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BIOGRAPHIES
LARRY I. BLAND, Ph.D.
Dr. Larry I. Bland is managing editor of The Journal of Military History and the editor of
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, a multivolume documentary edition of
General Marshall's papers sponsored by the George C. Marshall Foundation and published by
The Johns Hopins University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. dipomatic history from the
University of Wisonsin-Madison. Among other works, he has edited George C. Marshall interviews and
Reminiscences (1991), and George C. Marshall's Mediation Mission to China (1998).(
WALTER M. BORTZ III, Ph.D.
Walter M. Bortz III, twenty-third president of Hampden-Sydney College,
holds numerous leadership positions with higher education
organizations both within and outside the Commonwealth of Virginia. He
is a trustee of the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges and serves on the
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities.
He held the position of Vice President for Administrative and Information Services
at The George Washington University before coming to Hampden-Sydney College.
RALPH S. HATTOX, Ph.D.
Dr. Ralph S. Hattox, Elliott Professor of History, received a B.A. in International Affairs from Georgetown University
and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton. A specialist in late-medieval Levantine history, he is the author of a
book on the social impact of the introduction of coffee to the Near East, as well as a series of articles on diplomacy in the
Eastern Mediterranean in the centuries following the Crusades. He teaches
Medieval European and Byzantine history courses at Hampden-Sydney College.
RONALD L. HEINEMANN, Ph.D
Dr. Ronald L. Heinemann is Squires Professor Emeritus of History at Hampden-Sydney College. He has held
teaching appointments at Dartmouth University and the University of Virginia. His areas of expertise are 20th
Century America and the American Civil War. He is the author of several books and articles on Virginia politics
and history, including Depression and the New Deal in Virginia and Harry Byrd of Virginia.
DAVID E. MARION, Ph.D.
David Marion is Director of the Samuel V.Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at
Hampden-Sydney College and Senior Scholar at the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington. He has held teaching posts at the
University of Virginia and Northern Illinois University, and served as a consultant for the Federal Office of Personnel
Management. His is the author of The Jurisprudence of Justice William Brennan, Jr.: The Law and Politics of 'Libertarian'
Dignity, and co-author of Founders and the Constitution and The
Deconstitutionalization of America .
JAMES F. PONTUSO, Ph.D.
Dr. James F. Pontuso is Elliott Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College. He has held several
Fulbright appointments at Charles University in Prague and was John Adams Chair at the Institute of United States
Studies at the University of London. He is the author of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's
Political Thought as well as Vaclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age, and editor of
Political Philosophy Comes to Ricks: Casablanca and American Civic Culture.
WILLIAM W. PORTERFIELD, Ph.D.
Dr. William W. Porterfield is a native Virginian; he received an M.S. from California Institute for Technology and a
Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in inorganic chemistry. He has been at Hampden-Sydney since
1963, where he is Charles P. Venable Professor of Chemistry. He has written two chemistry texts, Concepts of
Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, and has published scientific articles over five decades. As a long-time member
of the Society for the History of Technology, he has had a continuing interest in the evolution of science and technology.
JAMES Y. SIMMS, JR., Ph.D.
Dr. James Y. Simms, Jr. is Elliott Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. He also has taught at Eastern Michigan
University and George Mason University. He has been awarded several National Endowment of the Humanities grants and a
Fellowship at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. His area of expertise is Russian agriculture--peasant
well-being--in late Imperial Russia. Author of several articles on this subject, he is also co-editor and co-author of
Modernization and Revolution: Dilemmas of Progress in Late Imperial Russia.
DAVID L. SNEAD, Ph.D.
Dr. David L. Snead joined Liberty University in 2004 as an Associate Professor of History after
holding appointments at Texas Tech, the University of Richmond, and Randolph-Macon College. He specializes
in 20th century American diplomatic and military history and is the author of The Gaither Committee,
Eisenhower, and the Cold War. He is presently working on two books which are due out in 2006: An American
Soldier in World War I and An American B-24 Pilot in World War II. He is also under contract to write a
history of the John F. Kennedy administration.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L. RUCKER SNEAD, III (USA-RETIRED)
Lieutenant Colonel L. Rucker Snead, III (USA-Ret.) returned to Hampden-Sydney College as the Director of Career
Development after more than two decades of military service. His service duties included a variety of tours both at home and
abroad to include a command position in Germany, teaching at Appalachian State University, working with the United Nations
in Haiti, training the Saudi military, running the 54th th Presidential Inaugural Parade, and serving in the National Military
Command Center at the Pentagon.
CHARLES W. SYDNOR, Ph.D.
Dr. Charles W. Sydnor is President and CEO of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting in Richmond,
Virginia. A former president of Emory and Henry College, he served as an assistant to Governor
Charles Robb of Virginia following appointments at Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University.
He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of European history, including Soldiers of Destruction:
The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG, Ph.D.
Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, Kenan Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
is author of A World at Arms and Visions of Victory: the Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders. He has
been awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, the Halverson Prize of the Western
Association of German Studies, and the 1994 Herbert Hoover Book Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, he served in the U.S. Army occupation of Japan in 1946-47.
ANNE SHARP WELLS
Anne Sharp Wells is assistant aditor of the Journal of Military History and consultant to the Library and Archives
of the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. She is the author of Historical Dictionary of the Second
World War: The War Against Japan (Scarecrow Press, 1999) and has co-authored four books about Ameican wars in
the twentieth century.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SAMUEL VAUGHAN WILSON (USA-Ret)
Lieutenant General Samuel V. Wilson (USA-Ret), President Emeritus and Wheat Professor of Leadership, joined the
Hampden-Sydney faculty after a military career that spanned four decades. His service included assignments behind
Japanese lines in Burma in WWII and clandestine intelligence, covert propaganda, and paramilitary operations with the
CIA during the Cold War. He served as a Special Forces Group commander ("Green Berets"), Deputy Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence, and concluded his career
as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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