In The Spotlight ...
Dr. Thomas Kolsky
Professor of History and Political Science
Parkhouse Hall
tkolsky@mc3.edu
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Dr. Thomas Kolsky, professor of History and Political Science at Montgomery County community College, received his doctorate in history from the George Washington University.
He has taught a wide variety of courses in the fields of history and politics, including introduction to political science, American politics, international relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the United States in the Middle East, and the history of the modern Middle East.
For more than twenty years, he has organized and moderated ISSUES AND INSIGHTS, an interview/talk show that seeks to promote college and general community awareness of a variety of issues of public interest. A political maverick, Dr. Kolsky advocates peace, intellectual freedom, religious pluralism, liberal democracy, and reverence for life. As part of his fall 2008 American politics course he ran a virtual campaign for the office of President of the United States with the intent to stimulate interest in the challenges facing the United States. As a member of the college’s Speakers’ Bureau, he frequently lectures seriously as well as humorously on various political topics.
Dr. Kolsky is the recipient of the college’s 2003 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2004 CASE and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Pennsylvania Professor of the year. He is the author of Jews Against Zionism (1990) and contributor to Murray Friedman’s (editor) Philadelphia Jewish Life, 1940-2000 (2003), Menachem Mor’s (editor) Eretz Israel, Israel, and the Jewish Diaspora Mutual Relationship (1991), and the recent Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora (2008).
