United States

Military and US society; War and Society; History of Gender and Sexuality; Recent US History.
Office Hours Spring 2020: Tu. 2:00-4:00

Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History. Founder and executive director for the American Indian Digital History Project.

Modern U.S. History
Office Hours Spring 2020: M 1:00-2:30 & Tu. 3:00-4:30

African American history/studies; American freedom movements; black freedom & resistance; oral history & historical methods; social movements; digital history; black didgital humnaities
On leave for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities and Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas.

Environmental history of North America; agricultural history.
On Leave for the Spring 2020 Semester

Modern U.S. History; American cultural and intellectual History; The Great Depression; sports and movies
Office Hours Spring 2020: W 2:00-4:00

Environmental History; North American West; Borderlands; Native Americans
Office Hours Spring 2020: Tu. 12:30-2:30 & W 2:00-3:30
History of the U.S. and the world (1776-2001); modern U.S. history; the U.S. and the "third world;" global poverty, social policy, social reform.
On leave for the Spring 2020 semester.
20th century warfare; World War II; the Cold War; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Office Hours Spring 2020: MW 2:00-3:00 & by appointment

Modern US history; cultural and intellectual history; history of education; public health; religion; evolution; sexuality.
Office Hours Spring 2020: Tu.Th. 12:30-1:30 & by appointment

North American West; Great Plains; U.S. Women and Gender; Native American and Indigenous History

Race, ethnicity, labor, 19th century US.
Office Hours Spring 2020: W 12:00-2:00 & by appointment
Religion in the US, US History, Scriptural Interpretation, Conservative Evangelicalism, American Studies, Economics, Neoliberalism, Race and Religion, 20th Century US; Ancient World with a focus in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia, Biblical Studies
Office Hours Spring 2020: Th. 12:30-2:30 and by appointment

History of gender and race in African American and Native American education; history of Kansas; United States history; women's history; citizenship and American identity; race and gender relations; identity development in the African Diaspora; social, civil rights, and reform movements.
Office Hours Spring 2020: Tu. 12:00-3:00