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Dr. Timothy May
is department head of History & Philosophy and a
historian of Central Eurasia and the Middle East
with a focus on the Mongol Empire and nomadic based
empires. He received his Ph. D in History from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a M. A.
in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University.
His publications include The Mongol Art of War
(2007) & Cultures and Customs of Mongolia (2009),"A
Mongol-Ismaili Alliance? Thoughts on the Mongols and
Assassins" in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society and "The Mongol Presence and Impact in the
Lands of the Eastern Mediterranean", published in
Crusades, Condottiere, and Canon: Medieval Warfare
and Society Around the Mediterranean. He is
currently working on two books--The Mongol Empire in
World History and The Rise and Expansion of the
Mongol Empire: The Mechanics of Conquest and
Governance.
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Dr. Timothy May
(706) 864-1913 Young Hall
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Email Address:
tmmay@ngcsu.edu
Department
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Ms.
Vicki Dowdy is the Office Administrator in the History & Philosophy Department at NGCSU. She joined North
Georgia in 1982. Her office is located in Young
Hall, Room 105, and she can be reached at 706
864-1903 or by fax at 706 864-1873. |
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Vicki M. Dowdy
(706) 864-1903 Young Hall 105
Email Address:
vdowdy@ngcsu.edu
Office Administrator |
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Dr. Richard Byers
is a native of Adelaide, Australia. He received his
B.A. and Honors Degree in History from the
University of Adelaide. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of Georgia. His research interests
include aviation history, memory and experience,
contextualism, and Modern Europe. Recent
publications include "A Failed Marriage: The
Fokker-Junkers Merger," published in the Journal of
Historical Biography. He is currently preparing a
book on the achievements and career of Hugo Junkers,
German aviation pioneer. He teaches Historiography,
Modern Europe, World War Two, The Holocaust, World
Civilization Surveys and Modern Southeast Asia. Dr.
Byers is Director of the History & Philosophy
Department's Wikipedia Editorial Program, and
Co-Editor of Etudes Historiques, NGCSU's History
undergraduate research journal.
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Richard Byers
(706) 867-2841 Young Hall
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Email
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Dr.
Troy Catterson is a native of New York City. He
served in the Army for 10 years as a Chinese
interpreter. He received his BA in Chinese Language
and Literature from the University of Hawaii at
Manoa. He received an MA in Religious and
Theological Studies from Boston University with a
specialization in the relationship between Science
and Religion, where his master's thesis on Quantum
Cosmology and Creation, No Time for Time:
Trans-temporal creation of a time-bound realm
was awarded a prize from the Templeton Foundation,
and published in The Journal of Faith and Science
Exchange. He also received his PhD in Philosophy
from Boston University. His research interests have
coalesced around the interplay of philosophical
logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and meta-ethics.
As such his publications include: "Reducing
Reductionism: On a putative proof of Extreme
Haecceitism." forthcoming in Philosophical
Studies; "The Semantic Turn in Epistemology: a
critical examination of Hintikka's logic of
Knowledge" in New Waves in Epistemology; "The
Problem with the Problem of Trans-world Identity" in
Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics;
as well as "How to Be a Moral Realist without Being
a Realist" in Philosophical Writings. He is
currently Editing a special volume on personal
identity for Synthese, An International Journal
for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of
Science, forthcoming in 2008, which will also
include his article: "On the Subject of
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Dr. Troy Catterson
706) 867-2793 Young Hall
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Address:
ttcatterson@ngcsu.edu
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Dr. Christopher Jespersen
is
Dean of the School of Arts and Letters. He also
teaches in the History Department. Dr.
Jespersen received his Ph.D. from Rutgers
University in 1991. He taught at the University of
Arizona and Clark Atlanta University before joining
North Georgia in 2001. He is the author of American
Images of China, 1931-1949, co-editor of Architects
of the American Century: Individuals, Ideas, and
Institutions in Twentieth-Century American Foreign
Policy, and editor of Interviews with George F. Kennan, in addition to numerous articles. He has
been a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar (twice) and
the East-West Center. In 2000, he received a
Meritorious Service Award from the United Negro
College Fund. |
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Dr.Christopher Jespersen
(706) 864-1771 Dunlap Hall 112
Email Address:
tcjespersen@ngcsu.edu
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Dr. Sung Shin Kim
is a historian of East Asia specialized in China and
Korea. After receiving her M.A. from Fudan
University (Shanghai), she came to the United States
where she earned her Ph. D. in East Asian Languages
and Civilizations from the University of
Pennsylvania. In her teaching, she aspires to take a
global perspective with a focus on intercultural
connections (material and cultural). This fall
semester Professor Kim will teach the introductory
survey “World Civilization since 1500,” and a survey
of “Late Imperial/Modern China” which will revolve
around the question what modern means in Chinese
history.
