J. Frederick Fausz

Fred Fausz (Ph.D., William and Mary) is a history professor and former honors college dean at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he specializes in Colonial American ethnohistory and fur trade frontiers. Two of his many essays have won "best article of the year" awards from historical societies in Virginia and Missouri. During the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, he drove his "fur museum on wheels" 13,000 miles to deliver show-and-tell lectures to rural towns in four states and has exhibited his extensive artifact collection in major museums. He was the program chair for the 9th North American Fur Trade Conference and received the 2007 Missouri Governor's Award in the Humanities for Enhancing Community Heritage. In 2009 he was elected president of The Center for French Colonial Studies and is completing a book on the 1622 Virginia Massacre.