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.
Cass Hammerle (chky4@umsystem.edu) is the assistant director of the digital humanities lab and the program assistant for the Museums, Heritage, and Public History program.
In 2020, she graduated from the MHPH program and has been leading lab efforts since. Their focus interests include the preservation of collective memory and cultural identity and finding ways to involve community members in the preservation of their own stories.
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
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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.
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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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: rounds@umsl.edu
Fields of Interest:
Museum Studies
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