Faculty
Breen, Louise A., Associate Professor and Chair
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993): Colonial American History, Puritanism, American
Revolution
Defries, David, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2004): Medieval History, History of Pre-Modern Christianity,
The Christian Cult of the Saints
Frey, Marsha L., Professor
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971): Early Modern Europe, European Diplomacy
Graff, David A., Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995): Chinese and Japanese History; Military History
on sabbatical spring 2013
Hamscher, Albert N., Kenneth S. Davis Professor
(Ph.D., Emory University, 1973): Institutional, legal, and social history of Early
Modern France and the cultural history of US Cemeteries
Hoff, Derek, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2006): American Political Development; Economic History
of the United States; history of economic policy; history of demographic policy and
ideas; Environmental History
on sabbatical spring 2013
Kazemi, Ranin, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University, 2012): Modern Middle East and North Africa; Bottom-Up History;
Social Protest and Violence; Minorities and Women in the Middle East; Famine and Environmental
History
Krysko, Michael, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2001): History of Technology, Mass Media, and US Foreign
Relations (esp. American-East Asian Relations)
Linder, Robert D., University Distinguished Professor
(Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1963): History of Modern Christianity from the Reformation
to the Present; History of Religion and Politics in Europe, Australia and the United
States
Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998): American Agricultural, Environmental, and
Native American History
Maner, Brent, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001): Germany since 1750; European
Cultural and Intellectual; Modern Middle East
McCrea, Heather, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2002): Colonial and Modern Mexico; Peasant and Indigenous
Studies; History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease, and Environmental History
Morgan, M.J., Adjunct Professor
(Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2005): French Empire in America; Mississippi Valley
History; Environmental History
Mrozek, Donald J., Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1972): American Military History with particular interests
in the twentieth century, civil-military relations, the interplay between societal
development and military institutions, American notions about the nature of war, and
aspects of American military aviation; American Cultural History and, as an element
of that, the History of Sport with special interest in the emergence of mass popular
culture
Mulready-Stone, Kristin, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D, Yale University, 2009): Modern and Contemporary China, Japan, the History of
Imperialism, and World History
Parillo, Mark P., Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1987): Military History, US Military History, Japanese
History
Sanders, Charles, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2001): Nineteenth-century United States history,
specifically political and military history and the Civil War
Sherow, James E., Professor
(Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1987): Environmental, Kansas, and US Western History
Stone, David, Pickett Professor of Military History
(Ph.D., Yale University, 1997): Russia and the Soviet Union, military history, South
Asia
Williams, Lou Falkner, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Florida, 1991): United States Constitutional and Legal History,
American South, nineteenth-century US, Civil War and Reconstruction
Zschoche, Sue, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1984): The Progressive Era and twentieth-century America,
particularly History of American Women, History of American Medicine, History of American
Higher Education, History of Professionalization, History of Social Science