Reflecting from the Periphery: Peter Petschauer

Peter W. Petschauer was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1939. He grew up in Afers/Eores in northern Italy (South Tyrol) during World War II, attended gymnasium there and in Holland, and immigrated to the United States in 1957. He received his doctoral degree in European and Russian history from New York University in 1969. From 1968 to the present he has taught at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where he is currently Professor of History, specializing in Russian and Children’s History. He was I.G. Greer Distinguished Professor of History, 1987 to 1989, and Chair of the University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly, 1995 to 1997.