Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Dr. Carol Herringer
Professor
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cherringer@georgiasouthern.edu
Staff
Machelle Moore
Administrative Assistant
Armstrong Campus
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Faculty
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| Name and Title | Area of Interest | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Campus | ||
| Dr. Carol Herringer Professor | Gender history, Early Modern and Modern Britain | Armstrong & Statesboro Campuses |
| Dr. Olavi Arens Professor | Armstrong Campus | |
| Dr. Allison Belzer Professor | European History, War and Society, Biography | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Christopher Curtis Professor | Law and Property Rights in the Age of Revolution, English Common Law, Liberalism, Capitalism, Revolutions | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Michael R. Hall Professor | Latin America, US Foreign Relations | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Christopher E. Hendricks Professor | Early America, Public History | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Kurt Knoerl Assistant Professor | Digital History, Public History, Maritime History, Maritime Archaeology, Material Culture, and Native American History. | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Kwaku Nti Associate Professor | African Diaspora, Atlantic World History, African History, African American History | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Bennett Parten Assistant Professor | 19th Century U.S., the Politics of Slavery, Abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Alena Pirok Assistant Professor | Public History, Museum History, U.S. History | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. Jason Tatlock Professor | Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History | Armstrong Campus |
| Dr. James Todesca Associate Professor | Armstrong Campus | |
| Dr. Felicity Turner Associate Professor | Armstrong Campus | |
| Dr. Hongjie Wang Associate Professor | China, Japan, Asia, Food Culture | Armstrong Campus |
| Statesboro Campus | ||
| Dr. Ahmet Serdar Akturk Associate Professor | Middle East | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. William Thomas Allison Professor | U.S. Diplomatic & Military | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Robert Batchelor Professor | Modern Britain, Comparative World | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Jeffrey Burson Professor | Early Modern and Modern France, European Enlightenment | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Chris Caplinger Assistant Professor | Segregation in the United States, U.S. South, U.S. Presidency | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Kathleen M. Comerford Professor & Pre-Law Advisor | Reformation, European Religion | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Julie de Chantal Assistant Professor | African American History, Women | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Lisa Denmark Professor | US South, Georgia History | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Alan C. Downs Associate Professor Graduate Director | Civil War, US West , American Indian | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Brian K. Feltman Associate Professor & Assistant Chair | Modern Germany, War and Society, Masculinity | Statesboro Campus |
| Melissa Gayan Senior Lecturer | Soviet Union, and 20th century world history | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Michelle Haberland Professor | Labor, Gender, US South, 20th Century | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Mao Lin Associate Professor | American Foreign Relations; American Presidency; U.S.-China Relations; Modern China; World History | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Johnathan O’Neill Professor | American Constitutional and Legal History; American Political Thought | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Juanjuan Peng Associate Professor | Social and Economic History of Modern China, Business History | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Cathy Skidmore-Hess Associate Professor | Africa, Environmental, Gender, Religion | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Solomon Smith Associate Professor | Colonial America, American Revolution, Golden Age of Piracy, Military History | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Drew Swanson Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Distinguished Professor of Southern History | U.S. South, environment, agriculture, public history | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Brent Tharp Director Georgia Southern University Museum | Statesboro Campus | |
| Dr. Timothy Teeter Associate Professor | Ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity, and Late Antiquity. | Statesboro Campus |
| Dr. Michael Van Wagenen Associate Professor Public History Program Coordinator | Public History | Statesboro Campus |
Professors Emeritus
| Dr. Clement Charlton Moseley | Professor of History (1996) |
| Dr. Jimmy Gross | Professor of History (1967-1997) |
| Dr. Ray T. Shurbutt | Professor of History (1997) |
| Dr. George H. Shriver | Professor of History (1999) |
| Dr. George Hewett (“Hew”) Joiner | Professor of History and Director Emeritus, Bell Honors Program (2002) |
| Dr. George Pruden | Professor of History (1982-2002) |
| Dr. Janet Stone | Professor of History (1975-2007) |
| Dr. Nancy White | Professor of History (1994-2010) |
| Dr. Vernon O. Egger | Professor of History (1983-2012) |
| Dr. Tom Howard | Professor of History (1993-2012) |
| Dr. Charles S. Thomas | Professor of History (1983-2012) |
| Dr. Al Young | Professor of History (1988-2012) |
| Dr. Donald A. Rakestraw | Professor of History (1983-2013) |
| Dr. Barbara Fertig | Professor of History (1992-2016) |
| Dr. Michael Price | Professor of History (1993-2016) |
| Dr. June Hopkins | Professor of History (1998-2016) |
| Dr. Emerson Thomas McMullen | Associate Professor (1991-2017) |
| Dr. Anastatia Hodgens Sims | Professor of History (1987-2019) |
| Dr. Paul A. Rodell | Professor of History (1992-2020) |
| Dr. Jonathan Bryant | Professor of History (1996-2021) |
| Dr. James Woods | Professor of History (1988-2021) |
In Memoriam
| Dr. Craig H. Roell (1954-2020) | Professor |
| Dr. Charles Patrick Crouch (1954-2010) | Associate Professor of History |
| Dr. George A. Rogers (1918-2010) | Associate Professor of History |
| Dr. Michael Benjamin (July 2020) | Associate Professor |
| Dr. John Duncan (September 2023) | Professor |
Last updated: 3/20/2023
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