Peter Obermark

Background

About Peter Obermark

I taught my first college history course in 1984 ("Totalitarianism" for Wilmington College), and have been a teacher and administrator for colleges and universities in Ohio for the past 35 years. I have an unconventional education and teaching background: My Ph.D (Hebrew Union College, 1992) is in Middle/Near Eastern history, languages and literature, but I have also been a licensed paramedic and EMS professional for the past 20 years. I have 34 years of teaching experience, both in social sciences and humanities, and in the field of emergency medical services. I am comfortable teaching across disciplines, in a wide range of areas, including history, comparative literature, philosophy and religion, history of medicine, and political science. I also have extensive experience in academic administration, having served for ten years as Assistant Dean at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. I retired from my full time faculty position at the University in 2017, but I have continued teaching as adjunct faculty both at the University of Cincinnati (I teach a course in the history of medicine for the Allied Health Department), and at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where I create and teach humanities/social sciences seminars for students enrolled in the B.F.A. program. I am seeking additional opportunities for adjunct teaching in any of the above-listed disciplines.