Dr. Christopher M. White earned his Ph.D. in History with a double major in Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy from the University of Kansas in 2005. His road to higher education began in the U.S. Marines (1994-98), where he earned the GI Bill. He then earned his B.A. in Spanish Education, followed by an M.A. in Latin American Studies, then a Ph.D. in Latin American and U.S. Foreign Policy History. He has been a Professor of History at Marshall since 2006. Dr. White has taught Latin American history, U.S. history, world history, food history, conspiracies in U.S. history, and courses on the War on Drugs and the Global South. He led six educational trips to Latin America between 2007 and 2011, and he has also led the History Department’s “Food Past/Food Present” series since its inception in 2019. He received the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism’s Outstanding Community Contributor Award, the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award, and a Marshall International Innovation Grant. Dr. White has authored four books, including Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era, The History of El Salvador, A Global History of the Developing World, and The War on Drugs in the Americas. He is co-editor, with Kevin Barksdale, of Appalachian Epidemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19 (2024), and the co-editor of Concealed West Virginia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Campus Carry (to be released with WVU press in late 2026). He is also under contract to write a second edition of his The History of El Salvador, and he is consulting with the University of Nebraska press about his ongoing book project on the US-Mexico border. He was recently given a scholarship to study Jewish history and culture in Poland this summer, funded by Classrooms without Borders. He will present the results of his fellowship work at the University’s 2027 Drinko Symposium.