History: Faculty and Staff

Professors

Timothy S. Huebner. 1995. B.A., University of Miami; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Florida. (U.S. South, nineteenth century, U.S. constitutional/legal history)

Jeffrey H. Jackson. 2000. B.S., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Rochester. (Modern Europe, France, cultural history, natural disasters)

Charles W. McKinney, Jr., 2004. B.A., Morehouse College; M.A. and Ph.D., Duke University. (African-American history, civil rights studies, twentieth-century United States)

Etty Terem. 2008. B.A. and M.A., Tel Aviv University; Ph.D., Harvard University. (Modern Middle East and North Africa, Islamic law and society)

Associate Professors

Sarah Ifft Decker. 2020. B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Yale University. (Medieval Mediterranean, Spain, economic, Jewish, women/gender)

Charles Hughes. 2012. The J.J. McComb Chair in History. B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. (African-American history, popular music and culture, twentieth-century United States)

Tait S. Keller. 2008. Chair. B.A., University of Rochester; M.A. and Ph.D., Georgetown University. (Environmental history, modern Europe, Germany)

Michael J. LaRosa. 1995. The Irma O. Sternberg Professor of History. B.A., George Washington University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Miami. (Contemporary Latin America, Colombia, church history)

Seok-Won Lee. 2011. B.A., and M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D. Cornell University. (Modern East Asia)

Samson Ndanyi. 2018. B.S. and M.S., Towson University; M.A., Morgan State University; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington. (African history, African American studies, African diaspora studies, world history)

Robert F. Saxe. 2003. B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., University of Illinois. (Twentieth-century United States, political history, war and society)

Assistant Professors

Charity Clay. 2024. B.A., DePaul University; M.S. and Ph.D., Texas A&M University. (African-American history, oral history)

Jasper St. Bernard. 2024. B.A., University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point; Ph.D., University of Memphis. (African-American philosophy, ethics, philosophy of race)

Staff

Laura M. Jacobsen. Departmental Assistant. 2023. B.A., Calvin University.