Department of History
Appalachian State University

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Faculty by Area

Africa Education Middle East
American Europe Public History
Ancient Latin America Women/Gender
Asia Medieval World

Africa

Jeremiah Kitunda, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
African History
Old Library 1083
(828) 262-6008
E-Mail: kitundajm@appstate.edu

American

Judkin Browning, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
U.S. Military History, Civil War
Old Library 1055
(828) 262-6017
Email: browningjj@appstate.edu

Karl E. Campbell, Associate Professor
Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina and Recent U.S. History
Old Library 1016
(828) 262-6009
E-mail: campbllke@appstate.edu

Lynne M. Getz, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle
American West, US Family History, Race and Gender
Old Library 1058
(828) 262-6010
E-mail: getzlm@appstate.edu

James Goff, Professor
Ph.D. University of Arkansas
Graduate Program Advisor
History of the New South and American Religious History
Old Library 1086
(828) 262-6011
E-mail: goffjr@appstate.edu

Michael Krenn, Professor
Department Chair
Ph.D. Rutgers University
US Diplomatic History
(828) 262-2284
E-Mail: :krennml@appstate.edu

Sheila R. Phipps, Associate Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Women's History, U.S. Colonial and Early Republican History
Old Library 1015
(828) 262-6005
E-mail: phippssr@appstate.edu

Timothy H. Silver, Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Environmental and Colonial American History
Old Library 1085
(828) 262-6024
E-mail: silverth@appstate.edu

Neva J. Specht, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Delaware
History of the Early Republic, Material Culture, Public History
Old Library 1076
(828) 262-6879
E-mail: spechtnj@appstate.edu

Bruce E. Stewart, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
US and Appalachian History
Old Library 1073
(828) 262-2284
E-mail: stewartbel@appstate.edu

Michael G. Wade, Professor
Ph.D. University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Recent US Oral History and History of Civil Rights
Old Library 1082
(828) 262-6003
E-mail: wademg@appstate.edu

John Alexander Williams, Professor
Ph.D. Yale University
US and Appalachian History, Urban History
Old Library 1054
(828) 262-6012
E-mail: wiliamsja@appstate.edu

Ancient

Lisa Holliday, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
Ancient History, Late Antiquity, Early Christian History
Old Library 1089
(828) 262-6014
Email: hollidaylr@appstate.edu

Stephen J. Simon, Professor
Ancient Roman and Greek History
Old Library 1075
(828) 262-6018
E-mail: simonsj@appstate.edu

Asia

Dorothea Martin, Professor
Ph.D. University of Hawaii-Manoa
History of China and Modern Japan
Old Library 1060
(828) 262-6022
E-mail: martinda@appstate.edu
Japan Center West

Deepa Nair
Ph.D. National University of Singapore
India, Nationalism, Religion and Identity building in 
Modern South Asia, Education
Old Belk Library 1053
(828) 262-6004
E-mail: naird@appstate.edu

Marv Williamsen
Chinese History
Old Library 1052
(828) 262-6023
E-mail: williamsentm@appstate.edu

Education

Myra L. Pennell, Associate Professor
Ed.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Social Studies Education
Old Library 1090
(828) 262-6002
E-mail: pennellml@appstate.edu

David Johnson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Irvine
British India, History Education
Old Library 1091
(828) 262-6007
E-Mail: johnsonda@appstate.edu

Europe

Edward Behrend-Martínez, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago
Early Modern Europe; Women's and Gender History; Spain
Old Library 1064
(828) 262-6020
E-Mail: behrendmarte@appstate.edu

Rennie W. Brantz, Professor
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European and German History
Old Library 1056
(828) 262-6001/ (828) 262-2028
E-mail: brantzrw@appstate.edu
Center for Judaic, Holocaust, & Peace Studies
Summer Study Abroad: The Holocaust

Jari Eloranta, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. European University Institute
Business and Economic History
Old Library 1059
(828) 262-6006
E-mail: elorantaj@appstate.edu

Karen Greene-Reid, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Florida State University
French History, French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe
Old Library 1057
(828) 262-6021
E-mail: greeneka@appstate.edu

David Johnson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Irvine
British India, History Education
Old Library 1091
(828) 262-6007
E-Mail: johnsonda@appstate.edu

Michael J. Moore, Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington
History of Modern Britain and Canada, especially Social History
Old Library 1065
(828) 262-6004
E-mail: mooremj@appstate.edu


David A. Reid, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
History of Science, The Relationship between Science and Religion
Old Library 1062
(828) 262-6876
E-mail: reidda@appstate.edu


James A. Winders
, Professor
Ph.D. Duke University
I.G. Greer Distinguished Professor, 2003-2005
Modern European/French Cultural and Intellectual History
Old Library 1088
(828) 262-6019
E-mail: windersja@appstate.edu

Latin America

Jeffrey Bortz, Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Latin American and Mexican History
Old Library 1063
(828) 262-6030
E-mail: bortzjl@appstate.edu

René Harder Horst, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Indiana University
Latin American History, including Indigenous history of Latin and Native Americas and Latin American Church history
Old Library 1072
(828) 262-7066
E-mail: horstrh@appstate.edu
History Club

Medieval

H. Lawrence Bond, Professor
Ph.D. Duke University
Medieval/Renaissance Intellectual History
Old Library 1077
(828) 262-6031
E-mail: bondhl@appstate.edu

Scott Jessee, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Medieval History, Crusades
Old Library 1078
(828) 262-6087
E-mail: jesseews@appstate.edu

Mary Valante, Associate Professor
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
Medieval History, Ireland and the Vikings
Old Library 1050
E-mail: valantema@appstate.edu
Black Death Class Website
 

Middle East

Public History

Neva J. Specht, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Delaware
History of the Early Republic, Material Culture, Public History
Old Library 1076
(828) 262-6879
E-mail: spechtnj@appstate.edu

Charles A. Watkins
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Public History
Old Library
(828) 262-3117
E-mail: watkinsca@appstate.edu

Women/Gender

Edward Behrend-Martínez, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago
Early Modern Europe; Women's and Gender History; Spain
Old Library 1064
(828) 262-6020
E-Mail: behrendmarte@appstate.edu


Sheila R. Phipps, Associate Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Women's History, U.S. Colonial and Early Republican History
Old Library 1015
(828) 262-6005
E-mail: phippssr@appstate.edu

World

Anatoly Isaenko, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Moscow State University
Russian History, History of Ethnic Conflicts
Old Library 1053
(828) 262-6028
E-mail: isaenkoa@appstate.edu

Jari Eloranta, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. European University Institute
Business and Economic History
Old Library 1059
(828) 262-6006
E-mail: elorantaj@appstate.edu

 

 

 

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