Faculty

Faculty

Beth Bailey
Beth Bailey
  • Foundation Distinguished Professor
  • Director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies
  • Military and US society; War and Society; History of Gender and Sexuality; Recent US History.
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Marie Grace Brown
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Chair
  • Modern Middle East; Gender and Sexuality; Dress and Body Culture; Imperialism in Africa and the Middle East.
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Andrew Denning
  • Associate Professor
  • Director, Museum Studies Program
  • Twentieth-century Europe and the World (especially France, Germany, and Italy); Empire and Global History; Technology and Infrastructure; Mobility; Environment; Leisure, Sport, and Consumerism
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Christopher E. Forth
  • Dean's Professor of History
  • Cultural History of Gender, Sexuality, the Body, and the Senses; Modern France, Britain and America; European Intellectual and Cultural History.
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Tiffany González
  • Assistant Professor
  • Mexican American – Latina/o; U.S. Modern Politics; Social Movements; Women and Gender; Borderlands; Oral History and Public History
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Megan Greene
J. Megan Greene
  • Professor
  • Modern China and East Asia; the history of the Republic of China under the KMT both in China and on Taiwan; nation and state-building projects in the areas of science and the economy, academia, and ideology.
Jonathan Hagel
Jonathan Hagel
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Modern U.S. History; American Cultural and Intellectual History; The Great Depression; Sports and Movies
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Sheyda Jahanbani
  • Associate Professor
  • Global and International History; History of US Foreign Relations; Modern U.S. History; Intellectual and Political History
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis
  • David Pittaway Professor in Military History
  • 20th century warfare; World War II; the Cold War; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Elaine Marie Nelson
  • Assistant Professor
  • Executive Director, Western History Association
  • North American West; Great Plains; U.S. Women and Gender; Native American and Indigenous History
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Rachel Schwaller
  • Multi-Term Lecturer
  • 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
Robert Schwaller
Robert C. Schwaller
  • Professor
  • Mexico, Central America, Caribbean; intellectual and social history of race; African Diaspora in Latin America; ethnohistory of Mesoamerica.
Erik R. Scott
Erik R. Scott
  • John P. Black Professor of History
  • Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
  • Editor, The Russian Review
  • Modern Russia, Eurasia, and the Soviet Union; Global and International History; Migration and Diaspora; the Cold War and its Legacies
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Sean Seyer
  • Associate Professor
  • History of Technology, Aviation History, History of Regulation, American Political Development, Anti-monopoly, U.S. History
Marta Vicente
Marta Vicente
  • Professor
  • History of Women, Gender and Sexuality in Spain; European Women's History from the 1600s to the Present; Feminist Theory; Gender and Sexuality, Transgender History.
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Kim Warren
  • Associate Professor
  • Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • 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
Nathan Wood
Nathan Wood
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe; Poland; modern Europe; urban and cultural history; speed and transportation technologies.