History Department Faculty
Faculty
M. Philip Lucas(chair), 205 College Hall, (319) 895-4205
Robert Givens, 213 College Hall, (319) 895-4314
Michelle Herder, 207 College Hall, (319) 895-4203
Catherine Stewart, 208 College Hall, (319) 895-4373
Richard Thomas (emeritus), 224 Cole Library, (319) 895-4460
Visiting Faculty
Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici
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Phil Lucas, Professor of History, specializes in U.S. history with particular interests in 19th century American history and the history of the South. His courses include Origins of the American Nation, Colonial America, The Age of Revolution in America, Civil War and Reconstruction, African-Americans in U.S. History, and Baseball: The American Game. Ph.D. and M.A., Cornell University; B.A. University of Virginia |
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Robert Givens, Professor of History, specializes in European history, with particular interests in imperial and soviet Russia, modern Europe, and international relations. His courses include Modern Europe and Its Critics, Diplomacy of War and Revolution, Revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the off-campus course Russia Today. Givens earned a Fulbright award for 2008-09 and will spend September-January teaching at the School of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University, Russia, where he also taught as a Fulbright Scholar in 1999-2000. He will also use this time to research changing interpretations of the Stalinist period. Givens serves as faculty advisor to Cornell's international relations program. Ph.D., M.A., and B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
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| Catherine Stewart, Associate Professor of History, teaches courses in history and ethnic studies that include Making of Modern America; Readings/Research in Ethnic Studies; The Documentary Imagination During the Depression; Work and Leisure in Modern America, and Chicago: The Transformation of America's Second City, 1880-1940. The latter course is taught in Chicago, and includes research study at the Newberry Library. |  |
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| Ionut Epurescu-Pascovici, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, joins the department in 2008-09 to teach introductory courses on medieval and early modern Europe, as well as two upper-level seminars on the crusades and national community, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2008 with a dissertation entitled "Ego-documents and the construction of agency in France and northern Italy, c. 1200-1400." He is the author of a number of scholarly articles published in journals such as Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, The Medieval History Journal, and Cultural and Social History. Ph.D and M.A. in Medieval Studies, Cornell University; M.A. in Medieval Studies, Central European University in Budapest |
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| Richard Thomas, Emeritus Professor of History |
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