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About Dr. H. Micheal Tarver
Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova (born 1958) is an American author, historian, and university professor emeritus. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bowling Green State University and is the son of Rosemary Tarver (née Rosemary Lucille Denova, 1937–1999) and Cecil Donald Tarver, Sr. (b. 1933).
Dr. Tarver is a Corresponding Member (USA) of the Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela). He is an alumnus of both Bowling Green State University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, as well as a graduate of the United States Army Military Police School.
He has served in several key academic and editorial roles, including:
- Immediate-past editor of the World History Bulletin for the World History Association
- Former dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Arkansas Tech University
- Past executive secretary of the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA)
Dr. Tarver has been recognized through numerous Fulbright programs:
- 1998–99 Fulbright Senior Scholar to Venezuela
- 2001–03 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award recipient
- 2004 Fulbright-Hays Award for Advanced Study in China
- 2007–08 Fulbright-Hays Award for Advanced Study in Mexico
His awards include:
- 2001–02 Fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- 2002 Special Humanities Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
- 2007 Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship from Arkansas Tech University
He is also a former chairman of the Gran Colombian Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History and past president of SEWHA.
From 2022 to 2024, Dr. Tarver served as Chairman of the Arkansas History Commission and the Arkansas Historical Records Advisory Board, appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson. His term expires in 2025.
Currently, Dr. Tarver is a member of the Grupo de Estudios Venezuela - Estados Unidos (GEVEU) at the Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida) and serves on the Editorial Board of Histories, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published quarterly by MDPI.
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- June 2025: Tarver Historical Consulting website is now live! Explore services, publications, and more.
- June 2025: The Headwords page is now available. Writers interested in contributing to the project can refer to that section for guidance and opportunities.
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Research
Our current and upcoming research initiatives aim to advance historical understanding and academic engagement.
- Headwords Project: Ongoing 2025 – A structured initiative to guide contributors and organize key concepts for future publications.
Future research projects and findings will be featured here as they develop.
Publications
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- The United States and Venezuela during the First World War: Cordial Relations of Suspicious Cooperation. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4985-1109-4.
- Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood - ABC-CLIO, 2020. Editors: Colleen Boyett, H. Micheal Tarver, Mildred Diane Gleason. ISBN 978-1-4408-4692-2. Recipient of a 2021 Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention.
- The History of Venezuela. Second Edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood - ABC-CLIO, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4408-5773-7. With Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Julia C. Frederick.
- The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. Editor: H. Micheal Tarver; Assistant Editor: Emily Slape. ISBN 978-1-4408-4570-3.
- Warren G. Harding: Harbinger of Normalcy. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-1614708759. With Mildred Diane Gleason.
- "Reflections on the Importance of Teaching the Spanish Borderlands in the U.S. History Class." World History Bulletin XXII (Fall 2006): 34–35.
- The History of Venezuela. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. ISBN 0-313-33525-7. With Julia C. Frederick.
- El Fracaso de un Sueño: Un Breve Análisis de la Insurgencia en Venezuela, 1960–1968. Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de Los Andes, Consejo de Publicaciones, 2004. ISBN 980-11-0811-8. With Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Luis Loaiza Rincón.
- The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Vol. II: The Later Years, 1973–2004. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6246-5. With Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas.
- "Foreword." In Establishment of Environmentalism on the U.S. Political Agenda... – The Brothers Udall, by Henry B. Sirgo. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7734-6358-5.
- "A Historical Perspective of Massage." In Massage Therapy: Principles and Practices, 2nd ed., edited by Susan Salvo. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. ISBN 0-7216-0028-X.
- "Latin American History." In The World History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources, edited by Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman. New York, NY: Sharpe, 2002. ISBN 0-7656-0906-1.
- The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Vol. I: The Early Years, 1936–1973. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7734-7377-7. With Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas.
- The Cambridge World History of Food. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Editors: Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Ornelas. ISBN 0-521-40216-6. (Associate Editor)
- The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Editor: Kenneth F. Kiple. ISBN 0-521-33286-9. (Associate Editor)
Headwords
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