Department of History
Graduate Teaching Faculty
The teaching faculty in U.S. History is renowned for its strengths in the history of the South, Slavery, Colonial and Revolutionary America, Civil War, Gender, Race and the Welfare State, Cultural, Urban and Architectural History, and Post-1945 Politics and Civil Rights. Other faculty have expertise in African, European, and World History, including the African Diaspora in the Americas. Ph.D. students with interests in material culture will benefit from the faculty and many talented graduate students in Historic Preservation and Museum Studies.
JAMES ANDERSON (Ph.D., Washington 1999) Asian History; China; Vietnam
RICHARD BARTON (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara 1997) Medieval History. Director, Graduate Studies
JODI BILINKOFF (Ph.D., Princeton 1983) Early Modern Europe
CHARLES BOLTON (Ph.D., Duke 1989) Oral History; Southern U.S. History. Department Head.
KENNETH CANEVA (Ph.D., Princeton 1975) History of Science
MARK ELLIOTT (Ph.D.,) 19th century American history
BENJAMIN FILENE (Ph.D., Yale 1994) Public History. Director of Public History
MARY FLOYD (Ph.D., Indiana 1982) Latin American History
PHYLLIS HUNTER (Ph.D., William & Mary 1996) Colonial America; Atlantic World
THOMAS JACKSON (Ph.D., Stanford 1994) 20th Century U.S.; Civil Rights; Social Policy
WATSON JENNISON (Ph.D., Virginia 2005) African-American History
JEFFREY JONES (Ph.D., North Carolina 1999) Russian and Soviet History
COLLEEN KRIGER (Ph.D., York, Toronto 1993) African History; Atlantic World; Oral History. Director, Undergraduate Studies.
LISA LEVENSTEIN (Ph.D., Wisconsin 2002) U.S. Women's History; 20th Century U.S.; Urban History
CHERYL LOGAN (Ph.D., University of California at San Diego 1974) History of Psychology
PAUL MAZGAJ (Ph.D., Iowa 1976) France; European Intellectual History. Associate Department Head
KAARIN MICHAELSEN (Ph.D., California 2003) Modern Britain; Women's History
GREG O'BRIEN (Ph.D., Kentucky, 1998) 18th-19th century American history; American Indian history; environmental history
LINDA RUPERT (Ph.D., Duke 2006) Atlantic World; Caribbean History
STEPHEN RUZICKA (Ph.D., Chicago 1979) Ancient History
LOREN SCHWENINGER (Ph.D., Chicago 1972) Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor, Slavery and African-American History
LISA TOLBERT (Ph.D., North Carolina 1994) American Cultural History and Vernacular Architecture
Laurie O'Neill, Graduate Secretary, History Department
2129 Hall for Humanities and Research Administration
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27412
Telephone: (336) 334-5992
E-mail: lponeill@uncg.edu