Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova (born 1958) is an author,
historian, and retired university
professor, with a
Doctor of Philosophy degree from
Bowling Green State University. Tarver is the son of Rosemary Tarver (née Rosemary Lucille Denova, 1937–1999) and Cecil Donald Tarver, Sr. (b. 1933).
Tarver was a 1998–99 Fulbright Senior Scholar to
Venezuela, a 2001–03 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award recipient, a 2004 Fulbright-Hays Award for Advanced Study in China participant, and a 2007–08 Fulbright-Hays Award recipient for Advanced Study in Mexico.
Among Tarver's awards and fellowships are a 2001–02 Fellowship from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a 2002 Special Humanities Award from the
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and 2007 Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship from
Arkansas Tech University. He is a former Chairman of the Gran Colombian Studies Committee of the Conference on Latin American History and past President of the Southeast World History Association.
Tarver currently (2023) serves as Chairman of the Arkansas History Commission and the Arkansas Historical Records Advisory Board. Tarver was appointed by Governor
Asa Hutchinson for a term that expires in January 2025. In addition, Tarver is a Member of the Grupo de Estudios Venezuela - Estados Unidos (GEVEU) at the
Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida).
Bibliography
The United States and Venezuela during the First World War: Cordial Relations of Suspicious Cooperation.
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books Imprint - Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
ISBN978-1-4985-1109-4.
Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present.
Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Imprint - ABC-CLIO, 2020. Colleen Boyett, H. Micheal Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason, Editors.
ISBN978-1-4408-4692-2. Recipient of a 2021
Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention.
The History of Venezuela. Second Edition.
Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Imprint - ABC-CLIO, 2018.
ISBN978-1-4408-5773-7 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Julia C. Frederick)
Warren G. Harding: Harbinger of Normalcy. Series: First Men, America's Presidents.
Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012.
ISBN978-1614708759 (with Mildred Diane Gleason)
"Reflections on the Importance of Teaching the Spanish Borderlands in the U.S. History Class". World History Bulletin XXII (Fall 2006): 34–35.
El Fracaso de un Sueño: Un Breve Análisis de la Insurgencia en Venezuela, 1960-1968.Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de Los Andes, Consejo de Publicaciones, 2004.
ISBN980-11-0811-8 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas and Luis Loaiza Rincón)
"Foreword." Establishment of Environmentalism on the U.S. Political Agenda in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century – The Brothers Udall., By Henry B. Sirgo.
Lewiston, New York:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
ISBN0-7734-6358-5.
"A Historical Perspective of Massage." Massage Therapy: Principles and Practices, Second Edition.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Saunders, 2003. Susan Salvo, editor.
ISBN0-7216-0028-X
"Latin American History." The World History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources.New York, New York: Sharpe, 2002. Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, editors.
ISBN0-7656-0906-1
The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: An Historical Examination, Volume I: The Early Years, 1936–1973.Lewiston, New York:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
ISBN0-7734-7377-7 (with contributions by Alfredo Angulo Rivas, Luis Loaiza Rincón, and Luis Caraballo Vivas)
The Cambridge World History of Food.New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Ornelas, editors.
ISBN0-521-40216-6. (associate editor)
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease.New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Kenneth F. Kiple, editor.
ISBN0-521-33286-9 (associate editor)