Faculty and Staff

Jan Ridgway, Departmental Assistant

Keith Bohannon(Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 2001; Associate Professor) U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern U.S. History; Georgia History

Michael de Nie (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001; Associate Professor) Modern Britain and Ireland, Nineteenth Century Europe, British Empire

Dusty Marie Dye (M.A., University of West Georgia, 2011; Instructor) 18th century America, Public History

Michael Epanchin (B.A. Philosophy, University Southern Florida, 2004, GTA)

Jonathan Goldstein (Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1973; Professor) China, Japan, India, Vietnam, American-East Asian Relations, Sino-Judaica

Steve Goodson (Ph.D., Emory, 1995; Professor; Chair) U.S. Social and Cultural, Gilded Age, Progressive Era

Philip Hatcher (M.Ed., Social Studies, Campbell University, 2007, GTA)

Keith Hebert (Ph.D., Auburn, 2007; Assistant Professor) Public History, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Georgia History

Matthew Hild (Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003; Visiting Assistant Professor) U.S. labor, U.S. South, History of Technology

Teresa Leslie (Ph.D., Emory, 2005; Lecturer) Medieval History, Women's and Family History, Religious history

Charles Lipp (Ph.D., University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2004, Assistant Professor) Early Modern Europe, Early Modern France, Atlantic World

Elaine MacKinnon (Ph.D., Emory, 1995; Professor) Medieval and Imperial Russia, Soviet History, Contempory Russia

Alan McClarnand (M.A. Teaching, Oglethorpe University, 2006, GTA)

Ann McCleary (Ph.D., Brown, 1996; Professor; Public History Coordinator) American Women, Early American History, American Architecture, American Material Culture

Nathan Michalewicz (B.A. History, University of West Georgia, 2010)

Keith Pacholl (Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, 2002; Associate Professor) Colonial America; American Revolution; Early Republic; American Social, Cultural, and Religious History

Tim Pitts (Ph.D Candidate, ABD, Auburn University; Visiting Assistant Professor)

Carrie Pitzulo (Ph.D., City Univerity of New York Graduate Center, 2008; Assistant Professor) Women, Gender, Sexuality, Popular Culture

Sandra Pollard (M.A., University of West Georgia, 2007; Instructor) Immigration History, Central European History; Latin American Studies, Foodways, Reformation History

Nadejda V. Popov (Ph.D., Princeton, 2008; Assistant Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator) Greek and Roman military history, Roman Republican historiography, Greek law

Richard Primuth (MA, University of West Georgia, 2009; Instructor) U.S. Political History, Gay and Lesbian History, Public History

Larry Rivers (Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 2010; Assistant Professor) African American Religion; Civil Rights Movement; United States, 1945-present

Timothy Schroer (Ph.D., Virginia, 2002; Associate Professor) Modern Germany, Modern Europe, Methodology

Nancy Steinen (Ph.D; Part-Time Instructor)

Gary Van Valen (Ph.D., New Mexico, 2003; Associate Professor) Latin America, Indigenous Peoples, Atlantic World

Colleen A. Vasconcellos (Ph.D., Florida International University, 2004; Assistant Professor) Atlantic Studies; The Caribbean; The African Diaspora; Comparative Slavery and Emancipation; History of Childhood

Sue VerHoef (M.A., University of West Georgia, 2008; Instructor) United States Civil War and Reconstruction; Public History; Modern United States; Georgia History

Daniel Williams (Ph.D., Brown, 2005; Associate Professor) Modern U.S.; American Politics; American Religion