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Kerry Irish

Kerry Irish is a professor of history and has been at George Fox University since 1993. He received his BA from George Fox University, graduating summa cum laude, and his MA and PhD from the University of Washington. Kerry was named 2000 Teacher of the Year at George Fox University.

His expertise is twentieth-century American military, political and diplomatic history, and history of the American West. In 2000, he published his first book, Clarence C. Dill The Life of a Western Politician. He recently published "Apt Pupil: Dwight Eisenhower and the 1930 Industrial Mobilization Plan" in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Military History. He is currently working on a book-length study of Dwight Eisenhower's early career.

Kerry teaches the following courses:
America and the World
The American West
America in the Time of the Two World Wars, 1898-1945
Recent America, 1945-Present
History Seminar