Roy T. Wortman taught at Kenyon for forty-one years, thirty-four of them full time in Kenyon's history department, where he taught social, political, and American and North American Indian history. His research and publications are in labor, political, and social history. He finished his fulltime career with an endowed chair, the Distinguished Professorship in History, given him in 2001 as a surprise by former students and a Kenyon parent. He was Kenyon's first senior faculty to be awarded the newly-instituted Trustee Teaching Award. His current part-time teaching of one course per year is in political, social, and American Indian history. He was privileged to work under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Bremner who mentored him for the PhD in History at The Ohio State University. His coursework is broad-based, extending into Aboriginal and Western European foundations prior to examining American, and sometimes Canadian themes. His teaching was/is influenced by his parents, some stunning undergraduate professors, and his graduate school advisor, and a few past military commanders who made a difference. He does not have a web site.

Areas of Expertise

Canadian and United States Indian/First Nations history, United States political and social history

Education

Ph.D. The Ohio State University
B.A. Colorado State University

Courses Taught

HIST 205 American Political History
HIST 309 (pdf) Radical Movements in US History
HIST 408 Native Voices
-U.S. Civilization: History through Literature
-Politics and Ideas in the Great Depression Era
-North American Indian and Metis History through U.S. and Canadian Native American Autobiography and Literature
-Seminars on the Second World War