Her research focuses on political legitimacy, ritual
and power in China and Korea in the early modern and
modern periods. Her current project focuses on exile
in Chosun Korea as a way to explain the evolution of
its political system using literary sources. She
especially looks forward to advising students who
are interested in East Asian and Global history,
including Chinese military history. In the Spring
semester she plans to offer a course on Medieval
China in the Wider World. |
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Dr. Sung Shin Kim
(706) 867-3512 Young Hall 302
Email Address: sskim@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr.
Augustine Meaher, IV
is a native of Mobile
Alabama. He received his B.A. from Georgetown
University, He received his M.A. from Tulane
University and then transferred to the University of
Melbourne where he received his Ph.D. His research
interests include Military history, British and
British Imperial history, and Diplomatic history.
Recent publications include “Australia as Victim:
Keating and the Betrayal Myth”, published in
Australian Studies. He is currently preparing a
book on Australian civil-military relations between
the world wars. A recipient of the 2009 Pan Am
Historical Foundation Research Grant he hopes to
write on the development of commercial aviation
between Australiasia and the United States in the
near future. He teaches World Civilization Surveys,
British history, Military history and hopes to teach
a course in Australian history in the Spring
semester. He is on the editorial board of University
Press of North Georgia Series on War & Leadership. |
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Dr.
Augustine Meaher, IV
(706) 864 1905
Young Hall 305 Email
Address:
ameaher@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr.
Michael Proulx is a Roman historian with
teaching experience in a wide range of courses.
He specializes in courses that include such topics
as the World of Late Antiquity, Early Church
History, and the Byzantine-Islamic World. He
also has experience in Medieval Europe, the European
Renaissance and Reformation and East Asian History.
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Dr. Michael
Proulx
(706) 867-3510 Young Hall 112
Email Address:
mlproulx@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Jennifer Lund Smith earned her B. A. from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her main
field is in 19th century American History. Her
publications include chapters in Georgia in Black
and White, and Race in Appalachia, both
of which focus on the African American experience
during Reconstruction. Her work on the effects of
the Civil War on the marriage of Lawrence and Fannie
Chamberlain will be appearing in the forthcoming
book Intimate Strategies. She teaches both
halves of the American History survey as well as the
World Civilization survey course. She has also
taught classes on Reconstruction. |
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Dr. Jennifer Smith
(706) 867-2700 Young Hall
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Address:
jlsmith@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Tamara Spike
is a historian of colonial Latin America and Native
America. She earned her MA and PhD in History from
Florida State University, and holds a dual BA in
Anthropology and Classical Archaeology. She has
worked as a professional archaeologist on historic
and prehistoric digs throughout Florida. She has
worked since 1999 with the Guadalajara Census
Project, a group which works to analyze censuses
from the city spanning the years 1790-1930, and to
digitize these censuses for use by scholars,
genealogists, and the public
(http://www.fsu.edu/~guadalaj/).
Her publications include
“Making History Count: The Guadalajara Census
Project (1791-1930)” in the Hispanic American
Historical Review, “Si
todo el mundo fuera Inglaterra: la teoría de Peter
Laslett sobre la composición de las unidades
domésticas vs. la realidad tapatía, 1821-1822,” in
Estudios Sociales Nueva Época, and “St
Augustine’s Stomach: Indian Tribute Labor and Corn
in Florida, 1565-1763” in Florida’s Labor and
Working-Class Past: Three Centuries of Work in the
Sunshine State. Her
research focuses on the cultural reconstruction of
the Timucua Indians of Spanish Florida. |
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Dr. Tamara Spike
(706) 864 1912 Young Hall 303
Email Address:
tsspike@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Eugene S.
Van Sickle is an historian of American history,
from the colonial era through the Early Republic.
He received his Ph.D from West Virginia University.
His research interests explore American involvement
in the transatlantic community in the 18th
and 19th centuries, including American
colonization in West Africa. He is currently
preparing a book on John H.B. Latrobe and the
Maryland colonization movement. He teaches the
surveys of American history and advanced courses on
the history of early America. |
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Dr. Eugene VanSickle (706) 864-1911
Young Hall 116 Email Address:
esvansickle@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. S. N.
Wiedmann graduated summa cum laude with a
B.A. in Philosophy and Religion conferred by the
University of Northern Iowa in 1990. She remained
at UNI and completed an M. Phil. degree in
Philosophy in 1992. Her Ph.D. was conferred by the
University of Miami in 1996 where she was a
University Fellow. Her primary areas of interest
include Kant, Rawls, Ethics, Environmental Ethics,
and Political Philosophy. |
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Dr. Sally Wiedmann (706) 867-2745 Young Hall 114
Email Address:
snwiedmann@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Robert
Eldridge Bouwman graduated from Florida
Presbyterian College (now Eckerd) in 1970 and
received an M.A. and a Ph.D. (1975) from Emory
University. His specialty was American intellectual
history. In 1978, he published Traveler’s Rest
and the Tugaloo Crossroads, a local history set
in northeast Georgia. In the early 1980s, he was the
historian for the Georgia Office of Indian Heritage
in the Georgia Archives. From 1983 to 2003, he wrote
programs for business applications. In 1998, Bouwman
became an adjunct professor. He taught in the
History Department at North Georgia 2002-2005. After
a year at Kennesaw State, he returned to North
Georgia for the 2006-2007 academic year. |
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Dr. Robert Bouwman (706)864 1645 Young
Hall 201 Email Address:
rebouwman@ngcsu.edu
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Ms. Laurel Koontz is an adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. She is a
Doctoral Candidate of American/European History at
Georgia State University. |
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Ms. Laurel Koontz (706) 867-3511
Young Hall 202 Email
Address:
ljkoontz@ngcsu.edu |
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Joel McMahon
specializes in Southern U.S. History and teaches
U.S. and World History at North Georgia College and
State University, both online and face-to-face. Joel
holds an Industrial and Systems Engineering degree
from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a
bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Georgia State
University, and master’s degree in philosophy from
Georgia State University. He will complete his PhD
in U.S. History from Georgia State University in
2009. His dissertation, a biography of James Moore
Wayne, examines Georgia Unionism before the Civil
War. In addition to teaching, Joel is a small
business owner, a Registered Investment Advisor, and
has worked in the private sector as a financial
advisor in New York and Atlanta since 1991. |
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Mr. Joel McMahon (706) 867-2881
Young Hall 304 Email
Address:
jmcmahon@ngcsu.edu |
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Ms. Heather Murray is an adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. She is a candidate
for Doctorate of Philosophy in American History;
Louisiana State University. |
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Ms. Heather Murray
(706) 867-3511 Young Hall 202
Email Address:
hmmurray@ngcsu.edu
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Ms. Jessica Taylor is an adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. She has a
B.A. in history from North Georgia College & State
University and a M.A in history with a concentration
in world history from East Tennessee State
University.
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Ms. Jessica Taylor (706) 867-2716
Downtown Office (BB&T) 334 Email
Address:
jltaylor@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Jack T. Wynn
is an adjunct in the History & Philosophy
Department. Dr. Wynn majored in history at Georgia
State College, Atlanta, and received his Ph.D. in
Anthropology from the University of Missouri. His
Latin American archaeology specialty led him to
field work in Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and
Uruguay. He taught at Mississippi State University
and at the Universidad Nacional del Uruguay under
Fulbright sponsorship. He has taught Anthropology at
North Georgia since 1992. From 1979 until 2000, Dr.
Wynn was Forest Archaeologist for the
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, where he
helped discover a 10th century American Indian
culture, the Vining people in middle Georgia. He
published a summary of the Mississippian period
archaeology of northern Georgia, articles on the
Vining culture, reports and overviews of cultural
resources on the national forests, articles and
papers on Georgia archaeology, and reports on
excavations at the extinct 19th century mill town of
Scull Shoals, in Greene County, Georgia. Dr. Wynn's Anthropology Page can be found
HERE. |
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Dr. Jack T. Wynn
(706) 867-2881 Young Hall
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Email Address:
jtwynn@ngcsu.edu |
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS STATUS:
Professor Emeritus Dr. Marc Jason Gilbert, Email
address: mgilbert@hpu.edu
Professor Emeritus Dr. Georgia Mann, Email address:
gamann@ngcsu.edu
Professor Emeritus Dr. Ray C. Rensi, Email address:
rrensi@ngcsu.edu |
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