HISTORY DEPARTMENT

Mackinac Hall D-1-160
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401
Phone: (616) 331-3298
Fax: (616) 331-2535

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Dr. Michael Huner
[email protected]
(616) 331-3420

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Elizabeth Kovacs

Department Coordinator
[email protected]
(616) 331-2037
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Avis D. Merry

Joint Department Coordinator with Modern Languages and Literature Department
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Kaitlyn Greer

Student Assistant
Major: Exercise Science

Hannah Krebs

Student Assistant
Major: History

Cora Cockroft

Student Assistant
Major: Behavioral Neuroscience

Rebecca Terryberry

Student Assistant
Major: Wildlife Biology

Gordon Andrews

Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
US Labor History, 20th century
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Gabriele Gottlieb

Associate Professor
US Colonial, American Revolution, Crime and Punishment
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Douglas Montagna

Associate Professor
19th-century US History, Religion
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Louis Moore

Professor
African-American History, US 20th-century, Sports History, Gender
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Paul Murphy

Professor
20th-century US Intellectual and Cultural History
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Sean O'Neill

Professor
Social Studies Education
US Native American History
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Nora Salas

Associate Professor
US Latino/Latina History
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Scott Stabler

Professor
Social Studies Education
US Civil War, US Native American History
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Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin

Professor
Assistant Chair
History of Medicine, US History, Public Health
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David Zwart

Associate Professor
Assistant Chair
Social Studies Education
20th-century US History, Immigration
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Steve Tripp

Professor
US 19th and 20th-century History, Culture and Society, History of Manhood
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Tamara Shreiner

Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
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Annie Whitlock

Associate Professor of History/Social Studies
Social Studies Education
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Matthew Daley

Professor
Michigan History, Great Lakes History, Urban History, Public History
Internship Coordinator
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Abigail Gautreau

Assistant Professor
Public History
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Alice Chapman

Professor
Medieval History, Intellectual History, Church and State
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Grace Coolidge

Professor
Early Modern Europe and Spain, Gender
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Jason Crouthamel

Professor
Modern Europe and Germany, Memory, Gender and Sexuality
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William Morison

Associate Professor
Classical Greece and Rome
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James Smither

Professor
Director of Veteran's History Project
Early Modern Europe and France, Military History
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Steeve Buckridge

Professor
Director of Namibia Study Abroad, Brooks College
African History, Caribbean History, Material Culture and Dress
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David Eaton

Associate Professor
African History, World History, 20th-century
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Michael Huner

Associate Professor
Modern Latin America, World History, 19th and 20th century, State Formation
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Chad Lingwood

Associate Professor
Middle East History, History of Iran
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Patrick Shan

Professor
East Asia, History of China, 20th-Century
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David Stark

Professor
Colonial Latin America, Caribbean, Slavery
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Yosay Wangdi

Professor
South Asia, Tibet, History of India, Religion, Environmental History
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Eric Covey

Visiting Professor
African, World, US
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Brent Purkaple

Visiting Professor
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Ian Van Dyke

Visiting Professor
U.S. in the World; religious and intellectual history; politics and political thought
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Joshua Morris

Visiting Professor
US, 20th Century, Labor 
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Sarah Tate

Affiliate Professor
Social Studies, Elementary Education
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Fall 23 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3 PM (all online)

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Fall 23 Office Hours: By Appointment

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Fall 23 Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:30

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Fall 23 Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-6PM

Denice Fett
Fall 23 Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:15

Stephanie Jannenga
Fall 23 Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4PM

Joseph Jones

John Byczynksi

Edward Cole

Professor Emeritus

Dennis Devlin

Professor Emeritus

James Goode

Professor Emeritus

Frances Kelleher

Professor Emeritus

Lynn Mapes

Professor Emeritus

Joseph Preston

Professor Emeritus

Gary D. Stark

Professor Emeritus

John Tevebaugh

Professor Emeritus

Anthony Travis

Professor Emeritus

Kathleen Underwood

Professor Emeritus