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Administration

Name	Contact	Title
Nancy Gabin	ngabin@purdue.edu UNIV 121 (765) 494-4141	Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies Women's and gender history; American labor history; American politics and social movements; twentieth century U.S. history.
R. Douglas Hurt	doughurt@purdue.edu UNIV 231 (765) 494-4132	Professor, Department Head American Agriculture and American West. Research interests include Agricultural, Rural, Western, and Midwest History.
Caroline E. Janney	cjanney@purdue.edu UNIV 023 (765) 494-6757	Professor, Assistant Department Head Civil War, Southern History, U.S. Women, Memory
John L. Larson	larsonjl@purdue.edu UNIV 225 (765) 494-4127	Professor, Assistant Department Head; Director of Graduate Education U.S. History, U.S. Political and Early National, U.S. Business, U.S. Environmental History

Faculty

Name	Contact	Title
David Atkinson	atkinsod@purdue.edu UNIV 322 (765) 496-2776	Assistant Professor American foreign relations and migration; international history; American and British imperial history
Tithi Bhattacharya	tbhattac@purdue.edu UNIV 309 (765) 496-2731	Associate Professor; Director of Global Studies Modern South Asia, Subaltern Studies, Marxism, histories of fear and superstition
Kathryn Cramer Brownell	brownell@purdue.edu UNIV 008 (765) 494-6730	Assistant Professor U.S. Political, American presidency, Media
Cornelius Bynum	clbynum@purdue.edu UNIV 024 (765) 494-7102	Associate Professor U.S. 20th century History, African American History, Intersections of race and class and how they have affected African Americans' pursuit of full citizenship in the twentieth century
Susan Curtis	curtis@purdue.edu UNIV 329 (765) 494-4159	Professor American; American Intellectual and Cultural History
Charles Cutter	cutter@purdue.edu UNIV 307 (765) 496-2686	Associate Professor Latin American; Latin American history and the Spanish Southwest
Ariel de la Fuente	delafuen@purdue.edu UNIV 324 (765) 494-4132	Associate Professor Global History; Latin American History
James R. Farr	jrfarr@purdue.edu UNIV 311 (765) 496-2698	Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History European History; Early Modern Europe
Vernard L. Foley	foleyv@purdue.edu REC 423 (765) 494-4132	Associate Professor Russian History, History of the Space Age, Topics in Global History
Jennifer L. Foray	jforay@purdue.edu UNIV 222 (765) 494-4132	Associate Professor of History European Empire History
Nancy Gabin	ngabin@purdue.edu UNIV 121 (765) 494-4141	Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies Women's and gender history; American labor history; American politics and social movements; twentieth century U.S. history.
Kim Gallon	kgallon@purdue.edu UNIV 122 (765) 496-2483	Assistant Professor African American, African Diaspora, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women, Gender & Sexuality and Journalism History
William G. Gray	wggray@purdue.edu UNIV 328 (765) 496-2772	Associate Professor of History European History; Twentieth Century European History.
Sally A. Hastings	sahnolte@purdue.edu UNIV 021 (765) 494-6783	Associate Professor Professor Hastings teaches courses on Japan and East Asia. Her primary research interest is gender in modern Japan.
