COE Faculty Profile

Kevin J. Fernlund, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Secondary Education
Division of Teaching and learning

Email: fernlundk@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 469 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314-516-5740

Education

Kevin J. Fernlund has a joint appointment in history and education. In addition, he is the director of the Western History Association and a Fulbright scholar (he taught at Vietnam National University in Hanoi in 2001 and 2002). He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of New Mexico (his specialty is the history of the American West); his bachelors' and master's degrees in history from Northern Arizona University; and he completed the teacher preparation program at the University of Arizona.  Fernlund was state-certified in secondary history and the social studies and taught at Coconino High School in Flagstaff as well as Tuba City High School on the Navajo Indian Reservation. 

Research and Teaching

Fernlund���s interests include the History of Exploration, the American West, World History, and Using Primary Documents in the Secondary Classroom. 

Representative Publications

• (Author) Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).
• (Author), William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West (Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2000).
• (Editor), Selected Historical Documents to Accompany America���s History, Vol. 2: Since 1865. Sixth Edition (Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin���s, 2008).
• (Editor), The Cold War American West, 1945 to 1989 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998).