Colin F. Baxter (B.S., 1961, East Tennessee State University; M.A. and Ph.D., 1965, University of Georgia)
Professor and Chair. Dr. Baxter's teaching and research interests include British and military history, teaching the course, War in the Modern World, an elective for History majors and minors, and a required course for ROTC students prior to their commission.
Publications: The American Military Tradition From Colonial Times to Present, Second Edition, 2007. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1887-1976, Selected BibliograpyGreenwood Press, 1999. The Normandy Campaign, 1944: A Selected Bibliography,, Greenwood Press, 1996. The War in North Africa, 1940-1943: A Selected Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1995. Dr. Baxter has recently won both the College of Arts and Sciences Research Award and the University Research Award (1995).
Leila al'Imad (B.S., 1970, Beirut College for Women, Beirut, Lebanon; B.A., 1973, the American University of Beirut; Ph.D., 1986, New York University)
Associate Professor. Dr. al'Imad specializes in the history of the Middle East and has published The Fatimid Vizierate, 969-1172. Dr. al'Imad routinely makes trips to the Middle East to pursue her research.
Henry J. Antkiewicz (B.A., 1963, University of Michigan; M.A., 1967, University of Michigan; Ph.D., 1976, Ohio State University)
e-mail: AntkiewH@mail.etsu.edu
Professor. His areas of teaching include: Russia, East Asia, World History, Eurasia and America. Member of the Peace Corp in the '60's and later a faculty member at the University of Zambia, prior to coming to ETSU. He has also taught in Japan.
William Douglas Burgess, Jr. (A.A., 1970, Florida College; B.S., 1972 and M.A., 1975, University of South Florida; Ph.D., 1985, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
e-mail: BurgessW@mail.etsu.edu .
Professor, Departmental Academic Advisor, Faculty Advisor to Phi Alpha Theta, the International Honor Society for History, member of the Faculty Senate, Chair of the University Tenure and Promotion Appeals Committee, Chair of the University Concerns and Grievance Committee. His teaching areas include: World History to 1500, Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greek and Roman History, Medieval History, the history of Christianity, the Historical Jesus, Ancient Religions, Women in the Ancient World, and the philosophy of History (Historiography), Byzantine History, and other odds and ends. Research areas are the Isaurians in the Later Roman Empire and imperial Athens. He is compliling a bibliography for ancient religions available at: http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/religionbib.htm
Dorothy Drinkard-Hawkshawe (B.A., 1960 and M.A., 1963, Howard University; Ph.D., 1974, Catholic University of America)
e-mail: DrinkardD@mail.etsu.edu
Professor and Director of the African and African American Studies Program. Dr. Drinkard-Hawkshawe's teaching areas include African American history, Civil War and Reconstruction, and United States History. Her published books include Illinois Freedom Fighters: A History of the 295h Infantry United States Colored Troops, 1865-1865 (Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998); The Legacy of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998); The End of History? An Interdisciplinary Discussion (Co-edited with Henry Antkiewicz. East Tennessee State University Press, 1989), and David Augustus Straker: Black Lawyer and Reconstruction Politician, (Univeristy Microfilm Press, 1974). In addition to her published books, Dr. Drinkard-Hawkshawe contributed three articles to the Dictionary of American Negro Bibography (edited by Rayford Logan and Michael Winston, Norton and Company, 1982) and two articles to the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War edited by Heidler, ABC-Clio Press, 2000). She has many other articles published in professional journals, such as The Crisis and the The A.M.E. Church Review. Dr. Drinkard-Hawkshawe was a former Associate Dean in the School of Graduate Studies and former Chair of the Department of History, from 1989-1992.
Emmett M. Essin III (A.B., 1964, Austin College; M.A., 1965 and Ph.D., 1968, Texas Christian University)
Professor. Dr. Essin's teaching areas include : the American West and recent America. His principal area of research is the role of the mule in the U.S. Army in the West. Dr. Essin has also recently stepped down from the governing board of Phi Alpha Theta, after a term as a councilor. He is now serving as a national advisor.
Dr. Essin's book, Shave Tails and Bell Sharpes: The History of the Army Mule, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2000.
