Speakers - 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

James A. Anderson
Associate Professor, History
PhD University of Washington
(336) 334-5209, jaander2@uncg.edu

  • Modern China
  • History of the Silk Road

Denise Baker
Professor, English
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
PhD University of Virginia
(336) 334-5241, dnbaker@uncg.edu

  • Julian of Norwich
  • Medieval Mysticism
  • Woman Mystics

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

  • Crusading in the Middle Ages
  • Thinking about Emotions in the Middle Ages
  • the Norman Conquest of England

Roberto E. Campo
Professor, International & Global Studies
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD University of Pennsylvania
(336) 334-5557 or 334-3657, recampo@uncg.edu

  • The French "spirit" as represented in early modern, modern, and contemporary accounts and media
  • Internationalizing the campus and our 21st century students
  • Cultural diversity in the global context
  • Bringing Asian Studies to our students and the greater-Greensboro community

James Revell Carr
Assistant Professor, Music Studies
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
(336) 334-5030, jrcarr2@uncg.edu

  • American Traditional Music Beyond Appalachia
  • Popular Music in Global Contexts
  • Music of the American Counterculture
  • Music of Hawaii & the Pacific
  • Music of Coastal & Seafaring Communities in America

Kevin Crowder
Lecturer, History
MA The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 263-5875, kcrowder@triad.rr.com

  • The Value of Historical Studies in our Current World
  • The Paradagims of Race and Class in North Carolina During the Reconstruction Era
  • Understanding Southern Culture From a Historical Perspective
  • A Brief Biography of Governor Robert "Bob" Scott and an End of an Era in North Carolina Politics

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
  • The History of Early Islam and the Byzantine Empire

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

Benjamin Filene
Associate Professor, History
PhD Yale University
(336) 334-5645, bpfilene@uncg.edu

  • Small Stories in the Big Picture: How Can Museums Bring Ordinary PeopleÕs History To Life?
  • Lead Belly, the Lomaxes, and the Construction of AmericaÕs Musical Heritage
  • Making Race Personal in Public History

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

Bob Gatten
Professor Emeritus, Biology
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 288-7820, bob.gatten@gmail.com

  • The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1803-1806 (a PowerPoint presentation giving an overview of the Expedition)
  • Images of Lewis & Clark (a PowerPoint presentation showing how artists have depicted the individuals involved and the things they saw)
  • Discovering the Birthplace of William Clark (a PowerPoint presentation describing Gatten's discovery of the site in Caroline Co., VA)

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
  • Digital Projects in the UNCG Library
  • Photo History of UNCG
  • The History of UNCG and Greensboro

Tara T. Green
Associate Professor and Program Director, African American Studies
PhD Louisiana State University
(336) 334-3889, ttgreen@uncg.edu

  • Diversity Issues Regarding Women & Ethnic Minorities
  • African and African American Literature
  • The Bridge Between the Academic Community & Local Community
  • Professional Success for Black Women
  • Strategies for Mentoring Ethnic Students
  • The African American Studies Curriculum & Programs
  • Impact of fatherlessness on African American boys & men
  • History of confinement of African Americans

William Hamilton
Assistant Professor, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Division of Continual Learning
PhD Tulane University
(336) 315-7028, bill_hamilton@uncg.edu

  • Global Terrorism, Political Violence, and Radical Orthodoxies
  • Human Rights
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Latin American Political and Intellectual History

Maura Keane Heyn
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of California, Los Angeles
(336) 256-0471, mkheyn@uncg.edu

  • Gesture in Roman Art
  • Identity in the Provinces of the Roman Empire

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

  • Global Capitalism in the 17th & 18th Centuries - "Global capitalism Has a History"
  • American Expatriates in Early 19th Century China - "English Regattas & Chopstick Dinners: The Commerce of Sociability in Canton & Macao, china"

Corey Johnson
Assistant Professor, Geography
PhD University of Oregon
(336) 334-3919, corey_johnson@uncg.edu

  • Contemporary Germany: "Germany 20 Years After the Fall of the Wall"
  • The European Union
  • Boundaries and Borders "Weird Borders"
  • Great Plains
  • 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
  • Islamic/Middle Eastern history, especially 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

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
  • Primary Sources (Archival Resources)
  • Using Digitized Primary Source Materials

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

Ignacio Lopez
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
(919) 943-1072, i_lopez@uncg.edu

  • Cervantes
  • Medieval and Early Modern Culture 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

  • Edward Loewenstein: Modernism in Architecture in Mid-century Greensboro
  • History of 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

Barry Miller
Director of Communications and External Relations, University Libraries
MS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 256-0112, barry_miller@uncg.edu

  • Edward R. Murrow: The Guilford County Connection
  • The University Libraries at UNCG: A Community Resource

Joanne M.A. Murphy
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
PhD University of Cincinnati
(336) 334-9904, jmmurph2@uncg.edu

  • Greek Archaeology: The Birthplace of Democracy
  • Landscape Archaeology: Ancestors in the Garden
  • The Greeks and the Trojan War
  • Archaeology and Religion: Evidence of Belief

Donna Nash
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
PhD University of Florida
(336) 334-9780, djnash@uncg.edu

  • Ancient Americas - Peruvian Prehistory-(Any topic from Peopling of the New World to the Inca)
  • Ancient Americas - States and Empires (Almost any group in Latin America)
  • Ancient Americas - beer making and drinking, the role of alcoholic beverages in ancient politics
  • Ancient Americas - women and gender studies " Women in power in the ancient americas"

John Neufeld
Professor, Economics
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 334-4869, john_neufeld@uncg.edu

  • Electric Power Industry, Including History
  • Energy Policy

Jeffrey C. Patton
Professor & Department Chair, Geography
PhD The University of Kansas
(336) 334-3918, jcpatton@uncg.edu

  • History of Maps
  • Early American Maps
  • Satellite Imaging of Earth

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)
  • French literature

Loren Schweninger
Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor, History
PhD The University of Chicago
(336) 691-1230, llschwen@uncg.edu

  • Divorce, Slavery, and the Law in the Old South
  • Divorce, Slavery, and the Law in Antebellum North Carolina
  • The Vass Slaves: County Courts, State Law, and Slavery in Virginia
  • In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South

J. David Smith
Professor Emeritus, Specialized Education Services
EdD Columbia University
(336) 334-3738, jdsmi24@uncg.edu

  • Disability Rights and History
  • Children and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

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

Linda France Stine
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Director, Archaeology Laboratory
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 256-1098, lfstine@uncg.edu

  • Historic Archaeology
  • Southeastern Archaeology
  • Conservancy of Natural and Archaeological Resources
  • African-American Archaeology

David Wharton
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-5726, wharton@uncg.edu

  • Historic Preservation in Greensboro
  • Latin in the Secondary School Curriculum
  • Linguistics

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