Dr. David Karr

B.A. & M.A., University of Alabama in Birmingham; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Dr. Karr joined the faculty at Columbia College in the fall of 2007, and is responsible for the majority of European history courses at the Day campus. Dr. Karr brings a mix of instructional methods to the classroom, including student-driven discussions of primary and secondary readings, art, and music from a given period, as well as lectures and other forms of presentation.

Teaching areas include European, Middle Eastern, and world history; research interests include British radicalism, the British-Australian criminal transportation system, and the politics of 18th-century British theater.

Courses taught at Columbia College:

• World History to 1500 (HIST 111)
• The Making of the Modern World (HIST 112)
• History and of the Modern Middle East (HIST/ANTH 235)
• The World Since 1945 (HIST 300W)
• Science, Technology and Humanity: A History (HIST 303W)
• The Struggle for Modern Europe (HIST 330W)
• The European Enlightenment (HIST 334)
• Europe, Fascism and the Holocaust (HIST 337W)
• The Making of Modern Britain (HIST 358)