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Department of History Faculty

Name Contact Geographic Specialty Principal Research Topics
Campbell-Westmont, Christina
Instructor
Batten Arts & Letters 8030
757-683-4819
ccampbel@odu.edu
Latin America; United States  
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
757-683-6975
rdelcors@odu.edu
Europe, United States, World History  
Finley-Croswhite, Annette
Professor
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  
Goldberger, Sarah
Instructor
Batten Arts & Letters 8030
757-683-4819
sgoldber@odu.edu
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
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
Myrick, Bismarck
Ambassador in residence, Instructor in history and political science
Batten Arts & Letters 7044
757-683-3805
bmyrick@odu.edu
Africa  
Nevin, Timothy
Visiting Instructor
Batten Arts & Letters 8047
757-683-3953
tnevin@odu.edu
Africa  
Payne, Brian
Assistant Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8014
757-683-3933
bjpayne@odu.edu
United States Maritime and environmental; oceanic resource extraction; North Atlantic fisheries
Pearson, Kathy
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8018
757-683-3942
kpearson@odu.edu
Europe Ancient and medieval; environmental, food, medical history
Phillips, Jonathan
Assistant Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8006
757-683-3345
jphillip@odu.edu
United States Military affairs, war, society, small wars, Southern culture and society
Rakove,  Robert Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer      
Stewart, Peter
Emeritus Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8029
757-683-3920
pstewart@odu.edu
United States  
Sweeney, James
Associate Professor
Batten Arts & Letters 8010
757-683-3937
jsweeney@odu.edu
United States Virginia; recent poltiical 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