Platt Named Associate Professor at Campbell

Dr. Rorin Platt, of Campbell University’s Department of Government, History, and Justice, has been promoted to associate professor of history. Platt joined the Campbell faculty in 2001.
A native of Virginia, Platt received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in modern European history from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maryland at College Park. Platt has also studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
A diplomatic historian who specializes in American intelligence history, Platt has authored two books and a number of articles on the subject. His book, “Virginia in Foreign Affairs, 1933-1941,” was published in 1991, and he is currently at work on a second book, “Cavaliers in Cloak: Virginians in the Secret War, 1941-1945.”
Platt serves as book review editor and member of the board of directors of “American Diplomacy,” an electronic journal that provides commentary, analysis, and research on American foreign policy. The journal is published by American Diplomacy publishers with the cooperation of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke University. The Web site for the journal is based at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research on Virginia’s role in foreign affairs has been included in a national guide to foreign affairs literature produced by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The two-volume guide titled, “American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature,” contains over 16,000 annotated entries dealing with intelligence and military history and serves as a research tool for scholars and students interested in foreign relations history.
Platt has participated in the annual World Russian Forum at the U.S. Senate in Washington and was appointed to the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee. The committee advises the state on the historical authenticity, merit and appropriateness of each proposed marker of statewide historical significance.

Bulletin 0052-3/03/05