University of West Georgia
Department of History
FACULTY
Joe Anderson (Ph.D. Iowa State University, 2005; Assistant Professor) Public History; United States Society and Culture, 1865-Present; American Agriculture and Rural Life; The American Midwest
Keith Bohannon (Ph.D. Pennslyvania State University 2001; Associate Professor) U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern U.S. History; Georgia History
Charles W. Clark (Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder 1979; Professor and Interim Dean of the Graduate School) Medieval Europe, Early Modern Europe, History of Science and Medicine
Cita Cook (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1992; Associate Professor) U.S., Women, the South
Michael deNie (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2001; Associate Professor) Modern Britain and Ireland, Nineteenth Century Europe, British Empire
Greg O. Fuller (MAT, Rutgers University, 2006, Instructor) Latin America, Western History, US Social History, and Africa
Jonathan Goldstein (Ph.D., Pennsylvania 1973; Professor) China, Japan, India, Vietnam, American-East Asian Relations, Sino-Judaica
Steve Goodson (Ph.D., Emory 1995; Associate Professor; Interim Chair) U.S. Social and Cultural, Guilded Age, Progressive Era
Keith Hebert (Ph.D., Auburn University, 2007; Visiting Assistant Professor) Civil War and Reconstruction, Appalachia, and Historic Preservation
Teresa Leslie (Ph.D., Emory 2005; Visiting Assistant Professor) Medieval History, Women's and Family History, Religious history
Ronald Love (Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1987; Associate Professor ) 16th and 17th Century France; Early Modern Europe; The Age of European Exploration and Expansion; Military History; The Reformation; European Relations with Asia
Aran MacKinnon (Ph.D., University of London 1996; Associate Professor) South African History; African Rural Political Economy; Disease, Health, and Empire; Zulu Ethnicity
Elaine MacKinnon (Ph.D., Emory 1995; Associate Professor) Medieval and Imperial Russia, Soviet History, Contempory Russia
Ann McCleary (Ph.D., Brown 1996; Associate Professor) American Women, Early American History, American Architecture, American Material Culture
Keith Pacholl (Ph.D. University of California, Riverside 2002; Assistant Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator) Colonial America; American Revolution; Early Republic; American Social, Cultural, Religious History
Tim Pitts (Ph.D Candidate, Auburn University; Visiting Assistant Professor)
Timothy Schroer (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2002; Assistant Professor) Modern Germany, Modern Europe, Methodology
Justin Stephens (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara 2001; Assistant Professor) Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Late Antiquity
Gary Van Valen (Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 2003; Assistant Professor) Latin America, Indigenous Peoples
Colleen A. Vasconcellos (Ph.D. Florida International University , 2004; Visiting Assistant Professor) Atlantic Studies; Latin America and the Caribbean; The African Diaspora; History of Childhood
Daniel Williams (Ph.D., Brown University, 2005; Assistant Professor) Modern U.S.; American Politics; American Religion; Southern History
Stephanie Wright (Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2004; Assistant Professor). U.S. Social History, African American History, History of Higher Education
STAFF
Elmira N. Eidson (M.Ed. in Business Education, West Georgia, 1976) Departmental Administrative Assistant