DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS
219 Mitchell Hall, Memphis, TN 38152-3450
Phone: 901.678.2515; 901.678.4097 Fax: 901.678.2720
Webpage: http://www.memphis.edu/history/
E-mail: history@memphis.edu

Chair: Janann Sherman, sherman@memphis.edu, 219 Mitchell Hall
Graduate Coordinator: James M. Blythe, jmblythe@memphis.edu, 141 Mitchell Hall
Graduate Secretary: Karen Jackett, mkmiller@memphis.edu, 219B3 Mitchell Hall
Administrative Associate: Karen Bradley, klbradly@memphis.edu, 219A Mitchell Hall
Degrees Offered: B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Academic Year System: Semester
Areas of Specialization: U.S., Europe, African-American, Ancient Egypt
Graduate Admissions: Office of Graduate Admissions, 101 Wilder Tower, 901.678.2911, 901.678.5023 (Fax)
Graduate School: 317 Administration Building, 901.678.2531, 901.678.3003 (Fax).

Faculty:

AL-SALIM, Farid M. S. (Ph.D., Arkansas, 2008; visiting asst. prof.) Modern Middle East, Islamic studies
BLYTHE, James M. (Ph.D., Cornell, 1987; prof.) medieval Europe, Renaissance Europe
BOND, Beverly G. (Ph.D., Memphis, 1996; assoc. prof.) 19th cent. African-American
BRAND, Peter (Ph.D., Toronto, 1998; assoc. prof.) ancient Egypt, ancient Near East, Greece, Rome
BROWN, Walter R. (Ph.D., Emory, 1973; assoc. prof.) early modern Europe, France
CAFFREY, Margaret M. (Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1986; assoc. prof.) American women
CHAPELL, Colin (Ph.D., Alabama, 2011; instructor) 19th and 20th century U.S., U.S. South; gender, religion
CRAWFORD, Charles W. (Ph.D., Mississippi, 1968; prof.) Tennessee, oral
DAILY, Andrew M. (Ph.D., Rutgers, 2011; asst. prof.) Modern European and French, Caribbean
DUEÑAS-VARGAS, Guiomar (Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1995; assoc. prof.) Latin American
EISEL, CHRISTINE (Ph.D., Bowling Green University, 2012; instructor) Colonial America, American women
FICKLE, James E. (Ph.D., Louisiana State, 1970; prof.) American economic, labor, conservation
GOUDSOUZIAN, Aram (Ph.D., Purdue, 2002; prof.) U.S. popular culture, African-American, 20th century U.S., film, sports
GOUDSOUZIAN, Chrystal (Ph.D., Memphis, 2012; instructor) Egyptology
LAUMANN, Dennis (Ph.D., UCLA, 1999; assoc. prof.) Africa
LUCKHARDT, Courtney L. (Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2011; instructor) medieval Europe
MARLER, Scott P. (Ph.D., Rice, 2007; asst. prof.) Atlantic World
O’DONOVAN, Susan Eva (Ph.D., California-San Diego, 1997, assoc. prof.) 19th-century South, slavery and emancipation
ONSTINE, Suzanne L. (Ph.D., Toronto, 2001; assoc. prof.) Egyptology
PHIPPS, Catherine L. (Ph.D., Duke, 2006; asst. prof.) Japan, modern Asia
POTTER, Sarah (Ph.D., Chicago, 2008; asst. prof.) modern U.S., family history
SHERMAN, Janann M. (Ph.D., Rutgers, 1993; prof.) 20th century U.S. political, women, social
SMALLWOOD, Arwin (Ph.D., Ohio State, 1997; assoc. prof.) 18th and 19th century African-American
STEIN, Stephen (Ph.D., Ohio State, 1999; assoc. prof.) Military and naval, post-Civil War U.S.
UNOWSKY, Daniel (Ph.D., Columbia, 2000; prof.) modern Central and Eastern Europe
YELLE, Robert (Ph.D., Chicago, 2002; asst. prof.) South Asia, history of religions
ZNAMENSKI, Andrei (Ph.D., Toledo, 1997; assoc. prof.) Russia, neo-primitivism

Nondepartmental Historians:
BENIN, Stephen D. (Ph.D., California-Berkeley 1980; assoc. prof.) medieval Judaism, medieval Christian-Jewish relations, Byzantine, patristics (Bornblum Judaic Studies)

Emeriti:
CHUMNEY, James R. (Ph.D., Rice, 1964)
CROUSE, Maurice A. (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1964)
ELLIS, Donald W. (Ph.D., Kansas, 1970)
FRANKLE, Robert J. (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1970)
HAWES, Joseph M. (Ph.D., Texas-Austin, 1969)
HURLEY, F. Jack (Ph.D., Tulane, 1971)
KALIN, Berkley (Ph.D., St. Louis, 1967)
SKEEN, C. Edward (Ph.D., Ohio State, 1966)
TUCKER, David W. (Ph.D., Iowa, 1965)
WILSON, Major L. (Ph.D., Kansas, 1970)

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