Source: David Stone, 785-532-2978, stone@k-state.edu
http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/MediaGuide/dstonebio.html
News release prepared by: Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, 785-532-6415,
ebarcomb@k-state.edu
Monday, June 11, 2007
K-STATE HISTORY PROFESSOR NAMED A TOP YOUNG HISTORIAN BY THE HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State University history professor has been named a top young historian by the History News Network.
The network selected K-State's David Stone for the distinction based on his contribution to the discipline in his area of research through his commitment and achievement in scholarship and teaching. The network also chooses historians who are highly regarded outside academia, and many are consulted by the popular media. A profile of Stone will appear on the History News Network Web site at http://www.hnn.us/roundup/49.html#39840
Stone has taught at K-State since 1999, where he also is a faculty member of the Institute for Military Studies and 20th Century Studies. He specializes in Russia and the Soviet Union, South Asia and military history. He is the author of "A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya" and "Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926–1933," which won the Historical Society's inaugural Best First Book Prize and was co-winner of the 2001 Shulman Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Stone received the K-State Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001.
His current research includes Leon Trotsky and his role in the creation of the Soviet army, international finance and the collapse of the Soviet system, and the Soviet military in the run-up to World War II. Stone earned a doctorate in history from Yale University and bachelor's degrees in history and mathematics from Wabash College.
The History News Network is a Web site of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University that operates independently of the university. The network's mission includes putting events in context, reminding the public of the complexity of history, exposing politicians who misrepresent history, pointing out bogus analogies and deflating beguiling myths.