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Curriculum Vitae - David M. Kirkham

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 – Present Senior Fellow for Comparative Law and International Policy and

Advisor for European Union and Council of Europe, International

Center for Law and Religion Studies, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Law School courses taught:

- U.S. Church and State

- International Protection of Religious Freedom

2015 – 2019 Academic Director, Brigham Young University (BYU)June 2019 London Centre, London, United Kingdom

2012 – 2019 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, BYU

Courses taught:

- Human Rights

- Religious Liberty in the British Isles

- European Studies: Britain’s Contributions to Political

Freedom and Constitutional Government

- Ethics and International Affairs

- Government and Religion

- American Heritage (constitutional history and development:

Honors, International, and core sections)

2009 – 2012 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science, BYU

1982 – 2007 United States Air Force Officer

2005 – 2007 Associate Dean, College of International and Security Studies,

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

(Marshall Center), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

2003 – 2007 Professor of International Politics and Democratic Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Courses taught, 2003 - 2007:

- Constitutionalism, Constitution-Making and Nation Building

- Diplomacy and International Security

- Countering Ideological Support for Extremism

- Advanced Security Studies

2002 – 2003 Deputy Head for International History, Department of History,

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). Duties included:

Chair, USAFA Foreign Area Studies (FAS) Working Group,

overseeing curriculum and management of FAS major and of Area and International History courses.

2000 – 2003 Associate Professor of History, USAFA

1999. – 2000 Assistant Professor of History, USAFA

Courses taught, 1999 – 2003 (course director for all three courses):

- War Crimes, Genocide and Human Rights (Poli Sci course)

- History of US Foreign Policy

- Modern World History

1999 – 2002 Director, International Plans, Programs and Development,

USAFA. Focal point for USAFA’s international activities and

relations with foreign governments. Responsible for expansion of

USAFA international programs throughout the world.

1999 – 2000 Adjunct Faculty, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Dakar, Senegal and Washington, D.C.: a cooperative U.S.

Government-African institute for the promotion of democracy and

good governance in Africa, 1999-2000.

1997 – 1999 Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer, Office for the Coordination

of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

1995 – 1997 NATO Exchange Student, German Federal Armed Forces

Command and General Staff College, Hamburg, Germany

1994 – 1995 German language student, U.S. Defense Language Institute,

Monterey, CA

1992 – 1994 International Political-Military Affairs and Negotiations Officer,

Headquarters US Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein, Germany:

Northern European and African desk.

1990 – 1993 Assistant Professor of History, USAFA, and

1989 – 1990 Instructor of History, USAFA

Courses taught, 1989 – 1993 (course director for all four courses):

- Revolution and Democracy in Western Society

- USA-USSR: The Historical Roots of Confrontation

- Modern World History

- Foundations of American History

- Historical Methods

1987 – 1989 Full-time doctoral student, George Washington University,

Washington, D.C.

1984 – 1987 Deputy Staff Attorney (Judge Advocate), Chief of Civil Law

and Trial Counsel, RAF Chicksands, United Kingdom.

1982 – 1984 Assistant Staff Attorney (Judge Advocate), Chief of Labor

Law for Air Force District of Washington, D.C., Andrews AFB, MD.

EDUCATION[pic]

PhD – American Civilization, George Washington University, 1989

Fields of Study:

- British Constitutional and Political History, 17th-18th Century

- Anglo-American Intellectual History, 17th-18th Century

- Early American Literature (political literature emphasis)

- American Cultural History

Dissertation: “Inflamed by Study”: Eighteenth-Century Higher Education and the

Creation of the American Constitutional Mind

Tool requirement: high proficiency French

JD – J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1982

Academic areas of emphasis: constitutional, international and comparative law, Anglo-American jurisprudence and legal history.

MFA – English (Creative Nonfiction), Brigham Young University, 2012.

MEd – Educational Administration, Brigham Young University, 1979.

BA, magna cum laude – English, Brigham Young University, 1978.

Minors: Applied Sociology (official); French (undeclared – 24 semester hours)

Diplom - German Armed Forces Command and General Staff College, Hamburg, Germany, 1997. Academic areas of emphasis: international humanitarian law, German history and politics, transatlantic strategic policy, democratic defense policy, (2-year program).

Thesis: "Die Internationale Antwort auf Kriegsverbrechen und Verletzungen des Internationale Humanitaeren Rechts: Eine Evolutionaere Betrachtung mit Ausblick auf die Zukunft"; ("The International Response to War Crimes and Violations of International Humanitarian Law: An Evolutionary View and Future Prospects").

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective,” University of Notre Dame Law School, 1991, (2-month program).

University of Cambridge International Summer School, Cambridge, England, 1987, courses in English Political Thought, English Legal System, British History, and lecture program in general British culture.

LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION

High proficiency in French and German, with extensive professional use of both. Moderate-to-good reading and very basic speaking abilities in Spanish.

Officially represented the United States or United Nations in the USA, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, England, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Nigeria, Botswana, Ethiopia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and before the governments of many others and

Represented Brigham Young University in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Armenia, Russia, Jordan, Ghana, India and Australia. Represented Eagle Condor Humanitarian in Peru.

Lived nineteen adult years in Europe in England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany.

AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS_

College of Family, Home and Social Science Excellence in Teaching Award, Brigham Young University, 2014.

Research awards: BYU Department of Political Science, Center for the Study of Europe, and David M. Kennedy Center, for research in Magna Carta and Anglo-American constitutional studies at Inns of Court archives, London, Summer 2014.

Research fellowship, Secretary of the Air Force Office of International Affairs, Area Studies Advanced Program: research in developments in European democracy with focus on Austrian challenges, June 2000.

