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Department of History Faculty

 
Name Contact Geographic Specialty Principal Research Topics
Carhart, Michael
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8032
757-683-3950
mcarhart@odu.edu
Europe Cultural and intellectual history, 17th through 19th centuries; scientific use of travel literature
Del Corso, Robert
Lecturer
Batten Arts & Letteres 8015
757-683-3949
rdelcors@odu.edu
Europe, United States, World History  

Finley-Croswhite, Annette
Professor
http://www.odu.edu/~acroswhi/

Batten Arts & Letters 8000
757-683-3951
acroswhi@odu.edu
Europe, France Early modern Europe, France, French Atlantic, history of medicine
Frank, Willard
Emeritus Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8029
757-683-6974
wfrank@odu.edu
Europe, United States  
Greene, Douglas
Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8004
757-683-4371
dgreene@odu.edu
Europe, Great Britain Tudor-Stuart era; popular culture in 19th and 20th centuries
Hametz, Maura
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8024
757-683-3946
mhametz@odu.edu
Europe, Italy 19th and 20th centuries; Habsburg Italian provinces; Italian fascism
Heidbrink, Ingo
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8046
757-683-3656
iheidbri@odu.edu
Northern Europe, Arctic, North Atlantic Maritime history, especially resource utilization; law of the sea; marine environmental history; methodology in maritime history; decolonization in the Arctic
Holden, Robert H.
Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8034
757-683-3941
rholden@odu.edu
Latin America Political history; Central America; 19th and 20th centuries
Hucles, Michael
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letteres 8016
757-683-3936
mhucles@odu.edu
United States African-American history; social and economic history of 19th-century urban South
Jersild, Austin
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8047
757-683-3953
ajersild@odu.edu
Europe, Russia Russian-Chinese relations; the socialist bloc
Jin, Qiu
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8028
757-683-5863
qjin@odu.edu
China and East Asia The Cultural Revolution, Chinese historiography, social and cultural change in contemporary China
Jordan, Erin
Associate Professor

Batten Arts & Letters 8006
757-683-3345
ejordan@odu.edu

Europe Medieval, women, gender and religion
Lawes, Carolyn
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8040
757-683-6022
clawes@odu.edu
United States 19th century; women, religion, reform
Lees, Lorraine
Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8020
757-683-5101
llees@odu.edu
United States U.S. foreign policy and national security, 19th and 20th centuries
Merritt, Jane
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8022
757-683-3945
jmerritt@odu.edu
United States Colonial period; American Revolution; Native American history, Atlantic world

Mirkova, Anna
Assistant Professor

Batten Arts & Letters 8010
757-683-4819
amirkova@odu.edu

Ottoman Empire, modern Balkans and the Middle East Citizenship, Nationalism, Muslim minorities in post-Ottoman Europe

 

Moore, Emily
Visiting Instructor

 

Batten Arts & Letters 2021
757-683-3937
emoore@odu.edu

Myrick, Bismarck
Ambassador in residence, Instructor in History and Political Science
 Batten Arts & Letters 7044
757-683-3805
bmyrick@odu.edu
Africa
Orr, Timothy Batten Arts & Letters 8038
757-683-5275
torr@odu.edu
United States Military History
Pearson, Kathy
Associate Professor
 Batten Arts & Letters 8018
757-683-3942
kpearson@odu.edu
 Europe  Ancient and medieval; environmental, food, medical history
de Silva, Chandra
Professor
 Batten Arts & Letters 8004
757-683-4423
cdesilva@odu.edu
 Africa  African History
Stewart, Peter
Emeritus Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8029
757-683-3920
pstewart@odu.edu
United States  
Sweeney, James
Emeritus Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters
jsweeney@odu.edu
United States Virginia; recent poltiical history
 Vos, Jelmer
Assistant Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8012
757-683-5604
jvos@odu.edu
 Africa  Atlantic slave trade; Kongo; 19th century; colonialism
Weber, John
Assistant Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8012
757-683-3933
jwweber@odu.edu
 United States  American History
Whitehurst, G. William
Kaufman University Lecturer in Public Affairs
Batten Arts & Letters 8044
757-683-6018
   
Wilson, Harold
Emeritus Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8029
757-683-3948
hwilson@odu.edu
United States  

Zanoni, Elizabeth
Assistant Professor

Batten Arts & Letters 8038
757-683-3937
ezanoni@odu.edu
Modern United States Transnational migration, gender and women, consumption