David A. Rausch

June 2020

Dr. David A. Rausch taught at a number of colleges and universities before and after receiving his Ph.D. in history from Kent State University in 1978. From 1980 to 2005 he taught in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions of Ashland University, becoming a tenured full professor of history and Chairman of the Department of History and Political Science. Dr. Rausch won a number of teaching and research awards while serving on committees, such as the Judicial Committee. He was the faculty advisor to the Ashland University Student Senate.(1)

Dr. Rausch published scores of books and hundreds of articles. His sixth book, A Legacy of Hatred: Why Christins Must Not Forget the Holocaust, was awarded the Angel Statue in Hollywood California.(2). In the Ashland community, Dr. RauscH worked with public school teachers and administrators on Holocaust studies; and on the state level, he was chosen for the State of Ohio’s first Governor’s Council on Holocaust Education. On the national level, he served on the first Education Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A popular conference speaker and participant, he traveled the world to work with academic forums and on research projects.(3)

Known as “Dr. Dave” to his students, he never missed a scheduled class in 35 years of teaching and had taught over 12,000 students in classes when he retired from Ashland University at the age of 58 in 2005. For the next 15 years, he traveled the world, lecturing at universities in all parts of the globe until the coronavirus pandemic closed universities and inhibited travel. Dr. Rausch’s latest project is a textbook, Sociology: Conversations with the World, coauthored with sociologist Dr. V. Jacquette Rhoades(4).

(1) Ashland University personnel office records and publicity department notices.

(2) Dr. David A. Rausch, A Legacy of Hatred: Why Christians Must Not Forget the Holocaust (Moody Press, 1984). This won the Angel Statue. A second edition was published in 1994 by Baker Books.

(3) Note the half page front page article about Dr. David A. Rausch with picture in the Ashland Times Gazette (reference to follow). Compare Ashland University personnel office records and publicity department notices.

(4) Note the “Authors” section in Sociology: Conversations with the World (publication data to come).

==Books==(partial list).

• Zionism within early American fundamentalism, 1878–1918 : a convergence of two traditions (E. Mellen Press, 1979)
• Messianic Judaism, its history, theology, and polity (Edwin Mellen Press, 1982)
• Arno C. Gaebelein, 1861–1945, irenic fundamentalist and scholar ; including conversations with Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein (E. Mellen Press, 1983)
• A legacy of hatred : why Christians must not forget the Holocaust (Moody, 1984). Second Edition published by Baker Books in 1994.
• Native American voices (Baker Books, 1994)
• Protestantism, its modern meaning (Fortress Press, 1987)
• World religions : our quest for meaning (Trinity Press International, 1989)
• Building bridges (1988)
• The Middle East maze:IUstael and her neighbors (Moody, 1991)
• Communities in conflict : evangelicals and Jews (Trinity Press International, 1991)
• Fundamentalist-evangelicals and anti-semitism (Trinity Press International, 1992)
• Friends, colleagues, and neighbors : Jewish contributions to American history (Baker, 1996)
• (editor) Louis Meyer's Eminent Hebrew Christians of the nineteenth century : brief biographical sketches 1983

==References==(from Wikipedia original stub)