Department Chair

Karl D. Qualls
Email: quallsk@dickinson.edu

Faculty
	Jeremy R. Ball Assistant Professor of History (2005). B.A., Boston College, 1994; M.A., Yale University, 1998; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003. Email: ballj@dickinson.edu Professor Ball teaches courses in African political and ecological history, apartheid, the Atlantic slave trade, and human rights. His research focuses on the labor and business history of Angola, Portuguese colonialism, and oral history.
	Christopher J. Bilodeau Assistant Professor of Early American History (2006). B.A., University of Vemont, 1991; M.A., Brown University, 1994; M.A., Columbia University, 1998; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006. Email: bilodeac@dickinson.edu He teaches courses in the fields of colonial North America and American Indian History. His research and teaching interests include European (especially English and French) contact with Indians on the borders of North American empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the Atlantic World; the role of violence in colonialism; and the history of religious missions.
	Marcelo Borges Associate Professor of History Licenciado en Historia, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1988; Profesor en Historia, 1988; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997. Email: borges@dickinson.edu Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~borges/ He teaches Latin American, Iberian, and comparative history. His current research deals with transatlantic migration from Portugal to Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly to Argentina; and with migration, identity and community formation in the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentina.
	David D. Commins Benjamin Rush Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of History (1987). B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1976; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1985. Email: commins@dickinson.edu Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~commins/ His teaching interests are in modern Middle Eastern history with an emphasis on Islamic thought and political movements. His most recent book is The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. His current research is on early relations between Wahhabism and Islamic revivalism in the Fertile Crescent.
	John M. Osborne Associate Professor of History (1979). B.A., Rice University, 1974; M.A., Stanford University, 1976; Ph.D., 1979. Sears-Roebuck Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, 1990-1991. Email: osborne@dickinson.edu Teaching interests center on British and modern European history and historical methodology. Present research interests are in public history and the preservation and access of resources and analysis using the World Wide Web.
	Matthew Pinsker Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History, Associate Professor of History (2002). B.A., Harvard University, 1990; D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1995. Email: pinskerm@dickinson.edu Pinsker teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections.
	Karl D. Qualls Associate Professor of History (2000), Department Chair B.A., University of Missouri at Columbia, 1993; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1998. Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2003-04. Email: quallsk@dickinson.edu Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~quallsk/ His teaching interests include Russian and German history, comparative revolutions (political, social, and cultural), dictators, urban history, and more. He publishes on post-WW II reconstruction in the USSR, creation of historical myths, and the role of monuments and urban space in identity formation.
	Kim L. Rogers Professor of History (1983). B.A., Florida State University, 1973; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1976; Ph.D. 1982. Email: rogersk@dickinson.edu Her teaching interests center on recent U.S. history, urban America, and gender and family history. Research interests include biography and autobiography, oral history, and life-course analysis.
	Regina M. Sweeney Associate Professor of History (2001), on sabbatical 2007-08 B.A., Tufts University,1980; M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1986; Ph.D., 1992. Email: sweeneyr@dickinson.edu Professor Sweeney teaches courses on modern Europe, France, and women's history. Her research on French cultural history focuses on gender, music, nationalism, and war.
	Jeremy Vetter Assistant Professor of Environmental History and History of Science (2006). B.A., University of Nebraska, 1997; M.Phil., Oxford University, 1999; M.Sc., 1999; M.A., University of Pennsylvaina, 2005; Ph.D., 2005. Email: vetterj@dickinson.edu He teaches the history of science and technology, environmental history, and the American West. His current research focuses on environmental knowledge production in the U.S. Great Plains and Rocky Mountains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	Stephen Weinberger Robert Coleman Professor of History (1969). B.A., Northeastern University, 1965; M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1966; Ph.D., 1969. Email: weinberg@dickinson.edu Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~weinberg/ His teaching interests center on medieval and Renaissance history, European intellectual history, and the history of film. His current research involves conflict in medieval society, and censorship in the American film industry.
	Neil B. Weissman Provost and Dean of the College, Russell I. Thompson Chair of the Dean of the College, Professor of History (1975). B.A., Colgate University, 1970; M.A., Princeton University, 1972; Ph.D., 1976. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1984-1985. Email: weissmne@dickinson.edu His areas of specialization involve the comparative history of Russia, Japan, and Germany, with emphasis on the impact of revolution and modernization on traditional societies and cultures. His research deals with police and deviance in early Soviet Russia.
Contributing Faculty
	David G. Strand Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science (1980). B.A., Lawrence University, 1971; M.A., Columbia University, 1973; M.Phil., 1974; Ph.D., 1979. Email: strand@dickinson.edu Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~strand/ His field is 20th century Chinese politics and history with related interests in comparative social and political development.


Emeriti
	Clarke Garrett
	Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of History (1965-1997) B.A., Carleton College, 1956; M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1957; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1963. Email: sfgarretts@earthlink.net

	Charles Jarvis
	Professor of History (1969) B.A., DePauw University, 1963; M.A., University of Missouri, 1964; Ph.D., 1969; Diploma de Lengua y Cultura Hispanicas, University of Málaga, 1986. Email: jarvisc@dickinson.edu

	George Rhyne
	Professor of History (1965) B.A., Davidson College, 1963; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1963; Ph.D., 1968. Email: rhyne@dickinson.edu

Department Chair

Faculty

Jeremy R. Ball

Christopher J. Bilodeau

Marcelo Borges

David D. Commins

John M. Osborne

Matthew Pinsker

Karl D. Qualls

Kim L. Rogers

Regina M. Sweeney

Jeremy Vetter

Stephen Weinberger

Neil B. Weissman

Contributing Faculty

David G. Strand

Emeriti

Clarke Garrett

Charles Jarvis

George Rhyne