Stacy E. Holden	sholden@purdue.edu UNIV 127 (765) 496-2586	Associate Professor of History Modern Middle East and North Africa
R. Douglas Hurt	doughurt@purdue.edu UNIV 231 (765) 494-4132	Professor, Department Head American Agriculture and American West. Research interests include Agricultural, Rural, Western, and Midwest History.
Caroline E. Janney	cjanney@purdue.edu UNIV 023 (765) 494-6757	Professor, Assistant Department Head Civil War, Southern History, U.S. Women, Memory
T. Cole Jones	colejones@purdue.edu UNIV 110 765-496-2478	Assistant Professor Colonial and Revolutionary America, the Atlantic World, the cultural history of violence, and war and society.
Rebekah A. Klein-Pejšová	rkleinpe@purdue.edu UNIV 022 (765) 494-6810	Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies Transnational approaches to Modern Jewish and East Central European History; Jewish/state relations, nation and state building, mass migration, minorities, loyalties
Wendy Kline	wkline@purdue.edu UNIV 125 (765) 496-2518	Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine History of Medicine, U.S. History, Women's History
Franklin T. Lambert	flambert@purdue.edu UNIV 313 (765) 496-2773	Professor Colonial and Revolutionary America
John L. Larson	larsonjl@purdue.edu UNIV 225 (765) 494-4127	Professor, Assistant Department Head; Director of Graduate Education U.S. History, U.S. Political and Early National, U.S. Business, U.S. Environmental History
Dawn G. Marsh	dmarsh@purdue.edu UNIV 028 (765) 494-7900	Associate Professor; Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies Native American and indigenous peoples history
Silvia Z. Mitchell	mitch131@purdue.edu UNIV 308 (765) 496-2715	Assistant Professor Early modern European history with an emphasis on Spain and the Spanish Atlantic world; women and gender history; political and diplomatic history
Michael A. Morrison	mmorrison@purdue.edu UNIV 123 (765) 494-4132	Associate Professor 19th Century U.S. and American Political History
Lawrence J. Mykytiuk	larrym@purdue.edu STEW 241 (765) 494-3605	Associate Professor of Library Science; Courtesy Appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of History Department of History Librarian
Yvonne M. Pitts	ypitts@purdue.edu UNIV 310 (765) 496-2758	Associate Professor U.S. Legal and Constitutional History
Randy W. Roberts	rroberts@purdue.edu UNIV 223 (765) 496-2668	Distinguished Professor of History American; Modern American History; Mass Culture
Michael G. Smith	mgsmith@purdue.edu UNIV 027 (765) 496-2420	Professor Russian History, Aerospace History, Topics in Global History
Margaret Tillman	mtillma@purdue.edu UNIV 128 (765) 496-2651	Assistant Professor Modern China
Sharra Vostral	svostral@purdue.edu UNIV 120 (765) 496-2482	Associate Professor Gender & Technology Gender & medicine Material Culture 20th century US popular culture
A. Whitney Walton	awhitney@purdue.edu UNIV 323 (765) 494-4132	Professor Professor Walton specializes in the cultural, social, and gender history of modern Europe and modern France; French-American relations in the twentieth century; internationalism
Melinda S. Zook	mzook@purdue.edu UNIV 327 (765) 494-4134	Professor of History, Director of History Honors Program; Director of Religious Studies Early Modern European History, Tudor-Stuart England, political thought and culture, women and gender

