Biography and Professional Achievements
Dr. Watson is Professor of World History specializing in the interaction between Western Civilization and the rest of the world. He has traveled to more than 30 counties, lived in five, studied six foreign languages, was a linguist in Military Intelligence at a NSA listening post in Berlin during the Cold War, and has taught on world issues for 40 years.
Watson has been at CCU for 23 years and has led numerous student trips to Europe, the Middle East, and India (including the Dalai Lama’s monastery in the Himalayas). His students have found careers in government, media, intelligence, diplomacy, global relief, missions, and ending poverty in the underdeveloped world. In 2004, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar teaching Western Civilization and U.S. Foreign Policy in a former Soviet republic and a Visiting Summer Fellow at Oxford in 2007.
Watson speaks regularly at academic conferences and to church and civic organizations. He also has been interviewed by media on global and religious issues, with many of the interviews available on YouTube. He has published numerous articles on 17th and 18th century British history, and has just sent his second book to the publisher.
