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Faculty

Kate Kelsey Staples

Department Chair, Associate Professor

304-293-9409

205A Chitwood Hall

Medieval Europe; History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; British History; European History; World History

Michael Allen

Visiting Assistant Professor

220 Chitwood Hall

Historic Preservation, Architectural History, Landscape/Cultural Landscape History, American Urban History, Housing and Gentrification

Melissa Bingmann

Director of Public History, Associate Professor

304-293-9304

218 Chitwood Hall

Public History

Betsy DiSalvo Osborne

Service Assistant Professor of Social Studies Secondary Education

110 Chitwood Hall

Social Studies Education, Education

Max Flomen

Assistant Professor

304-293-6197

313 Chitwood Hall

North America to1800 Native America, Atlantic World, Comparative Slavery, Borderlands

William Hal Gorby

Teaching Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Advising

304-293-9428

205D Chitwood Hall

West Virginia and Appalachian History, Immigration/ Ethnic History, U.S. Working Class, 20th Century U.S.

Joseph Hodge

Professor

304-293-9327

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

Civil War and Reconstruction, Social and Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century America

Tamba M’bayo

Associate Professor

304-293-6198

318 Chitwood Hall

African History, West African History, World History

Austin McCoy

Assistant Professor

214 Chitwood Hall

20th Century United States, African-American History, U.S. Left and Labor, U.S. Social Movements

Jason Phillips

Director of Graduate Studies, Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies

317 Chitwood Hall

Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern history, Nineteenth-century America

James F. Siekmeier

Associate Professor

304-293-9408

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

Matthew Vester

Associate Chair, Professor

304-293-9411

205C Chitwood Hall

Renaissance and early modern European History, Political Culture Kinship

Jessica Wilkerson

Associate Professor, Stuart and Joyce Robbins Distinguished Chair of History

314 Chitwood Hall

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Appalachia and the South; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; 20th Century America; Labor and the Working Class