William Sharp


Education:

Ph.D., University of North Carolina (1970)
M.A., University of North Carolina (1966)
B.A., Stanford University (1963)

Academic Appointments:

Temple University, Philadelphia
1969-1993
Professor, Director of Honors Program, Associate Dean Arts and Science, Dean, Temple University Japan.

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
1979-1980
Visiting Professor

SUNY Cortland
1994-2001, Provost
1994 to present, Professor

Course Offerings:

Teaching areas include and have included Colonial and modern Latin American History, Surveys in American History, and specialty areas in the Black in Latin America, the American West, and the American Civil War. Graduate level courses involve the specialty areas.

Research Areas:

The Black in Colombia and the American West.


Selected Publications and Paper Presentations:

Slavery on the Spanish Frontier (University of Oklahoma Press, 1976), Paperback edition, 1980.

Description of the Province of Zitara and the Course of the River Atrato (University of Buffalo Press, 1981).

“American Higher Education in Japan,” (Tokyo, Laurasian Institution, 1992), 171-174.

“Adventures beyond the Culture Gap,” Wingspan (Tokyo, Dec. 1988).

“ Present Day Japan, Economic Success, Ideological Vacuum,” Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry, Tokyo (March, 1983), 51-54.

“The Profitability of Slavery in the Colombian Choco, 1680-1810," Hispanic American Historical Review (Aug., 1975), 468-495.

“Manumission, Libres and Slave Resistance,” in Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America, ed., by Robert Brent Toplin (Greenwood Press, 1974), 89-110.

“Bench Marking in Outcomes Assessment”, Middle States Association, Philadelphia, 1998.

“Comprehensive Program Review: Preparing the Campus for Restructuring”, Middle States Association, Philadelphia, 1997.

“The Samurai and the Cowboy”, American Studies Association, New Orleans, 1988.

“The Western Hero as Personification of American Character”, American Studies Association, Montreal, 1987.

“The Econometric Approach to Slavery in Latin America”, Social Science Convention, Austin, Texas, 1975.

Service:

Participation on virtually every major department, college, and university committee.

Community Activities:

Vice-President, Cortland Repertory Theater
Rotary International.