Chair, Department of History; Paul V. McNutt Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Modern American history; American political, cultural, and social history
Associate Chair, Department of History; Associate Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Money, connectivity and economic integration in the Roman world; The Antonine plague and ancient pandemics; Environmental history of the Roman Empire; Social-scientific approaches to history.
Assistant to the Chair
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, Departments of History and Gender Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of American Studies
Black Women; African American History; Nineteenth-Century U.S.; The Old South; Slavery; Social History; Race, Gender, Interracial Sex, and Sexuality; Freedom, Citizenship, and Power
Graduate Admissions & Placement Secretary
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History; Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Archaic and Classical Greece; Democracy; Political and military history
Professor, Department of History; Director, History Honors Program
Formation of centralized European state; Europe, Renaissance to the Revolution; Intellectual history of "absolutism"
Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies and Carmony Chair, Department of History; Editor, Indiana Magazine of History
Graduate Assistant Editor, Indiana Magazine of History
Graduate Career Coordinator; Public History Consultant
Dr. Susan Ferentinos provides graduate-career and professionalization services for the Department of History. As a public-history consultant, Dr. Ferentinos collaborates with the National Park Service, gives public presentations and tours of local historic sites, curates exhibits and other collections in libraries and archives, and advocates for a larger understanding of the public potential of historian's work. Her book, Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), was awarded the National Council on Public History's 2016 book prize.
History & Religious Studies Librarian
Dr. Scott Libson supports the teaching and research needs of students and faculty in the Department of History and the Department of Religious Studies, as well other scholars working in those fields. His scholarship questions the boundaries between religious and secular philanthropy in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Scott holds a Ph.D. in history from Emory University, a master’s degree in church history from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Columbia University.
The College of Arts + Sciences