Stephen G. Fritz (B.A., 1971, M.A., 1973, and Ph.D., 1980, University of Illinois)
Professor. Dr. Fritz's teaching areas include: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, World War I, World War II in Europe, Facism and Facist dictators, the Holocaust.
He published works include, Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich (University of Kentucky Press, 2004) and Frontsoldaten (University of Kentucky Press, 1997), a study of letters and correspondence of soldiers in the Werhmacht on the Eastern Front, during World War II ( A History Book Club Selection). Recently, it has also been translated into German. Research interests include the German soldier in World War II and the everyday life of Germans during World War II and the years following.
Daniel Newcomer (B.A., 1993, M.A., 1995 New Mexico State University, and Ph.D., 2000, Texas Chritian University)
e-mail: Newcomer@etsu.edu (423) 439-4298
Professor. Dr. Newcomer specializes in Modern Mexico; Modern Latin America. Author of Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s Leon, Mexico (Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2004). Recently served as chair of annual journal prize
award for American Historical Association's Conference of Latin American
History.
Current Project: "Sinarquismo, Space and Power in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
Melvin E. Page (B.A., 1966, American University; M.A., 1968, Howard University; Ph.D., 1977, Michigan State University)
Professor. Dr. Page's teaching areas include: African history, World history, and research methods and philosophy of history. His research interests include: East African history, particularly Malawi in the early 20th century and World history. Dr. Page is the moderator of the H-Net "H-Africa" List. He has also been heavily involved in the African African-American Studies Program. Dr. Page is the General Editor for the recently published Colonialism: An International Cultural, Social, and Political Encyclopedia published by ABC-Clio in 2003. Dr. Page has taken the lead in the Department of History in developing courses which make use of new technology, particularly electronic resources.
Dale M. Royalty (B.A., 1964, Kenyon College; M.A., 1967 and Ph.D., 1973, University of Kentucky)
Associate Professor. Dr. Royalty's teaching areas include: The Early Republic and the Jacksonian Era, as well as the Vietnam War. For many years, Dr. Royalty, with the irreplacable help of help of Ms. Becky Grindstaff, directed major architectural surveys in northeastern Tennessee. His research interests are in the economics of the Jacksonian period, particularly banking and finance.
Dale J. Schmitt (B.A., 1965, Yale University; M.A., 1968 and Ph.D., 1970, University of Kansas)
e-mail: SchmittD@mail.etsu.edu
Professor and Graduate Coordinator. Dr. Schmitt's teaching areas include: Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the history of Science. His research interests include: seventeenth century New England, the history of community, and the history of the Tennessee frontier. Under Dr. Schmitt's able and careful direction, the Masters program in the History Department has become the largest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew L. Slap (B.A., 1994, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Ph.D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University)
slap@etsu.edu Assistant Professor. Dr. Slap specializes in the American Civil War era and nineteenth century American political, social, and military history. He has published articles in Civil War History and The Historian, and presented papers at conferences, including the American Historical Association. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872.” Slap also runs the Civil War Era Speakers Series at East Tennessee State University.
Personal website: http://faculty.etsu.edu/slap/index.html
Elwood Watson (B.A., 1990 and M.A., 1992 University of Delaware, Ph.D., 1999, University of Maine)
Assistant Professor. Dr. Watson's areas of teaching and research are America in the 20th Century, with an emphasis on Women's history, the Civil Rights Movement, and Popular Culture. He is currently working on a book on Ally McBeal
Adjunct Faculty
Ms. Mary Alexander (B.A. and M.A. East Tennessee State University
Ms. Melanie Storie (B.A. and M.A. East Tennessee State University
Ms. Pamela Vermillion (B.A. and M.A. East Tennessee State University
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
Dr. Frank Williams, Emeritus, former Chair. U.S. HistoryDr. Morton Brown, Emeritus, British History, Ancient History (recently deceased)
Dr. Edwin Grenniger, Emeritus, U.S. History
Dr. Eric Lacy, U.S. History (deceased)
Dr. James McKee, Emeritus U.S. History
Dr. James Odom Latin America
Dr. Ronnie Day, Emeritus European Intellectual History and World War II in the Pacific
Professor Allen Rushing Renaissance and Reformation History
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Last updated: Ides of September, 2002