Experts List
Experts - History
Omar H. Ali
Associate Professor, African American Studies
Associate Professor, History
PhD Columbia University
(212) 226-5712, ohali@uncg.edu
- Independent Voters
- African American Politics
- Islam and the African Diaspora
- History
Mikhail Balaev
Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Oregon
(336) 334-5295, mabalaev@uncg.edu
- International Trade and Political Process
- Democracy and Democratization (Global and American)
- Former USSR
Richard E. Barton
Associate Professor, History
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
(336) 334-3998, rebarton@uncg.edu
- History of the European Middle Ages (500-1500); Political, Social, Religious
Charles Bolton
Professor, History
PhD Duke University
(336) 334-5204, ccbolton@uncg.edu
- School integration
- Oral history
Claudia Cabello Hutt
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Rutgers University
(336) 334-3853, c_cabell@uncg.edu
- Latin American Literature (women writers, Chile, Gabriela Mistral)
- Latin American History of Feminism
Roberto E. Campo
Professor, International & Global Studies
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD University of Pennsylvania
(336) 334-5557 or 334-3657, recampo@uncg.edu
- Internationalizing the campus and our 21st century students
- Bringing Asian Studies to our students and the greater-Greensboro community
- French Culture, History, Literature
- Phi Beta Delta International Scholars Honor Society
James V. Carmichael, Jr.
Professor, Library & Information Studies
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-3478, jim_carmichael@uncg.edu
- Gay and Lesbian Issues
- Southern Library History
James Revell Carr
Assistant Professor, Music Studies
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
(336) 334-5030, jrcarr2@uncg.edu
- American Folk & Pop Music
- Music & Protest Movements
- Music & the Media
- Music in the Aftermath of Disasters
Stuart Dischell
Professor, English
MFA The University of Iowa
(336) 334-5459, dischell@uncg.edu
- Poetry and Literature
- Paris Travel and History
A. Asa Eger
Assistant Professor, History
PhD The University of Chicago
(336) 334-5203, aaeger@uncg.edu
- Archaeology of the Middle East
- Islam & Archaeology
- Excavations in Turkey
Mark Elliott
Associate Professor, History
PhD New York University
(336) 315-2256, meelliot@uncg.edu
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Albion W. Tourgee
- Civil Rights
Heather Fearnbach
Lecturer, History
MA Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
(336) 765-2661, heatherfearnbach@bellsouth.net
- Historic Preservation
- National Register of Historic Places
- Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits
Benjamin Filene
Associate Professor, History
PhD Yale University
(336) 334-5645, bpfilene@uncg.edu
- Folk/Blues/"Roots" Musics
- Museums, Public History, History and Memory
Michael Frierson
Associate Professor, Media Studies
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 334-5360, frierson@uncg.edu
- History of Animation
Linda Gann
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies
PhD The University of Oklahoma
(336) 334-3479, lagann@uncg.edu
- School Libraries: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Reading Best Practices (for adults, teachers, school administrators)
- National Accreditation Standards and Guidelines for School Library Media Programs
- Censorship, intellectual freedom
Bob Gatten
Professor Emeritus, Biology
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 288-7820, bob.gatten@gmail.com
- The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1803-1806
Keith Phelan Gorman
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Studies
Assistant Head, Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 334-4045, k_gorman@uncg.edu
- Holdings in UNCG Special Collections and University Archives
- The History of UNCG and Greensboro
- Impact of Museums and Archives on History and Community Memory
- Photographs and Monuments and their Role in Collective Memory
Tara T. Green
Associate Professor and Program Director, African American Studies
PhD Louisiana State University
(336) 334-3889, ttgreen@uncg.edu
- Barack Obama (Autobiographical Studies Perspective)
- Images of Black Women in the Media
- Fatherlessness in Black Communities
- Racism/Sexism
- The African American Studies Curriculum & Programs
- The History of WC/UNCG Student Integration
- NAACP
Robert Hansen
Professor, Theatre
PhD University of Minnesota
(336) 334-5481, rchansen@uncg.edu
- Theatre & Theatre History
- Programs in the College of Arts & Sciences
Ana Hontanilla
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
(336) 210-6866, amhontan@uncg.edu
- Spanish Literature
- Spanish Culture
- Spanish Films, History, and Politics
Phyllis Hunter
Associate Professor, History
PhD College of William & Mary
(336) 286-0467, pwhunter@uncg.edu
- History of Global Capitalism
- Colonial American Settlement
- Early American Trade With China
Corey Johnson
Assistant Professor, Geography
PhD University of Oregon
(336) 334-3919, corey_johnson@uncg.edu
- The European Union
- German Unification
- Political Geography of International Disputes
- Geopolitics of Energy
- Natural Gas Pipelines
Jeffrey W. Jones
Associate Professor, History
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-4068, jwjones@uncg.edu
- Russian/Soviet history
- Middle Eastern history
- Afghanistan
Elizabeth Keathley
Associate Professor, Music Studies
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
PhD Stony Brook University
(336) 334-5911, elkeathl@uncg.edu
- Women/Gender/Sexuality and Music
- Music History, Especially Modern (20th Century)
- Mexican/Mexican-American Popular Music
- Women/Gender and Education, Especially Higher Education
Beth Ann Koelsch
Curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University Archives
MLS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-4045, bakoelsc@ung.edu
- Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Histocial Project
- Women in the U.S. Military
Derek Krueger
Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor, Religious Studies
Program Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
PhD Princeton University
(336) 334-4923, KruegerD@uncg.edu
- Early and Medieval Christian History
- Religion and the Arts
- Christianity and Gender
Andre Lash
Lecturer, Music Performance
Music
DMA Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester
(706) 224-7789, adlash@uncg.edu
- History of the Organ and It's Usage
Lisa Levenstein
Assistant Professor, History
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 256-0472, levenstein@uncg.edu
- Women's History in the U.S.
