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Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
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Northwestern State University
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3/22/2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -Dr. Charles Pellegrin, an instructor of history at Northwestern State University, has been named a 2006 West Point Summer Seminar and Current Policy Symposium Fellowship Award Winner. Pellegrin was one of 20 American and international scholars chosen to attend the seminar on May 30 through June 24 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

"This seminar is for historians who are new to the profession," said Pellegrin. "We will be attending lectures, take part in discussions and also travel to battlefields at Saratoga, Antietam and Gettysburg. This is an experience I will remember for a long time."

Pellegrin will also complete a research project while at West Point. He said this seminar will help him prepare to begin teaching military history at Northwestern in the spring 2007 semester. Pellegrin will take over the course from Associate Professor of History John Price who will retire later this year. Price participated in the same seminar approximately 20 years ago.

"ROTC cadets at Northwestern are required to take military history and I look forward to maintaining the quality of the class that Mr. Price has built over the years," said Pellegrin, who is in his second year on Northwestern's faculty.

Pellegrin earned his bachelor's degree at Nicholls State University, a master's at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a doctorate at Mississippi State University. He taught at Larose-Cut Off Junior High in Larose for eight years and was an adjunct instructor of history at Nicholls State.

At Northwestern, he teaches courses on early and modern world civilization, modern United States history and the history of modern China.

Pellegrin completed a military history instructor's course at the Combined Arms Center, Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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