| − | Dunning is a fifth generation [[California]]n, born in Scotia in Humboldt County. His father, Harold L. Dunning (1919-1998) was an electrician; his mother, Helen L. Mills (born 1926), a retired librarian living in Bryan, Texas. Dunning attended elementary school in Fortuna, California, and Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts]degree with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received both his [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] with distinction in 1972 and 1976, respectively, from [[Boston College]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], with the major field in Russian history. He was from 1975 to 1976 a lecturer at Boston College and from 1977 to 1979 an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In 1979, he joined the TAMU faculty.<ref name=csld>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning/cv.pdf|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 2010}}</ref> | + | Dunning is a fifth generation [[California]]n, born in Scotia in Humboldt County. His father, Harold L. Dunning (1919-1998) was an electrician; his mother, Helen L. Mills (born 1926), a retired librarian living in Bryan, Texas. Dunning attended elementary school in Fortuna, California, and Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts]degree with highest honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received both his [[Master of Arts]] and [[Ph.D.]] with distinction in 1972 and 1976, respectively, from [[Boston College]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], with the major field in Russian history. He was from 1975 to 1976 a lecturer at Boston College and from 1977 to 1979 an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In 1979, he joined the TAMU faculty.<ref name=csld>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dunning/cv.pdf|title=Chester S.L. Dunning|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 16, 201; no longer on-line}}</ref> |