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Biography

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H. Micheal Tarver currently serves as an adjunct instructor of history at UAFS. He is a professor emeritus of history at Arkansas Tech University, where he taught from 2002 to 2023. At ATU he served as head of the Department of History and Political Science from August 2002 through December 2009 and as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities from January 2010 through December 2013. Appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2018, Tarver is a member of the Arkansas History Commission, serving as its chairman from 2021 to 2023. He is also a corresponding member (miembro correspondiente) [United States] of the Venezuelan National Academy of History.

Included among Tarver’s awards and recognitions are a Harry S. Truman Library Institute Fellowship (2022), a Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abroad Award to Mexico (2008), the ATU Faculty Award of Excellence for Scholarship (2007), the Friend of the Social Studies Award by the Arkansas Council for the Social Studies (2007), a Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award by the United States Department of State (2001), a Fellowship Award by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History (2001), and a J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Venezuela by the United States Department of State (1998). In addition, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities presented him with its Special Humanities Award in 2002. Tarver has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited more than a dozen scholarly works in the field of history since moving to Arkansas in 2002.