Department of History
Faculty and Staff

Faculty | Emeritus Faculty | Staff

  Faculty

 A. Dwayne Beggs: Modern America; 20th century U.S.
Michael Brooks: Modern America; Modern World; European Expansion; online learning
 Kathryn Brown: Early America; Historiography
  Michael Carver: World history; Modern European history
Amilcar Challu: Latin American and world history; Mexican society and political economy, 18th and 19th centuries
Edmund J. Danziger, Jr.: American West; American Indian; Ohio
Douglas J. Forsyth: Comparative Modern European Political and Economic; Modern Italy
Beth A. Griech-Polelle: Modern Germany; the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust; European women’s history since the French Revolution
Walter E. Grunden: Modern China and Japan; World War II; Science and Technology; Public Policy
Ruth Wallis Herndon: Colonial/Revolutionary U.S.; Early American women and families; American slavery
Rebecca Mancuso: History of Canada
Scott C. Martin: Chair; 19th-Century U.S.
Ian Mladjov: Pre-Modern World History; Greek, Roman, and Medieval Mediterranean
Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa: Director of Africana Studies; Africa
Andrew M. Schocket: Early American history and culture, the American Revolution, and the Atlantic World
Tiffany Trimmer: World History; Migration Studies; Atlantic and Indian Ocean History (19th-20th cent.); Human Rights and International Organizations; Empires and Imperialism; Applied Interdisciplinary Theory; Historiography; Comparative History

  Emeritus Faculty

Lillian Ervine Ashcraft-Eason: Afro-American culture, religion, women

Lawrence J. Daly: The Bible; Greece and Rome; Early Christianity and Late Antiquity; Asian

James H. Forse: Medieval History; Tudor England; History of English Theater in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; tenth- and eleventh-century Holy Roman Empire; Medieval Church-State Relations

Gary R. Hess: American Diplomatic

Kenneth Kiple: Latin America; Slavery; Disease and Nutrition

Thomas R. Knox: Britain

Don K. Rowney: Russia; Soviet Union; Historiography
Ronald Seavoy: Political economy of economic development; global industrialization; famine
David Skaggs: Colonial and Revolutionary America; US Military History

  Staff

  Ms. Tina Thomas
Department Secretary
tamos@bgsu.edu
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