Robert Waters

Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., is visiting assistant professor of history at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He was selected as Arts and Sciences “Outstanding Teacher” during 2005-2006. Until Hurricane Katrina, he had been associate professor of history at Southern University of New Orleans, a historically Black university. Waters has also worked as a civil rights lawyer. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of California before going insane and quitting to attend the University of Mississippi, where he earned his doctorate and juris doctorate.

Waters is author of the Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Africa Relations (Scarecrow Press), and articles on Africa and Guyana published in The Political Science Reviewer and The Journal of Caribbean History.  He is co-author (with Gordon Daniels of Mississippi Valley State University) of articles on the United States and Guyana published in Diplomatic History, the Revue Belge de Philologie et D’Histoire, and Cold War History. Along with Geert van Goethem, Director of the Archive and Museum of the Belgian Labor Movement, Waters put together a conference on AFL-CIO Cold War foreign policy that was held in Brussels during 2011. A book of essays from the conference is under consideration with a publisher.