Platt Selected as Reader for College Boards

For the 14th consecutive year, Dr. Rorin Platt, associate professor of history at Campbell University, has been selected as a reader for the 2005 AP European History College Board exam. Platt will be reading at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
      A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Platt received a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1976. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in modern European history from UNC and a doctorate in American history from the University of Maryland at College Park.
     A diplomatic historian who specializes in American intelligence history, Platt has authored two books and a number of articles and book reviews. His published works include the books, “Virginia in Foreign Affairs, 1933-1941,” published by University Press of America and “Wings of Redemption: Colonel Earl L. Cole and the 385th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, 1943-1945,” published by Advocate Publishing Company. He is presently writing a history of Virginians who served in America’s World War II intelligence services. Platt serves as a book review editor for American Diplomacy, a quarterly electronic journal of commentary, analysis, and research on American foreign policy and its practice. The Web site for “American Diplomacy” is based at UNC- Chapel Hill. He was named a Mellon Research Fellow by the Virginia Historical Society in 1990.
He is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the American Historical Association, the Virginia Historical Society, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the National Association of Scholars, among others organizations. He currently serves on the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee.
 

Bulletin 0076-3/24/05