Schoenl, William 1941- (William J. Schoenl)

PERSONAL:

Born February 15, 1941, in Buffalo, NY; son of William (an electrician) and Erma (a secretary and homemaker) Schoenl; married Linda Volker (a registered nurse), 1966; children: Karen Schoenl Carpenter, Lauren Schoenl van Loon, Mark. Ethnicity: "Bavarian/Alsatian/English/Scottish." Education: Canisius College, B.S., 1963; Columbia University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1968. Politics: Independent. Religion: Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Fishing, walking, travel, reading mysteries, snow-shoeing.

ADDRESSES:

Home—East Lansing, MI. Office—Department of History, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.

CAREER:

Michigan State University, East Lansing, professor of humanities, 1968-89, professor of history, 1989—, and consulting faculty member, Center for Advanced Study of International Development. Center for Jung Studies of Detroit, member of board of trustees, 1991-94.

MEMBER:

American Historical Association, Kiwanis Club of Okemos (chair of human and spiritual values committee, 1999-2002, 2004—; creator of Meridian Non-traditional High School Scholarship, 2005).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1970, and American Philosophical Society, 1975.

WRITINGS:

(Under name William J. Schoenl) The Intellectual Crisis in English Catholicism: Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and the Vatican in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1982.

Major Issues in the Life and Work of C.G. Jung, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1996.

C.G. Jung: His Friendships with Mary Mellon and J.B. Priestley, Chiron Publications (Wilmette, IL), 1998.

(Editor) New Perspectives on the Vietnam War: Our Allies' Views, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 2002.

Contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, including American Historical Review, Church History, Catholic Historical Review, Victorian Studies, and Choice. Contributor of poetry to literary journals, including Riverrun, Parnassus Literary Journal, and Alura Quarterly.