’s List every semester at U of F; Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1962.  MA (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) in Russian History, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; specialized in Russian, Balkan, Near Eastern and European History.

Publications: Published two major monographs on Russian history, numerous articles in scholarly journals specializing in Russian and Siberian studies and, several articles on Washington territorial figures, including Elwood Evans. More recently published several articles and a monograph on American and Russian environmental history.

Teaching Experience: University of Arkansas, 1966-67; Duke University, 1967-69; State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, 1969-72; The Evergreen State College, 1972-2022.

Relevant Travel: Twenty-five trips to the Soviet Union, and now Russia, with students and alone to study ecological, social and political-economic issues and history of Russia. 

Current Projects: Crackers in Paradise: Stories and Memories of a Florida Family, a multigenerational history of Tom’s Florida family, completed and currently available on Amazon and being considered by several southern university presses for publication; Conquest East, Conquest West, a comparative study of the ecological and social consequences of the Russian conquest of Siberia and the Euro-American conquest of North America.  Completing monograph on ecological issues and problems of the Middle Basin of the Volga River, Russia.