HISTORY DEPARTMENT

Mackinac Hall D-1-160
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401
Phone: (616) 331-3298
Fax: (616) 331-2535

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

DEPARTMENT CHAIR

Dr. Michael Huner
hunerm@gvsu.edu 
(616) 331-3420

MEGAN KOEMAN-EDING, M.A.

Department Coordinator
edingme@gvsu.edu
(616) 331-2037
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CHARLYN WORTHEM

Secretary
worthemc@gvsu.edu
(616) 331-3298
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Gordon Andrews

Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
US Labor History, 20th century
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Gabriele Gottlieb

Associate Professor
US Colonial, American Revolution, Crime and Punishment
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Douglas Montagna

Associate Professor
19th-century US History, Religion
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Louis Moore

Associate Professor
African-American History, US 20th-century, Sports History, Gender
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Paul Murphy

Professor
20th-century US Intellectual and Cultural History
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Sean O'Neill

Professor
Social Studies Education
US Native American History
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Nora Salas

Associate Professor
US Latino/Latina History
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Tamara Shreiner

Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
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Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin

Professor
Assistant Chair
History of Medicine, US History, Public Health
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Scott Stabler

Professor
Social Studies Education
US Civil War, US Native American History
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Steve Tripp

Professor
US 19th and 20th-century History, Culture and Society, History of Manhood
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David Zwart

Associate Professor
Assistant Chair
Social Studies Education
20th-century US History, Immigration
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Matthew Daley

Professor
Michigan History, Great Lakes History, Urban History, Public History
Internship Coordinator
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Abigail Gautreau

Assistant Professor
Public History
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Alice Chapman

Associate Professor
Medieval History, Intellectual History, Church and State
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Grace Coolidge

Professor
Early Modern Europe and Spain, Gender
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Jason Crouthamel

Professor
Modern Europe and Germany, Memory, Gender and Sexuality
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William Morison

Associate Professor
Classical Greece and Rome
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James Smither

Professor
Director of Veteran's History Project
Early Modern Europe and France, Military History
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Steeve Buckridge

Professor
Director of Namibia Study Abroad, Brooks College
African History, Caribbean History, Material Culture and Dress
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David Eaton

Associate Professor
African History, World History, 20th-century
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Michael Huner

Associate Professor
Chair, Department of History
Modern Latin America, World History, 19th and 20th century, State Formation
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Chad Lingwood

Associate Professor
Middle East History, History of Iran
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Patrick Shan

Professor
East Asia, History of China, 20th-Century
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David Stark

Professor
Coordinator of Latin American and Latino/a Studies
Colonial Latin America, Caribbean, Slavery
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Yosay Wangdi

Professor
South Asia, Tibet, History of India, Religion, Environmental History
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Peter Dobek

Visiting Professor
Public Houses (Inns, taverns, and alehouses), Food and Drink. Urban History, Medieval and Early Modern, Central Europe, Poland
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Nathan Kapoor

Affiliate Professor
History of Energy and Electrification, Colonialism, Engineering History, and Women and Gender Studies
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Sarah Tate

Affiliate Professor
Social Studies, Elementary Education
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Jennifer Gonzalez Profile

Gillian Hendershot   Profile 

Scott Lingenfelter Profile

Patrick Pospisek      Profile

Edward Cole

Professor Emeritus

Dennis Devlin

Professor Emeritus

James Goode

Professor Emeritus

Frances Kelleher

Professor Emeritus

Lynn Mapes

Professor Emeritus

Joseph Preston

Professor Emeritus

Gary D. Stark

Professor Emeritus

John Tevebaugh

Professor Emeritus

Anthony Travis

Professor Emeritus

Kathleen Underwood

Professor Emeritus