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Dr. Paul E. Michelson
Distinguished Professor of History

Dr. Paul E. Michelson has been a member of the faculty since 1974. He was a three-time Fulbright fellow in Romania (1971-1973, 1982-1983, 1989-1990). His research focuses on the historiography and political development of modern Romania, the history of Venice, and the work of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

He has been President of the Society for Romanian Studies (2006-2009), is currently the Secretary of both the Society for Romanian Studies and the Conference on Faith and History, a member of the National Board of the South East European Studies Association, and serves on the editorial board of eleven journals.

His book, Romanian Politics, 1859-1871: From Prince Cuza to Prince Carol (1998) was selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1998 and was awarded the 2000 Balcescu Prize for History by the Romanian Academy. He was a lead contributor to Richard Frucht, ed., Encyclopedia of East Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism (2000), which was a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book for 2000. He is currently completing research on a history of Romanian historiography from the 1880s to 1947.

Michelson teaches the following courses:

  • HS 125-126 The Mainstream of History

  • HS 472 Venice and the Mediterranean World

  • HS 477 Seminar in Modern European History

  • MI 285csl The Life and Work of C. S. Lewis

In 1997, Dr. Michelson was the recipient of the Huntington College Centennial Medallion.

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