
Faculty and Staff
Program Chair

Mohamed Kamara
Acting Department Head, Winter-Spring 2018;Associate Professor of French; Program Head, Africana Studies
Tucker Hall, Room 303
540.458.8475
kamaram@wlu.edu
Faculty

Niels-Hugo Blunch
Associate Professor of Economics
On leave academic year 2017-18
Huntley 113
540.458.8619
blunchn@wlu.edu

Marc Conner
Provost and Jo M. and James Ballengee Professor of English
Washington Hall 214
540.458.8702
connerm@wlu.edu

Ted DeLaney
Associate Professor of History
Newcomb Hall 103
540.458.8963
delaneyt@wlu.edu
Colonial North America, Comparative Slavery, African American, Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian

Tyler Dickovick
Professor of Politics
Huntley 121A
540.458.8174
dickovickt@wlu.edu

Tim Diette
Associate Dean of the Williams School and Harry E. and Mary Jayne W. Redenbaugh Associate Term Professor of Economics
Huntley 210
540.458.8220
diettet@wlu.edu

Matt Gildner
Assistant Professor of History
Newcomb 218
540.458.8772
gildnerm@wlu.edu
Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin America Relations

Lucas Morel
Professor of Politics and Head of the Politics Department
Huntley 120
540.458.8161
morell@wlu.edu

David R. Novack
Professor of Sociology
Newcomb Hall 104
540.548.8792
novackd@wlu.edu

T.J. Tallie
Assistant Professor of History
On Leave Fall 2017
Newcomb 315
540.458.8775
talliet@wlu.edu
Modern African history, Africa in the Western Imagination, South African History, Global History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Staff

Shirley Richardson
Administrative Assistant II
Tucker Hall, Room 308
540.458.8821
srichard@wlu.edu