Adjunct Faculty

Name	Contact	Title
Peter Aschenbrenner	paschenb@purdue.edu (765) 421-9209	Adjunct Professor Constitutional History of the Early American Republic, Great Britain and the United Kingdom

Continuing Lecturers

Name	Contact	Title
Dorothee Bouquet	dbouquet@purdue.edu (765) 494-4132	Continuing Lecturer European History
Deborah L. Fleetham	dfleetham@purdue.edu UNIV 126 (765) 496-2568	Continuing Lecturer European; Women's/Gender and Religious history

Courtesy Faculty

Name	Contact	Title
Lynn Hooker	lhooker@purdue.edu PAO 2103 (765) 494-3708	Associate Professor
Nicholas Sambaluk	sambaluk@purdue.edu UNIV 110 765-496-2478	Visiting Assistant Professor

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact	Title
Donald J. Berthrong		Professor Emeritus American Indian History
John J. Contreni	contreni@purdue.edu BRNG 2216J (765) 494-4132	Professor European; Intellectual, religious, and political culture of the early medieval period (fifth to eleventh centuries) with special emphasis on the manuscripts, schools, and texts of Carolingian Europe
Raymond E. Dumett	rdumett@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus Global History. African, British Empire History.
Leonard H.D. Gordon	lhdgordon@sbcglobal.net	Professor Emeritus Modern Chinese History
Patrick J. Hearden	phearden@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus U.S. History. U.S. Foreign Affairs.
Charles W. Ingrao	ingrao@purdue.edu UNIV 325 (765) 889-2114	Emeriti Professor European History. Early Modern Europe and Habsburg History.
Anne W. Lommel		Professor Emerita U.S. History
Lois N. Magner	magnerln@aol.com	Professor Emerita History of the Biological Sciences
Robert E. May	mayr@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus Mid-19th century U.S. history, Mexican-American War and the Civil War, as well as the U.S. South and U.S. foreign relations, research and teaching has focused upon Civil War causation
Donald L. Parman	parmand@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus 20th Century Native American Affairs
Jon C. Teaford	teaford@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus American Urban History
Harold D. Woodman	hwoodman@purdue.edu	Professor Emeritus Southern History

Limited Term Lecturers

Name	Contact	Title
Mauricio Castro	mfcastro@purdue.edu on line (765) 494-4132	Limited Term Lecturer U.S. History
Haeseong Park	park5@purdue.edu UNIV 108 765-494-4132	Limited Term Lecturer Global History
Jeffrey T. Perry	perry30@purdue.edu UNIV 225 4-4132	Limited Term Lecturer U.S. Revolutionary-Civil War Period, Church and State, American Legal and Religious History, Property, Frontier/Borderlands, Old South, the Trans-Appalachian West

Staff

Name	Contact	Title
Leslie A. Barnes	lesliebarnes@purdue.edu SC 146E (765) 494-3836	Business Office Supervisor
Fay M. Chan	chanf@purdue.edu UNIV 221 (765) 494-4126	Graduate Secretary, Schedule Deputy
Rebecca A. Gwin	rgwin@purdue.edu UNIV 221 (765) 494-4121	Administrative Assistant, Department Newsletter Editor
Nina J. Haberer	haberern@purdue.edu BRNG 1114 (765) 494-3670	CLA Academic Advisor
Nancy M. Hughes	nhughes@purdue.edu SC 146D(SLC) (A.M.) or UNIV 224 (History) (P.M.) (765) 496-2892 (A.M.); (765) 494-4124 (P.M)	Business office
Julie A. Knoeller	juliek@purdue.edu UNIV 231 (765) 494-4132	Secretary/Building Deputy/Web Coordinator

