Department of History Faculty
Carhart, Michael
de Silva, Chandra R.
Finley-Croswhite, Annette
Greene, Douglas G.
Hametz, Maura
Holden, Robert H.
Hucles, Michael
Jersild, Austin
Jin, Qiu
Lawes, Carolyn J.
Lees, Lorraine M.
Merritt, Jane T.
Payne, Brian J.
Pearson, Kathy L.
Phillips, Jonathan F.
Sweeney, James R.
Wilson, Harold S.
Michael Carhart
Assistant Professor of History
email: mcarhart@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3950
office: BAL 8032
webpage: http://www.odu.edu/~mcarhart
Michael Carhart teaches European cultural and intellectual history, seventeenth through nineteenth century. He studies the scientific use of travel literature in early modern Europe.
Selected Publications
Review of Joseph Mali, Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) in Clio 34:1-2 (2005), 184-90.
"Enlightenment" in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Maryanne Cline
Horowitz, ed. in chief, (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 2005).
"Travel and Travel Literature," "Ethnography," "Noble Savage," and "Johann
Gottfried von Herder" in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern
World, Jonathan DeWald, ed. in chief, (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons,2004).
"Donald R. Kelley: The Outside and the Inside," Intellectual News 14(2004): 16-20.
"The Sociological Turn in the History of Science." Intellectual News 10 (2002).
"Anthropology and Statistik in the Göttingisches Historisches Magazin" in Historians and Ideologues: Studies in Early Modern Intellectual History, Anthony T. Grafton and J.H.M. Salmon, eds., (Rochester University Press, 2001): 245-270.
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Chandra R. de Silva
Professor of History
email: cdesilva@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3925
office: BAL 9000
Chandra de Silva teaches African and Asian history. His research is on sixteenth and seventeenth century Portuguese Colonial history and on the history and politics of Sri Lanka.
Education
B. A., University of Ceylon, 1962
PhD., University of London, 1968
Selected Publications
Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of Discoveries: Sri Lanka and the Maldives, editor, (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, forthcoming)
"Sri Lanka in 2005: Continuing Political Turmoil." Asian Survey XLVI (1), January/February 2006, 114-119
The Sangha and the Reconciliation Process in Sri Lanka, co-author, Tessa Bartholomeusz.,(Colombo: Marga Institute, 2001)
Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka, (edited with Tessa Bartholomeusz) New York: State University of New York Press, 1998
Sri Lanka: A History, Second Revised Edition, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1997
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Annette Finley-Croswhite
Chair, Department of History
e-mail: acroswhi@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3951
office: BAL 8002
Annette Finley-Croswhite is an early modern European historian who also writes on modern France and western European medical history. Her current work includes an article on the false pregnancies of Mary Tudor and a project devoted to the historical memory of the French wars of religion in French history and historiography. She is also working on a book focused on right-wing politics in the French interwar period told through the story of a 1937 murder on the Paris metro.
Education
B.A. University of Richmond, 1981
Ph.D. Emory University, 1991.
Selected Publications
Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
"Henry IV and the Diseased Body Politic," In Princes and Princely Culture (1450-1650). Eds. Martin Gosman, Alasdair MacDonald, and Arjo Vanderjagt. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003), vol. 1, 131-46.
"'Murder in the Metro': masking and unmasking Laetitia Toureaux in 1930s France," (Co-authored with Gayle K. Brunelle), French Cultural Studies, XIV, Part I (February, 2003), 53-80.
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Douglas G. Greene
Professor of History
e-mail: dgreene@odu.edu
telephone : 757-683-4371
office: BAL 8004
Douglas Greene specializes in British History, with special interest in the Tudor-Stuart Era and 19th-20th century Popular Culture in Britain.
Education
B.A. University of South Florida, 1966
M.A. University of Chicago, 1967
Ph.D. Unversity of Chicago, 1972
Selected Publications
Diaries of the Popish Plot (New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977).
The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval (Durham, England: Surtess Society, 1978).
