European history; aviation history; WWI

Professor, Franklin Professor of History
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1971

Office: 316 LeConte
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:45 By Appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2536

jmorrow@uga.edu

John Morrow joined the UGA faculty in 1988 as Franklin Professor and spent 1988-89 at the National Air and Space Museum as the Lindbergh Visiting Professor. He was elected history department chair in 1991, and then served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1993 through 1995 before returning to fulltime teaching and research. He has twice been selected an Honors Professor for superior teaching in the University Honors Program. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of Modern Europe and War and Sciety. The author of the books Building German Airpower, 1909-1914 (1976), German Airpower in World War I (1982), Morrow's book The Great War in the Air (1993) is considered the definitive study of airpower in the First World War. His latest work is the edited volume A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (1996). He authored the chapter on the air war in the prestigious Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998), and he is currently writing a history of the First World War.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Courses Taught

HIST2302: History of Western Society Since 1500

HIST2312H: Western Society since 1500 (Honors)

HIST3752: War and Society Since 1500

HIST4392: 20th Century France

HIST4400: Age of World Wars I and II

Dissertations Supervised

LaValle, John Howard, "Military Professionalsim and the Realities of War: German Officers Training in the Great War" (1997)

MA Theses Supervised

Schwartzberg, Jennifer, "TBA" (In Progress)

Howell, Michael, "Rooted in the Dark of the Earth: Bavaria's Peasant-Farmers and The Profit of a Manufactured Paradise" (2008)

Smith, Zachary, ""With A Firm Hand of Stern Repression:" Federal Enforcement of the Draft Law, 1917-1918" (2007)

Powell, Erick James, "Mainstream media, african-american periodicals, labor press, and first red scare strikes: how a big business and government elped to undermine labor." (2006)

Long, Bronson Wilder, "Charles De Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer and Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: A Certain Carolingian Idea of Europe and the Emergence of European Interdependence, 1943-1963" (2000)

Stewart, Caitlin Carenen, ""Race Over Grace":The Plight of Non-Aryan Christians in the Third Reich" (2000)

Moot, Lisa Ann, "From Fashionable Masculinity to Feminine Resolve: Reading the Weimar Woman Question in the Berlin Newspapers" (1997)

Gay, Richard S. F., "An Honorable Patriotism: The French Socialists and the Three Year Law" (1996)

Thomas, Ian Scott, "Readying for Ragnarok: Ideology and Indoctrination in the Pre-War SS, 1933-1939" (1994)

Percy, William Alexander, "Jim Crow, Uncle Sam, and the Tuskegee Flying Units: Race Relations in the United States Army Air Forces in Europe During World War II." (1994)

Sheftall, Mark David, "Broken Bodies, Broken Hearts: Lost Elite, Lost Illusions, and the Origin of Englands Lost Generation." (1993)

Pollard, Charles Stephen, ""A Fellowship of Strangers: Social Class and the British War Experience, 1914-1918" (1993)