Graduate Students

Name	Contact	Title
Brian Alberts	alberts3@purdue.edu REC 401	Graduate Student 19th c. US History, Transnationalism, Travel History
Mary F. Barford	mbarford@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Wesley Bishop	bishopw@purdue.edu REC 421 765-494-4132	Graduate Student US History, labor history, social reform movements, political economy
Emilie M. Brinkman	brinkmae@purdue.edu REC 403 765-494-4132	Graduate Student European History
Nancy E. Brown	brown921@purdue.edu REC 420 765-494-4132	Graduate Student U.S. History
Alison R. Brown	brown923@purdue.edu REC 403 765-494-4132	Graduate Student European History
Trevor (Donald) Burrows	dburrows@purdue.edu REC 419 765-494-4132	Graduate Student U.S. History
Stacey Callahan	callahs@purdue.edu	Graduate Student U.S. History
Ken Callahan	kcallah@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
David Cambron	dmcambron@purdue.edu	Graduate Student U.S. History
Maxwell Campbell	campbell@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Amal Cavender	acavend@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Suparna Chakraborty	chakrab1@purdue.edu REC 410	Graduate Student Global History
Alexander S. Dessens	adessens@purdue.edu REC 422	Graduate Student European History
Lama El Sharief	lama_Sharief@yahoo.com	Graduate Student
Adrianna L. Ernstberger	alozano@purdue.edu	Graduate Student Global Feminist History
John E. Fahey	jfahey@purdue.edu REC 410	Graduate Student Late Austro-Hungarian Empire, transnational history, and imperial institutions
Andrew Brett Fogel	afogel@purdue.edu REC 405	Graduate Student/History Modern U.S. Political and Cultural History; Visual Culture; Popular Culture
Renee Gaarder	rgaarder@purdue.edu REC 409	Graduate Student Modern European and American history and the cultural aspects of music
Edward J. Gray	gray107@purdue.edu	Graduate Student European History- Early 17th Century French Religion and Politics
Amy M. Harris	harris53@purdue.edu	Graduate Student European History
Lauren N. Haslem	lhaslem@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Luke Howard	howard37@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Shirley Hunter-Smith	shunters@purdue.edu	Graduate Student U.S. History
Donald (Trey) Johnson	john1557@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Arslan Jumaniyazov	arslanj@gmail.com REC 419	Graduate Student History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Global Studies, Post-Soviet Studies
John C. Kennedy	kenned15@purdue.edu REC 409 765-494-4132	Graduate Student U.S. Nineteenth Century Social History
Robert F. Kirchubel	rkirchub@purdue.edu REC 419	Graduate Student European History
Edward Krzemienski	krzemienski@gsu.edu	Graduate Student
Robert Kugler	rkugler@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Kathleen Kun	kchilds@purdue.edu REC 409 (765) 494-4132	Graduate Student
Padraig Lawlor	plawlor@purdue.edu REC 405 4-4132	Graduate Student 17th Century Britain and Ireland: Politics and Religion, Europe Travel Literature, Early American Constitutional History
Kera N. Lovell	klovell@purdue.edu REC 409	Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies 20th century US social & cultural history; New Left postwar social movements; women's, gender, & sexuality studies; urban & spatial studies; digital humanities
Cindy Marsh	marsh15@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Michelle Martindale	mmartind@purdue.edu REC 402 (765) 494-4132	Graduate Student
Stephanie Matos-Ayala	smatosay@purdue.edu REC 403	Graduate Student European History
Andrew D. McGregor	amcgrego@purdue.edu BRNG 6168 765-494-5680	Graduate Student U.S. History, Sports History, Race, Public History, and Digital Humanities
David Mercante	dmercant@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Russell J. Merzdorf	merzdorf@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Amber Nickell	anickell@purdue.edu REC 404	Graduate Student/History
David Pike	dwpike@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Angela Potter	anbowen@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Jacob M. Rambin	jrambin@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Max J. Rieger	rieger@purdue.edu REC 419	Graduate Student U.S. History
Lana J. Robyne	lrobyne@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Amanda J. Rumba Reason	reason@purdue.edu REC 420	Graduate Student U.S. History
Matthew A. Schownir	mschowni@purdue.edu REC 401 (765) 494-4132	Graduate Student Modern European history; history of the British Empire, modern Britain and Ireland, and global immigration and culture in the 19th Century British Commonwealth; the Irish diaspora; American legal history
Zachary W. Schulz	zschulz@purdue.edu REC 405	Graduate Student Stuart England, Islamic World, Atlantic Diaspora
Keenan J. Shimko	shimko@purdue.edu REC 402 (765) 494-4132	Graduate Student 20th Century Germany, 20th Century United States, Transnational History, Globalization, Business History
Marcus E. Smith	smit2087@purdue.edu REC 421	Graduate Student/History Global History
Anne C. Snider	snider16@purdue.edu REC 420	Graduate Student Modern Europe, especially eastern central Europe and the Balkans
Liberty P. Sproat	lsproat@purdue.edu REC 410	Graduate Student Modern Imperialism, Twentieth-Century Europe, and Global Feminisms
Ruth S. Turpin	turpinru@purdue.edu	Graduate Student European History
Hyeseon Woo	woo28@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Chengji Xing	xing17@purdue.edu	Graduate Student
Yasir Yilmaz	yyilmaz@purdue.edu	Graduate Student European History
Ruisheng Zhang	zhan1849@purdue.edu REC 401 (765) 494-4132	Graduate Student Agricultural History, Modern China

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