Department of History

Michael Batinski

Office: Faner 3277, Faner 3362

Phone: 618/453-7862, 618/453-7864, batinski@siu.edu

Michael C. Batinski came to SIUC in 1968, upon completion of his Ph.D. at Northwestern University.  A specialist in colonial America and the early republic, he has written The New Jersey Assembly from 1728 to 1775:  The Making of a Legislative Community (1987), and Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor (1996).  He is currently working on a two volume study of history, memory, and community in America from 1500 to the present.  The first volume, Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts, appeared in 2004.  The second volume focuses on Jackson County, Illinois.  In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Illinois State Historical Society and is book review editor for the society's journal.

Jane Adams

Office: Faner 3539

Phone: 618/453-5019, jadams@siu.edu

Jane Adams, who has a joint appointment in Anthropology and History, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1987, and came to SIUC the same year.Her research interests focus on the social movements and the rural U.S., especially in the mid-South and South, where race is a major social divide. More information about her research can be found at http://www.siu.edu/~jadams/mississippi_delta/mj_frame.html. Professor Adam's publications include The Transformation of Rural Life:Southern Illinois 1890-1990 (1994); ‘All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work’: The Memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman (1995), and Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed (2003).

James Smith Allen

Office: Faner 3321

Phone: 618/453-7896, jsallen@siu.edu

James Smith Allen arrived at SIUC in 1991, twelve years after he earned his Ph.D. in modern European History at Tufts University.  A specialist in nineteenth-century French social and intellectual history, Dr. Allen is interested primarily in the social history of romanticism, reading, and feminism.  His publications include three books: Popular French Romanticism: Authors, Readers, and Books in the 19th Century (1991), In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France (1991), and Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women (2000).  In 1994, he also edited In the Solitude of My Soul: The Diary of Genevieve Breton,1867-1871. His latest book project, which explores the intersection of personal and historical memory, is entitled "A Privileged Past: Reflections of a Pre-9/11 World." Dr. Allen also has a cross-appointment in the Women's Studies program.

Jo Ann E. Argersinger

Office: Faner 3335

Phone: 618/453-3380, jarger@siu.edu

Jo Ann E. Argersinger earned her Ph.D. from the George Washington University in 1980 and, before coming to SIUC in 1998, was at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Dickinson College.  Professor Argersinger teaches courses on World War II, the Cold War, and U.S. Labor History, including Women and Work.  She is the author of Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988) and Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry (1999).  She is a co-author of The American Journey (1998, 2001, 2004) and Twentieth Century America: A Social and Political History (2005).  She is currently working on a study entitled “Citizenship and Contested Visions of Democracy, 1930-1950.”

Peter H. Argersinger

Office: Faner 3340

Phone: 618/453-7074, parger@siu.edu

Peter H. Argersinger earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1970 and before coming to SIUC in 1998, taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Professor Argersinger teaches American Heritages, American Political History, Modern American History, History of the American West, and American Rural History.  He is the author of Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the People’s Party (1974); Structure, Process and Party: Essays in American Political History (1991); Populism: Its Rise and Fall (1992); The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: American Politics and Western Populism (1995); and co-author of The American Journey: A History of the United States (1998).  His research interest are American Political History, American Rural History, Populism, Third Parties, and Farm Labor.

Dona Bachman

Office: Faner 2469

Phone: 618/453-5388, dbachman@siu.edu

Dona Bachman came to SIUC in 2002 as Director of the University Museum and the Museum Studies Program. Her Ph.D. is from Northern Illinois University. She serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History.

Jonathan Bean

Office: Faner 3266

Phone: 618/453-7872, jonbean@siu.edu, cv

Jonathan Bean received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1994 and came to SIUC in 1995. He teaches courses on U.S. history, including business history, policy history, and the Great Depression. Dr. Bean is interested primarily in the history of business-government relations.  He is the Senior Editor for H-Business, an on-line journal for business historians.  He is the author of Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 (1996), which won the Henry Adams Prize of the Society for Federal Government History, and Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration (2001).  He is currently researching a book entitled Race and Liberty: The Classical Liberal Tradition of Civil Rights. Other research projects include the truth in advertising movement, smoking-health issues and the development of affirmative action for blind business owners. This fall he is teaching History 392 (Historical Research and Writing) and History 364 (The Great Depression in the US).

For information about his courses this semester, click here.

