David Champa

Background

About David Champa

After twenty-six years at Delta Air Lines, retiring as an international line check captain on the B-767ER I made a significant career path change. I began the MA program in history at the University of West Georgia in 2005 and completed my thesis in 2009. I completed one year of PhD course work at Auburn University and then transferred to Georgia State University to be closer to home, family, and friends. I currently teach U.S. History survey courses as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia State University in Atlanta. My dissertation investigates State Politics and governors during the Civil War, focusing on Joseph E. Brown of Georgia and Oliver P. Morton of Indiana. I am active in my community and church. I am a former member of the Rotary Club of Stone Mountain. I am a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, Atlanta Area Council as a board member and in leadership training positions. I am an active member of Smoke Rise Baptist Church, sing in the choir, and serve on the personnel committee.Specialties: U.S. History nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an area sub-specialty of Latin America. My current research is focused on the state governors during the American Civil War and well as Holocaust studies with a focus on Italy. My MA thesis dealt with the affect of an integrated military, after 1947, on the desegregation process of southern communities, a case study of Augusta, Georgia and Fort Gordon.