He is CSU Professor of Modern European History at Southern Connecticut State University where he teaches modern German and European history, historical methods, interdisciplinary research methods, and introduction to digital humanities. He earned his BA in history and philosophy from Pepperdine University and his MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on German cultural and intellectual history, historiography, and conceptions of environment and space. He is the author of two books, Creating the Russian Peril. Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 (2010) and Contesting the Origins of the First World War. An Historiographical Argument (2020). Paddock is currently the editor of the journal Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press).
Paddock, T. (published). “The Threat from the East.” In Russia's Great War and Revolution. The Central Powers. Slavica Publsihers.
Paddock, T. (2019). Contesting the Origins of the First World War. An Historiographical Argument (p. 148). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Contesting-the-Origins-of-the-First-World-War-An-Historiographical-Argument/Paddock/p/book/9781138308251
Paddock, T. (2014). World War I and Propaganda (p. 360). Brill.
Paddock, T. (2019). Rolf Brandt and a Conservative Literary Journalism. 11(1), 60–85.
Paddock, T. (2016). “Spatial Relations and the Struggle for Space: Friedrich Ratzel’s Impact on German Education from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich,.” No, 8(21-15).
Paddock, T. (2015). Performing Politics. 13, 15. http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=721
Paddock, T. (published). Building within space: Thoughts towards an Environmental Ethics. 5(1), 80–96. http://ethicsinprogress.org/
Paddock, T. (2013). “No Man’s Land”: Forbidden and Subversive Space in War. 5(1), 73–84. zetabooks.metapress.com/content/w5g263364j04/
Paddock, T. (accepted). Building within space: Thoughts towards an Environmental Ethics.
Paddock, T., & Shortell, C. (2011). Teaching the Great War through Peace.. 45(1), 16.
Paddock, T. (2010). Bridges: Technology and the Social. 2(2), 7–27.