Michael Brooks is a Midwestern
historian,
journalist, and admitted
fantasy football addict. On
Wikipedia I spend an inordinate amount of time working on
cleanup activities lately, and I have been known to hang out at the
Wiki history portal from time to time.
As a journalist I write for a number of periodicals, including the Toledo Free Press, and my work has been published in a variety of local, regional, and national periodicals. I achieved a level of notoriety for my blog coverage of the North Toledo riot on 15 October 2005; having correctly predicted the violence that ensued, my real-time blog coverage provided images and news reports faster and more accurately than the mainstream media.
I won Touchstone Awards in 2004 and 2005 for best news articles in a non-daily periodical, awarded by the Toledo Press Club. My work on conditions at the Toledo Jeep plant has been translated into German, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.
As an academic I have research interests in epidemiolgical history, European expansion, Central Asian history, Russian history, and Latin American history. I have taught at the University of Toledo, Monroe County Community College, Owens Community College, and Lourdes College. I have several manuscripts approaching book length, and have published a number of articles in academic journals.
Please visit my history blog, a site that often delves into news, commentary, and posts other than history.
On Wikipedia I spend far too much time on article improvement, finding myself compelled to fix weaker articles I stumble upon and for which I possess some level of expertise. I am not proud of this, but rather look upon this as a pathological obsession. When not writing or teaching, I spend most of my time with my family, my dogs, and my garden.
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[edit] Articles Upon Which I am Spending Far Too Much Time
