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Faculty and Staff

Department Chair

Dr. Robert Batchelor
Professor
batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu

Staff

Machelle Moore
Administrative Assistant
Armstrong Campus
mdmoore@georgiasouthern.edu

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Faculty

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Name and Title	Area of Interest	Location
Dr. Robert Batchelor Chair and Professor	Comparative World, Environmental History, Digital History and Digital Humanities	Statesboro and Armstrong Campuses
Armstrong Campus
Dr. Olavi Arens Professor	Russia and East Central Europe	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 Associate 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. Jason Tatlock Professor	Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History	Armstrong Campus
Dr. James Todesca Associate Professor	Institutional and economic development of Europe and the Mediterranean, c.1000-1350	Armstrong Campus
Dr. Felicity M. Turner Associate Professor	U.S. Legal history; history of medicine; women, gender, and sexuality; law and society	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. Jeffrey Burson Professor	Early Modern and Modern France, European Enlightenment	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Chris Caplinger Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator	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 Associate Professor & Public History Program Coordinator	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 Professor	Modern Germany, War and Society, Masculinity	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Melissa Faris Senior Lecturer	Soviet Union, and 20th century world history	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Michelle Haberland Professor	Labor, Gender, US South, 20th Century	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Carol Herringer Professor	Gender history, Early Modern and Modern Britain	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 Professor	Social and Economic History of Modern China, Business History	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Alena Pirok Associate Professor	Public History, Museum History, U.S. 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	Museum Studies	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Timothy Teeter Associate Professor	Ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity, and Late Antiquity.	Statesboro Campus
Dr. Michael Van Wagenen Associate Professor & Internship 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. Roger K. Warlick (1930-1998)	Professor of History
Dr. Michael Benjamin (July 2020)	Associate Professor
Dr. John Duncan (September 2023)	Professor

Last updated: 7/2/2024