History Department Faculty

To learn more about a particular faculty member,
click on his or her name in the box and you will be taken to each
individual's 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


Neil McHugh
Professor
Chair of Department

specialty: African Studies

Noble Hall, Room 207
970-247-7411
mchugh_n@fortlewis.edu 
Office Hours Fall 2008:

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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Dr. Neil McHugh
Neil McHugh


John Baranski
 
Assistant Professor

specialty: U.S. History

Noble Hall, Room 211
970-247-7269
baranski_j@fortlewis.edu
Office Hours Fall 2008:

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 States; 19th- and 20th-century Latin America; Labor History; Trans-Atlantic Social and Urban Policy.

 

Dr. John Baranski
John Baranski


Michael
 Fry

Associate Professor
specialty: Latin America

Noble Hall, Room 205
970-247-7352
fry_m@fortlewis.edu
Office Hours Fall 2008:

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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Dr. Michael Fry
Michael Fry

Michael Martin
Assistant Professor of History, and Gender & Women's Studies
Coordinator, John F. Reed Honors Program
specialties: Medieval Europe & Ancient History

Noble Hall, Room 210
970-247-7147
martin_m@fortlewis.edu
Office Hours Fall 2008:

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 and Charlemagne; Western/World Civilizations; Medieval Archaeology; History of the Church/Christianity; Ancient Rome and Greece; Queer Theory and History; Gender Studies; Historiography.

Dr. Michael Martin & Callum Douglas
Michael and Callum Douglas
in Rauzet, France, August 2001

Ellen Paul
Assistant Professor
specialty: Modern Europe

Noble Hall, Room 209
970-247-7267
paul_e@fortlewis.edu
Office Hours Fall 2008:

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.


Dr. Ellen Paul
Ellen Paul

Jennifer Stollman
Assistant Professor
specialty: U.S. history

Noble Hall, Room 204
970-247-7323
stollman_j@fortlewis.edu



 


Kim Martin

Visiting Instructor  
Writing Program Instructor
Human Heritage Program
specialty: East Asia

Jones Hall, Room 149
970-382-6950
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.

Dr. Kim Martin
Kim Martin


Dawn Widen
Administrative Assistant
History, Sociology, and English depts

Noble Hall, Room 230
970-247-7255
widen_d@fortlewis.edu

Dawn Widen
Dawn Widen


Professors (Emeritus)

Tom Eckenrode
Professor [Emeritus]

specialty: Medieval Studies

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.

[Tom Eckenrode's CV]

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Doreen Hunter 
Professor [Emeritus]

specialty: United States History

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.

Dr. Doreen Hunter
With Toby at Fisher Towers in Moab


Reece Kelly
Professor [Emeritus]

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