2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
    Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 University Catalog

History


Honors: The History Department offers an Honors Program in history for qualified students; see the department head or department web page for details.

Department Head: Molly Michelmore

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Kameliya Atanasova, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of History and Religion
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Henryatta Ballah, Ph.D.—(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, The Ohio State University

David A. Bello, Ph.D.—(2004)-2016
Elizabeth Otey Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Michelle Diane Brock, Ph.D.—(2014)-2024
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Nneka D. Dennie, Ph.D. —(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Romina Green, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Alana Holland, Ph.D.—(2024)-2024
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Kansas

Sarah Horowitz, Ph.D.—(2008)-2020
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Molly Michelmore, Ph.D.—(2006)-2020
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Barton A. Myers, Ph.D.—(2013)-2022
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Nicolaas A. Rupke, Ph.D.—(2012)-2012
Johnson Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University

Franklin Sammons, Ph.D—(2021)-2023
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Melissa E. Vise, Ph.D.—(2018)-2023
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Northwestern University

Note: History courses are numbered according to the following scheme. Within the 200 and 300 levels, the last two digits indicate the following groupings:

00-29 European History
30-69 United States, Canadian, and Latin American History
70-89 African, Asian and Global History