Kirk Ford's Home Page

Department of History and Political Science

Contact Information: ford@mc.edu
Phone:  601 925-3326
Mail:  P. O. 4006
Clinton, MS 39058

Class Schedule   Office Hours
Western Civilization HIS 101 MWF 9:00-9:50	MWF 10/12:00; 2:00-4:00
Western Civilization HIS 101 MW 12:00 -1:15	10:45-12:00; 2:00-4:00 [T]
Western Civilization HIS 101 TR 9:25-10:40	Other Times by Appointment
French Revolution and Napoleon HIS 426/5426 R 3:00 – 5:45

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Education

B.A.    William Carey College, 1966

M.A.   University of Southern Mississippi, 1971

Ph.D.   University of Southern Mississippi, 1980

            Doctoral Dissertation:  "Pawns and Powerbrokers:  OSS and
            the Yugoslav Resistance During the Second World War."

Teaching Curriculum

Survey in American History; Survey in Western Civilization; Seminar in Recent American History; Twentieth Century U.S. History; World War II; The Cold War; French Revolution and Napoleon; Europe, 1815-1919; Europe in the Era of the First World War [Graduate Seminar]; Modern Germany; Life and Times of Winston Churchill [Graduate Seminar]

Research Interests

The World War II period generally and the work of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in particular continue to be the areas of history in which I focus most attention in terms of primary research and writing.  Currently I am editing the unpublished manuscript of Col. Robert H. McDowell, an OSS officer who headed the last American military mission to the nationalist resistance forces of Gen. Draza Mihailovich of Yugoslavia in August 1944.

Graduate Research

Susan Livingston:   "RANGER:  Last Mission to Mihailovich."  An account of the last mission of OSS (Office of Strategic Services) dispatched to the Nationalist resistance forces of Gen. Draza Mihailovich.

Gloria Quinn:  (In progress)  "U.S. Diplomacy in North Africa Prior to the Operation Torch,"  focusing on the work of Robert D. Murphy.

Sherri Ottis:  (MSS '99) Master's Thesis:  "My Brother's Keeper:  Aid Rendered to Allied Airmen in France During the Second World War."
Published by University Press of Kentucky in April 2001 under the title, Silent Heroes:  Downed Airmen and the French Underground.