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Dr. Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

  • Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University—Commerce. 
  • Education:
    • BA, University of Texas
    • MA, University of Kentucky
    • Ph.D.,University of Southern California 
  • Phone: 
    • Direct Line: 1.903.468.3262
    • Main History Department Line: 1.903.886.5226
  • FAX: 1.903.468.3230
  • Relevant Publications: 
    • Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000)
    • Also visit the Other Publications page of this site for articles. 
Sarantakes is one of the first historians to utilize the new computer technologies.  He created the well regarded U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index, a major clearing of material on the world wide web of use to individuals with an interest in U.S. foreign policy.  He also has a background in journalism.  As an undergraduate, he was a reporter and editor on the staff of The Daily Texan—at the time the largest and best college paper in the country, and the seventh largest daily in the state of Texas.  In 1993, he was also a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress in its newspapers and periodicals division. In 1999 he was a Fellow at the West Point Summer Seminar in Military History and in 2000 he was a Fellow at the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University.

In addition to his work on Okinawa, he has recently finished a book on Richard Nixon and sports.  His current research projects are a study of British participation in the invasion of Japan, and a biography of Gen. William Westmoreland.  For more details see the electronic version of his vitae.

Camping and backpacking are two of his main hobbies.  An Eagle Scout, he is also a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, the official honor organization in scouting.  He spent serveral summers in the 1980s, working as a backpacking guide as a member of the Ranger Department at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico.


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