Faculty and Staff

Biographies and Contact Information:
Full-Time Faculty | Special Status Faculty | Administrative Staff | CHE | Teaching Assistants

Fulltime Faculty

Rebecca Boehling, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, email
Terry Bouton, Ph.D. (Duke University) Associate Professor, email
Kate Brown, Ph.D. (University of Washington) Associate Professor, email
Amy Froide, Ph.D. (Duke University) Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in GWST , email
James Grubb, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) Professor, email
John W. Jeffries, Ph.D. (Yale University) Professor and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities,
and Social Sciences and Affiliate Faculty in Public Policy email
Marjoleine Kars, Ph.D. (Duke University) Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in GWST email
Kriste Lindenmeyer, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati) Professor and Chair, and Affliate Faculty in GWST and Public Policy email
Andrew Nolan, Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Instructor and Director of UMBC History Program at Universities at Shady Grove email
Susan McDonough, Ph.D. (Yale University) Assistant Professor and Affiliate Faculty in GWST email
Denise Meringolo, Ph.D. (George Washington University) Assistant Professor and Public History Track
Coordinator, email
Daniel Ritschel, D. of Phil. (Oxford University) Associate Professor and Director of the Center for
History Education and Affiiliate Faculty in Public Policy email
Anne Sarah Rubin, Ph.D. (University of Virginia) Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, email
Michele Scott, Ph.D. (Cornell University) Associate Professor and Affliate Associate Professor in GWST and Africana Studies, email
Joe Tatarewicz, Ph.D. (Indiana University) Associate Professor and Director of the Certificate Program, Human Context of Science and Technology and Affiliate Faculty in Public Policy email
Constantine Vaporis, Ph.D. (Princeton University) Professor, email
Ka-che Yip, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Professor, email

Special Status and Part-time Faculty

Martin Becker, M.A. (Vanderbilt University), Instructor, email
John Birkenmeier, Ph.D. (The Catholic University of America), Affiliate Associate Professor, email
Colin B. Burke , Ph.D. (University of Washington St. Louis), Associate Professor Emeritus,
Warren I. Cohen, Ph.D. (University of Washington) Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, email
Sandra Herbert, Ph.D. (Brandeis University) Professor, Emerita, email
Barry Lanman, Ed. D. (Temple University) Professor of the Practice and Director of the Martha Ross Center
for Oral History, email
Clayton Laurie, Ph.D. (The American University) Affiliate Associate Professor, email
Linda Lear, Ph.D. (George Washington University) Senior Research Professor, ljlear@verizon.net |
www.lindalear.com | www.bpotter.com
Julie Christ Oakes, ABD (University of Chicago) Instructor, email
Aristeides Papadakis, Ph.D. (Fordham University) Professor Emeritus, email
Howard Smead, Ph.D. (University of Maryland College Park), Affiliate Associate Professor, email
Russell Spinney, ABD (Pennsylvania State University), Instructor, email
Robert K. Webb, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Professor Emeritus
G. Rickey Welch, Ph.D. Biology (University of Tennessee), Affiliate Professor in History and Professor of
Biology, email
Victor Wexler, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, email
John D. Willard V, M.A. (UMBC) Instructor and Associate Director, Martha Ross Center for Oral History, email

Administrative Staff

Center for History Education

Rachel Brubaker, M.A. (UMBC), Director of CHE Program Administration, email
Jeremy Spahr, M.A., (UMBC), Assistant, CHE, email

Teaching Assistants

Fall 2009

Teresa Foster (Dr. Vaporis) email
James Furgol (Dr. Lindenmeyer) email
Daniel Kielbasa (Dr. Laurie) email
Laura Marshallsay (Dr. Ritschel) email
Christine Powers (Dr. McDonough) email
David Warner (Dr. Laurie) email
Faith Wassink (Dr. Bouton) email
Adam Youssi (Dr. McDonough) email