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)

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

Lynn B. Zastoupil. 1988. B.A., Dickinson State College; M.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. (Modern Britain, India, European intellectual history)  

Associate Professors

Charles Hughes. 2012. 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)

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)

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

Assistant 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)

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)

Staff

Laura M. Jacobsen. Departmental Assistant. 2023. Calvin University.