Getahun Benti

Office: Faner 3334

Phone: 618/453-6847, benti@siu.edu

Getahun Benti received his Ph.D. in African history from Michigan State University in 2000 and came to SIUC in the same year.  He teaches courses in African and world history, including a comparative slavery course.  Professor Benti’s research interest include urbanization-migration studies and the relationship between migration, language, and nationalism in Ethiopia.

Ras Michael Brown

Office: Faner 3332

Phone: 618/453-5242, rasmlb@siu.edu

Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2004. He previously taught at Dilliard University in New Orleans, Louisiana and at the University of Georgia. Dr. Brown's research interests center on the history of Atlantic world, specifically the cultural connections created between West Africa and the low-country of South Carolina and Georgia by the slave trade. This fall, he will be teaching History 101B (History of World Civilizations since 1500) and History 351 (African-Atlantic Spirituality).

Kay J. Carr

Office: Faner 3267

Phone: 618/453-7877, kjcarr@siu.edu

Kay J. Carr obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1987 and became a member of the department in 1989.  She teaches courses in American environmental history and early nineteenth-century America.  In addition to these specialties, Dr. Carr's research interests include Illinois history, immigration, the frontier, and historical geography.  She is the editor of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.  She is the co-editor of The Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor: A Guide to its History and Sources (1988)  and the author of Belleville, Ottawa, and Galesburg:  Community and Democracy on the Illinois Frontier  (1996). Her current book projects include a history of Illinois.

Professor Carr has taught:  History 101a (History of World Civilization to 1500), History 210 (American Heritages), History 300 (Origins of Modern America 1492-1877), History 301 (Modern America from 1877 to Present), History 392 (Historical Research and Writing), History 451 (United States History, 1815-1850), History 457 (American Environmental History), History 500 (The Historian's Craft), History 554 (Colloquium in United States History), and History 555 (Research Seminar in United States History).

Mariola Espinosa

Office: Faner 3268

Phone: 618/453-7075, espinosa@siu.edu

Mariola Espinosa joined the faculty of SIU in the fall of 2005.  She completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2003.  Her work focuses on the relationships among disease, public health, and colonialism in the history of Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America.  She is currently completing her book manuscript titled "Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878 Through the Early Republic.”

This fall she is teaching History 370a (Colonial Latin America) and History 499 (Disease and Power).

For more information about Dr. Espinosa and her class this semester, visit her website here.

Germaine Etienne

Office: Faner 3326

Phone: 618/453-7879, getienne@siu.edu

Germaine Etienne received her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  She is a specialist in African American history, particularly the pre-Civil War period.  Her research interests include slavery and the Old South, abolition, and northern free black communities.  Etienne is currently working on a book that examines the political implications of the nineteenth century black moral reform movement.

Charles Fanning

Office: Faner 2042

Phone: 618/453-6851, celtic42@siu.edu

Charles Fanning, who has a joint appointment in English and History, earned his Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and came to SIUC in 1993.  His research combines intellectual and literary history, especially related to Irish-American immigrants.  Among his twelve books is Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (1978), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.  Professor Fanning was named SIUC Outstanding Scholar in 2004. 

John S. Haller

Office: Stone Center

Phone: 618/563-3479, jhaller@siu.edu

John S. Haller, Jr., received his baccalaureate degree from Georgetown University (1962), his master’s from John Carroll University (1964), and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1968). Before coming to SIUC in 1990, he was affiliated with Indiana University, California State University-Long Beach, and the University of Colorado.  A professor of history and medical humanities, and former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences, Dr. Haller teaches courses in American intellectual history, the history of medicine, and honors. He is the author of Outcasts From Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 (1971; 1975; 1995); The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America (1974; 1977; 1995); American Medicine in Transition, 1830-1910 (1980); Farm Carts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance. 1794-1925 (1993); Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939  (1994); Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 (1997); The Making of a Medical Practice: An Illinois Case Study, 1885-1938 (1997) with Barbara Mason; A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, 1845-1942 (1999); The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 (2000); The History of American Homeopathy: The Academic Years, 1820-1935 (2005); The History of American Homeopathy: Rise of the Laity (forthcoming);  Sectarian Reformers in American Medicine, 1800-1910 (forthcoming); and more than sixty-five refereed articles. He is also the author of the electronic book, Samuel Thomson and the Poetry of Botanical Medicine, 1810-1860 and three data sets on reform medical colleges, societies, and journals published on the website of the Lloyd Library and Museum [http://www.lloydlibrary.org/reformmedicine.html]. His current research interests lie in the areas of medical theory and alternative medical systems. For the past seventeen years, Dr. Haller has served as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.

