H. Micheal Tarver
Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova (born 1958) is an author, historian, and university professor, with a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bowling Green State University. Tarver is the son of Rosemary Tarver (née Rosemary Lucille Denova, 1937-1999) and Cecil Donald Tarver, Sr. (b. 1933).
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In addition to being an alumnus of Bowling Green State University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Tarver is a graduate of the United States Army Military Police School. Tarver is the current editor of the World History Bulletin for the World History Association. Tarver is a former Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Arkansas Tech University. He currently serves as Executive Secretary of the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA).
Tarver was a 1998–99 Fulbright Senior Scholar to Venezuela, a 2001–03 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award recipient, a 2004 Fulbright-Hays Award for Advanced Study in China participant, and a 2007–08 Fulbright-Hays Award recipient for Advanced Study in Mexico.
Among Tarver's awards and fellowships are a 2001–02 Fellowship from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, a 2002 Special Humanities Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and 2007 Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship from Arkansas Tech University. He is a former Chairman of the Gran Colombian Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History and past President of the Southeast World History Association.
Tarver currently (2020) serves as a Commissioner on the Arkansas History Commission and the Arkansas Historical Records Advisory Board. Tarver was appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson for a term that expires in January 2025.
Bibliography
- The History of Venezuela. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Imprint - ABC-CLIO, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4408-5773-7 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Julia C. Frederick)
- The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2016. H. Micheal Tarver, Editor; Emily Slape, Assistant editor. ISBN 978-1-4408-4570-3.
- Warren G. Harding: Harbinger of Normalcy. Series: First Men, America's Presidents. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-1614708759 (with Mildred Diane Gleason)
- "Reflections on the Importance of Teaching the Spanish Borderlands in the U.S. History Class". World History Bulletin XXII (Fall 2006): 34–35.
- The History of Venezuela. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2005. ISBN 0-313-33525-7 (with Julia C. Frederick)
- El Fracaso de un Sueño: Un Breve Análisis de la Insurgencia en Venezuela, 1960-1968. Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de Los Andes, Consejo de Publicaciones, 2004. ISBN 980-11-0811-8 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Luis Loaiza Rincón)
- The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: An Historical Examination, Volume II: The Later Years, 1973–2004. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6246-5 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas)
- "Foreword." Establishment of Environmentalism on the U.S. Political Agenda in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century – The Brothers Udall., By Henry B. Sirgo. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6358-5.
- "A Historical Perspective of Massage." Massage Therapy: Principles and Practices, Second Edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Saunders, 2003. Susan Salvo, editor. ISBN 0-7216-0028-X
- "Latin American History." The World History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources. New York, New York: Sharpe, 2002. Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, editors. ISBN 0-7656-0906-1
- The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: An Historical Examination, Volume I: The Early Years, 1936–1973. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen, 2001. ISBN 0-7734-7377-7 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas)
- The Cambridge World History of Food. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Ornelas, editors. ISBN 0-521-40216-6. (Associate Editor)
- The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Kenneth F. Kiple, editor. ISBN 0-521-33286-9 (Associate editor)