Fletcher Warren

3115 Rice Creek Terrace St. Paul, MN 55112 (651) 697 - 0630 fletcher-warren@bethel.edu

EDUCATION
Bethel University 2011 - 2015
B.A. History, emphasis in European history
B.A. Business & Political Science
Anticipated graduation May 2015
Cumulative GPA: 4.0
University of Oxford Fall 2014
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Keble College
Study abroad semester

CURRENT RESEARCH
Effects of modern warfare on Christian higher education (1914-2014) 2014
In collaboration with my department chair, I am embarking on a research project that will assess
the effects of the past centurys wars on Bethel University. We will focus particularly on both
World Wars, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. The project results in a digital exhibit and contains
an oral history component.
A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 2014
Ongoing revisions to my B.A. thesis on the ways in which Minnesotan International Brigaders
experienced the Spanish Civil War. In particular, my research focuses on ethno-political
motivations for volunteering and how soldiers were reintegrated (or not) into society after the
wars conclusion.

RECENT RESEARCH
The Spanish Civil War in International Perspective 2013
This paper explores the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in the context of international Great
Power diplomatic concerns. Focusing specifically on the ways that Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
and the Soviet Union (as well as their private citizens) intervened and did not intervene in the war,
the paper argues that the conflict provided a pivot around which their alternately conflicting and
consonant diplomatic goals could turn. While the Second World War might still have been
avoided in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the endgame set in part by the
diplomatic and policy responses of the Great Powers would make 1939s swift tumble into ruin
increasingly inevitable.
Islamism, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question in Palestine 2013
This paper seeks to characterize modern antisemitic impulses in Islamism as 19th century
European intellectual imports. These foreign ideas were grafted onto the emerging conception of
Islamism as a pietisticreaction to modernism and the collapse of Ottoman civilizational strength.
Thus, although Islam has long had a difficult relationship with Jews, the forms of antisemitism
which presently inhabit Palestinian discourse are fundamentally a-historical and indeed represent a
western colonization of the Islamic mind.
The Long Cold War of the Vatican, 1921-1958 2012
This paper argues that in contrast to the standard short Cold War periodization (1945-1991), the
Vatican waged a long Cold War against the Soviet Union beginning in 1921. This deep history
of antagonism vis-a-vis communism led the Vatican to pursue a dangerous and byzantine course
during both WWII and the immediate postwar period. In both periods, Pius XIIs overriding


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fear of communist expansionism led him into controversial stances: during the war, a naive
characterization of Nazism, and in the emerging Cold War, a hawkism which isolated him from
the dominant American conception of containment.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
The Spanish Civil War in International Perspective, Minnesota Undergraduate 2014
History Conference, University of Northwestern - St. Paul

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
John Alexis Edgren Memorial Grant 2014
For collaborative research resulting in a digital history project entitled, Bethel at War,
1914-2014: A Digital History of a Christian College in a Century of Warfare.
Janke Memorial Scholarship for History and Political Science 2013 - 2015
Presidents Scholarship for academic achievement 2013 - 2015
John Nordquist Memorial Scholarship for Music 2013 - 2014
Deans List Honors 2011 - Present

MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association 2014
Pi Sigma Alpha 2013
Bethel University History Club 2013
Omicron Delta Kappa 2012

FIELD-SPECIFIC WORK EXPERIENCE
History Department Teaching Assistant to:
- Dr. Ruben Rivera, Associate Professor of History and Chief Diversity Officer 2013 - Present
Courses responsible for include: Christianity in America, Minorities in
America, Latin American Civilizations, Hispanic Christianity
- Kathryn Thostenson, Adjunct Instructor in History 2013 - Present
Courses responsible for include: Roman Civilization, Medieval Europe,
Christianity and Western Culture

Digital Library Assistant 2012 - Present
I assist the running of Bethel's Digital Library and am generally responsible for the
digitization of historical materials and the upkeep of online content. To-date, led the
development of several collections from the planning stage through digitization,
metadata production, and curation. Examples of work include:
- Baptist General Conference Annual Reports (1932-2005)
- The Clarion [student newspaper] (1983-2007)
- Bethel College and Seminary Academic Catalogs (1906-2011)

HISTORY-RELATED WRITING
Blogging
Bethel at War, 1914 - 2014 2014 (ongoing)
Senior Seminar: What Do Historians Do? 2014


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Revolution in War: The CNTs Social Revolution. 2013
The Dynamite Club 2013

LANGUAGES
Intermediate Latin

REFERENCES
Professor Christopher Gehrz, Ph.D
Bethel University, Department of History (Chair)
651-638-6105
cgehrz@bethel.edu

Associate Professor Ruben Rivera, Ph.D
Bethel University, Department of History
651-638-6045
rrivera@bethel.edu

Associate Professor Christopher Moore, Ph.D
Bethel University, Department of Political Science
651-638-6926
c-moore@bethel.edu







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