Academics
Our Faculty
Dr. Alan Roe
Departments and Positions:
• History Teacher
• Assistant Wrestling Coach
• History Teacher
• Assistant Wrestling Coach
Biography:
After working as a sabbatical substitute during the Spring of 2023, Alan is starting his first year as a full-time faculty member. He will teach history, serve as an assistant wrestling coach, and be part of the McGuire Dorm team. Prior to arriving at EHS, Alan taught for several years at the university level, including stops at the College of William and Mary, West Virginia University, and Loyola University, Maryland. He has also previously taught, coached wrestling, and served as a dorm parent at Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina.
Alan earned his BA from Davidson College where he competed on the varsity wrestling team and was an enthusiastic participant in the school’s outdoor program. He completed his MA at the University of Montana with a concentration in the history of the American West and environmental history. In his graduate work at Georgetown University, he specialized in Russian and global environmental history. A fluent speaker of Russian, Alan spent more than four years living in the Russian Federation where he has conducted extensive archival research in several different regions. He also spent three summers working as a backpacking and fishing guide and interpreter in Siberia’s Altai Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The research and (to a lesser extent) these experiences were the basis for his historical monograph entitled Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
Alan enjoys reading, physical exercise, whitewater kayaking, hiking, traveling, and, most of all, spending time with his family. He and his wife, Tania, live off-campus with their two children.
After working as a sabbatical substitute during the Spring of 2023, Alan is starting his first year as a full-time faculty member. He will teach history, serve as an assistant wrestling coach, and be part of the McGuire Dorm team. Prior to arriving at EHS, Alan taught for several years at the university level, including stops at the College of William and Mary, West Virginia University, and Loyola University, Maryland. He has also previously taught, coached wrestling, and served as a dorm parent at Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina.
Alan earned his BA from Davidson College where he competed on the varsity wrestling team and was an enthusiastic participant in the school’s outdoor program. He completed his MA at the University of Montana with a concentration in the history of the American West and environmental history. In his graduate work at Georgetown University, he specialized in Russian and global environmental history. A fluent speaker of Russian, Alan spent more than four years living in the Russian Federation where he has conducted extensive archival research in several different regions. He also spent three summers working as a backpacking and fishing guide and interpreter in Siberia’s Altai Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The research and (to a lesser extent) these experiences were the basis for his historical monograph entitled Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
Alan enjoys reading, physical exercise, whitewater kayaking, hiking, traveling, and, most of all, spending time with his family. He and his wife, Tania, live off-campus with their two children.
Credentials:
B.A., Davidson College
M.A., University of Montana
Ph.D., Georgetown University
