Education
Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College (1966)
Master of Arts (1968) and Doctor of Philosophy (1982) from the.
Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College (1966)
Master of Arts (1968) and Doctor of Philosophy (1982) from the.
Carls began teaching at Union University in 1983, and before that, taught at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas for twelve years. He is a specialist of modern France, the First World War, and Europe between the two world wars. Prior to that, he held the national positions of council member (2006-2008), advisory board member (2008-2012), and vice president (2012-2014).
Phi Alpha Theta’s national office has given service awards to Carls twice for his dedication to the society.
He has been the faculty advisor to Union University’s Delta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta since 1983. From 1996 to 2008, he served as the faculty advisor for the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Union University.
Carls was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1944 to Ernest and Eleanor Carls. They have three children: Philip, Elizabeth, and Paul.
A member of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society since 1970, Carls is currently the national president of the organization, a post he assumed at the end of the society’s biennial convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in January, 2014. Carls is a member of the American Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association, and the Society for French Historical Studies.