Dori Anne Abbott
BA, MS, PhD
Dr. Dori Anne Abbott has served as a teacher, librarian, principal, special education teacher, child development center director, and guidance counselor in Christian education. In these various capacities, Dori Anne also served as an advocate and tutor for students who struggle with learning deficits, learning difficulties, and learning disabilities.
For many years, Dori Anne supported Smarr Publishers (now Worldview Curriculum) with planning, writing, and marketing biblically saturated, homeschool curriculum for classical literature. During this time, Dori Anne developed her own start-up company called Pen for Hire that helps young writers all over the world hone their craft one paper at a time, while providing technical writing and internet content for a wide range of clients.
Dori Anne is the author of a set of two history texts, A Revolutionary View of History as well as a number of study guides. With five full-length books and thousands of articles published, Dr. Abbott hopes to never retire from the wonderful work she enjoys.
Robert W. Watson
BA, MEd, JD
After graduating from Olmsted Falls High School in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Bob enlisted in the U.S. Navy serving as a yeoman for nine years and having seen duty in the Panama Canal Zone, Iceland, and USS America (CVA-66). Afterwards, Bob attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, graduating with a B.A. magna cum laude in Prelaw.
Bob received his J.D. from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Later, after studying philosophy at the University of Georgia, Bob discovered a particular fondness for teaching; thus, he returned to BJU to get his M.Ed. in English. Being a teacher for both high-school and college students, Bob taught primarily English composition and literature, philosophy, and Latin.
Bob is the author of many study guides for classical literature as well as the work The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Poetic Version, which is included with the Survey of World Literature course and the insightful book, Critique of Pure Education: A Philosophy for the Home Educator.