Debra Neill
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Santa Catalina Hall 233 Mesa, AZ
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Debra Neill is a lecturer in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. She received her doctorate in European history from Arizona State University in 2007. In preparation for her graduate studies in history she studied abroad in Macedonia (August 2000 - March 2001) after receiving a National Security Education Program Graduate International Fellowship. Her early research focused on religious and ethnic conflict more broadly and on the wars in the former Yugoslavia in particular. Currently, she is studying the concept of “liberty of conscience” as it evolved from the Reformation to the First Amendment. She has an article on the topic published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (“The Disestablishment of Religion in Virginia: Dissenters, Individual Rights, and the Separation of Church and State”). She is currently working on a book on the subject.
Ph.D. European History, Arizona State University 2007
M.S. Justice Studies, Arizona State University 2001
Religious/Ethnic Conflict/Genocide
The History of Religious Toleration and Freedom
“The Disestablishment of Religion in Virginia: Dissenters, Individual Rights, and the Separation of Church and State,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography vol. 127, no. 1 (2018) 1-41.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
HST 380 | Studies in History of Science |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
IDS 301 | Becoming Interdisciplinary |
IDS 301 | Becoming Interdisciplinary |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 103 | Early Modern Europe |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 103 | Early Modern Europe |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 103 | Early Modern Europe |
JST 304 | Studies in European History |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
HST 361 | Witchcraft & Heresy in Europe |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 103 | Western Civ: Ren to Enlight |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 309 | Exploration and Empire |
HST 100 | Global History to 1500 |
HST 318 | History of Engineering |
HST 104 | West Civ: French Rev to EU |
“The French Wars of Religion,” Spirit of the Senses: The Salons (July 27, 2017)
“The Hoax of Original Intent: Interpreting the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment,” Americans United of Greater Phoenix (June 26, 2016)
“Brunelleschi’s Dome,” Spirit of the Senses: The Salons (June 17, 2016)
“The Politics of Fear: A Discussion About The Current Wave of Nationalism Across the Globe” (Faculty Round Table) April 12, 2016.
“A Different Perspective on the Holocaust: Jasenovac and Jedwabne,” Guest lecture for Valerie Adams’ WWII course (October 23, 2015)
“Refugee Crisis” (Faculty Round Table) September 24, 2015, Student Union, ASU Poly
“James Madison and Religious Freedom,” Spirit of the Senses Salon (July 8, 2014)
“The Balkans: History, Culture and Peoples,” Army Reserve Unit, Mesa, AZ (7334 East Ulysses Ave.) Brad Clair, colonel (November 4, 2012)
“The Separation of Church and State: Fulfilling the Dream of our Founders,” Retirement community Village College at Monte Vista, Mesa (January 17, 2011)
“The Reformation,” The Center for Inquiry Southern Arizona, Tucson (November 21, 2010)
“The Separation of Church and State: Fulfilling the Dream of our Founders,” Humanist Society Greater Phoenix (October 24, 2010).
“Sudan: The Past and Future,” STAND, STAND Up for Africa (September 25, 2010)
“From Macedonia to Jasenovac: Journeys of a History Grad Student," Presentation for the Melikian Center’s Critical Languages Institutes Summer Session, Arizona State University (June 27, 2007)
“Memory and Identity: Jasenovac and the Breakup of Yugoslavia,” Homecoming Presentation, Department of History, Arizona State University (October 21, 2006)
“Jasenovac and Memory: Reconstructing Identity in Post-World War II Yugoslavia,” Junior Scholars Training Seminar (August 2005).
“Interpreting the Russian Revolution After the Fall of the Soviet Union: The Return of the Totalitarian Model,” Phi Alpha Theta, Southwest Regional Conference (January 2004).
Nominated for Outstanding Staff/Faculty award, ASU LGBTQA Services (2013)
Division of Graduate Studies Completion Fellowship, ASU (2006)
Wallace A. Adams Memorial Award for Excellence in European History (2006)
Junior Scholars Training Seminar (JSTS) Scholarship (2005) Woodrow Wilson Short-term Scholarship (2005)
Earl A. and Lenore H. Tripke Travel Award (2005) National Security Education Program (NSEP) graduate fellowship (2000)
The ASU Office of International Programs (IPO) scholarship (2000)
Arizona State University Graduate scholarship (2000)
American Historical Association (2004-2022)