Faculty

• Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 13:1
• Average class size, introductory: 21
• Average class size, advanced: 15

Full-Time Faculty

Ian Binnington B.A., Lancaster University; M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Franklin Forts B.A., St. John Vianney College Seminary; M.Div., St. Mary Seminary and University; M.A., Loyola University of Chicago; ABD, University of Georgia

Elisabeth Haywood BA University of Chicago; MA, PhD Stanford University

Judson Herrman B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard

Stephen Lyons B.A., Gettysburg College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University

Robin Orttung M.A., Boston University; ABD, Boston University

Kenneth Pinnow B.A., Duke University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Barry Shapiro B.A., Harpur College; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Paula Treckel (chair) B.A., Kent State University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University

Guo Wu BA, Beijing Language and Culture University; MA, Georgia State University; PhD, SUNY Albany

Selected Publications and Achievements

• Revolutionary Justice in Paris 1789-1790, Cambridge University Press, 1993
• W.J. Cash, A Life, Louisiana State University Press, 1991. (Author interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered; book was one of just three nominated for the first Southern Book Award for Non-Fiction)
• "The Resignation of William Rugg: A Reconsideration," Catholic Historical Review
• "To Comfort the Heart": Women in Seventeenth Century America, Twayne Publishers, 1996
• "In the Shadow of the Guillotine: A Psychohistorical Analysis of Guizot's Approach to Political Justice," Psychohistory Review
• "'The Empire of My Heart': The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
• "Gunboat Diplomacy: 1776-1992," Encyclopedia of the American Military, Vol. I, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994
• "Lillian Smith: Cassandra in Dixie," Georgia Historical Quarterly
• The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan, Greenwood Press, 1987
• Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood, University of Missouri Press, 1998
• "Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-29," Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices