Department Head

• Ted DeLaney
  Associate Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 103
  (540) 458-8963
  delaneyt@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Colonial North America, Comparative Slavery in the Western Hemisphere, African American history, Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian history
  
  Professional Website

Faculty

• David Bello
  Associate Professor of History, Director of East Asian Studies
  Newcomb Hall 218
  (540) 458-8770
  bellod@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Chinese and Japanese History
• Richard Bidlack
  Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 211
  (540) 458-8912
  bidlackr@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: European history, Russian history
• Sarah Horowitz
  Assistant Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 314
  (540) 458-8773
  horowitzs@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Modern European history, French history from the seventeenth century to the present, history of women in Europe
• Christian Jennings
  Assistant Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 316
  (540) 458-8780
  jenningsc@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: African history, history of science, world history
• Holt Merchant
  Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 206
  (540) 458-8778
  merchanth@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: The American Civil War and Reconstruction, the early republic, the constitution, the South
• Matthew Gildner
  Assistant Professor of History
  Newcomb 223
  (540) 458-8772
  gildnerm@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching: Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin America Relations
• Molly Michelmore
  Associate Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 221
  (540) 458-8779
  michelmorem@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: U.S. history, 20th century U.S. political, cultural and social history
  
  Curriculum Vitae
• William Patch
  Kenan Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 219
  (540) 458-8774
  patchw@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Modern Europe, German history, international relations.
  
  Professional Website | Curriculum Vitae
• David Peterson
  Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 203
  (540) 458-8094
  petersond@wlu.edu
  
  On leave 2012-13.
  
  Teaching Areas: European Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation history; European Medieval and Renaissance church history and political thought; Dante, and Machiavelli
  
  Curriculum Vitae
• Robert Policelli
  Visiting Assistant Professor of History
  Newcomb 315
  (540) 458-4635
  policellir@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Mediterranean history; Italian history; historiography.
• Nicolaas A. Rupke
  Johnson Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 208
  (540) 458-8344
  rupken@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Area: History of Science
• Rachel N. Schnepper
  Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow
  Newcomb Hall 306
  (540) 458-8776
  schnepperr@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Early Modern European history, English history, Atlantic history, religious history, history of women and gender
  
  Curriculum Vitae
• Roberta Senechal
  Professor of History
  Newcomb Hall 232
  (540) 458-8456
  senechalr@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: U.S. social history, Violence, Women in America

Affiliated Faculty

• Alison Bell
  Associate Professor of Archaeology
  Newcomb 309
  (540) 458-8798
  bella@wlu.edu
  
  Research interests: Anthropological perspectives on American history, historical archaeology, material culture, consumption and production, social stratification, 18th and 19th centuries in the eastern United States
  
  Curriculum Vitae
• Jonathan Eastwood
  Associate Professor of Sociology
  Newcomb 225
  540-458-8777
  eastwoodj@wlu.edu
  
  Research Interests: nationalism and national identity (with a particular focus on Latin American cases); sociology of religion; sociology of literature; Venezuelan politics and society
• Patrick Hatcher
  Instructor of Religion
  Baker 205
  (540) 458-8797
  hatcherpa@wlu.edu
  
  Islam, conversion, comparative religion
• Vaughan Stanley
  Assoc. Prof./Spec. Collect. Librarian
  James G. Leyburn Library 118
  (540) 458-8649
  stanleyv@wlu.edu

Emeritus Faculty

• Lamar Cecil
  William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Emeritus
  Lynchburg, VA
  lamarcecil@comcast.net
• Jefferson D. Futch
  Professor of History Emeritus
  Lexington, VA
• Roger B. Jeans
  Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of History Emeritus
  Leyburn Library 412
  (540) 463-2254 (for messages)
  jeansr@wlu.edu
• William Alexander Jenks
  William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Emeritus
  Lexington, VA
• Barry Machado
  Professor of History Emeritus
  Lake Geneva, WI
  machadob@wlu.edu
• Henry P. Porter
  Professor of History Emeritus
  Newcomb Hall 205
  porterh@wlu.edu
• I. Taylor Sanders
  Professor of History Emeritus
  Newcomb Hall 205
  17taylorbabs@embarqmail.com

Administrative Assistant

• Jennifer Ashworth
  Administrative Assistant, History
  Newcomb 105
  (540) 458-8771
  ashworthj@wlu.edu