IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory

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History

Robert G. Barrows (Chair)

Campus Address: CA -503R
Phone: (317)274-2457
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: rbarrows@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor and Chair of History; IU Graduate School Faculty (Full status)
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/history/
Academic Interests: Indiana/Indianapolis history, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. history, American urban history, social reform efforts in Indiana during the Progressive era and the Great Depression (currently focusing on New Deal public housing projects in Indiana)

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Amy J Schramm (Office Coordinator)

Campus Address: CA-504L
Phone: (317)274-5840
Fax: 278-7800
Email: ajschram@iupui.edu
Appointments: Office Coordinator
History Department
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/history/

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Kevin Cramer (Director of Graduate Studies)

Campus Address: CA-503M
Phone: (317)278-7744
Fax: (317)278-7800
Email: kcramer@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Fellow, Max Kade German-American Center; Director of History Graduate Program
Academic Interests: Modern Germany and Europe, cultural and intellectual history, historiography, religion, nationalism, and the cultural and intellectual history of war.

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Anita (Ashendel) Morgan (Director of Undergraduate Studies)

Campus Address: CA 504N
Phone: (317)278-9020
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: aashende@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Department of History
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/history/
Academic Interests: Early American republic, women's history, Civil War, Indiana history

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David J. Bodenhamer

Campus Address: 1200 Waterway B
Phone: 317-274-2455
Email: intu100@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of History
Executive Director of The Polis Center
Academic Interests: Anglo-American legal and constitutional history, history of criminal justice and criminal law, nineteenth-century United States, and urban studies

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John R. Dichtl

Campus Address: 327 Cavanaugh Hall
Phone: (317)274-2718
Fax: 278-5230
Email: jdichtl@iupui.edu
Appointments: Executive Director of the National Council on Public History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
Academic Interests: Early American history, public history, religion

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Ch. Didier Gondola

Campus Address: CA 503P
Phone: 274-8160
Email: gondola@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of History
Academic Interests: Colonial Africa, African Diaspora, popular culture, gender and urban issues in west and central Africa.
Teaching: World history surveys and upper-division courses in African history.

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John R. Kaufman-McKivigan

Campus Address: CA 531
Phone: (317) 274-5860
Fax: 317-278-78000
Email: jmckivig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History
Academic Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history (the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras), American reform movements, and American ethnic history, American labor history

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Jason M. Kelly

Campus Address: CA 504B
Phone: (317)274-1689
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: jaskelly@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of British History
Department of History

Adjunct Associate Professor
Africana Studies Program

Adjunct Associate Professor
American Studies Program

Director
IUPUI-Newcastle Exchange Program

Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~british/Kelly.html
Academic Interests: eighteenth-century Britain, history of archaeology, comparative imperialisms, gender and masculinity, historiography and theory

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Daniella J. Kostroun

Campus Address: CA 504D
Phone: (317)274-8045
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: dkostrou@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Academic Interests: Early Modern Europe, French History, Women's Studies

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Elizabeth Kryder-Reid

Campus Address: CA 419
Phone: (317)274-1406
Fax: (317)278-5220
Email: ekryderr@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies; Director, Museum Studies Program,
Academic Interests: museum studies, archeological public programs, New World archeology, landscape archeology, and material culture studies, cultural heritage management, California mission landscapes

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Modupe Labode

Campus Address: 420 Cavanaugh Hall
Phone: 317-274-3829
Email: mlabode@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies,
Public Scholar of African American History and Museums,
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Academic Interests: African American/African Diaspora
Women's History
Public History/Museum Studies

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Justin H. Libby (Retired)

Campus Address: UL3135F
Phone: (317)274-3981
Appointments: Associate Professor Emeritus of History
Academic Interests: American diplomatic history, Japanese history, and naval war in the Pacific 1941-1945
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Erik L. Lindseth

Campus Address: CA 504P
Phone: 278-5745
Email: elindset@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer in History and Adjunct Faculty in the School of Library and Information Science
Academic Interests: Scottish history; Reformation/Early modern European history; Rare books and special collections

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Monroe H. Little

Campus Address: CA 503C
Phone: (317)274-0098
Email: mlittle@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Academic Interests: Afro-American Studies, American education, and recent American and Afro-American history

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David Luesink

Campus Address: CA-406
Phone: (317)278-6848
Email: dluesink@iupui.edu
Appointments: Research Associate, Medical Humanities
Academic Interests: History of modern China, history of medicine, science and technology studies
Teaching: Modern China, World History, History of Medicine in China

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Elizabeth Brand Monroe

Campus Address: CA 529
Phone: 278-2255
Email: emonroe@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Academic Interests: American legal history, public history, material history, local and community history

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Kevin C. Robbins

Campus Address: CA 503Q
Phone: 274-5819
Email: krobbin1@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Academic Interests: History of early modern France, philanthropy, European popular and material culture, European and comparative urbanhistory, religion and mentalities, and history of printing, the book trade, and magic. Current Research Project: "The Hospice of Humanity:Beaune's Hotel-Dieu and the Cultural History of Burgundian Philanthropy, 1450-1850."

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Nancy Marie Robertson

Campus Address: CA 503T
Phone: 317/274-8017
Fax: 317/278-7800
Email: nmrobert@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History and Philanthropic Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies
Faculty of the University Graduate School
Academic Interests: U.S. history; late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; American philanthropy; women; religion; U.S. race relations; women and banking; and history of citizenship.

