​Dewey A. Browder holds a Ph.D. in European History from Louisiana State University, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Arkansas, and a B.S. in Business from Mississippi State University. He was on the APSU history faculty from 1992-2013, and served as the Department Chair 2000-2013. He is a member ofPhi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Kappa Psi. He is currently a member of (1) the Local Advisory Board for the Ft. Campbell Historical Foundation and Wings of Liberty Museum; (2) the Woodward Library Society of APSU, (3) the Tennessee State Hall of Fame, of which he is the Chairman, and (4) the Valentine Sevier Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, formerly President and currently Editor of The Sevier Sentinel. He previously served as President of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts and Heritage Development Council. He also served as a member of the Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization. He twice served as a member of the Citizens for Fort Campbell delegation that travels annually to Washington, D.C. to meet with our U.S. Senators and Congressmen to discuss funding issues for Ft Campbell. He taught courses in German History, Modern European History, World History, American History and Military History. Dr. Browder developed and taught a study-abroad course for APSU, which he taught from 1997-2015. The course focused on the Holocaust but included a significant emphasis on European life and culture. Dr. Browder’s qualifications to direct such a program include both his academic credentials and practical experience, as he lived and traveled in Europe for fourteen years during his military career.  Shortly after assuming his duties as the Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy in 2000, he began work on a new MA in Military History. He developed the proposal, coordinated the curriculum with input from the history and philosophy faculty and taught graduate courses in the program for several years. Dr. Browder is the author of two books: Zweibrücken Yesterday and Today (Pfälzischer Merkur, Zweibrücken Germany, 1976) and Americans in Post-World War II Germany (Mellen Press, Lampeter UK, 1998) and numerous articles. He has been an invited speaker at the Royal Netherlands Naval Staff College at the Hague, the Gutenberg University in Germany, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.  Prior to coming to APSU, Dr. Browder was an Associate Professor of European History at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY. In 1990, he was a West Point nominee for the CASE Professor of the Year for Excellence in Teaching. West Point was his final station in an army career that saw him earn three university degrees and rise from from private to lieutenant colonel via a direct commission during the Vietnam War. Prior to West Point, he spent two years as the Adjutant General of SETAF (U.S. Army Europe’s forces in Italy, Greece and Turkey) and four years as the Assistant Political Advisor and Speechwriter to the Commander-in-Chief of the US Army, Europe.  He also served as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at Louisiana State University where he taught American Military History. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served with both the Fourth Infantry Division in the central highlands of Vietnam and the Da Nang Support Command on the coast. Among his many military awards and decorations are: Legion of Merit (2OLC); Bronze Star (1OLC); Army Commendation Medal (4OLC); and Army Achievement Medal. On the occasion of his retirement from APSU in 2013, the Student Veterans Organization gave him a unique award for his campus leadership and support of veterans. Likewise in 2013, Dr. Browder was recognized by the U.S. Congress, the Tennessee State House of Representatives, and the Mayor of Montgomery County for outstanding community contributions. In 2012, APSU Student Affairs acknowledged his leadership with the Governors Impact Award. The year 2011 saw him honored by the Chamber of Commerce with their annual Distinguished Community Service Award. In 2009, Student Affairs chose him as the Exemplary Professor of the Year. He was awarded the faculty’s designation of Distinguished Professor of the Year in 2008. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Oxford Roundtable at Oxford University, Oxford England. In 2000, Dr. Browder received the annual APSU Richard M. Hawkins Award for scholarly and creative activities. The Holocaust Education Foundation designated him a Fellow of the Institute for Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilization in 1996. And in 1976, the city of Zweibrücken, Germany awarded him the city’s Ehrenteller (Plate of Honor) for his book, Zweibrucken Yesterday and Today (Pfälzischer Merkur, Zweibrücken Germany, 1976). On July 21, 1963, then Specialist Browder took the first photograph in history of the LASER Light, and that picture is housed permanently in the Smithsonian Institute. He became interested in German history, life and culture because his wife Helga is originally from Germany, although she is quick to assert that she is American. Once his interest was kindled, it only grew over the years. His works on the history of German-American relations have been published internationally. Noteworthy are: (1) Americans In Post-World War II Germany: Teachers, Tinkers, Neighbors and Nuisances, The Edwin Mellen Press, Queenston, Ontario, Canada1998; (2) The GI Dollar and The Wirtschaftswunder, by The Journal of European Economic History, Banca Di Roma, Rome, Italy, 1993; (3) “First Encounters: Conquest and Initial Occupation” in Neighbor America: Americans in Rhineland-Palatinate, 1945-1995, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, Germany, 1995. He has also made notable contributions to military history. His work on the end of the Cold War, “Rogers, General Bernard William, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO” in Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History’s Greatest Military Thinkers, Vol 2: The Modern World, 1815-Present, Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2013; “Charles III (1716-1788)” in The American Revolution 1775-1783, An Encyclopedia,Vol. I, Garland Publishing, NY & London, 1993; “Henry Morgenthau, Jr.: American Statesman and German-American Jew” in The Human tradition in The WORLD WAR II ERA, SR Books Wilmington, Delaware, 2001.