History Department Faculty members:
[To learn more about a particular faculty member, click on our name in the box and you will be taken to each individual's own page with bios, syllabi, internet links and other interesting historical information for you to peruse, pursue and ponder.]

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.
                                                                                                          --James Joll

McHugh, Neil, African Studies
Professor
Chair of Department

Office: 207 Noble
970-247-7411
Office Hours Winter 2008:


mchugh_n@fortlewis.edu

Dr. McHugh has his Ph.D. in African History from Northwestern University.
His teaching interests include: African History (especially cultural and social); Islamic History; African-American History; Religion; Migration.

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Neil McHugh


John Baranski

Baranski, John,  U.S. History
Assistant Professor


Office: 211 Noble
970-247-7269
Office Hours Winter 2008:
       Tue/Thur   12:30--2:00 p.m.
       Tue            4:45--5:45 p.m.

baranski_j@fortlewis.edu

Dr. Baranski has his B.A. in History from Sonoma State University; M.A. in U.S. History from San Francisco State University; Ph.D. in U.S. and Public Policy History from the University of California-Santa Barbara.
His teaching interests include: 19th and 20th-century United Sates; 19th and 20th -century Latin America; Labor History; Trans-Atlantic Social and Urban Policy.

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Fry, Michael, Latin America
Associate Professor

Office: 205 Noble
970-247-7352
Office Hours Winter 2008:
       Mon/Wed/Fri   11:00 a.m.--12:30 p.m.
                               2:30--3:00 p.m.

fry_m@fortlewis.edu

Dr. Fry has his Ph.D. in Latin American History from Tulane University.
His teaching interests include: Latin America; Mexico; Central America and United States--Latin American Relations.
His research interests include: Eighteenth-century Guatemala (he lived, studied and researched in Guatemala for more than four years); ethnic relations, political movements, and rebellion in rural Latin American communities.

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Michael Fry

Ma, Haiyun, Chinese/East Asia History
Assistant Professor

Office: 204 Noble
970-247-7323
Office Hours Winter 2008:

ma_h@fortlewis.edu

Dr. Ma has his Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University.
Hist teaching and research interests include: Imperial and Modern Chinese/Asian History, Eurasion History and the Islamic world, with emphasis on cross-regional connections, the Silk Road, culture, religion, and law.

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Michael and Callum Douglas
in Rauzet, France, August 2001

Martin, Michael, Medieval Europe, Ancient History, Gender/Women's Studies
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, John F. Reed Honors Program

Office: 210 Noble
970-247-7147
Office Hours Winter 2008:
    In 210 Noble hall:
       Mon/Wed/Fri     10:00--11:00 a.m.
       Tue                    9:00--10:00 a.m.
    In 158 Jones hall
       Mon/Fri               2:00--3:00 p.m.
       Tue/Thur             1:30--2:30 p.m.
martin_m@fortlewis.edu


Dr. Martin has his B.A. in English from the University of Iowa; M.A. in Medieval Studies and Ph.D. in History, both from Western Michigan University.
His teaching and research interests include: History of Preaching and Sermons; Carolingian studies/Charlemagne;Western/World Civilizations; Medieval Archaeology; History of the Church/Christianity; Ancient Rome and Greece; Queer Theory and History; Gender Studies; Historiography.

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Paul, Ellen, Modern Europe
Assistant Professor

Office: 209 Noble
Office Hours Winter 2008:
       Mon/Wed/Fri   9:30--10:45 a.m.
       Tue/Thur         9:30--10;45 a.m.

paul_e@fortlewis.edu

Dr. Paul has her B.A. in International Studies and German, minor in French, from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern Russian and East European History from the University of Kansas.
Her teaching interests include: Western/World Civilizations; Modern Germany; Eastern Europe; Russia/Soviet Union; Western Europe.

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Ellen Paul


Kim Martin

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Martin, Kim, East Asia, Writing Program
Visiting Instructor

Office: 149 Sage
martin_k@fortlewis.edu

Kim has B.A. degrees in Psychology with a double major in Education, and double minors in Spanish and Social Studies from New Mexico State University. Her M.A. is in Asian Pacific Studies from Leeds University in England. Her thesis is titled: The Singapore Dilemma--Migrant Workers in Singapore.

Eckenrode, Tom, Medieval
Professor [Emeritus]

Dr. Eckenrode received his B.A. in Philosophy & Classical Languages from St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA); M.A. in Modern European History from University of Colorado; Ph.D. in Medieval History from St. Louis University.

Eckenrode, Tom
[to see my CV, click here]

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Hunter, Doreen, United States History
Professor [Retired]

Dr. Hunter received her B.A. from Stanford University; Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her interests range from Colonial History to U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, U.S. and Vietnam, U.S. Women's History, and U.S. History since 1945.

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With Toby at Fisher Towers in Moab

Kelly, Reece
Professor [Retired]

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Dawn Widen

Widen, Dawn
Administrative Assistant
widen_d@fortlewis.edu

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