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With fourteen full-time members, the Department is among the largest at Davidson.  All members hold doctorates and are actively engaged in research and scholarship.  The Department emphasizes excellent undergraduate teaching, and some members have received awards for outstanding teaching. Members have also been recognized by their professional peers for scholarly distinction, receiving national and international awards for both publications and professional service.

Daniel Aldridge
Specializes in African American history, American history, African history, and Atlantic World history
Robin Barnes
Specialties include late medieval and early modern Europe, Renaissance/Reformation, the history of western Christianity, and popular culture in pre-industrial Europe.
Jonathan Berkey
Specializes in the full range of Middle Eastern history since the rise of Islam, and in addition participates in Davidson's Humanities Program.
Joseph Dennis
Specialties include East Asian history, upper division courses on imperial and modern China, and seminars on Chinese legal history and the history of the book.
Vivien E. Dietz
Specialities include the politics and culture of late eighteenth-century Britain.
Michael J. Guasco
Specializes in early American history, the American Revolution, the colonial Atlantic world, and the history of slavery.
Peter Krentz
Specialities are Greek and Roman history.
Ralph B. Levering
Specializes on the Cold War and on the role of public opinion and the news media in the making of U.S. foreign policy.
Jane Mangan
Specializes in the history of early Latin America with particular emphasis on the Andean region.
Sally G. McMillen
Specializes in the American South and American women's history, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century.
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Specializes in modern European history with an emphasis on German history, Jewish history, and Holocaust and genocide studies.
I. Job Thomas
Specialties include the history of India and China, the life of Gandhi, and Indian, Chinese, and Japanese architecture, sculpture, and painting.
Patricia Tilburg
Specializes in modern European history, particularly the history of France from the Revolution to World War I.
John Wertheimer
Specialties include modern U.S. history and legal history.
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