Faculty
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Mark W. Clark
Kenneth Asbury Professor of History
European Intellectual History, Modern Germany
Thomas M. Costa
Department Chair and Professor of History
Colonial America, Slavery in the Americas, Virginia History
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor; Associate Professor of History
Donald Leech
Assistant Professor of History
Medieval and Early Modern Europe, British Urban History
Brian D. McKnight
Associate Professor of History
Civil War and Reconstruction, American South, Jacksonian Era, Local and Regional History
Assistant Professor of History
Public History, Progressive Era, Military History, War and Memory
David L. Rouse
Professor of Philosophy
Social, Political, Economic Philosophy, Ethics, Appalachian History
Cindy Wilkey
Associate Professor of History
Twentieth-Century America, Women's History
Associate Professor of Religion
World Religions, Comparative Religion
HISTORY FACULTY AFFILIATES
Lecturer
Western Civilization
Instructor
Modern Latin America, Social Studies Teaching Methods
Michael Samerdyke
Lecturer
Western Civilization
Lecturer
US Foreign Policy, 20th Century US, Russia, Middle East, Women’s Studies
EMERITUS FACULTY
J. Glenn Blackburn
Professor of History
Professor of History
Associate Professor of History
Professor of History
FORMER FACULTY
Lu Ellsworth