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Eric Leland Saak

Campus Address: CA 503N
Phone: (317) 274-1687
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: esaak@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History
Academic Interests: Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe, Religious, Intellectual, and Political History of the 14th-16th centuries, the Augustinian tradition and the Augustinian order, late medieval textual culture, textual/literary theory and text editing.

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Philip V. Scarpino

Campus Address: CA 532
Phone: (317)274-5983
Fax: 317.278.7800
Email: pscarpin@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of History Director, Graduate Program in Public History Director of Oral History, Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence
Academic Interests: Public History, Historic Preservation, Oral History Environmental history, and environmental history of the Great Lakes comparing U.S.and Canadian perspectives I have worked with a number of museums that have mounted exhibits with environmental themes, several funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Teaching: H105, Survey of US History up to the Civil War H106, Survey of US History after the Civil War School of Eduction, Learning Community, H106 A410/H511, American Environmental History H412/H547, Historic Preservation H542, Introduction to Public History H750, Seminar in American History H543. Graduate Internship supervisor. Work with partners to arrange internships and funding for 10-month, half-time, paid internships. AY 2009-2010 19 paid internships, plus several volunteer internships with a number of community and campus partners; AY 2010-2011, 16 paid internships, plus three volunteers; 2011-2012 18 paid internships, plus two volunteers.

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William H. Schneider

Campus Address: CA 406
Phone: (317)274-7220
Email: whschnei@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of History
Director of Medical Humanities
Baker-Ort Chair in International Healthcare Philanthropy (2003-2010)
Academic Interests: French history; history of science and medicine, and twentieth-century Europe; global health

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Rebecca K Shrum

Campus Address: CA-504B
Phone: (317)274-3916
Fax: 278-7800
Email: rshrum@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of History
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/history/
Academic Interests: Public History, Material Culture, North America to 1850

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Michael David Snodgrass

Campus Address: CA 503S
Phone: (317)278-7761
Email: misnodgr@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Latin American History
Director, International Studies Program
Academic Interests: 20th-Century Mexico, history of immigration/emigration/return migration, comparative labor and working-class history, U.S.-Latin American relations.
Current research projects: 1) Across the Border and Back Again: Mexican Emigration and Its Effects on the Homeland;
2)Workers, Unions, and State Labor Policy in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1940-1978);
3) Peaceful Revolutions: The US's Alliance for Progress program in Chile and Brazil
Teaching: History of the Americas: a) Latin America: Conquest and Empire (F341), b) Latin America: Evolution and Revolution (F342), c) Modern Mexico (F346), d) US-Latin American Relations (F347), e) Latinos in the USA (A352), f) Comparative Native American History (H425)
Perspectives on the World Before 1800 (H108) and Since 1800 (H109)
Introduction to International Studies (I100)

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Marianne S. Wokeck

Campus Address: CA441D
Phone: (317)274-5820
Fax: 317.278-2525
Email: mwokeck@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Chancellor's Professor of History
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, New Media, Women's Studies, and University College
General Editor and Director of the Santayana Edition
Fellow of the Max Kade German-American Studies Center in the Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American history, colonial and Revolutionary history, history of the Atlantic world 1500-1800, immigration and ethnicity, and women's history, scholarly editing.

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Jon Wood

Campus Address: CA-504K
Phone: (317) 274-5840
Email: woodjd@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Assistant Professor
Academic Interests: History of Christianity, Reformation/Early Modern Europe, German language

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Xin Zhang

Campus Address: CA 503B
Phone: (317)274-4898
Email: xzhang@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History and faculty member, Center for East Asian Studies-IU Bloomington
Associate member, Center for East Asian Studies-University of Chicago
Academic Interests: Chinese History, Asian history, and world history

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Associate Faculty ( History )

Shannon Smith Bennett

Campus Address: CA-503P
Phone: (317)274-8160
Email: ssbennet@indiana.edu
Appointments: Future Faculty Teaching Fellow
Academic Interests: Nineteenth Century U.S. History, Civil War and Reconstruction, race and labor, public protests and rioting
Teaching: HIST H105 American History I to 1865

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Paul A Buelow

Campus Address: CA-313
Phone: (317)274-8254
Email: pbuelow@iupui.edu

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Tracey Lynn Jaffe

Campus Address: CA-313
Email: tjaffe@iupui.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Professor of History

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Edward Krzemienski

Campus Address: CA-313
Email: ekrzemie@iupui.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Lecturer in History
Academic Interests: sports history, film history

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Jason S Lantzer

Campus Address: CA-313
Email: jlantzer@indiana.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Professor of History
Academic Interests: Intersection of religion, politics, and law in American History. As well as Indiana History.
Teaching: I teach everything from discovery to the present when it comes to US History, and increasingly a good deal of World History as well.

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Thomas Alexander Mason

Campus Address: CA-313-E
Phone: (317)274-3811
Fax: (317) 278-7800
Email: masonta@iupui.edu
Appointments: Adjunct Lecturer
Academic Interests: Early modern England, early America, Lew Wallace and the U.S. Civil War
Teaching: Western Civilization (H 113 and H 114)

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Elizabeth R. Osborn

Email: eosborn@iupui.edu

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Jennifer Lynn Sovde

Campus Address: CA-313
Email: jsovde@iupui.edu

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David G. Vanderstel

Email: dvanders@iupui.edu
Academic Interests: 19th century US history; immigration; Indiana and Indianapolis history; public history; museums
Teaching: American History I (H105) and II (H106) The Nature of History (H217) Jacksonian America to the Civil War (A304)

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