Faculty

Faculty

Link to profile for Mary Kathryn Barbier

Mary Kathryn Barbier

Professor

  • Co-editor, War in History
  • Areas of Study
  • Military History

  • American History

  • Europe 1870-Present

  • Latin America

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Stephen Brain

Stephen Brain

Associate Professor

  • Co-Editor of Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society
  • Areas of Study
  • Soviet/Russian History

  • Environmental History

  • Forest History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Malcolm Cammeron

Malcolm Cammeron

Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor, Beginning August 16, 2026
  • Areas of Study
  • 19th and 20th Century U.S.

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Link to profile for Richard Damms

Richard Damms

Associate Professor

  • Division Head of Arts & Sciences, Meridian
  • Areas of Study
  • 20th Century U.S.

  • Diplomacy

  • Latin America

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Susanna De Stradis

Susanna De Stradis

Assistant Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • American and Global Catholicism

  • American Religious History

  • 20th Century US History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Christian Flow

Christian Flow

Assistant Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • European History

  • Early Modern History

  • History of Science

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

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Link to profile for James C. Giesen

James C. Giesen

Associate Professor

  • Associate Department Head
  • Grisham Master Teacher
  • Areas of Study
  • Agricultural, Rural, Environmental History

  • African American History

  • U.S. South

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

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Link to profile for Mark D. Hersey

Mark D. Hersey

Associate Professor

  • Co-Editor, Environmental History
  • Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Scholar in the Humanities
  • Areas of Study
  • U.S. South

  • Environmental and Agricultural History

  • Rural America

  • African American History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

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Link to profile for Alison Hight

Alison Hight

Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor
  • Areas of Study
  • Liberal Imperial Governance, Nationalism, and the Transnational History of Ideas

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Peace and International Affairs

  • Ideas, People, Place

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Link to profile for Alistair Hobson

Alistair Hobson

Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor
  • Areas of Study
  • International Affairs

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Peace and International Affairs

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Link to profile for Alexandra Hui

Alexandra Hui

Associate Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • German History

  • History of Modern Science

  • European Intellectual and Cultural History

  • Sound Studies

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

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Link to profile for Andrew F. Lang

Andrew F. Lang

Associate Professor

  • Graduate Co-ordinator
  • Areas of Study
  • American Civil War Era

  • Nineteenth-Century United States(34)

  • U.S. South

  • American War and Society

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Matthew Lavine

Matthew Lavine

Associate Professor

  • Undergraduate Coordinator
  • Areas of Study
  • Science and Popular Culture

  • Technology

  • American West

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

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Link to profile for Alan I Marcus

Alan I Marcus

Professor

  • William L. Giles Distinguished Professor
  • Department Head
  • Areas of Study
  • History of Technology, Science and Medicine

  • Intellectual History

  • Agricultural History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

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Link to profile for Anne Marshall

Anne Marshall

Associate Professor

  • Executive Director, Ulysses S. Grant Association
  • Executive Director, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library
  • Areas of Study
  • U.S. South

  • Women's History

  • 19th and 20th Century U.S.

  • American Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

  • Ideas, People, Place

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Link to profile for Peter C. Messer

Peter C. Messer

Associate Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • Early American History

  • Early Modern European History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Julia Osman

Julia Osman

Associate Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • France

  • Military History

  • Atlantic World

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Judith A. Ridner

Judith A. Ridner

Professor

  • Co-Editor, Early American Studies
  • Areas of Study
  • Early and Frontier America

  • Immigration and Ethnicity

  • Oral History

  • Public History

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

  • Ideas, People, Place

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Link to profile for Morgan J. Robinson

Morgan J. Robinson

Associate Professor

  • Graduate Recruiting Coordinator
  • Director, Institute for the Humanities
  • Areas of Study
  • Africa

  • History of Science

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Courtney Thompson

Courtney Thompson

Associate Professor

  • Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Dean's Eminent Scholar in the Humanities
  • Chair, Medical Humanities Minor Committee
  • Phi Alpha Theta Advisor
  • Areas of Study
  • History of U.S. Women

  • History of Science

  • History of Medicine

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • History of Science and Technology

  • Ideas, People, Place

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Link to profile for Joseph Thompson

Joseph Thompson

Assistant Professor

  • Graduate Recruiting Coordinator
  • Areas of Study
  • U.S. South

  • 20th Century U.S.

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History

  • War, Power, International Affairs

  • "Ideas, People, Place"

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Link to profile for Susannah J. Ural

Susannah J. Ural

Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies

Professor

  • Director, The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors Of Mississippi Project
  • Areas of Study
  • American Civil War Era

  • Nineteenth-Century United States(34)

  • U. S. South

  • American War and Society

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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Link to profile for Heather Carlquist Walser

Heather Carlquist Walser

Assistant Professor

  • Assistant Professor, Starting August, 2026
  • Areas of Study
  • 18th and 19th century United States

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University
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Link to profile for Shu-Hui Wu

Shu-Hui Wu

Professor

  • Areas of Study
  • 18th Century Qing Political and Military History

  • 19th and 20th Century Chinese and Taiwanese Intellectual History

  • Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan, History of Ancient China

  • Nodes of Excellence
  • War, Power, International Affairs

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