Current Faculty
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Blake BeattieAssociate Professor 852-4191 Dr. Blake Beattie joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in 1994. He is a specialist in the history of later medieval Europe, with primary interests in the Avignon papacy and in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Research InterestsMedieval Europe, Church |
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Mark BlumProfessor 852-3911 “I specialize in Modern European Thought, especially in Germany and Austria. I do offer the range of Modern European History in political and economic institutions as well as in my stress on the history of ideas. My research into the historical logical forms of narrative in historical writing addresses historiographical history and the present.” Research InterestsGerman and Austrian Cultural History Since the Enlightenment |
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Brad BowmanAssociate Professor 852-1392 Brad Bowman received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from the University of Chicago and specializes in early Islamic history. His research interests involve Christian monasticism within Late Antiquity and the early Islamic Near East and interreligious contacts between Christians and Muslims in the Umayyad Period. Research InterestsAncient Middle East |
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A. Glenn CrothersAssociate Professor 852-3757 A. Glenn Crothers received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1997. A specialist in southern U.S. history before 1890, Crothers has published numerous articles on southern economic development, southern Quakers, and history pedagogy. Research InterestsAmerican antebellum, Ohio Valley, Quakers, social reform |
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Rebecca DevlinAssistant Professor (term) Rebecca A. Devlin earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Florida and has been at UofL since 2016. Dr. Devlin’s research focuses on the late Roman Empire and early medieval West, and the increasing role bishops and the church played in society in Late Antiquity. Her current book project, Bishops, Community and Authority in Late Roman Society: Northwestern Hispania, ca. 370-470 C.E, employs an interdisciplinary approach, using material, archaeological and written sources to put the clergy in their economic, social and political contexts. Research InterestsWestern Roman Empire, expansion of Christianity and medieval society. |
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Christine EhrickDepartment Chair historychair@louisville.edu Professor Ehrick is a historian of modern Latin America, with a particular interest in the women's and gender history, the history of mass media, and radio/sound studies. Research InterestsTwentieth-century Latin America, Radio History, Gender and Sound Studies. |
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Tyler FlemingAssociate Professor
Professor Fleming works on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. His research focuses on black South African popular cultures (mainly music, sport, literature and theatre) during the twentieth century. Dr. Fleming has published in various academic journals. Research InterestsAfrican History, popular culture |
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Elise FranklinAssistant Professor
Research InterestsModern French and European history; histories of gender, race, empire & decolonization. |
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Felicia JamisonAssistant Professor 852-3620 Felicia Jamison is an Assistant Professor of Public History. Her specialties are 19th and 20th-century African American History, Public History, and the Public Humanities. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Reconstructing Freedom: Black Women and Property Ownership in the Rural South. Research InterestsAfrican American History, Public History, Public Humanities |
Theresa KeeleyAssociate Professor
Theresa Keeley joined the department in 2015 as Assistant Professor of U.S. and the World. Her current work focuses on religion and U.S.-Central America relations in the 1970s and 1980s. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Colgate University. Research InterestsU.S. foreign relations, religious and political identity, human rights, law, transnational social movements |
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Tracy K’MeyerProfessor 852-4007tracyk@louisville.edu Tracy K'Meyer has been on the faculty at UofL since 1995. Her research focuses on modern US social movements, specifically on struggles against racism, poverty and war. Research Interests20th-century U.S., race. social movements |
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Yuxin MaProfessor
Yuxin Ma is an Associate Professor of East Asian history. Her specialties are late imperial and Republican China and Chinese women’s history. Currently Ma studies the lives, screen performances, and media reports of Man’ei actresses, and explores the intersections between gender, Japanese imperialism and culture modernity in Manchukuo. Research InterestsEast Asia, Women |
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Edward McInnisAssociate Professor-Term
Prof. McInnis recieved his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2006. His research interests focus on American intellectual, cultural, and educational history during the Early Republic and antebellum period of the nineteenth century. I examine both the northern states and the Ohio Valley region and research antebellum- era journals, newspapers, educational tracts, school reports, and textbooks to map out changing notions of republicanism, romanticism, and nationalism. Research InterestsNineteenth-Century American Intellectual History, Educational History, and the History of Civilizations |
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John McLeodProfessor of History
Research InterestsGreat Britain, British Empire, South Asia I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of India, Britain, and the British Empire. Since coming to U of L in 1995, I have led three study abroad courses: in Britain in 1998, and in India in 2002 and 2007. |
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Jennifer WesterfeldAssociate Professor 852-3756 Dr. Westerfeld joined the faculty in 2010 after receiving her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. She specializes in the cultural and religious history of late antique Egypt, Coptic epigraphy, and the history of Egyptology. She is currently the Department's Director of Graduate Studies and Director of the Certificate Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. |
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Charlton YinglingAssociate Professor Chaz Yingling works on Atlantic, Caribbean, and Latin American history with a focus on race and slavery during the Age of Revolutions. His articles appear in History Workshop Journal, Atlantic Studies, Early American Studies, and Sociales (Dominican Republic). |
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