1. July 15, 2016
Dear Fellow Educator:
This is my notice of interest in transferring to an assistant, adjunct, temporary, and / or substitute pool
instructor position at your institution. In 2005, I received my Ph.D. in American and European history
from the University of Florida. I have taught survey courses in early and modern American history and
an upper division class in American intellectual history. I have served as an adjunct faculty member at
California State University at San Marcos, Grossmont College, and MiraCosta College in San Diego
County, California. The University of Massachusetts Press published my Ph.D. dissertation, Walking
Away from Nuremberg: Just War and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility in the American Military
Profession, in the fall of 2007.
In addition to general survey courses in American, European and world history, I feel substantially
prepared to teach specific courses in military, diplomatic, and intellectual history with a particular
emphasis on the Holocaust. Over the past five years I have worked as a licensed city historian, tour
guide and designer / researcher for private walking tours of Greenwich Village / Lower East Side
(http://www.radicalhistorytour.org).
Teaching Philosophy: The concentration of my current teaching, graduate preparation, and previous
professional experience portray a thematic concern with labor history, immigration history, political
history, ethics and human rights.
Job Capabilities: My personal background as a military professional and a human rights activist provides
an in-classroom advantage not available to educators with only a formal academic experience in these
fields. In addition to my experience as an instructor in state and community colleges, my experience as
an educator in the US Army, and other life experiences in the fields of human rights activism, nursing,
politics, and counseling have also reinforced my ability to educate students from diverse academic,
socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
a. Public Speaking / Writing: My public speaking experience includes over twenty major public
speeches, including television / radio interviews and testimony before the United States Congress.
Besides being the author of Walking Away from Nuremberg, I wrote “The Lesson Avoided: the Official
Legacy of the My Lai massacre” in Ted van Baarda and Desirée Verweij (eds.), The Moral Dimension of
Asymmetrical Warfare, Counter-terrorism, Democratic Values and Military Ethics (Leiden: Martinus
Nijhoff, 2009). I have written articles published in the Philadelphia Inquirer , the Wall Street Journal,
Foreign Policy In Focus, the Army Times, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. In 2004, I ran as a candidate
for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 53rd US Congressional District in California.
b. Leadership and Management: My experience in project planning, administration,
coordination, and as a leader who can rapidly assimilate to different conditions and institutions is
substantial. My background also demonstrates a tolerance of diversity, and the ability to address
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2. controversial issues. My interpersonal skills showing the ability to work as a team member include my
work as a mental health counselor, psychiatric nurse, government contract assurity officer, physical /
information / personnel security officer, and a personnel / human resource officer responsible for the
job administration and pay of over two hundred assigned personnel operating simultaneously in five
separate nations.
c. Technical Skills: My technical skills include designing and administering a completely online
history course given in the spring of 2007 at MiraCosta College. The course management of this course
included creation of web posting of audio-visual lectures, online discussion boards, and interactive
assessment tools requiring expertise in Audacity, Sound Recorder, FTP, Word, PowerPoint, and
Blackboard software.
d. Military Experience (1977-2000): I have fifteen years active military service with nine years of
service as a commissioned officer. I am a former U.S. Army counterintelligence officer with six years of
prior enlisted service as an Army mental health specialist. I was separated from the US Army because of
my action as a military intelligence officer. Concerned with human rights violations occurring in the
proximity of US forces in Haiti in September 1994 and perceiving what appeared to be indifference on
the part of my command toward those suffering from these violations, I conducted an unauthorized
survey of the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince for which I was dismissed from active service. I
was given various awards by the ACLU and other organizations for the very offense that led to my
separation from service. I am an internationally recognized expert on the laws of war and military
doctrine and have written numerous articles and books on those subjects. Subsequent to my
separation from service, I was even contracted as a human rights lecturer by the Departments of the
Army and Defense.
Please accept my thanks in advance for your consideration. My abbreviated resume is attached. I look
forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Lawrence P. Rockwood, OFH, PhD
36 Southwood Drive
Orinda, CA 94563
(646) 678-5217
radical.history.tour@gmail.com
https://www.anyroad.com/users/lawrencer
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Rockwood
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