History Faculty
Department chair: M. Philip Lucas | Contact info
Faculty
Michelle Herder
Professor of History
Specializes in medieval and early modern history. Her research interests center on women and religion in late medieval Spain, and her courses include Europe 800-1300 and 1300-1700, Women in Medieval Europe, Women in the Renaissance and Reformation, Persecution and Tolerance in the Middle Ages, and The Crusades. Ph.D. and M.Phil., Yale University; B.A., Carleton College.
Phil Lucas
Edgar Truman Brackett, Jr., Professor of History and 2019-20 Department Chair
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.
Catherine Stewart
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. Ph.D. and M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook; B.A., Lawrence University.
Tyler Carrington
Associate Professor of German Studies and History
Carrington is a cultural historian of modern Germany and specializes in turn-of-the-century masculinity, urban studies, and the history of emotions. His book, Love at Last Sight: Dating, Intimacy, and Risk in Turn-Of-The-Century Berlin (Oxford, 2019), examines the risks and rewards of modern dating in the modern metropolis. Carrington holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; an M.A. in history from Loyola University Chicago; an M.A. in German from Middlebury College; and a B.A. in German from Wheaton College.
Jonathon Dreeze
Assistant Professor of History
Teaches military, Russian, Soviet, European, and international history courses. His research interests focus on Communist Party propaganda in the Soviet Union, specifically in Kazakhstan, during Joseph Stalin's rule over the country from 1929–1953. He is especially interested in how the mechanics of propaganda production and dissemination affects propaganda's message and how people internalized the content. Dreeze holds a Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University.
Emeriti Faculty
Robert Givens
Professor of History Emeritus
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Richard Thomas
Professor of History Emeritus
B.A., Macalester College; B.D., Garrett Theological Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University.