Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Ian Binnington, B.A., Lancaster University; M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nineteenth Century America; Civil War and Reconstruction; nationalism.

Franklin E. Forts, Jr., B.A., St. John Vianney College Seminary; M.Div., St. Mary Seminary and University; M.A., Loyola University of Chicago; A.B.D., University of Georgia. Modern America; African American; history of masculinity.

Elisabeth Kalé Haywood, B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. Latin American history; colonial Mexico; ecclesiastical history.

Judson Herrman, B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard University. Greek and Roman history and literature.

Stephen Lyons, B.A., Gettysburg College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. Medieval and early modern Europe

Kenneth Pinnow, B.A., Duke University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Eastern Europe and Russian history; medical history.

Barry Shapiro, B.A., Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles. Modern European history; the French Revolution

Chinua Akimaro Thelwell, Ph.D., New York University.  Social construction of race in the United States; South African history; West African history.

Paula Treckel, B.A., Kent State University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Colonial America; the American family; women’s history.

Guo Wu, B.A., Beijing Language and Culture University; M.A., Georgia State University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany. Modern Chinese history; film and history; Asian American history.

Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

  • Kenneth Pinnow,  Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929, Cornell University Press, 2010.
  • Judson Herrman, Hyperides: Funeral Oration, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Ian Binnington, “Standing Upon a Volcano: Cincinnati’s Newspapers Debate Emancipation, 1860-1862,” American Nineteenth Century History (June 2009).
  • Barry Shapiro, Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution, Penn State University Press, 2009.
  • Guo Wu, “The ‘Zhanguoce’ School’s Effort of Wartime Cultural Reconstruction, 1940-42,” Journal of Modern Chinese History (Spring 2009).
  • Paula Treckel, “‘The Empire of My Heart’: The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (April 1997).
  • Paula Treckel, “To Comfort the Heart”: Women in Seventeenth-Century America, Twayne Publishers, 1996.
  • Barry Shapiro, Revolutionary Justice in Paris 1789-1790, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Stephen Lyons, “The Resignation of William Rugg: A Reconsideration,” Catholic Historical Review (January 1987).