Acting Department Head

• David Peterson
  Professor of History; Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program; Acting Head of the History Department
  Baker Hall 203
  (540) 458-8094
  petersond@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: European Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation history; European Medieval and Renaissance church history and political thought; Dante, and Machiavelli
  
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Faculty

• David Bello
  Associate Professor of History, Director of East Asian Studies
  Baker Hall 122
  (540) 458-8770
  bellod@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Chinese and Japanese History
• Richard Bidlack
  Associate Professor of History
  Baker Hall 123
  (540) 458-8912
  bidlackr@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: European history, Russian history
  
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• Mark Carey
  Assistant Professor of History
  Baker Hall 214
  (540) 458-8772
  careym@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Latin American History, Environmental History
  
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• Ted DeLaney
  Assoc. Professor of History
  Baker Hall 109
  (540) 458-8963
  delaneyt@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Colonial North America, Comparative Slavery in the Western Hemisphere, African American history, Civil Rights, Gay and Lesbian history.
  
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• Erin Devlin
  Visiting Instructor
  Baker 109
  (540) 458-8379
  devline@wlu.edu
• Sarah Horowitz
  Assistant Professor of History
  Baker Hall 120
  (540) 458-8773
  horowitzs@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Modern European history, French history from the seventeenth century to the present, history of women in Europe
• Christian Jennings
  Assistant Professor of History
  Baker Hall 209
  (540) 458-8780
  jenningsc@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: African history, history of science, world history
• Holt Merchant
  Professor of History
  Baker Hall 124
  (540) 458-8778
  merchanth@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: The American Civil War and Reconstruction, the early republic, the constitution, the South
• Molly Michelmore
  Assistant Professor of History
  Baker Hall 213
  (540) 458-8779
  michelmorem@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: U.S. history, 20th century U.S. political, cultural and social history
• William Patch
  Kenan Professor of History
  Baker Hall 207
  (540) 458-8774
  patchw@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: Modern Europe, German history, international relations.
  
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• Hossein Sheiban
  STINT Scholar
  Baker 122
  (540) 458-8378
  Sheibanh@wlu.edu
• Taylor Sanders
  Professor of History
  Baker Hall 119
  (540) 458-8776
  17taylorbabs@embarqmail.com
  
  Teaching Areas: Ancient history, Classics, British history, history of W&L
• Roberta Senechal
  Professor of History
  Baker Hall 313
  (540) 458-8456
  senechalr@wlu.edu
  
  Teaching Areas: U.S. social history, Violence, Women in America

Staff

• Jennifer Ashworth
  Administrative Assistant, History
  Baker 118
  (540) 458-8771
  ashworthj@wlu.edu