Background
Koons, Kenneth Edward was born on October 10, 1954 in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Henry and Doris Elaine Koons.
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Kenneth Edward Koons
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Bachelor in History, Shippensburg State College, 1976. Master of Arts in History, Shippensburg State College, 1978. Doctor of Arts in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1982.
Career
Assistant professor history Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 1982—1988, associate professor history, 1988—1992, professor history, since 1992, General Edwin Cox '20 Institute professor history, since 2002, associate head history department. Scholar/curator Museum Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia, 2000—2005. Guest lecturer/consultant Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton, Virginia, 1990—2004.
Member national advisory county/consultant Stonewall Jackson House, Lexington, since 2004. Consultant/editor Virginia Cattlemen's Foundation and Dairy Foundation Virginia, Daleville, 2002—2004. Consultant McGraw Hill Public, New York, New York, 2003—2004.
Scorer advance placement examinations in world history Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 2002.
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Wrote essay in support of history photograph and artifact display Augusta County Cultural and History Commission, Verona, Virginia, 1994—1995. Recording secretary/member books committee Augusta County History Society, Staunton, 2003—2006. Member of Appalachian Studies Society, Popular Culture Association, World History Association, Organization American Historians, Southern History Association, Virginia History Society.
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Married Deborah Jean Kocher, July 2, 1955. Children: Jacob Wesley, Elizabeth Marie.
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American
Education
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1976
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1978
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1982
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1982 - 1988
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Recipient Maury Research Award, Virginia Military Institute, 2001, Wilbur Hinman, Junior Research Award, 1990. Fellow Jessie Ball duPont Seminar, The Cultural Politics of the Family, National Humanities Center, 1997. Fellowship, Problems of Modernization: History and the Social Sciences, National Endowment Humanities, 1976, Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia History Society, 1991, 1992, Discretionary and Implementation grant for Conference: After the Backcountry: Rural Life and Society in the 19th Century Valley Virginia, Virginia Foundation Humanities and Public Policy, 1993, Discretionary and Implementation grant for conference After the Backcountry: Rural Life and Society in the 19th Century Valley Virginia, 1995, Travel fellowship, Scots-Irish Historians' Tour of Northern Ireland, British Council, 1994.Recipient Maury Research Award, Virginia Military Institute, 2001, Wilbur Hinman, Junior Research Award, 1990. Fellow Jessie Ball duPont Seminar, The Cultural Politics of the Family, National Humanities Center, 1997. Fellowship, Problems of Modernization: History and the Social Sciences, National Endowment Humanities, 1976, Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia History Society, 1991, 1992, Discretionary and Implementation grant for Conference: After the Backcountry: Rural Life and Society in the 19th Century Valley Virginia, Virginia Foundation Humanities and Public Policy, 1993, Discretionary and Implementation grant for conference After the Backcountry: Rural Life and Society in the 19th Century Valley Virginia, 1995, Travel fellowship, Scots-Irish Historians' Tour of Northern Ireland, British Council, 1994.