Holly Hurlburt

Office: Faner 3272

Phone: 618/453-7867, hurlburt@siu.edu

Holly Hurlburt earned her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2000 and came to SIUC in the same year.  She teaches western civilization and world history as well as courses in early modern Europe and women, family, gender and sexuality.  Her research focuses on women, gender and political power in late medieval and early Modern Italy.  Palgrave Macmillan press recently published her book, The Dogaressa of Venice:  Wife and Icon.  Her teaching resume includes both halves of the Western Civilizations survey, World Civilization I, a survey of Early Modern Europe, a course on Ritual and Revolt in Early Modern Europe, and courses on family, gender, and women in Early Modern and Modern Europe. Dr. Hurlburt is cross-appointed to the Women's Studies program.

Information about Dr. Hurlburt's classes this semester can be found here.

Robbie Lieberman

Office: Faner 3330

Phone: 618/453-7882, robl@siu.edu

Robbie Lieberman received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984, and came to SIUC in 1991.  A specialist in recent U.S. history, her particular areas of interest include war and peace, social movements, and music.  She is the author of My Song Is My Weapon:  People's Songs, American Communism, and The Politics of Culture, 1930-1950 (1989); The Strangest  Dream: Communism, Anti-Communism, and the American Peace Movement, 1945-1963 (2000); and Prairie Power:  Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest (2004).  Her current project  focuses on the relationship between civil rights and peace movements in the early cold war years. Professor Lieberman has also distinguished herself by being named "Outstanding Faculty Member in the University Core Curriculum" in 1999, Outstanding Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts in 2001, winner of the SIUC Women of Distinction Award in 2003, given for demonstrated commitment to diversity, and the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Scholar Award in 2004.

Professor Lieberman has taught: History 110 (Twentieth Century U.S. History), History 210 (American Heritages), History 354 (The Contemporary Unites States), History 454 a & b (Cold War United States), History 456 (The U.S. In the 1960s), History 554 (Colloquium in U.S. History - American Radicalism), and History 555 (Seminar in U.S. History - American Radicalism).

Daron Olson

Office: Faner 3340

Phone: 618/453-7878, olsondr@siu.edu

Daron W. Olson received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in 2006 and came to SIUC in 2007. The previous year he taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead. His research interests include Scandinavian history and Scandinavian immigration, with an emphasis on identity formation. His first book, Building a Greater Norway: Emigration and the Creation of Transnational Identities in America and Norway, 1860-1945 (based on his dissertation) is due to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. He teaches courses on Western Civilization, World Civilization, and East Asian History.

John Y. Simon

Office: Morris Library 329

Phone: 618/453-2773, jsimon@lib.siu.edu

John Y. Simon received a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1961 and came to SIUC in 1964. He teaches courses on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Illinois history. Simon is the editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, twenty-eight volumes of which have been published to date. In addition to his work on this series, he has published other books, written more than one hundred articles, essays and book chapters, holds office in national professional associations, and serves as a consultant for federal and state agencies, university and commercial presses, and other editorial projects. The recipient of many awards, Simon maintains active research interests in Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Illinois history. A listing of Dr. Simon's publications and presentations can be seen here.

Pamela Smoot

Office: Faner 4028

Phone: 618/453-7147, olivia@siu.edu

Pamela Smoot received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University and came to SIUC the next year.  She is cross-appointed in Black American Studies and History. Dr. Smoot specializes in African-American history and archival administration.  Her current research focuses on "Black Pittsburgh: The Depths of a Secret City, 1830-1945."

Joseph Sramek

Office: Faner 3273

Phone: 618/536-2233 , sramek@siu.edu

Joe Sramek received his Ph.D. from City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center in 2007. His research interests center on British imperialism in South Asia before 1850 and the ways in which politics and colonial administration intersect with masculinity and gender as well as race and class. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book and has published an article from his dissertation on British tiger hunting and masculinity in the summer 2006 edition of Victorian Studies. Prior to coming to SIU, Dr. Sramek taught at CUNY, the New School, and Manhattan College. He teaches (or plans to teach) courses at SIU on World History (History 101b), Western Civilization II (History 205b), Modern Britain (History 330), the British Empire (History 333), Modern India (History 381), and Culture and Imperialism (History 447).

Rachel Stocking

Office: Faner 3269

Phone: 618/453-7875, stocking@siu.edu

Rachel L. Stocking earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University and came to SIUC in 1994.  She is a specialist in late antique and early medieval European History.  Her particular areas of interest include Christian culture, religious-political identities, and Catholic political theology in Visigothic Spain.  She is the author of Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589-633.  Dr. Stocking teaches courses on ancient and medieval Mediterranean, European, and World history.

