William E. Watson
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Born
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania, Eastern College
EmployerImmaculata University
AwardsLindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University
William E. Watson | |
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| Born | |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania, Eastern College |
| Employer | Immaculata University |
| Awards | Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University |
| Website | immaculata.edu/node/253 |
William E. Watson was born in New York City. He is Professor of History at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Duffy's Cut Project. He was a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council 2006–2007,[1] and was also the recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at Immaculata University for the year 2006–2007. Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Teachers' Institute at Immaculata University, "Duffy's Cut: Investigating Immigration, Industrialization and Illness in 19th-Century America" (July 2016)
- Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy and Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad, William E. Watson and J. Francis Watson (The History Press, 2018)
- Watson, William E.; J. Francis Watson; John H. Ahtes; Earl H. Schandelmeier (2006). The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut: The Irish who Died Building America's Most Dangerous Stretch of Railroad. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 216. ISBN 0275987272.
- Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (Praeger, 2003)
- The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood, 1998)
- Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People, William E. Watson and Eugene J. Halus, Eds. (ABC-Clio, 2015)