John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
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Maura Hametz
Associate Professor of History/Director of Bachelor of Arts in International Studies Program
e-mail: mhametz@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3946
office: BAL 8024
Maura Hametz specializes in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe with a focus on Italy, the Italian provinces of the Habsburg empire, and Italian Fascism. Her current projects include studies of naming policies, women, and citizenship and identity issues in Italy's borderlands.
Education
B.A. Colgate University, 1986
Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1995
Selected Publications
Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (London: Royal Historical Society, 2006).
"The Nefarious Former Authorities: Name Change in Trieste, 1918-1922." Austrian History Yearbook 35 (2004): 233-52.
"The Ambivalence of Italian Anti-Semitism: Fascism, Nationalism and Racism in Trieste." Holocaust and Genocide Studies (December 2002): 376-401.
"On the periphery/At the frontier: The Triestines in the Northeastern Borderland." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 5:3 (Fall 2000): 277-293
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Robert H. Holden
Associate Professor of History
e-mail: rholden@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3941
office: BAL 8034
webpage: http://www.lions.odu.edu/~rholden/
Robert Holden's research and teaching specialties are Latin American history and the history of Latin American-U.S. relations.
Education
B.A., University of Missouri, 1970
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1977
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984
Selected Publications
Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
"The Perversion and Redemption of Latin American Political History." The Journal of the Historical Society. 3 (March 2003) 1: 25-44.
Co-edited, with Eric Zolov, Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Securing Central America Against Communism: The United States and the Modernization of Surveillance in the Cold War." Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs 41 (Spring 1999) 1: 1-30.
Mexico and the Survey of the Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876-1911 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994).
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Michael Hucles
Associate Professor
e-mail: mhucles@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3936
office: BAL 8016
Michael Hucles specializes in African American History. He has a special interest in the social and economic history of the nineteenth-century urban South. He is currently working with two other scholars on writing a complete history of the Norfolk, Virginia, African American population.
Education
B.A. Swarthmore College, 1972
M.A. Virginia State University, 1975.
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1990.
Selected Publications
"The Nineteenth Century," in Philip Morgan, ed., "Don't Grieve After Me": The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986. Hampton, VA: Hampton University, 1986.
From Haversack to Checkout Counter: A Brief History of the Army Commissary System. Petersburg, VA: Troop Support Agency, U.S. Army, 1991.
"Many Voices Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods of African-American Political Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 100 (October, 1992): 543-566.
"Emancipation's Impact on African-American Education in Norfolk, Virginia, 1862-1880." Magazine of History (Summer 1993).
"Mary E. Cary Burrell" in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. New York: Carlson, 1993.
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Austin Jersild
Associate Professor of History
e-mail: ajersild@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3953
office: BAL 8047
Austin Jersild teaches Russian history, with current research interests in Russian-Chinese relations and the history of the socialist bloc.
Education
B.A. St. Olaf College, 1984
M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1994
Selected Publications
"The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective: New Work on Contemporary Russian-Chechen Relations." Slavic Review, vol. 63, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 366-376.
and Neli Melkadze, "The Dilemmas of Enlightenment in the Eastern Borderlands: The Theater and Library in Tbilisi." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 3, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 27-49.
Editor, Russian Studies in History, vol. 41, no. 2 (Fall 2002): Crisis in the Caucasus.
Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
"Faith, Custom and Ritual in the Borderlands: Orthodoxy, Islam and the 'Small Peoples' of the Middle Volga and the North Caucasus." The Russian Review, vol. 59, no. 4 (October 2000): 512-529.
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Qiu Jin
Associate Professor of History/Director of Institute of Asian Studies
e-mail: qjin@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-5863
office: BAL 8028
Qiu Jin specializes in the history of East Asia, especially Modern China and Japan. Her research interest focuses on Modern Chinese history, including the Cultural Revolution, Chinese historiography, and the social and cultural development of contemporary China. Her current projects include studies of the experiences of Chinese intellectuals in the modern era and the Chinese military during the Cultural Revolution.
Education
B.A. Beijing Normal University, 1982
M.A. Beijing Normal University, 1987
M.A. University of Hawaii, 1991
Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 1995
Selected Publications
The Culture and Power: the Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution (Stanford University Press, 1999).
