BA, Marquette University
MLITT, University of St Andrews
PhD, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
David Strittmatter is Associate Professor of History, and he oversees public history initiatives at ONU. His research interests include memory, preservation, and tourism. His first book, Memory, Heritage, and Preservation in 20th-Century England, explores how battlefields, political sites, and world’s fairgrounds develop as heritage sites. Since 2019, Strittmatter has directed the Kent State Guardsmen Oral History Project, which is a collection of interviews with Ohio National Guardsmen involved in the campus shootings of May 4th, 1970. He is also the principal organizer of the Ray Brown Project, a multi-stage effort to commemorate the Negro Leagues pitcher and Baseball Hall of Famer. For the 2025-26 academic year, Strittmatter serves as the President of the Ohio Academy of History.
Classes Taught:
World War I; Tudor/Stuart England; History of Italy; The Titanic; Contemporary Europe; World War Memory in Normandy & the Western Front; Baseball in American Culture; Western Civilization II; Introduction to Public History; Heritage Preservation; Material Culture
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