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 Michael
E. Gherke
Associate Professor of History
Office: Louis Bennett Hall Room 232
Phone: 304 462-7361 ext. 7272
Michael.Gherke@glenville.edu
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Ph.D., History, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
WV (2001)
M.A., History, West Virginia University, Morgantown,
WV (1987)
B.A.., Social Studies Education 7-12, Glenville State
College, Glenville, WV (1978)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Specializations in History, Ph.D.
Colonial American History
Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
History of Science and Technology
History of Early Modern England
Specializations in History, M.A.
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
European History
Ancient and Modern Middle
Eastern History
Specialization, A.B.
Social Studies Education,
grades 7-12, comprehensive
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| Professional registration/licensure |
Yes |
| Years of employment at Glenville State College |
3 |
| Years of employment in higher education |
7+ |
| Years of related experience outside of higher
education |
15 |
SELECTED RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS,
AND/OR SUCCESSFUL GRANTS:
Women in New Netherland and
Seventeenth-Century New York, under consideration
by Fordham University Press
"Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse,"
American National Biography, (OUP, 1999)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
"Women in New Netherland and
New York in the Seventeenth Century," Huguenot
Historical Society Annual Meeting, New Paltz, New
York (2004)
"Partnership Marriage:
Wives as Family Financial Managers in New Netheland
and Seventeenth-Century New York," Fifth Annual
Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, University of Texas (1999)
"Margaret Philipse, New York
Merchant," First Annual West Virginia University
History Forum, Morgantown, WV (1998)
"Beyond a Woman's Sphere:
The Public and Private Lives of Elite Women in Eighteenth-Century
Virginia," Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh,
PA (1996)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
New Netherland Society
OTHER SCHOLARY ACTIVITY:
Dr. Gherke is the Campus Coordinator
of Teaching American History in Southern West Virginia
Schools Project. He works in coordination with
Dr. Bill O'Brien, who wrote the original grant, to
improve the teaching of American history in public
schools in southern West Virginia. Presently
in the second year of the three year project, the
effort includes summer training seminars for public
school teachers in which they develop curriculum packages
that they are expected to use with their students
upon return to school in the fall. The project
also includes school year visitations by he and other
higher education faculty of teachers and classrooms
where the curriculum packages are implemented.
Faulty Senate Senator and Officer
(Glenville State College)
Strategic Planning Committee (Glenville
State College)
Financial Aid Appeals Committee
(Glenville State College)
NCATE program director for social
sciences (Glenville State College)
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