Professor Stocking has taught: History 101a (The History of World Civilization to 1500), History 205a (History of Western Civilization from Ancient Times to the Sixteenth Century), History 311 (Ancient Civilizations), History 315 (Medieval Civilizations), History 412 (World of Ancient Rome), History 413a (Medieval Society - The Early Middle Ages 400-1000), and History 522 (Colloquium in European History - Early Medieval).

Theodore R. Weeks

Office: Faner 3270

Phone: 618/453-7874, tadeusz@siu.edu

Theodore R. Weeks earned his Ph.D. from the University of  California at Berkeley in 1992 and came  to SIUC in 1993.  He teaches courses in world, European, Eastern European, Polish, and Russian history.  His research interests focus on nationality and ethnicity, in particular in the context of East- Central Europe.  He is the author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on Russia’s Western Frontier 1863-1914 (1996) and From Assimilation to Antisemitism:  The ‘Jewish Question’ in Poland, 1850 – 1914 (2003).  He is presently working on a history of Vilnius, Lithuania's present-day capital, as a multi-ethnic city from 1795 to 2000.

Professor Weeks has taught: History 101B (World History since 1500), History 205A & B (History of Western Civilization from Ancient Times - Present), History 338 (Eastern Europe), History 339 (Twentieth-Century Russian Culture and Society), and History 437A & B (History of Russia 1860-Present). For more information about Professor Weeks, including his research and current class offerings, visit his website here.

Gray Whaley

Office: Faner 3263

Phone: 618/453-7871, gwhaley@siu.edu

Dr. Whaley's research and teaching interests focus on Native American history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2002 and he has previously taught at the University of Oregon, Western Michigan University, and Grand Valley State University. He will be teaching History 301 (Modern America since 1877) and History 493 (American Indians and Government) this fall.

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Office: Faner 3271

Phone: 618/453-7873, jwiesen@siu.edu

S. Jonathan Wiesen earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1997 and, before coming to SIUC in 1998, he taught at Colgate University.  Professor Wiesen’s teaching interests are Modern European and Modern German history, and the history of the Holocaust.  He has written articles on historical memory, transatlantic relations, and anti-Semitism in Modern Germany. His book West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past (2001) was co-winner of the 2002 book prize from the Hagley Museum and Library, and he is coeditor of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007).  His current research project is an intellectual history of marketing, public relations, and mass culture in Nazi Germany.

Professor Wiesen teaches: History 101b (History of World Civilization Since the Age of Encounter), History 205b (History of Western Civilization Seventeenth Century to Present), History 425A & B (Twentieth Century Europe),  History 433 (Modern Germany), and History 444 (The Holocaust), along with graduate courses.

David L. Wilson

Office: Faner 3268

Phone: 618/453-7871, dwilson@siu.edu

David L. Wilson came to SIUC in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1974.  He teaches United States Foreign Relations with special interests in Sino-American relations during the 1920s and 1930s and the American Civil War.  He joined the faculty full time in 1991 after serving for many years as an associate editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.  Dr. Wilson is the co-author of The Presidency of Warren G. Harding (1977), co-editor of Ulysses S. Grant: Essays and Documents (1981), and has written numerous scholarly articles.  His most recent article, "Trading Places: The Historic Roots of United States Trade Policy," appeared in Estudios Norte Americanos, 3 (2004): 247-259. He currently is Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate School.

Hale Yilmaz

Office: Faner 3328

Phone: 618/453-7870, yilmaz@siu.edu

Dr. Yilmaz received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2006. Her research and teaching interests center on Middle Eastern history, including Turkish history and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Dr. Yilmaz previously taught at the University of Montana. She has taught History 101B (World History since 1500), History 207B (World History since the 15th Century), History 383 (Islamic Civilization), History 486 (The Arab-Israeli Conflict), and History 493 (Islamic Political Movements). In the spring of 2008. Dr. Yilmaz will be teaching History 384 (The Modern Middle East).

Natasha Zaretsky

Office: Faner 3330

Phone: 618/453-7876, zaretsky@siu.edu

Natasha Zaretsky received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the Department of American Civilization at Brown University.  Her research interests include U.S. history after 1945, American cultural history, women's and gender history, history of the family, and contemporary theories of race and ethnicity.  She teaches courses in modern American history (History 301 and 110), historical research and writing (History 392 and 499), and historiography (History 501).  She has also taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on gender and the family in modern U.S. history.  Her upcoming book, No Direction Home: the American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980, explores the place of the family in debates about American national decline between 1968 and 1980.  It is being published in April 2007 by The University of North Carolina Press.  Her essays have also appeared in The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (Temple University Press, 2003) and Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (The University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2007).  She is currently at work on a new project about the political debate surrounding the ratification of the Panama Canal treaties in the late 1970s.

