UMSL’s History Department Degree Program provides students access to a prestigious faculty. Our regular history faculty members hold PhDs and publish extensively in their fields of specialization. At UMSL, you study history with teacher-scholars who write the books read by college students across the nation.
Current Faculty
Phone: (314) 516-5700
Email: acsayp@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 407 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
Inter War European Political and Diplomatic History,
New Deal Monetary Policy,
& St. Louis History
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Phone: (314) 516-6021
Email: austinan@umsl.edu
Office: 408 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
Egyptology, Ancient Medicine, Tattooing,
Hisotory of Health & Disease
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Phone: (314) 516-6451
Email: sbrownell@umsl.edu
Office: 460 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
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Phone: (314) 516-5735
Email: deborah.cohen@umsl.edu
Office: 466 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
U.S. History
& Mexican History
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Email: cosmopoulos@umsl.edu
Office: 507 Clark
Fields of Interest:
Greek Studies,
Archaeology
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Phone: (314) 516-5723
Email: padhist@umsl.edu
Office: 475 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
African American History,
U.S. History since 1865,
& St. Louis History
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Phone: (314) 516-5740
Email: fernlundk@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 469 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
The American West,
Modern US History,
& Mexican History
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Phone: (314) 516-4805
Email: ahurley@umsl.edu
Office: 417 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
Urban History,
Environmental History,
& Public History
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Phone: (314) 516-5739
Email: kangmi@umsl.edu
Office: 403 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
European Hstory,
Intellectual History of France, England, & Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Phone: (314) 516-5684
Email: lara.kelland@umsl.edu
Office: 418 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
Digital, Oral & Public History,
Collective Memory, 20th Century U.S., Puerto Rico,
LGBTQ History,
& African American Studies
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Phone: (314) 516-7246
Email: millerlau@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Japanese Studies
& Linguistic Anthropology
Phone: (314) 516-5599 Email: moskowitzk@umsl.edu
Office: 463 Lucas
Fields of Research:
Modern African History
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Phone: (314) 516-6380
Email: nolanjj@umsl.edu
Office: 509 Clark
Fields of Interest:
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Phone: (314) 516-5692Email: westhoffl@umsl.edu
Office: 471 Lucas
Fields of Research:
Gilded Age and Progressive Era,
American Democracy and Social movements,
& Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History, History of Education
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Affiliated Faculty
Rob Good (GoodR@umsl.edu) is a retired high school social studies teacher (Ladue High School) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education and History at the University of Missouri—St. Louis. In his 27-year career as a high school teacher Rob focused on issues of equity and inclusion in both the curriculum and the policies and practices of his school community. Rob has a Bachelor’s degree in history from Westminster College, a Master’s degree in history from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Missouri—St. Louis. Rob was named the Tachau Teacher of the Year by the Organization of American Historians in 2012, a Peabody Leader in Education in 2015, and the Missouri History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2016.
Director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library and Associate Director of Libraries for Special Collections at UMSL.
Email: jhoover@umsl.edu
Visiting research affiliate & instructor in Greek studies.
Phone: (314) 516-4908
Email: nmyqx@umsl.edu
Email: emxgk@umsl.edu
Originally from Corinth, Greece, Nikos Poulopoulos was educated in Classics and Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley, and in Modern Greek Studies and Philology at Harvard University. His interests lie in the history of ideas and the cultural history and poetics of Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly narratives of crypto-colonialism, bio-mythologies, reception and transnational studies. He recently edited a volume on the literature of the Greek civil war for the journal Hellenic Studies, and has prepared a manuscript on Graeculi and roman studies in nineteenth century Greece. Since 2017, when he received the Stavros Niarchos Greek Diaspora Fellowship, his research focus has been mainly devoted to transatlantic merchant networks and the Greek diaspora during the nineteenth century. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, ranging from fake news and Islam vs. the West, to traumatic oral histories and diaspora studies.
Emeritus Faculty
Phone: (314) 516-6874
Email: rmbliss@umsl.edu
Office: 412 Lucas
Fields of Interest:
Early modern English empire, North American colonies
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Email: bburkholder@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest: Spanish and American History
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Email: cooperj@msx.umsl.edu
Fields of Interest: American military history and American history
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Email: fauszj@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
American Indians, Colonial America, Fur Trade, Lewis &
Clark Expedition and Era, French Creole Culture in the
Mississippi Valley, Research Methods
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Phone: (609) 683-8378
Email: corbyfinney@verizon.net
Email: gerteis@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
History of the Civil War
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Email: steve_hause@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Modern Europe
France
Social History
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Email: cpkorr@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Social History of Sports
1850-present
Brittain, U.S., South Africa, Tudor-Stuart England
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Email: richardmitchell@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Modern Japan and Korea
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In Memorium
Email: rounds@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Museum Studies
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