Dr. Michael Fry
Professor of History

Expertise

  • Latin American history
  • Central American history
  • 18th and 19th century Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Tulane University, 1992
  • M.A., Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 1985
  • B.A., History and Spanish, Westminster College, 1983

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Dr. Andrew Gulliford
Professor of History & Environmental Studies

Expertise:

  • Public History
  • History of the American West
  • Environmental History
  • Native American History
  • Museums & Historic Preservation
  • American Wilderness
  • History of American National Parks

Education:

  • Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1986
  • M.A.T., The Colorado College, 1976
  • B.A., The Colorado College, 1975

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Dr. Paul Kuenker
Assistant Professor of History

Areas of expertise

  • 19th Century United States
  • American Cultural History
  • Technology, modernity, and danger
  • American visual culture
  • Space, place, and landscape studies

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Arizona State University, 2016
  • M.A., History, Arizona State University, 2013
  • B.A., History and Art History, The College of William and Mary, 2008

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Dr. Michael Martin
Chair and Professor of History and
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise

  • History of early medieval preaching and sermons
  • History of the church and the Middle Ages
  • Medieval history
  • Early medieval Ireland
  • Early medieval Irish biblical commentary texts
  • Gender and queer studies

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Western Michigan University, 2005
  • M.A., Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1996
  • B.A., English, University of Iowa, 1989

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Douglas Ober
Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of expertise:

  • South Asian History
  • Religion in Asia
  • Buddhist Studies
  • Colonialism in Asia

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2017
  • M.A., University of Washington, 2009
  • B.A., University of Puget Sound, 2004

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Dr. Ellen L. Paul
Professor of History

Expertise

  • East Central Europe
  • Russia & the Soviet Union
  • The Holocaust
  • 19th & 20th c. Modern Europe
  • Languages:  German, Czech/Slovak, Polish, French

Education

  • Ph.D., Modern Russian and East Central European History, The University of Kansas, 1999
  • M.A., The University of Kansas, 1994
  • B.A., German and International Studies, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, 1991
     

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Colin Rydell
Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of expertise:     

  • Early modern Britain
  • Transnational food pathways, consumption, and commodity history
  • Colonial America and the Atlantic World
  • Alternative agriculture

Education:

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago (2020)
  • M.A., University of Chicago (2015
  • B.A., University of Denver (2006)

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