About Our Faculty

History Department

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

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

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

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural History
• Gender Studies
• Mexican Military History
• Art History
• Ethnomusicology

Education

• Ph.D. Doctoral Candidate, Latin American History, Minors in Musicology and Art History, University of Arizona, 2019.
• M.A., Art History, National University of Mexico -UNAM.
• B.A., History. Licenciatura en Historia, Universidad de Guanajuato.

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

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