A 25-year teaching veteran at Mississippi State is the university's Outstanding Humanist for 2001.
Johnpeter H. Grill of history, whose research and teaching specialties include Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, will present an Oct. 30 [Tuesday] public lecture titled "Teaching the Holocaust in Mississippi: Challenge and Opportunity."
The 3 p.m. presentation in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library will be followed by a reception.
The annual faculty recognition is made by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the College of Arts and Sciences and MSU's Institute for the Humanities to coincide with Arts and Humanities Month in the state.
Grill is the author of "The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920-1945" and "The American South and Nazi Germany: 1933-1945." He currently is working on a third book, "Hitler's General SS: Function and Structure of the Allgemeine SS in Nazi Germany."
He holds undergraduate and master's degrees in history from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in history from the University of Michigan.
