[265] History Scholar Delivers Strickland Lecture At MTSU Feb. 18

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 25, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Lisa L. Rollins, 615-898-2919, or lrollins@mtsu.edu

HISTORY SCHOLAR DELIVERS STRICKLAND LECTURE AT MTSU FEB. 18

(MURFREESBORO)—Dr. Christon Archer, a leading historian on Latin America and the global military, will deliver the 2010 Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture in History at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of the Business and Aerospace Building on the MTSU campus.
The topic of Archer’s free and open talk will be "Winning all of the Battles and Losing the War: How Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Forged Independent Mexico, 1810–1821."
A member of the history faculty at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, Archer has been widely published on the contact between Indians and the Spanish conquistadors on the West Coast of Northern America.
As a specialist and scholar on the insurgency and independence of Mexico (1810–1821). Archer was selected to give the 2006 keynote address at the Conference of Mexican-American-Canadian Historians, the largest Latin American History Congress.
A one-time resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Italy, Archer is the author of more than 70 book chapters, articles and titles. Among his numerous honors, Archer’s book, “The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760–1810” (University of New Mexico Press), won both the Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association’s prize for best book and the Herbert E. Bolton Prize for best book from the Conference of Latin American History of the American Historical Association.
Regarding Archer’s selection as the 2010 Strickland scholar, Dr. Christoph Rosenmüller, associate professor of history at MTSU, said, “We are excited to have Dr. Archer on campus. He is a leading specialist of Latin American and global military history, and a very engaging speaker. He will provide MTSU students with fresh perspectives on the history of our neighbors and world affairs.
Aside from his free public Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture in History at MTSU, Archer also will meet for formal and informal classes and workshops with undergraduates, graduates and faculty.
A native of British Columbia, Archer earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Victoria (Victoria, B.C.). He earned both a Master of Arts and his Doctor of Philosophy from New York’s Stony Brook. He also possesses an honorary Doctor of Letters from La Trobe University in Australia.
The purpose of the Strickland Visiting Scholar program is to allow students to meet with accomplished scholars whose expertise spans a variety of historical issues. It was established through the support of the Strickland family in memory of Dr. Roscoe Lee Strickland Jr., a longtime professor of European history at MTSU. Strickland was the first president of the MTSU Faculty Senate.
For more information regarding Archer’s Feb. 18 talk, please contact Rosenmüller, chairman of the Strickland lecture’s coordinating committee, at 615-898-2536 or via e-mail at rosenmul@mtsu.edu.
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