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    Contact History, Anthropology & Philosophy

    hap@ung.edu
    706-864-1903 (Dahlonega)

    Dahlonega Campus Gainesville Campus
    Name: Tamara Spike,
    Associate Department Head
    Jeff Pardue, Department Head
    E-Mail: tamara.spike@ung.edu jeff.pardue@ung.edu
    Phone: 706-864-1912 678-717-3867
    Fax: 706-864-1873 678-717-3937
    Location: Barnes Hall 319 Strickland (Academic II) 129

    History, Anthropology & Philosophy Faculty & Staff

    Kendy Altizer
    Kendy Altizer

    Assistant Professor

    Phone706-867-2881

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 327, Dahlonega

    Jonathan Beall
    Jonathan Beall, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor, History

    Phone706-864-1645

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 302, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Military History

    Paul Buell
    Paul Buell, Ph.D.Profile page

    Part Time Faculty

    Office location Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Mongols, Central Asia, China, Japan, Korea, Indian Ocean, Age of Exploration, Medieval Europe

    Michael Buseman
    Michael Buseman, Ph.D.Profile page

    Lecturer

    Phone706-867-4409

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 310, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: American history, Appalachian history

    Erin Bush
    Erin Bush, Ph.D.Profile page

    Assistant Professor

    Phone706-864-1468

    erinbush.org/

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 325, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Digital History, Long 20th Century United States History, History of Crime and Punishment, Sensational Trials, Social/Legal History, Gender Studies

    Richard Byers
    Richard Byers, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone706-867-2841

    faculty.ung.edu/rwbyers

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 311, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: German history, Southeast Asia, modern Europe, holocaust/genocide, aviation history, world history

    Yi Deng
    Yi Deng, Ph.DProfile page

    Associate Professor, Philosophy

    Phone706-867-2745

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 330, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics, Chinese Philosophy

    Geran Dodson
    Geran DodsonProfile page

    Part Time Faculty

    Phone678-717-3634

    Office location Gainesville and Cumming

    Elizabeth Eubanks
    Elizabeth Eubanks

    Lecturer

    Office location Gainesville

    Dee Gillespie
    Dr. Dee GillespieProfile page

    Professor, History

    Phone678-717-3487

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 122, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. history , southern history, women's history, African-American history

    Thomas Greene
    Thomas Greene

    Assistant Professor

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 141, Gainesville

    James Grindeland
    James Grindeland, Ph.D.Profile page

    Lecturer, Philosophy

    Phone706-372-5899

    Office locationStudent Resource Center, 594, Oconee

    Area(s) of Expertise: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics

    Phillip Guerty
    Phillip Guerty, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor, History

    Phone678-717-3462

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 120, Gainesville

    Patrick Hightower
    Mr. Patrick HightowerProfile page

    Lecturer, History

    Phone706-867-2716

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 321, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Environmental history, U.S. history

    Victoria Hightower
    Victoria Hightower, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor

    Assistant Director, Nationally Competitive Scholarships

    Phone706-867-2561

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 301, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Middle east history, Persian Gulf history, pearl trade, gender studies, environmental history, nationalism, heritage studies

    Christopher Jespersen
    Christopher Jespersen, Ph.D.Profile page

    Dean, College of Arts & Letters

    Phone706-864-1771

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 318, Dahlonega

    Lesley Jones
    Lesley Jones

    Faculty

    Office location Dahlonega

    George Justice
    George Justice, Ph.D.Profile page

    Senior Lecturer

    Phone706-310-6362

    Office locationFaculty Center, 707, Oconee

    Area(s) of Expertise: American South, Constitutional History, Political History , Georgia History, Nationalism

    Ric Kabat
    Ric Kabat, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters

    Phone678-717-3902

    Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4120, Gainesville

    Sung Shin Kim
    Sung Shin Kim, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone706-867-2564

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 307, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: East Asian history (China and Korea)

    Glen Kyle
    Glen KyleProfile page

    Part Time Faculty

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 179, Gainesville

    Fredrick (Walter) Lorenz
    Fredrick (Walter) Lorenz, Ph.D.Profile page

    Assistant Professor

    Office location Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: African History; Middle East History; Ottoman History; Transregional Migration and Displacement; Settler Colonialism; and Transimperialism

    Johanna Luthman
    Dr. Johanna LuthmanProfile page

    Professor - History

    Phone678-717-3566

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 217, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: British Tudor and Stuart history (1500s and 1600s), gender history, history of love, sex, and marriage

    Timothy May
    Timothy May, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters

    Professor of Central Eurasian History

    Phone706-864-1913

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 314, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Mongol Empire, Mongolia, Central Eurasian history, Islamic history, the Crusades

    Diane McEwan
    Ms. Diane McEwanProfile page

    Lecturer, History

    Phone470-239-3109

    Office locationUniversity Center 400, 272, Cumming

    Area(s) of Expertise: World and U.S. history

    Robert McFarland
    Robert McFarland

    Part Time Faculty

    Office location Blue Ridge

    Augustine Meaher
    Augustine Meaher, Ph.D.Profile page

    Part Time Faculty

    Office location Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Modern Military History, British Imperial History

    Terence Morea
    Terence Morea

    Part Time Faculty

    Office location Gainesville

    Heather Murray
    Heather MurrayProfile page

    Senior Lecturer, History

    Phone678-717-3523

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 176, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: New South social history, Appalachian history, WWII American home front, public history/museum studies

    Robin O'Day
    Robin O'Day, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor

    Phone706-867-2793

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 303, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, specialization in Japanese culture

    Clay Ouzts
    Clay Ouzts, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone678-717-3651

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 149, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: American History, Environmental History, Environmental Studies

    Jeff Pardue
    Jeff Pardue, Ph.D.Profile page

    Department Head

    Phone678-717-3867

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 126, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: 19th c. Britain & Empire, Slavery, Caribbean, Atlantic World

    Renee Bricker
    Renee Bricker, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone706-864-1905

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 329, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: citizenship as democratic participation, using social media to politically engage, torture, religious reformations, Tudor-Stuart British history

    Michael Proulx
    Michael Proulx, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor

    Phone706-867-2562

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 305, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Roman History, Ancient Greek History, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe

    Danielle Riebe
    Danielle Riebe

    Limited Term Faculty

    Office location Gainesville

    Warren Rogers
    Warren Rogers, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone706-310-6230

    Office locationFaculty Center, 705, Oconee

    Area(s) of Expertise: History, Reconstruction

    Katherine Rohrer
    Katherine Rohrer, Ph.D.Profile page

    Assistant Professor

    Phone706-867-2563

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 309, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: 19th and 20th c. U.S. South, Race Relations, Women's History, Religion, Higher Education History

    John Romero
    John RomeroProfile page

    Assistant Professor

    Phone706-867-3258

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 323, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Russian History, Role of nations, Nationalism in European History

    Julie Scott
    Julie Scott

    Program Specialist

    Phone706-864-1903

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 317, Dahlonega

    Robert H. Scott
    Robert H. Scott, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor

    Phone706-946-5460

    Office location Blue Ridge
    Barnes Hall, 303, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Phenomenology, environmental ethics, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology

    Pam Sezgin
    Pam Sezgin, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, Anthropology

    Phone706-310-6229

    Office locationStudent Resource Center, 524, Oconee

    Area(s) of Expertise: Anthropology; World History; Museum Studies; Social History and Culture of the Late Ottoman Empire; History and Cultures of the Balkans and Anatolia; Sephardic Jewish Culture and Music; Historic Preservation

    Tamara Spike
    Tamara Spike, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Department Head

    Phone706-864-1912

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 319, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Latin America, Ethnohistory

    Jessica Taylor
    Jessica Taylor, M.A.Profile page

    Part Time Faculty

    Office locationStrickland Academic, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: World History

    Ann Tucker
    Ann Tucker, Ph.D.Profile page

    Assistant Professor

    Phone678-717-2263

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 208, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. history, southern history, Civil War era, transnational history, nationalism

    Barry Whittemore
    Barry Whittemore

    Part Time Faculty

    Phone706-864-1541

    Office locationBarnes Hall, 321, Dahlonega

    Kurt Windisch
    Kurt Windisch

    Lecturer

    Phone706-310-6229

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 208, Gainesville

    Alexander Wisnoski
    Alexander Wisnoski, III, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor

    Phone678-717-2272

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 215, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American History, Early Modern World

    George Wrisley
    George Wrisley, Ph.D.Profile page

    Associate Professor, Philosophy

    Phone678-717-2261

    ww.georgewrisley.com

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 205, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: Philosophy, Metaphysics (the relationship between language and ontology in particular), Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Wittgenstein, Buddhism, Nietzsche

    Ben Wynne
    Ben Wynne, Ph.D.Profile page

    Professor, History

    Phone678-717-3569

    Office locationStrickland Academic, 123, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: History of American South, Southern history, Antebellum American History, Civil War history

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