Courses Regularly Taught

Current Research Interests

• Non-Freudian Psychohistory of Hannibal and the Second Punic War
• Psychology of Zen Buddhism
• Stress Management

Previous Research Interests

• Psychological Interpretation of the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
• Psychology of Music
• Psychology of Chess

Selected Publications

Mosig, Y. (2009). The Barcids at war: Historical introduction. Ancient Warfare, 3:4, 6-8. 

Mosig, Y., & Belhassen, I. (2007). Revision and reconstruction in the second Punic War: Zama-whose victory? The International Journal of the Humanities, 5(9), 175-186.

Mosig, Y., & Belhassen, I. (2006). Revision and reconstruction in the Punic Wars: Cannae revisited. The International Journal of the Humanities, 4(2), 103-110.

Mosig, Y. (2006). Conceptions of the self in Western and Eastern psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 26(1-2), 39-50.

Mosig, Y. (2003). The archetypal power of Sibelius. Sibelius Forum II. Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. 438-444.

Mosig, Y. (2009). Zen Buddhism. Chapter 17 in B. Engler Theories of personality: An introduction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Mosig, Y. (1997). Mosig at last: A psychologist looks at H. P. Lovecraft. (Edited by S. T. Joshi). West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press. 

Professional Memberships

• Association for Transpersonal Psychology
• Japan Sibelius Society
• Comitato Italiano pro Canne della Battaglia

Honors and Awards

• Pratt Heins Award for Scholarship, 1998
• Robert Bloch Award, 1998
• Graduate Faculty Fellow, 1996

Other

A native of Germany, Dr. Mosig lived for several years in Spain and for 15 years in Argentina before coming to the U.S. He attended Eastern New Mexico University for his undergraduate studies, and the University of Florida for his graduate work, earning a M.A. in 1969 and the Ph.D. in psychology in 1974. He has travelled extensively, is fluent in several languages, and has been a professor at UNK/KSC since 1977.

Dr. Mosig is a Zen Buddhist monk (trained under Zen Master Dainin Katagiri) and an 8th Degree Black Belt in Okinawan Karate and Kobudo (weaponry) with over 45 years of training in the martial arts (winner of five world championship titles at the U.S.K.A. World Championships/Grand Nationals: Black Belt Kumite, Heavyweight Division, in 1969 & 1970; Masters' Kata, in 1980 & 1988; Black Belt Weapons, in 1989). He has received the Robert Bloch Award from the New England Lovecraft Society for his research on H. P. Lovecraft, and the Pratt-Heins Award in Scholarship from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is currently conducting research on the Punic Wars and the life and personality of Hannibal Barca (247-183 B.C.E.), the great Carthaginian general who led an army (with 37 elephants) over the Alps to invade Italy and defeated the Romans in a series of battles (including the one at Cannae, on August 2, 216 B.C.E., widely regarded as the most brilliant military victory in history).

Dr. Mosig has presented his research internationally.  Among his recent presentations are: "Revision and Reconstruction in the Second Punic War: Zama-Whose Victory?" at the Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, American University of Paris, France, July 17, 2007; "Revision and Reconstruction in the Punic Wars: Cannae Revisited," at the Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, July 5, 2006; "Western and Eastern Conceptions of the Self," at Taraz University, Taraz, Kazakhstan, May 2002, and "The Archetypal Power of Sibelius," at the Third International Jean Sibelius Conference, Helsinki, Finland, December 9, 2000.  He has also taught workshops and seminars on Zen Meditation, Stress Management, and Martial Arts in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela, and on H. P. Lovecraft in Italy.  He is scheduled to present his paper "The Demonization of Carthage: Propaganda Wars in the Ancient Mediterranean" at the 8th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Los Angeles, June 29-July 2, 2010.

Dr. Mosig is an approved writer for the British HistoryTimes.com and contributes regularly articles on Hannibal and the Punic Wars, including (in 2009): "A problem of sources," "A question of hatred," "Of rivers and elephants," "The Kriegsschuldfrage in the Punic Wars," "Demonizing Carthage: Propaganda wars in the Ancient Mediterranean," "Cannae: An issue of command," "Cannae: The riddle of the horse" and "Cannae: The psychology of battle." Here is a link to his profile page: http://www.historytimes.com/fresh-perspectives-in-history/history-times-writers/yozan-mosig. He is currently working on a book on Hannibal for Apollonia Publishers in Tunisia.

For a list of resources in Prof. Mosig's library, click on the following link:

Hannibal Research Resources