- Feminism - History & Current Events
- Women & Poverty, Welfare Reform
- African American Women's History
- Women and Employment - History & Current Events
- Women, Work and Families - History & Contemporary Issues
Andreas Lixl
Professor & Department Chair, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Fellow, Center for New North Carolinians
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 334-5427, a_lixl@uncg.edu
- Carolinian Immigrants: Literary and Historical Perspectives
- Germany after The Wall: Immigration and Integration
- Foreign Language Teaching Technologies: Online German
- Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies
Ignacio Lopez
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
(919) 943-1072, i_lopez@uncg.edu
- Spanish Medieval Art and Literature
- Spanish Early Modern Art and Literature
Patrick Lee Lucas
Associate Professor, Interior Architecture
Chancellor's Resident Fellow, Lloyd International Honors College
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 256-0308, pllucas@uncg.edu
- History and Theory of Architecture and Design
- Mid-century Modernism in Architecture and Design
Logie Meachum
Lecturer, African American Studies
MA Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(336) 834-2399, logieworks@aol.com
- African American Literature/Theater
- African American Studies
- African American Music
- African American Rhetoric
Joanne M.A. Murphy
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of Cincinnati
(336) 334-9904, jmmurph2@uncg.edu
- Greek Archaeology
- Archaeology of Death
- Bronze Age Mycenaean Palaces
- Archaeology of Religion
Donna Nash
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
PhD University of Florida
(336) 334-9780, djnash@uncg.edu
- Any new find in the prehistory of Peru-(Any topic from Peopling of the New World to the Inca)
- Monuments or Architecture in Pre-columbian Latin America
John Neufeld
Professor, Economics
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 334-4869, john_neufeld@uncg.edu
- Electric Power Industry, Including History
- Energy Policy
Arndt Niebisch
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Johns Hopkins University
(443) 604-1752, a_niebis@uncg.edu
- Science, Technology and Culture
- Media Theory
- European Avant-Garde
Greg O'Brien
Associate Professor, History
PhD University of Kentucky
(336) 334-3988, wgobrien@uncg.edu
- American Indian History
- Environmental History of the U.S.
- Natural Disasters in New Orleans
- American Indians in the Southeast
Susanne Rinner
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Georgetown University
(336) 256-1159, s_rinner@uncg.edu
- German Literature, Film, & Cultural Studies
- The Sixties
- Women Writers in German Speaking Countries
- Contemporary Germany
Filip Saidak
Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
PhD Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
(336) , f_saidak@uncg.edu
- History of Mathematics
- Philosophy of science and mathematics
- Theory of numbers
- Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach Conjecture, twin primes
Karl Schleunes
Professor Emeritus, History
PhD University of Minnesota
(336) 334-3514, kaschleu@uncg.edu
- Holocaust
- Modern Germany
Mark Schumacher
Reference Librarian, University Libraries
MLS State University of New York at Buffalo
(336) 334-3215, m_schuma@uncg.edu
- Librarianship
- Frisbee (history, ethos, technique)
Roy Schwartzman
Professor, Communication Studies
PhD The University of Iowa
(336) 509-2701, doc_roy@uncg.edu
- The Holocaust
- Political communication
- Computer-mediated communication
- Metaphor and figurative language
- Communicating about nanotechnology
- Propaganda
- Prejudice and anti-Semitism
- Argumentation and debate
Loren Schweninger
Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor, History
PhD The University of Chicago
(336) 691-1230, llschwen@uncg.edu
- United States slavery
- Free blacks in a Slave Society
Robert Holschuh Simmons
Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD The University of Iowa
(336) 334-5214, rhsimmon@uncg.edu
- Classical Greek Tragedy and Comedy
- Archaic Greek Epic Poetry
- Class Conflict in Ancient Greece
- Greek Interactions with the Ancient Middle East
Carmen Sotomayor
Professor & Department Head, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 334-5655, ctsotoma@uncg.edu
- Spain: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Issues
- Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Visual Arts, Literature and History
Andrew Willis
Professor, Music Performance
DMA Cornell University
(336) 334-5508, aswillis@uncg.edu
- Performance Practice in Classical and Romantic Piano Music
- History of the Piano
- Piano Literature
Jonathan Zareck
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of Florida
(336) 404-4902, jpzareck@uncg.edu
- Rhetoric and Oratory
- Political Theory (particularly different types of governments)
- Roman Law
- Ancient Warfare