Faculty

Edward Behrend-Martínez, Associate Professor, Assistant Chair
   Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago
   Early Modern Europe; Women's and Gender History; Spain
Anne Belk Hall 1052
(828) 262-6023
e-mail: behrendmarte@appstate.
Michael C. Behrent, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. New York University
   European Intellectual History; Modern France
Anne Belk Hall 1089
(828) 262-6018
e-mail: behrentmc@appstate.edu
Antonio T. Bly, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. College of William and Mary
   18th-19th Century U.S., African American History, History of the Book, Pop Culture
Anne Belk Hall 1014
(828) 262-6026
e-mail: blyat@appstate.edu
Jeffrey Bortz, Professor
   Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
   Latin American History
Anne Belk Hall 1063
(828) 262-6030
e-mail: bortzjl@appstate.
Rennie W. Brantz, Professor, Director Center for Judaic, Holocaust, & Peace Studies
   Ph.D. The Ohio State University
   Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European and German History
Anne Belk Hall 1056
(828) 262-6001/ (828) 262-2028
e-mail: brantzrw@appstate.edu
 
Judkin Browning, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. University of Georgia
   U.S. Military History, Civil War
 Anne Belk Hall 1055
(828) 262-6017
e-mail: browningjj@appstate.edu
Birsen Bulmus, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. Georgetown University
   Modern Middle Eastern History
Anne Belk Hall 1091
(828) 262-7691
e-mail: bulmusb@appstate.edu
Andrea Burns, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. University of Minnesota
   20th century African American History; Public History
Anne Belk Hall 1068
(828) 262-6010
e-mail: burnsaa@appstate.edu
Karl E. Campbell, Associate Professor
   Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   North Carolina and Recent U.S. History
 Anne Belk Hall 1065
(828) 262-6009
e-mail: campbllke@appstate.edu
Jari Eloranta, Associate Professor
   Ph.D. European University Institute
   Business and Economic History
Anne Belk Hall 1076
(828) 262-6006
e-mail: elorantaj@appstate.edu
Lynne M. Getz, Professor
   Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle
   American West, US Family History, Race and Gender
Anne Belk Hall 1054
(828) 262-6012
e-mail: getzlm@appstate.edu
James Goff, Professor
   Ph.D. University of Arkansas
   History of the New South and American Religious History
Anne Belk Hall 1086
(828) 262-6011
e-mail: goffjr@appstate.edu
René Harder Horst, Associate Professor
   Ph.D. Indiana University
   Latin American History, Latin American Indigenous and Church History
Anne Belk Hall 1016
(828) 262-6007
e-mail: horstrh@appstate.edu
 
Anatoly Isaenko, Associate Professor
   Ph.D. Moscow State University
   Russian History, History of Ethnic Conflicts
Anne Belk Hall 1058
(828) 262-6028
e-mail: isaenkoa@appstate.edu
Scott Jessee, Professor
   Ph.D. University of Minnesota
   Medieval History, Crusades
Anne Belk Hall 1078
(828) 262-6087
e-mail: jesseews@appstate.edu
Jeremiah Kitunda, Assistant Professor, History Club Advisor
   Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
   African Environmental History
Anne Belk Hall 1075
(828) 262-6014
e-mail: kitundajm@appstate.edu
Michael Krenn, Professor
   Ph.D. Rutgers University
   U.S. Diplomatic History
Anne Belk Hall 1072
(828) 262-4020
e-mail: krennml@appstate.edu
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. Indiana State University
   U.S. History, Secondary Education and Social Studies
Anne Belk Hall 1064
(828) 262-6020
e-mail: laughlinschultzbe@appstate.edu
Dorothea Martin, Professor, Director of Japan Center West
   Ph.D. University of Hawaii-Manoa
   History of China and Modern Japan
Anne Belk Hall 1060
(828) 262-6022
e-mail: martinda@appstate.edu
Lucinda M. McCray, Professor and Chairperson
   Ph.D. Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
   History of Medicine and Public Health in Britain and the U.S.

Anne Belk Hall 1097
(828) 262-8260
e-mail: beierlm@appstate.edu
Myra L. Pennell, Professor
   Ed.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
   Social Studies Education
Anne Belk Hall 1090
(828) 262-6002
e-mail: pennellml@appstate.edu
Sheila R. Phipps, Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Coordinator
   Ph.D. College of William and Mary
   Women's History, U.S. Colonial and Early Republican History
Anne Belk Hall 1015
(828) 262-6005
e-mail: phippssr@appstate.edu
Timothy H. Silver, Professor
   Ph.D. College of William and Mary
   Environmental and Colonial American History
Anne Belk Hall 1085
(828) 262-6024
e-mail: silverth@appstate.edu
Neva J. Specht, Professor, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
   Ph.D. University of Delaware
   History of the Early Republic, Material Culture, Public History
I.G. Greer
(828) 262-6879
e-mail: spechtnj@appstate.edu
Bruce E. Stewart, Assistant Professor
   Ph.D. University of Georgia
   US and Appalachian History
Anne Belk Hall 1073
(828) 262-7325
e-mail: stewartbe1@appstate.edu
Michael J. Turner, Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History
   D.Phil. University of Oxford
   Modern British political history and foreign policy
Anne Belk Hall 1011/12
(828) 262-8102
e-mail: turnermj@appstate.edu
Mary Valante, Associate Professor, Graduate Director
   Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
   Medieval History, Ireland and the Vikings
Anne Belk Hall 1088
(828) 262-4983
e-mail: valantema@appstate.edu
Michael G. Wade, Professor
   Ph.D. University of Louisiana-Lafayette
   Recent US Oral History and History of Civil Rights
Anne Belk Hall 1082
(828) 262-6003
e-mail: wademg@appstate.edu
   


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