KASPER C. VOLK
S352 Stokes Hall
volkkasp@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2010-Present Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts
Ph.D. Candidate in History
Dissertation (in progress): “In Search of the ‘Third Way’: Catholic Modernities
in Interwar Europe”
Advisor: Devin Pendas
2008-2010
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
B.A. with high honor in History, May 2010
Thesis: “Rupture and Resolution: Max Horkheimer’s Transition from Marxist
Optimism to Theological Pessimism”
Honors College
1998-2003
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
B.A. with high honor in Supply Chain Management (Business), May 2003
Additional concentrations in Materials Science and Russian studies
Honors College
PUBLICATIONS
2016
Volk, Kasper, and Chris Staysniak. “Bringing Jesuit Bibliography into the
Twenty-First Century: Boston College’s New Sommervogel Online.” Journal of
Jesuit Studies 3, no. 1 (2016): 61-83.
2010
Volk, Kasper. "Rival Conceptions of Just War Theory in the Debate Preceding
the Iraq War." MSU Undergraduate Historian 5 (2010): 25-55.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2009
American Catholic Thought and Culture Scholarship
1998
Michigan State University Alumni Distinguished Scholarship
1998
National Merit Finalist
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German
Basic reading
French
Basic reading
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching:
2015-Present Teaching Fellow, Boston College
Progress and Its Limits (1789-Present) (Fall 2015)
Catholicism Confronting Modernity (1789-Present) (Spring 2016)
2011-2015
Teaching Assistant, Boston College
Development of a Global Economy (Fall 2011, 2012)
Rights, Democracy, Empire, 1789-1989 (Spring 2012, 2013)
Atlantic Worlds I (Fall 2014)
Atlantic Worlds II (Spring 2015)
Research and Editing:
2013-Present Assistant Editor, New Sommervogel Project: Jesuit Library Online
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
2014
Interim Assistant Editor, Book Reviews, Journal of Jesuit Studies
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
2014
Assistant Curator, “Jesuit Survival and Restoration: 200th Anniversary
Perspectives”
Burns Library, Boston College, June-September 2014
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2014-Present American Catholic Historical Association
MILITARY SERVICE
2008-2010
Captain, Illinois Army National Guard
Chicago, IL
Honorable Discharge
2004-2008
1st Lieutenant, Infantry, United States Army (Active Duty)
Fort Drum, NY
Honorable Discharge
2006-2007
Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2015
EMT-Basic Certification
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, Active
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