Andy Carlson has been at Capital University since 1995, teaching surveys and special topics courses in U.S. and African history as well as interdisciplinary seminars focused on race, ethnic, and gender relations, development, and food security. Carlson is author of three books; a dozen articles and reviews; 15 successful grant proposals; and more than 40 conference papers. He has also held administrative posts as department chair, assistant dean, associate dean, program director, and board member. Often accompanied by students, Carlson spends several weeks every year at the University of Gondar in northern Ethiopia where he serves as director of the Kossoye Development Program.

U.S. History Survey
Civil War and Reconstruction
The Vietnam War and the 1960s
Ohio History
African History
Cultural Pluralism (General Education)
Global Awareness (General Education)
Research Seminars

Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University
Master of Arts, Brown University
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam, published in Origins Current Events in Historical Perspective, Vol. 6., Issue 6 (March 2013).

Scaling Up: Extension strategies for household vegetable production for improved nutrition and food security in the Amhara Regional National State of Ethiopia, an invited plenary speech at the University of Gondar's 23rd Annual Research Conference, June 21, 2013.

Kossoye: A Village Life in Ethiopia, published in 2010 by the Red Sea Press, of Trenton, N.J., and co-authored by DG Carlson.

Winner of Capital's Praestantia Award for Excellence in Teaching, and among the most widely published scholar at Capital University, Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Pantsov is a professor of history and holder of the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities.

Born in Moscow, Pantsov graduated from the Moscow State University Institute of Asian and African Studies. He has published more than 10 books, including The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927. His biography of Mao Zedong is the current standard.

MAO: The Real Story, published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster, by Pantsov and historian Steven Levine, received critical acclaim for its detailed examination of Mao Zedong’s political and personal life. 

Chronicling Mao’s peasant background, Pantsov and Levine recount the leader’s determination to succeed, his role in the upcoming Communist Party of China, and his architecture of the People’s Republic of China. The book explores Mao’s personal life, and with Pantsov’s exclusive access to the closely held archives of the Chinese Communist Party, undertakes a thorough reinterpretation of the legendary politician, who “lived and behaved” as China’s last emperor.

Kirkus Reviews says of the book, “comprehensive, authoritative new study that challenges the received wisdom regarding Mao’s relationship with Stalin and the Soviet Union … The Great Helmsman fully fleshed, still complicated and ever provocative.”