"Victims or Victimizers: A Study of the Chinese Cultural Revolution through Personal Experiences" in Robert Cribb & Kenneth Christie, eds. Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy (Routledge Curzon, 2002), 233-241.
"History and State: Searching the Past in the Light of the Present in the People's Republic of China." Chinese Historiography, East and West 2:1 (Spring 2004), 287-328
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Carolyn J. Lawes
Associate Professor of History
e -mail: clawes@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-6022
office: BAL 8040
Carolyn J. Lawes is a specialist in early 19th century U.S. History, with a particular interest in women, religion, and reform.
Education
B.A. University of Santa Clara
M.A. University of California at Davis
Ph.D. University of California at Davis
Selected Publications
Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
"Capitalizing on Mother: John S.C. Abbott and Self-Interested Motherhood."
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (2000): 343-395.
"Trifling with Holy Time: Women and the Formation of the Calvinist Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1815-1820." Religion and American Culture (1998): 117-144.
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Lorraine M. Lees
University Professor of History
e-mail: llees@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3944
office: BAL 8020
Lorraine M. Lees specializes in United States Foreign Policy and is currently interested in the relationship between ethnicity, propaganda and national security during the Second World War and the Cold War.
Education
B.A. Holy Family College, 1968
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1970
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University, 1976
Selected Publications
Monograph in press: Yugoslav-Americans and National Security During World War II, University of Illinois Press
Keeping Tito Afloat: The United States, Yugoslavia and the Cold War (University Park: Penn State Press, 1997).
"DeWitt Clinton Poole, the Foreign Nationalities Branch and Political Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security, 15, no. 4 (2000): 81-103.
"National Security and Ethnicity: Contrasting Views During World War 11." Diplomatic History, 11, no. 2 (1987): 113-25.
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Jane T. Merritt
Associate Professor of History
e-mail: jmerritt@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3945
office: BAL 8022
Jane T. Merritt specializes in colonial America, the American Revolution, and Native American history, and is currently researching the tea trade, consumer culture, and global markets of the eighteenth century.
Education
B.A. Vassar College, 1981
M.A. University of Washington, 1990
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1995
Selected publications
"Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128, no. 2 (April 2004): 117-148.
At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2003).
"Cultural Encounters along a Gender Frontier: Mahican, Delaware, and German Women in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania History: a Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 67 (Autumn 2000):502-531.
"Metaphor, Meaning, and Misunderstanding: Language and Power on the Pennsylvania Frontier," in Andrew R. L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Contact Points: North American Frontiers, 1750-1830 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998): 60-87.
"Dreaming of the Savior's Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 54 (October 1997):723-746.
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Brian J. Payne
Assistant Professor of History
e-mail: bjpayne@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3933
office: BAL 8014
Brian Payne teaches American maritime and environmental history. He is particularly interested in oceanic resource extraction and management policies in international waters. His past work focused on the North Atlantic fisheries and his next project will examine international conflicts in the North Pacific pelagic seal fishery.
Education
B.A. St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1998
M.A. University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 2001
Ph.D. University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 2006
Selected Publications
Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1869-1910. Under Review with Michigan State University Press.
Policing a National Fishery in an International Environment: The Case of the David J. Adams.ā€¯ International Journal of Maritime History (Under Review).
Common Property and International Law: Elihu Root and the North Atlantic Fisheries Dispute.ā€¯ The New-York Journal of American History (Forthcoming, Fall 2007).
Fishing the North Atlantic Border Seas: American Capital in a New Environment, 1818-1854.ā€¯ Acadiensis 35, no. 1 (Autumn 2005): 113-131.
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Kathy L. Pearson
Associate Professor of History
e-mail: kpearson@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3942
office: BAL 8018
Kathy Pearson specializes in ancient and medieval history, with research interests in the areas of environmental history, food studies, and the history of medicine.
Education
B.A. Clemson University, 1976
M.A. Emory University, 1984
Ph.D Emory University, 1990
Selected Publications
Conflicting Loyalties in Early Medieval Bavaria: A View of Socio-Political Interaction, 680-900 (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate. 1999).