Fellowship, Salvatori Center for Academic Leadership, Washington D.C., 1992-94.

David L. Zook Award for Excellence in Teaching World History, US Air Force Academy Department of History, 1991.

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1991 (See "Education.")

Research fellowship, US Air Force Academy Department of History, Fall 1991.

Doctoral studies sponsorship (full-tuition, fees, books, and salary), US Air Force Academy and Air Force Institute of Technology at George Washington University, 1987-89.

Scholarship, J. Reuben Clark Law School, 1979-82.

Graduate fellowship, Charles Mott Foundation for Community Education, 1978-79.

SCHOLARSHIP, WRITING, AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Publications

Books:

Editor, State Responses to Minority Religions, Ashgate Publishers, United Kingdom, 2013.

Lead editor (with Cole Durham and Tore Lindholm), Islam and Political-Cultural Europe, Ashgate Publishers, UK, 2012.

Lead editor (with Cole Durham, Rik Torfs, and Christine Scott), Islam in Europe: Emerging Legal Issues, Ashgate Publishers, UK, 2012.

Editor, The “New World Order” in Historical Perspective, Worland, Wyoming: High Plains Publishing, 1993.

In progress: book on higher education and US 18th-century constitutional thought.

Articles and Chapters:

“Foreword: Law and Religion in Africa – Comparative Practices, Experiences and Prospects” (with Cole Durham), 1 African Human Rights Law Journal (2014) 61-68.

“Political Culture and Freedom of Conscience: A Case Study of Austria,” chapter in book Freedom of Religion under Bills of Rights, Paul Babie and Neville Rochow, eds., University of Adelaide Press, 2011.

“Religious Intolerance and Discrimination: Reflections on Causes and Countermeasures,”  

Staat – Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Glaubensformen and Weltanschauungen,  11:2 (2010),

163-180. 

"Etats-unies," [United States’ religious freedom] (with Cole Durham),  Dictionnaire du droit des religions, Francis Messner, ed., Editions du CNRS, Paris, France, 2011. 

“Constitutionalism as Protector or Disrupter of Nationalism: A Selected Central, Eastern European and Eurasian Review,” in Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Vol. III, No. 4 (December 2004).

“Conscience and War: An LDS Perspective,” Wielding the Sword While Proclaiming Peace, Valerie Hudson and Kerry Kartchner, eds., (Provo, UT: David M. Kennedy Center), 2004.

“Europe’s Double Dealings in Democracy: The Case of Austria,” Foreign Area Officer Journal (online), 11 June 2001, previously at .

“European Sources of American Constitutional Thought before 1789,” US Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies 3 (1992).

Essays and Notes:

“Educational Choice: Emerging Legal and Policy Issues,” BYU Law Review, introductory essay, April 2008.

“Enduring Lessons of the Marshall Plan: Can its principles be applied to the Middle East?” Christian Science Monitor, op-ed., June 5, 2007.

“War Crimes,” in International Encyclopedia of Military History, James C. Bradford, ed., (London: Routledge), 2006.

“United Nations Initiatives in Africa in the Cooperative Regional Use of Military and Civil Defense Assets in Humanitarian Operations,” International Peacekeeping Vol. 5, No. 3 (May-June 1999).

Creative Nonfiction: Two personal essays published in BYU Studies in 2010; essay compilation for MFA thesis.

Published Reports:

 “Law and Religion in Africa,” conference report, (2013) 15 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 219–222 (Cambridge University).

Exploring Dimensions in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism (joint-author), George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and the Royal Jordanian National Defence College, Amman, Jordan, 2010.

Advancing International Coordination in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism: Toward Building a Comprehensive Strategy (joint-author), George C. Marshall European Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and Center for Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, Ankara, Turkey, 2007.

Review Essay: “Of Letters and Litigation: The Ignorance of the Lawyer is No Excuse,” US Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies 1 (1990): 217-222 (reviewing Richard Posner’s Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation).

Reviews:

Gavin Cawthra and Robin Luckham, eds., Governing Insecurity: Democratic Control of Military and Security Establishments in Transitional Democracies in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Winter 2005.

Stephan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order and Colin S. Gray, The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order in The Review of Politics, Spring 2005.

Dale M. Hellegers, We the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution in American Studies International, Jun/Oct 2004.

Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley, FDR and the Creation of the U.N. in American Studies International, Spring 2003.

Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century and Geoffrey Robertson, Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice in The US Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies, 2002/2003.

Chanrithy Him, When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir in War, Literature and the Arts, 2002.

Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict in Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Winter 2002.

Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism in American Studies International, Summer 2002.

Dorothy Shea, The South African Truth Commission: The Politics of Reconciliation in Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Autumn 2001.

Stuart Andrews, Rediscovering America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in a Revolutionary Era in American Studies International, Summer 2001.

Howard Ball, Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth-Century Experience and Roy Gutman, et al., Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know in The US Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies, 2000.

Fred Inglis. The Cruel Peace: Everyday Life and the Cold War in Air Power Journal, Spring 1993.

John E. Finn. Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law in Review of Politics, Summer 1992.

Dick Howard. The Birth of American Political Thought in American Studies International, Fall 1991.

John K. Alexander. The Selling of the Constitutional Convention in American Studies International, Fall 1991.

Helen Veit et al. Eds. Creating the Bill of Rights in American Studies International, Fall 1991.

Kenneth Shewmaker, ed. Daniel Webster: “The Completest Man” in American Studies International, Fall 1991.

Otis L. Graham, Jr. Soviet-American Dialogue on the New Deal in American Studies International, Spring 1991.

Forrest McDonald. Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes in American Studies International, Fall 1989.

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