John Deken, pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Missouri
John Deken
John Deken has been teaching high school for three years in Columbia, a university town in the middle of Missouri. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Missouri. Mr. Deken’s academic background is in liberal arts, and he received bachelor’s degrees in both history and education. He has been interested for a long time in writing as well as in promoting intercultural understanding, partly because of the extensive traveling he did with his military family as a child. As a senior in high school he entered a writing contest sponsored by the National Holocaust Museum and the May family. Winning that and traveling to see Holocaust survivors in Washington, DC has been an unforgettable experience for him.
jcda84@mizzou.edu
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