Our Faculty

Paul A. Townend, Associate Professor-Chair Modern And Early British and Irish History	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999	townendp@uncw.edu	910.962.3308
Nana A. Amponsah, Assistant Professor African History	Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin	amponsahn@uncw.edu	910.962.3692
Kathleen C. Berkeley, Associate Dean CAS & Professor	Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1980	berkeleyk@uncw.edu	910.962.7811
Candice Bredbenner, Associate Professor Progressive and Interwar eras and Modern American Law	Ph.D., Unviersity of Virginia	bredbennerc@uncw.edu	910.962.2656
Yixin Chen, Associate Professor Twentieth-Century Chinese socioeconomic & rural economy	Ph.D. Washington University, 1995	cheny@uncw.edu	910.962.3310
Walter H. Conser, Professor American Religious History	Ph.D., Brown University, 1981	conserw@uncw.edu	910.962.3412
Venkat Dhulipala, Assistant Professor History of Modern South Asia	Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008	dhulipalav@uncw.edu	910.962.2531
W. Taylor Fain, Associate Professor America in the world; International History	Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2002	fainwt@uncw.edu	910.962.3305
Chris E. Fonvielle, Associate Professor American Civil War, North Carolina, Lower Cape Fear & Southern History	Ph.D., University of South Carolina	fonviellec@uncw.edu	910.962.3449
Monica Gisolfi, Assistant Professor History of the American South	Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007	gisolfim@uncw.edu	910.962.3874
Tammy S. Gordon, Associate Professor Historical exhibition, Public History & US Social	Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1998	gordont@uncw.edu	910.962.4244
Glen A. Harris, Associate Professor African Amerian History, U.S History, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement & Hollywood and Black Film	Ph.D. Florida State University, 2003	harrisg@uncw.edu	910.962.7894
David La Vere, Professor Southeastern and North Carolina Indians, Southern Plains	Ph.D., Texas A & M University, 1993	lavered@uncw.edu	910.962.3315
Susan P. McCaffray, Associate Professor Russia, Soviet Union, Nineteenth-Century Europe	Ph.D., Duke University, 1983	mccaffrays@uncw.edu	910.962.7542
William J. McCarthy, Associate Professor Early Modern Europe, Iberia, Colonial, Maritime	Ph.D., Boston University, 1991	mccarthyw@uncw.edu	910.962.3313
Eva Mehl, Assistant Professor Latin American History	Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2011	mehle@uncw.edu	910.962.3692
Lynn W. Mollenauer, Associate Professor Early Modern French History	Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1999	mollenauerl@uncw.edu	910.962.3311
C. Lisa Pollard, Associate Professor Modern Middle East	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1997	pollardl@uncw.edu	910.962.3309
Michael M. Seidman, Professor Modern Europe and Social/Individual History	Ph.D.,University of Amsterdam, 1982	seidmanm@uncw.edu	910.962.3319
Kenneth P. Shefsiek, Assistant Professor Public History and Historic Preservation	Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2010	shefsiekk@uncw.edu	910.962.3861
Robert M. Spaulding, Professor Germany, European Political Economy, Global Trade	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989	spauldingr@uncw.edu	910.962.3934
Jarrod Tanny, Assistant Professor-Charles & Hannah Block Distinguished Fellow in Jewish History Russian-Jewish History	Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley,	tannyj@uncw.edu	910.962.7580
Larry W. Usilton, Professor Ancient and Medieval Western Civilization	Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 1971	usiltonl@uncw.edu	910.962.3312
Alan D. Watson, Professor North Carolina History	Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1971	watsona@uncw.edu	910.962.3314

Our Staff

Tammie Grady	Administrative Associate	Department Budget Manager & Web Content Coordinator	gradyt@uncw.edu	910.962.3656
Allison Lawlor	Administrative Associate	Student Personnel and Travel	lawlora@uncw.edu	910.962.3307

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