Stephen Douglas Carls is the chair of the history department at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Carls began teaching at Union University in 1983 and prior to that taught at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas for twelve years. He is an expert in 20th-Century France, World War I, and Europe between the two world wars.[1]
Carls also serves as the faculty advisor of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and the Delta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. He is a member of the American Historical Association and the Society for French Historical Studies.
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Stephen was born to Ernest and Eleanor Carls and is married to Alice-Catherine Maire. They have three children Philip, Elizabeth and Paul.
Carls wrote the preeminent book on the life of Louis Loucheur. Stephen Schuker of the University of Virginia called it "a superb biography of one of the most fascinating and forward-looking leaders of the Third Republic." "[Carls] offers a highly original and important contribution to the study of modernization in twentieth-century France." In this book called Louis Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France Carls proposes that Loucheur, a weapon's manufacturer, was a major part of France's industrializtion and modernization.