Troy Paddock

Troy Paddock is a Connecticut State University Professor of Modern European History at Southern Connecticut State University. He received his B.A. in History and Philosophy at Pepperdine University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. Paddock’s research interests focus on modern German cultural and intellectual history, with a special interest in propaganda. He is also interested in environmental history and historical methodology. He wrote Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument (Routledge Press, 2019) Creating the Russian Peril: Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 (Camden House, 2010) and edited volumes, World War I and Propaganda (Brill, 2014) and A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (Praeger, 2004). He has had articles published in German History, Central European History, Re-thinking History, Philosophy and Geography, Internationale Schulbuchforshung, Ethics in Progress Quarterly, Contemporary Aesthetics, and Environment, Space, Place. Since 2013 he has been co-editor of Environment, Space, Place.