Bernard
A. Cook
Professor
Office Bobet Hall 427
E-mail: cook@loyno.edu
Phone: 504-865-2564
Home Page:http://www.loyno.edu/~cook/
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Cook, after studying at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Marburg on a Fulbright Fellowship, received his Ph.D. in modern European History from St. Louis University in 1970. His first teaching position was at Northern Michigan University. He has been a member of Loyola's History Department since 1968. From 1983 to 1989 he chaired the department. He teaches courses on 19th and 20th century European history and on the history of Germany and Italy. In 1994 he was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences' "Excellence in Teaching Award" and in 2000 the University's distinguished professor award, "Dux Academicus." He is the author of Belgium: A History and edited the two volume Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia. He recruited 280 scholars from 30 countries for that project. He has co-authored two other books, has contributed chapters to several books published in Canada and Europe, and has written over 100 scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries. He is co-founder and director of Loyola's summer study program at Leuven, Belgium. He is a member of the board of directors of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850. He was invited to be a visiting lecturer at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, and in 2001 he was made an honorary professor at the University of Banat in Timisoara, Romania, and he received a fellowship from the Open Society Institute to serve as a non-resident international resource scholar at the National University of Ukraine in 2006-07.
Select Publications
"America and the Question of Dobrudja," in The Epic of Tutrakan and the War on the Northern Front 1916-1918, ed. by Peter Boishev and Voloda Milashkov (Tutrakan, Bulgaria: 2007), pp. 91-114.
Belgians in Michigan (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2007).
Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), 2 vols.
"The Rights of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Post-1945 Europe," in Human Rights in Europe since 1945, ed. by Antoine Fleury and Carole Fink (Geneva: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 85-104.