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David Welky is a Professor of History at UCA and the interim chair of UCA’s history department. His most recent book is A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (W. W. Norton, 2016). In all, he has written or edited twelve books on topics ranging from the history of film, to the World War II-era civil rights movement, to the life of Ronald Reagan. He has also published book chapters, scholarly articles, newspaper pieces, and other writings on a variety of subjects, including presidential history, Superman comic books, and the Olympic Games. Since arriving at UCA in 2002 Professor Welky has won his college’s annual outstanding faculty member award and UCA’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award. He has also won the Booker Worthen Literary Prize, the Best Presentation award from the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, and other honors.

Among other offerings, he has taught courses in recent American history, the United States during the Great Depression and World War II, the United States and the Middle East, American film history, podcasting, and the history of the American Western genre.

In his spare time Welky agonizes over St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, waits for the next Cardinals game, reads, watches movies, and perhaps plays the occasional video game. He is currently completing the manuscript for his next book, Teedie & Bamie: The Extraordinary Roosevelt Siblings and the World They Made, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2026.