Faculty

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Edward Behrend-Martínez, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago
Early Modern Europe; Women's and Gender History; Spain
Anne Belk Hall 1064
(828) 262-6020
e-mail: behrendmarte@appstate.edu
Michael C. Behrent, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. New York University
European Intellectual History; Modern France
Anne Belk Hall 1089
(828) 262-6018
e-mail: behrentmc@appstate.edu
Lucinda McCray Beier, Professor and Chairperson
Ph.D. Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
History of Medicine and Public Health in Britain and the U.S.
Anne Belk Hall 1097
(828) 262-2282
e-mail: beierlm@appstate.edu
Antonio T. Bly, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century America, African American History,
The History of the Book, Popular Culture

Anne Belk Hall 1014
(828) 262-6026
e-mail: blyat@appstate.edu
 

Jeffrey Bortz, Professor
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Latin American and Mexican History
Anne Belk Hall 1063
(828) 262-6030
e-mail: bortzjl@appstate.edu
Rennie W. Brantz, Professor and Director of Center for Judaic, Holocaust, & Peace Studies
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European and German History
Anne Belk Hall 1056
(828) 262-6001/ (828) 262-2028
e-mail: brantzrw@appstate.edu
 
Judkin Browning, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
U.S. Military History, Civil War
 Anne Belk Hall 1055
(828) 262-6017
e-mail: browningjj@appstate.edu
Birsen Bulmus, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Georgetown University
Modern Middle Eastern History
Anne Belk Hall 1091
(828) 262-7691
e-mail: bulmusb@appstate.edu
Andrea Burns, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
20th century African American History; Public History
Anne Belk Hall 1072
(828) 262-7066
e-mail: burnsaa@appstate.edu
Karl E. Campbell, Associate Professor
Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina and Recent U.S. History
 Anne Belk Hall 1065
(828) 262-6009
e-mail: campbllke@appstate.edu
Jari Eloranta, Associate Professor
Ph.D. European University Institute
Business and Economic History
Anne Belk Hall 1059
(828) 262-6006
e-mail: elorantaj@appstate.edu
Lynne M. Getz, Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle
American West, US Family History, Race and Gender
Anne Belk Hall 1054
(828) 262-6012
e-mail: getzlm@appstate.edu
James Goff, Professor
Ph.D. University of Arkansas
History of the New South and American Religious History
Anne Belk Hall 1086
(828) 262-6011
e-mail: goffjr@appstate.edu
Karen Greene, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Florida State University
French History, French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe
Anne Belk Hall 1057
(828) 262-6021
e-mail: greeneka@appstate.edu
Lisa Holliday, Assistant Professor & Graduate Program Advisor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
Ancient History, Late Antiquity, Early Christian History
Anne Belk Hall 1075
(828) 262-6014
e-mail: hollidaylr@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
Anne Belk Hall 1016
(828) 262-6007
e-mail: horstrh@appstate.edu
 
Anatoly Isaenko, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Moscow State University
Russian History, History of Ethnic Conflicts
Anne Belk Hall 1058
(828) 262-6028
e-mail: isaenkoa@appstate.edu
Scott Jessee, Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Medieval History, Crusades
Anne Belk Hall 1078
(828) 262-6087
e-mail: jesseews@appstate.edu
Ryan Jones, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University
Enlightenment Europe,World Environmental History,
Russian Colonization in Siberia and Alaska
Anne Belk Hall 1050
(828) 262-6019
e-mail: jonesrt@appstate.edu
 

Jeremiah Kitunda, Assistant Professor & History Club Advisor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
African History
 

Anne Belk Hall 1074
(828) 262-6010
e-mail: kitundajm@appstate.edu
History Club
Michael Krenn, Professor
Ph.D. Rutgers University
US Diplomatic History
Anne Belk Hall 1077
(828) 262-4020
e-mail: krennml@appstate.edu
Dorothea Martin, Professor & Director of Japan Center West
Ph.D. University of Hawaii-Manoa
History of China and Modern Japan
Anne Belk Hall 1060
(828) 262-6022
e-mail: martinda@appstate.edu
Deepa Nair, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. National University of Singapore
India, Nationalism, Religion and Identity building in
Modern South Asia, Education
Anne Belk Hall 1053
(828) 262-6004
e-mail: naird@appstate.edu
 
Myra L. Pennell, Professor
Ed.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Social Studies Education
Anne Belk Hall 1090
(828) 262-6002
e-mail: pennellml@appstate.edu
Sheila R. Phipps, Associate Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Women's History, U.S. Colonial and Early Republican History
Anne Belk Hall 1015
(828) 262-6005
e-mail: phippssr@appstate.edu
David A. Reid, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
History of Science, The Relationship between Science and Religion
Anne Belk Hall 1062
(828) 262-6876
e-mail: reidda@appstate.edu
Timothy H. Silver, Professor
Ph.D. College of William and Mary
Environmental and Colonial American History
Anne Belk Hall 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
Anne Belk Hall 1076
(828) 262-6879
e-mail: spechtnj@appstate.edu
Bruce E. Stewart, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
US and Appalachian History
Anne Belk Hall 1073
(828) 262-7325
e-mail: stewartbel@appstate.edu
Michael J. Turner, Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History
D.Phil. University of Oxford
Modern British political history and foreign policy
Anne Belk Hall 1011/12
(828) 262-8102
e-mail: turnermj@appstate.edu
Mary Valante, Associate Professor
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
Medieval History, Ireland and the Vikings
 
Anne Belk Hall 1088
(828) 262-4983
e-mail: valantema@appstate.edu
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Michael G. Wade, Professor
Ph.D. University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Recent US Oral History and History of Civil Rights
Anne Belk Hall 1082
(828) 262-6003
e-mail: wademg@appstate.edu
Charles A. Watkins
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Public History
Anne Belk Hall 1013
(828) 262-3117
e-mail: watkinsca@appstate.edu
Marv Williamsen
Chinese History
 
Anne Belk Hall 1052
(828) 262-6023
e-mail: williamsentm@appstate.edu
   




 





 


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