MESA Banner
myMESA
Faith J. Childress
Rockhurst University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 816-501-4785
Fax: 816-501-4515
Rockhurst University
History Department 1100 Rockhurst Rd
Kansas City MO 64110
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Education
Nationalism
Turkish Studies
World History
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Iran
Turkey
Specialties
Educ In Iran & Turkey, 1920s-1930s
Mod Turkish & Iranian Hist 1900-present
Safavid & Mughal Emp
Languages
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2001 | Hist | U of Utah
Abstracts
American Missionaries and the State in Turkey and Iran in the Inter-War Period Converting Missionaries: Shifting MIssionary Perspectives on the Kemalist Regime From "Upstart" to "Savior": Changing Views of Ataturk at American Missionary Schools "Don't Let America Go to War!": The Pacifist Views of Edith Parsons