Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Michael Huner
About
Michael Kenneth Huner teaches Latin American and world history and is chair of the History Department at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of the recently published book: Parishioners of Sovereignty: A History of Nationhood and War in Nineteenth Century Paraguay (University of Nebraska Press, 2025). He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011 and joined the Grand Valley History Department faculty in 2012.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-136 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3420
Elizabeth Ehlers
Department Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-150 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2037
Chris Jansson
Joint Department Coordinator (MLL/HST)
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: B-2-243 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3203
Jessica
Student Worker
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Minor: Anthropology
Gordon Andrews
Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
U.S. Labor & 20th Century History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-120 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3040
Gabriele Gottlieb
Associate Professor
U.S. Colonial, American Revolution, Crime & Punishment
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-218 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3613
Douglas Montagna
Associate Professor
19th Century U.S. History & Religion
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-240 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2939
Paul Murphy
Professor
20th Century U.S. Intellectual & Cultural History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-116 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3429
Nora Salas
Associate Professor
U.S. Latino/Latina History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-126 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3134
Scott Stabler
Professor
Social Studies Education
U.S. Civil War, U.S. Native American History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-206 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8699
David Zwart
Assistant Chair | Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
U.S. 20th Century History & Immigration
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-202 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8818
Tamara Shreiner
Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-214 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8568
Annie Whitlock
Associate Professor
Social Studies Education
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-208 MAK
Office Phone: 616-331-8208
Matthew Daley
Internship Coordinator | Professor
Michigan, Great Lakes, Urban, & Public History
Abigail Gautreau
Associate Professor
Public History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-236 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3414
Alice Chapman
Professor
Medieval & Intellectual History, Church & State
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-124 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2479
Grace Coolidge
Professor
Early Modern Europe & Spain, Gender
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-128 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2158
Jason Crouthamel
Professor
Modern Europe & Germany, Memory, Gender & Sexuality
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-228 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2931
William Morison
Associate Professor
Classical Greece & Rome
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-132 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2154
Carolyn Shapiro-Shapin
Assistant Chair | Professor
History of Medicine, U.S. History, & Public Health
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-220 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3445
Yue Liang
Assistant Professor
Environmental (Disaster) History
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Modern East Asia
Steeve Buckridge
Professor
Director of Namibia Study Abroad, African History, Caribbean History, & Material Culture and Dress
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-226 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8550
David Eaton
Associate Professor
African History, World History, & 20th-century
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-224 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2339
Michael Huner
Department Chair | Associate Professor
Modern Latin America, World History, 19th and 20th century, & State Formation
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-136 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3420
Chad Lingwood
Professor
Middle East History & History of Iran
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-112 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8697
Patrick Shan
Professor
East Asia, History of China, & 20th-Century
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-130 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8504
Yosay Wangdi
Professor
South Asia, Tibet, History of India, Religion, & Environmental History
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-212 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3614
Ian Van Dyke
Affiliate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-120 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8679
Brent Purkaple
Visiting Professor
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office Address: D-1-140 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-2386
Sarah Tate
Affiliate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-222 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8505
Adjunct Faculty
Denice Fett
Adjunct Professor
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-118 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8205
Gillian Hendershot
Senior Adjunct Professor
Email: [email protected]
Office Address: D-1-118MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3081
Stephanie Jannenga
Adjunct Professor
Email: [email protected]
office Address: D-1-138 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3298
Scott Lingenfelter
Senior Adjunct Professor
Email: [email protected]
office Address: D-1-234 MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-3540
Patrick Pospisek
Adjunct Professor
Email: [email protected]
office Address: D-1-112MAK
Office Phone: (616) 331-8817
Emeritus Faculty
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
David Stark
Professor Emeritus