Graduate Faculty

Renee Bricker, Ph.D.,
Professor, History
706-864-1905
Barnes Hall, 329,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: citizenship as democratic participation, using social media to politically engage, torture, religious reformations, Tudor-Stuart British history

Richard Byers, Ph.D.,
Professor, History
706-867-2841
Barnes Hall, 311,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: German history, Southeast Asia, modern Europe, holocaust/genocide, aviation history, world history

Dr. Dee Gillespie,
Professor, History
678-717-3487
Strickland Academic, 122,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. history , southern history, women's history, African-American history


Victoria Hightower, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, History
706-867-2561
Barnes Hall, 328,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Middle east history, Persian Gulf history, pearl trade, gender studies, environmental history, nationalism, heritage studies

Sung Shin Kim, Ph.D.,
Professor, History
706-867-2564
Barnes Hall, 307,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: East Asian history (China and Korea)

Dr. Johanna Luthman,
Professor - History
678-717-3566
Strickland 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, Ph.D.,
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters, Professor of Central Eurasian History
706-864-1913
Barnes Hall, 314,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Mongol Empire, Mongolia, Central Eurasian history, Islamic history, the Crusades

Michael Proulx, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, History
706-867-2562
Barnes Hall, 305,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Roman History, Ancient Greek History, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Early Christianity

Tamara Spike, Ph.D.,
Interim Associate Department Head
706-864-1912
Barnes Hall, 319,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Latin America, Ethnohistory

Ann Tucker, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
678-717-2263
Strickland Academic, 208,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. history, southern history, Civil War era, transnational history, nationalism

Alexander Wisnoski, III, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, History
678-717-2272
Strickland Academic, 206,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American History, Early Modern World