Speakers - History

Omar H. Ali
Associate Professor, African American Studies & 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) 334-5547, 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
  • American Power Elite
  • Corporate-Government Networks

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

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)
  • The Many Facets of Rex Stout (a PowerPoint presentation about the life and work of Rex Stout, focusing on his Nero Wolfe mysteries and his activism for many causes)

Keith Phelan Gorman
Interim 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 Director, African American Studies
PhD Louisiana State University
(336) 334-5507, ttgreen@uncg.edu

  • African American Women's Literature
  • Achieving Professional Success for Young Black Women & Girls
  • Strategies for Mentoring Ethnic Students
  • 21st Century African American Studies Curriculum & Programs
  • Impact of fatherlessness on African American boys & men
  • History of confinement of African Americans
  • Black Women's Leadership History

William Hamilton
Conflict & Peace Studies
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
  • Politics and Fundamentalist Religion

Maura Keane Heyn
Associate 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
  • Roman Syria

Nancy Hodges
Professor, Consumer, Apparel & Retail Studies
PhD University of Minnesota
(336) 256-0291, nancy_hodges@uncg.edu

  • History of Costume
  • Dress and Culture
  • Women and Dress

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
  • HIstory of slavery in Latin America

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
  • Shale Gas/Hydraulic Fracturing

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

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

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
Associate 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) 392-5803, 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) 334-5132, 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

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, 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 Zarecki
Associate 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
  • History of Warfare