Dr. Zaretsky's course webpage can be found here.

Howard W. Allen

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, hwallen@siu.edu

Howard W. Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1959, and joined the SIUC faculty three years later. He was the Executive Director of the Social Science History Association from 1981 to 1993. Professor Allen is an authority on the application of quantitative methods to historical research. He is also the department's specialist on the Progressive Era. His publications include Electoral Change and Stability in American Political History (1971) and Poindexter of Washington: A Study of Progressive Politics (1981).

H. Arnold Barton

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, habarton@siu.edu

H. Arnold Barton has been at SIUC since 1970. He earned his doctorate from Princeton in 1962, and received an honorary doctorate from Sweden's ancient Uppsala University in 1989. Dr. Barton's research interests include 18th century Europe, Scandinavia, France, and American immigration. He was the editor of the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly from 1974 to 1990. Among his books are Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914 (1975); Count Axel von Fersen: Aristocrat in an Age of Revolution (1975); The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga (1979); Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 (1986), and A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans (1994), Northern Acadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 (1998), and Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905 (2003), as well as edited volumes and translations. In 1988, the Royal Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vasa Order of America named this distinguished historian "Swedish-American of the Year."  He was made a Knight-Commander of the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star in 2000 by King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Dale Bengtson

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, bengtson@siu.edu

Dale Bengtson received his Ph.D. from The Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1971, and joined the faculty in 1973. He teaches and does research in the History of Religions. His articles and essays have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Professor Bengtson has taught: History 112 (Twentieth Century World), History 202 (America's Religious Diversity), and History 368 (American Religious History).

M. Browning Carrott

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865

M. Browning Carrott took his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1966, and came to SIUC the next year. Dr. Carrott (who also has a degree in law) specializes in United States Constitutional and legal history. He has published many articles on the Supreme Court in the 1920s. Professor Carrott also teaches a popular course in United States military history.

Donald Detwiler

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, detwiler@siu.edu

Donald S. Detwiler earned his Dr. phil. cum laude at Goettingen University, Germany, in 1961, and joined the SIU faculty in 1967. A specialist in German and Contemporary history, Dr. Detwiler has continued to teach a course in twentieth-century dictaoprships and global conflict, 1919-1945, and to supervise readings since his retirement in 1998. He is the chairman of the World War Two Studies Association, the vice-president of the international association with which it is affiliated, and a past president of the Association for the Bibliography of History. He is the principal editor of two multi-volume archival collections, World War II German Military Studies and War in Asia and the Pacific, 1937-1949 (1979 and 1980). His books include Germany: A Short History, 3rd ed., rev. (1999); and, with Ilse E. Detwiler as joint author, an annotated bibliography on Germany (vol. 72, Clio World Bibliographical Series, 1987).

John E. Dotson

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, jdotson@siu.edu

John E. Dotson took his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1969, and came to SIUC the next year.  He teaches courses in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history.  The author of many articles on the maritime history of late medieval Italy, Professor Dotson's Merchant Culture in Fourteenth Century Venice: The Zibaldone Da Canal appeared in 1993.  His Christopher Columbus and His Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents (1998) is the fourth volume in the Repertorium Columbianum, an international project to edit the earliest sources documenting the encounter between America and Europe. He is currently working on a study of the conflict between Genoa and Venice for domination of Mediterranean Sea in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Professor Dotson has taught: History 205a (History of Western Civilization to 1600), History 315 (Medieval Europe), History 320 (Early Modern Europe), History 413b (The Late Middle Ages 1000-1400), History 418 (Renaissance), History 420 (Reformation), History 522 (Colloquium in European History), and History 523 (Research Seminar in European History).

Vincent A. Lacey

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, vlacey@siu.edu

Vincent A. Lacey completed his Ph.D. in History at SIUC in 1984.  Dr. Lacey is the Director Emeritus of the Computer Assisted Instruction and Research Laboratory (CAIRL) on campus.  Professor Lacey also teaches our course on Quantitative Research in History.  He is the co-author of Illinois Elections, 1818-1900: Candidates and Country Returns for President, Governor, Senate and House of Representatives (1992).

Edward J. O'Day

Office: Faner 3264

Phone: 618/453-7865, edoday@siu.edu</