Leadership
Kate Staples
Department Chair, Associate Professor
205A Chitwood Hall
Medieval Europe; History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; British History; European History; World History
Melissa Bingmann
Director of Public History, Associate Professor
218 Chitwood Hall
Public History
William Hal Gorby
Teaching Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Advising
205D Chitwood Hall
West Virginia and Appalachian History, Immigration/ Ethnic History, U.S. Working Class, 20th Century U.S.
Jason Phillips
Director of Graduate Studies, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies
317 Chitwood Hall
Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern history, Nineteenth-century America
Matthew Vester
Associate Chair, Professor
205C Chitwood Hall
Renaissance and early modern European History, Political Culture Kinship
Faculty
Michael T. Benson
WVU President and Professor of History
American History, History of American Higher Education, U.S. Presidency, World War I
Betsy DiSalvo Osborne
Service Assistant Professor of Social Studies Secondary Education
elizabeth.osborne@mail.wvu.edu
110 Chitwood Hall
Social Studies Education, Education
Joseph Hodge
Professor
320 Chitwood Hall
Modern Britain; British Imperialism; Comparative Imperial and Postcolonial Societies; Decolonization, Development and the Global Cold War; Western Civilization
Sean Lawrence
Assistant Professor
112 Chitwood Hall
Germany, Modern Europe, Modern Middle East, Environmental History
Brian Luskey
Professor
216 Chitwood Hall
United States to 1877, Social and Cultural History, History of Capitalism
Austin McCoy
Assistant Professor
214 Chitwood Hall
20th Century United States, African-American History, U.S. Left and Labor, U.S. Social Movements
Tamba M’bayo
Associate Professor
318 Chitwood Hall
African History, West African History, World History
James Siekmeier
Professor
316 Chitwood Hall
U.S. History, 1865-Present; History of U.S. Foreign Relations; Latin America and the World
Devin Smart
Assistant Professor
116 Chitwood Hall
Africa, Global history, Environmental history, History of climate change, History of capitalism, Labor and working-class history
Adjuncts
Tyler Boulware
Adjunct Associate Professor
Karina Esposito
Lecturer
Greg Good
Visiting Scholar
Min Song
Lecturer
Michele McArdle Stephens
Adjunct Associate Professor
Katie Thompson
Lecturer
Briane Turley
Adjunct Associate Professor
