Office: Room 218
Phone: (262) 335-5242
E-mail: kirk.tyvela@uwc.edu

Assistant Professor, History

B.A., Saginaw Valley State University
M.A., Ohio University
Ph.D., Ohio University
Publications, Presentations & Affiliations

Courses

• HIS 101: The United States to the Civil War

• HIS 102: The United States since the Civil War

• HIS 218: The Vietnam War

• HIS 254: American Foreign Relations

• HIS 256: Scandals in History & Literature
• HIS 283: Modern War and American Life

• HIS 297: America in the 20^th Century  

About
Kirk Tyvela arrived at UW-WC in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of History. He earned a BA in History/Political Science from Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan and an MA and PhD in History from Ohio University. Dr. Tyvela has taught previously at Ohio University, Ohio University-Zanesville, Sinclair Community College, and Swansea University in Wales. His research and teaching interests include US Foreign Relations, Latin America, and the Cold War. He lives in West Bend with his wife, Anne, and daughters, Lillian and Grace.

Quote for students: “The secret of life is then that this youthful spirit should never be lost. Out of the turbulence of youth should come this fine precipitate—a sane, strong, aggressive spirit of daring and doing. It must be a flexible, growing spirit, with a hospitality to new ideas, and a keen insight into new experience. To keep one’s reactions warm and true is to have found perpetual youth, and perpetual youth is salvation.” [Randolph Bourne, “Youth,” in The Atlantic Monthly 1912]