Robert P. Stephens

• Modern European History
• Drugs and Addiction
• History of Film
• Contemporary Pedagogy
• Higher Education Administration

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• B.A., University of North Texas

• Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2013-2016
• Interim Director, Undergraduate Research Institute, 2015-2016
• Founding Principal, Honors Residential College, 2011-2013
• Founding Editor, Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review, 2010-2015

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Virginia Tech, 2015
• Favorite Faculty Award, Residential Life, Virginia Tech, 2014
• Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, Virginia Tech, 2011-2012

Books

Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Journal Articles

“Una Revolución Cultural? Reflexiones sobre la década de los sesenta,” Magazin 21 (2013): 34-41.

James Penven, Robert Stephens, Frank Shushok, and Caleb J. Keith, “The Past, Present and Future of Residential Colleges: Looking Back at S. Stewart Gordon’s article “Living and Learning in College," Journal of College and University Student Housing 32, 2 (2013): 116-127.

Kathleen Jones, Mark Barrow, Robert Stephens, and Stephen O’Hara, “Romancing the Capstone: National Trends, Local Practice, and Student Motivation in the History Curriculum,” Journal of American History, 98 (2012): 1095-1113.

Robert Stephens, “Addicted to Melodrama,” Substance Use and Misuse, 46 (2011): 859-871.

Textbooks

Tom Ewing, Robert Stephens, Marian Mollin, David Hicks, Amy Nelson, Haward Farrar, Kathleen Jones, Mark Barrow, and Daniel Thorp, eds., The Digital History Reader, www.dhr.history.vt.edu, September 2006. Peer reviewed, NEH-funded digital textbook.