Office: Harris Hall 115

Email: Kevin Barksdale

Phone: 304-696-2956

KEVIN BARKSDALE (Ph.D. West Virginia), an assistant professor of American history, is a specialist in Appalachian history. He has extensive teaching experience in Appalachian History and culture, Native American Studies, and Coalfield/Working Class history. His research interests include Appalachian History, Native American, and Post-Revolutionary. He is the author of several articles on the Whiskey Rebellion.

Office: Harris Hall 113

E-mail: Cicero Fain

Phone: 304-696-2721

CICERO M. FAIN III (Ph.D. candidate, Ohio State), an assistant professor of African American History, is a specialist in early American, African American and modern African history. Master’s Thesis: The Forging of a Black Community: Huntington, West Virginia, 1870-1900. Currently working on dissertation: The Forging of Black Community: Huntington, West Virginia, 1870-1930, which will examine migration and settlement patterns of southern black migrants; the formation of black community; and the varied methods black Huntington’s urban industrial workforce (and community) used to combat occupational racism and segregation in Huntington. He is a third generation Huntingtonian.

Office: Harris Hall 111

E-mail: Shuhua Fan

Phone: 304-696-2724

Office: Harris Hall 128

Email: Daniel Holbrook

Phone: 304-696-2417

DANIEL HOLBROOK (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon) is an assistant professor of history.   He specializes in the history of Technology, Science, Business, and Economics, and teaches in those fields as well as in Public, Local,  and World History.  He is particularly interested in the reasons for technological and business failure; his research focuses on that as well as on the development of Cold War era technologies.

Office: Harris Hall 111

Email: Montserrat Miller

Phone: 304-696-2723
 

MONTSERRAT MILLER (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon) is an associate professor of history specializing in modern Europe.  Her research concentrates on the social history of Catalonia, on small commerce, food, and on gender and consumerism.  She is currently working on a book entitled Feeding Barcelona: Market Halls, Social Networks and Consumer Culture, 1714-1975. 

Office: Harris Hall 129

Email:  David Mills

Phone: 304-696-2725

*DAVID E. MILLS, Chair (Ph.D., Utah) (Director of Graduate Studies) is an associate professor specializing in the modern Middle East. His research interests include twentieth century economic history of the Nile valley and nationalist theory. Currently, he is working on a book entitled “Dividing the Nile”:  The Failures of Egyptian Nationalism, 1918-1953.

Office: Harris Hall 114

Email: William Palmer

Phone: 304-696-2720

WILLIAM G. PALMER (Ph.D., Maine), professor of history, specializes in early modern (1400-1800) English and European history, as well as historiography.  He is the author of The Political Career of Oliver St. John (1993); The Problem of Ireland in Tudor Foreign Policy (1994); Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians (2001), and over twenty articles in such journals as Albion, the Journal of British Studies, The Historian, and the Renaissance Quarterly.  He is presently at work on a study of the evolution of the professional history department.

Office: Harris Hall 108

Email: Greta Rensenbrink

Phone: 304-696-2955

GRETA RENSENBRINK (Ph.D. Chicago), an assistant professor of American history, has expertise in Modern US Social and Cultural history. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century US intellectual, social, and cultural, as well as social theory. She has presented her research at numerous conferences and is completing a manuscript on lesbian activists in Second Wave Feminism.

Office: Harris Hall 129

Email: Phillip Rutherford

Phone: 304-696-2719

Office: Harris Hall 124

Email: Robert Sawrey

Phone: 304-696-3347

ROBERT SAWREY (Ph.D., Cincinnati) is a professor of American History, with a research interest in the era of Reconstruction. He is the author of Dubious Victory (University Press of Kentucky, 1992) and an essay on George Hunt Pendleton in Warren Van Tine, ed., Builders of Ohio (Ohio State University Press, 2004). He is now working on a study, The Coach and the College,  which deals with the connection between a coach, his successful athletic programs and the financial survival of a small liberal arts college in North Dakota. In his spare time, he enjoys watching and discussing movies and playing golf.”

Office: Harris Hall 110

Email: Donna Spindel

Phone: 304-696-2717

*DONNA J. SPINDEL (Ph.D., Duke) (Interim Dean, COLA) is a professor of early American history with a specialty in legal history. She has written articles for such journals as the Journal of Southern History, the North Carolina Historical Review, and the American Journal of Legal History. She is the author of Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776 (Louisiana State, 1989). She is currently Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts.

Office: Harris Hall 112

Email: Christopher White

Phone: 304-696-2722

CHRISTOPHER  M. WHITE  (Ph.D. Kansas) is an assistant professor of Latin American history. He teaches courses on Latin America, the developing world, and U.S. foreign relations and he is the author of Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era (New Mexico, 2007).

Office: Harris Hall 128

Email: Kat Williams

Phone: 304-696-2959 

KAT WILLIAMS (Ph.D., Kentucky) is an associate professor of American history and Director of Women’s Studies.  Her areas of specialization include, U.S. women’s history and the history of sport. She is the author of several articles including “Women’s Baseball and Beyond: Life After the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.” Her book, Life After the League: The Real Impact of Playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, is near completion.

Office: Harris Hall 111
Email: David Winter
Phone: 304-696-2954

DAVID WINTER (Ph.D. Toronto), (Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta) is an assistant professor of medieval history. He is the author of "The Life and Career of Master Wiger of Utrecht, an early convert to the Order of Friars Minor," Journal of Medieval History, (March, 2005), and is currently preparing a manuscript entitled, "A Codicoligical and Textual Analysis of the Liber exemplorum in MS Oxford, Corpus Christi College 32, ff. 12-149 and MS Troyes, bibliotheque municipale 1548, ff. 99-158."