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Name
  
William Watson


Employer
  
Immaculata University

Alma mater
  
University of Pennsylvania, Eastern College

Awards
  
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University

Website
  
immaculata.edu/node/253

Education
  
University of Pennsylvania

Books
  
Tricolor and Crescent, The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union:

William E. Watson was born in New York City. He is Professor of History at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council 2006-2007, and was also the recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University for the year 2006-2007.

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Books

  • Watson, William E.; J. Francis Watson; John H. Ahtes; Earl H. Schandelmeier (2006). The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 216. ISBN 0275987272. doi:10.1336/0275987272. 
  • Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger, 2003)[1]
  • The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood, 1998)[2]
  • Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People, William E. Watson and Eugene J. Halus, Eds. (ABC-Clio, 2015) [3]

    • Scholarly Articles

    Some of his publications in medieval history are available at De Re Militari, the medieval military history society:

  • Watson, William E. (2001). "Ibn al-Athir on the Rus: A Commentary and Translation". Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 35 (4, Winter): 423–438. Archived from the original on 2003-10-18. Retrieved 9 October 2013. 
  • Watson, William E. (1993). "The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited". Providence: Studies in Western Civilization. Providence College Press. 1 (2): 51–68. 

    • Watson's paper at the Immaculata University Chronicle of Faith Conference (April 4, 2008) is available

  • Watson, William E. (2009). "The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic and Duffy's Cut". US Catholic Historian. The Catholic University of America Press. 27 (4): 1–16. 

    • Watson's paper at the University of Oregon conference The Millennium: Russia and Christianity AD 988-1988 (April 11, 1988)

  • Watson, William E. (1990). "Arabic Perceptions of Russia's Christian Conversion". The Millennium: Russia and Christianity AD 988-1988, Ed. Albert Leong. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 33–40. 

    • Dissertation

    Watson's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania: Watson, William Ernest (January 1, 1990). The hammer and the crescent: Contacts between Andalusi Muslims, Franks, and their successors in three waves of Muslim expansion into Francia (dissertation). 

    References

    William E. Watson Wikipedia
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