"Nutrition and the Early Medieval Diet." Speculum 72, 1 (January 1997): 1-32.
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Jonathan F. Phillips
Assistant Professor of History
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529-0091
e-mail: JPhillip@odu.edu
Telephone: 757-683-3949
Jonathan Phillips specializes in American military affairs, war and society, small wars, and the culture and society of the American South. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in American, military, and southern history. At present, he is completing Superbase, a study of Fort Bragg and militarization in the American South as well as an edited volume examining the social, cultural, economic, and political impact of the military on the American South since 1898. Other projects include a long running study of the role of mercenaries in American history, the development of an undergraduate course in maritime history, and the preparation of a graduate seminar examining the American military's experience with counterinsurgencies, small wars, and foreign cultures. His next book-length manuscript will examine the cultural and social impact of the War of 1898 on the American South.
Education
Ph.D., American History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2003
M.L.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1996
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1986
Selected recent Projects and Publications
Revising dissertation for publication, Superbase: Fort Bragg and Militarization in the American South. Book proposal accepted by the University of North Carolina Press.
Creator, organizer, contributor, and editor for "The Military and the American South, 1898 to Present." Conference on topic held October 6-8, 2006, at the Watson-Brown Foundation, Thomson, Georgia. Currently in discussion with Louisiana State University Press.
"Privateers, Mercenaries, and Non-Traditional Forces," James Bradford, editor, A Companion to American Military History, Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
"Indirect Fire, Irrelevant Doctrine: The Artillery Revolution, United States Field Artillery Training, and the Creation of Fort Bragg, 1890-1922," "Effie's World: Commerce, Community, and Culture in the North Carolina Sandhills during the Nineteenth Century," both articles to be submitted for review, September 2007.
Selected recent Papers and Presentations
"Teaching Military History in the Shadow of the Iraq War," multiple locations, 2006-2007.
"From Cavalier to Booster: Changes in Southern Militarism and the Emergence of the Military South, 1898-1917," The Military and the American South Conference, Watson-Brown Foundation, Thomson, GA, October 6-8, 2006.
"Blending New South and Military History," Society for Military History Annual Conference, Manhattan, Kansas, May 18-21, 2006
"The Military Family and Globalization in the American South," University Center for Int'l Studies Globalization Conference, UNC-CH, March 3-4, 2006.
"Business Integration and the Production of Violence: A Historical Model for Military Privatization," Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 23-26, 2006
James R. Sweeney
Associate Professor of History
e-mail: jsweeney@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3937
office: BAL 8010
James Sweeney specializes in Virginia history and recent American political history.
Education:
B.A. Providence College, 1965
M.A. University of Notre Dame, 1967
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1973
Selected Publications
Old Dominion University: A Half Century of Service (Norfolk: Old Dominion University, 1980.)
"The Trials of Shelby County, Tennessee: 'Judge Lynch' Presiding," Tennessee Historical Quarterly LXIII (2004): 103-130.
"A Segregationist on the Civil Rights Commission: John S. Battle, 1957-1959," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography CV (1997): 287-316.
"Harry Byrd: Vanished Polices and Enduring Principles," The Virginia Quarterly Review LII (1976): 596-612.
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Harold S. Wilson
Professor of History
e-mail: hwilson@odu.edu
telephone: 757-683-3948
office: BAL 8030
webpage: http://members.cox.net/haroldwilson
Harold Wilson teaches and researches in the history of the Old South, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Progressive era.
Education
B.A. King College, 1957
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, 1959
Ph.D. Emory University, 1966
Selected Publications
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002).
McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
"The Cruise of the C. S. S. Alabama in Southeast Asian Waters." The Journal of Confederate History, IV (spring 1990): 17-31.
"Matthew Fontaine Maury." In The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. William Ferris and Charles Wilson. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1989: The University of North Carolina Press): 1374.
"Circulation and Survival: McClure's Magazine and the Strange Death of Muckraking Journalism." Western Illinois Regional Studies XI, no. 1 (spring 1988): 71-81.
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