Faculty and Staff

History Department Faculty Group Photo — History Department faculty at the start of the fall 2025 semester.

Brandom, Eric

Visiting Assistant Professor

Calvin 203
ebrandom@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Duke University, 2012): Modern European intellectual history, French history, Atlantic World

Breen, Louise A.

Associate Professor

Calvin 104
breen@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993): Colonial American History, Puritanism, American Revolution

Defries, David

Associate Professor

Calvin 013
ddefries@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2004): Medieval History, History of Pre-Modern Christianity, The Christian Cult of the Saints

Epps, Kristen

Associate Professor

Calvin 201C
kkepps@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2010): Antebellum U.S., Kansas, slavery and abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction

Graff, David A.

Pickett Professor of Military History

Calvin 117B
dgraff@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995): Chinese and Japanese History; Military History

Krysko, Michael

Professor and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty in Military History and Twentieth Century Studies

Calvin 002C
mkrysko@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2001): History of Technology, Mass Media, and U.S. Foreign Relations (esp. American-East Asian Relations)

McCloskey, Benjamin

Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Eisenhower 202
mccloskey@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2012): Ancient Mediterranean, Classics, including History and Culture of Rome and Greece, and Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome. Primary appointment with Modern Languages focusing on the classics.

McCrea, Heather

Associate Professor and Kenneth S. Davis Professor of History

Calvin 002D
hmccrea@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2002): Colonial and Modern Mexico; Peasant and Indigenous Studies; History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease, and Environmental History

Maner, Brent

Associate Professor

Calvin 204A
maner@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001): Germany since 1750; European Cultural and Intellectual; Modern Middle East

Orr, Andrew

Professor and Chair

Calvin 201A/117C
aorr1@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2007): Modern France, Military History, Africa

Orr, Suzanne

Associate Professor

Calvin 201B
sorr1@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2010): Twentieth-Century American History, immigration and gender

Oweidat, Nadia

Associate Professor

Calvin 204
oweidat@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., Oxford University, 2014): Islamic thought, Religious theories

Tiemeyer, Phil

Professor and Director of Security Studies

Calvin 206
tiemeyerp@ksu.edu

(Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2007): U.S. Gender History, History of Sexuality, U.S. Social History, and U.S. Foreign Relations

Staff

Janulis, Melissa

Office Specialist II

Master of Library Science, 2015, Emporia State School of Library and Information Management
Office Manager, Department of History & Security Studies Program
General inquiries: hoffice@ksu.edu

Lillich, Kathy

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, History & Political Science

Calvin 117A
klillich@ksu.edu