Meet Kenneth C. Barnes - UCA History Professor

....from the faculty bio:
Kenneth C. Barnes, Associate Professor of History, works in the area of modern Germany, and modern European social and intellectual history. A graduate of UCA's history department (BA, 1977), he went on to complete an MA at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) and a Ph.D. at Duke University. He taught for ten years at Concordia University (Illinois) and at the University of Southern Mississippi before returning to UCA in 1992. He has published several articles and a book concerning German church history during the Nazi period, and more recently developed a research interest in political violence in late nineteenth-century Arkansas. He teaches the following courses: Germany Since 1918; Intellectual and Social History of Europe Since 1830; Renaissance and Reformation Europe; History of Christianity II; Senior Seminar.

In Dec 1990, Dr Barnes published Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain 1925-1937.

In 1991, Dr. Barnes published Nazism, Liberalism, & Christianity Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain 1925-1937.

In Dec 1998, Dr. Barnes published Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893.

In Sept 2004, Dr. Barnes published Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture).

In 2005, Dr. Barnes received the Arkansiana Award for non-fiction by the Arkansas Library Association for his book titled, “Journey of Hope: The Back to Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.” He was awarded a plaque and a $1,000 check.

Dr. Barnes is teaching Senior Seminar, Germany since 1918, and a graduate history topics class this semester at UCA....he likes PowerPoint presentations and is known to quiz on required readings....can translate German - he translated The Guiding Star for St. Joseph Colony (a guide book for Swiss and German emigrants heading to spots around Faulkner County, Arkansas)....he's given talks to middle schoolers in Conway along with Dr. Gordy about the Cadron history and local Native American groups...

.....inquiring minds