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William Urban is an American historian specializing in the
Baltic Crusades The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Christian colonization and Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the ...
and
Teutonic knights The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians on ...
. He is the Lee L. Morgan Professor of History and International studies at
Monmouth College Monmouth College is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Monmouth, Illinois. Monmouth enrolls approximately 900 students from 21 countries who choose courses from 40 major programs, 43 minors, and 17 pre-professional programs in a c ...
. He served as an editor for the ''
Journal of Baltic Studies The Journal of Baltic Studies, the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal founded in 1970 and published quarterly by Routledge, dedicated to the poli ...
'' from 1990 to 1994. Prior to beginning his teaching career at Monmouth College in 1966, he taught as an assistant professor at the
University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...
1965-1966.


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21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people Historians of the Crusades Academic journal editors Monmouth College faculty Place of birth missing (living people) University of Kansas faculty 1939 births American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub