Dr. Richard H. Immerman (Ph.D., Boston College.)
Marvin Wachman Director

Teaching and Research Interests: History of U.S. Foreign Relations, primarily but not Cold War; International History; Grand Strategy; History of Intelligence.

Office: 918 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204-7466

Dr. Beth Bailey (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Acting-Director

Teaching and Research Interests: 20th Century U.S. Cultural and Social History; History of Gender and Sexuality; War and American Culture; Social and Cultural History of Recruiting

Office: 944 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204 -  6146

Dr. David Farber (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Teaching and Research Interests:American political culture; Protest Movements; America in the World

Office: 950 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204 - 6145

Dr. Petra Goedde (Ph.D., Northwestern University)

Teaching and Research Interests: U.S. 20th century history, U.S. foreign relations, culture and gender in transnational contexts.

Office: 922 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204-6175

Dr. Peter Gran (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Teaching and Research Interests: Egypt and the Middle East, World and Comparative History, Political Economy.

Office: 844 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204-8913

Dr. Rita Kruger (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Research and Teaching Interests: Modern Europe, Eastern Europe and Habsburg history, European Gender, War and Society, Comparative Nationalism.

Office:919 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204 - 4858

Dr. Jay B. Lockenour (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Teaching and Research Interests: German History; Modern European Social and Military History; History and Film.

Office: 952 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204-7437

Dr. Harvey Neptune (Ph.D., New York University)

Research and Teaching Interests: Caribbean and Latin American; African Diaspora; Imperialism; Transnationalism; Nation-making; Popular culture; and Postcolonialism

Office: 836 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204 -  

Associate Director of the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society at Temple University .

Office: 1016 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204 - 9207

Arthur Schmidt (Ph.D., University of Indiana)

Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Latin America, especially Mexico and Central America; the Global Economy

Office: 833 Gladfelter Hall| Phone: (215) 204 - 7531

Bryant Simon (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Director, American Studies Program

Teaching and Research Interests: The molding of public culture in the United States and across the globe in the 21st century; Consumption and Power

Office: 836 Anderson Hall| Phone: (215) 204 - 2024

Dr. Benjamin Talton (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Teaching and Research Interests: Modern Africa, Imperialism and Resistance, African Diaspora

[Office: 931 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215)204-3809

Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame)

Teaching and Research Interests: U.S. Military History, War of Independence, Civil War, Indian Wars, World War II, U.S. Marine Corps.

Office: 945 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215)204-9746

Dr. Vladislav Zubok (Ph.D., Institute for the U.S. and Canada Studies of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Teaching and Research Interests: Soviet/Russian Political and Social History; The Cold War; The Impact of Wars and International Conflicts on Societies .

Office: 922 Gladfelter Hall | Phone: (215) 204-7437

Andrew McKevitt (Ph.D. Candidate)
Former Thomas Davis Fellow

Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations, the late Cold War period, Globalization, Transnationalism, US-Japan relations

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Wendy Wong (Ph.D. Candidate)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow

Research Interests: History of U.S. Foreign Relations (Franco-American Relations), Empire, American Revolution/Early Republic, 18th Century Atlantic, International History.

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David Zierler (Ph.D.)
Historian at the Department of State

Former Thomas Davis Fellow

Research Interests: History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Agent Orange and Vietnam


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Eric Klinek (Ph.D. Candidate)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2006-2007)

Research Interests: U.S. Military History

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Kelly Shannon (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor of History, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2007-2008)

Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations; International History; Global Feminism and U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S.-Muslim Relations

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Benjamin Brandenburg (Ph.D. Student)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2008-2009)

Research Interests:International History; The History of American Religion; Transnationalism

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Tim Sayle (Ph.D. Student)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2009-2010)

Research Interests: The History of International Relations; European, American and Canadian Foreign Relations; Transatlantic Relations

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Matthew Shannon  (Ph.D. Candidate)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2010-2011)

Research Interests: American Foreign Relations; Global Cold War; Public Diplomacy; International History

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Kaete O'Connell (Ph. D. Student)

Former Thomas Davis Fellow (2011-2012)

Research Interests: U.S. Foreign Relations; 20th Century Culture and Conflict; early Cold War; U.S.-German Relations

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David A. Guba, Jr. (Ph.D. Student)

Current Thomas Davis Fellow (2012-2013)

Research Interests: Student Movements in the Global Sixties; Franco-American Relations during the Cold War; History of Higher Education; Transnationalism

Office: 915 Gladfelter Hall

Phone: (215) 204-5892

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