Robert S. McElvaine EMAIL
Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters
Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
B.A., Rutgers University
(601) 974 -1291
Office: CC 28

Professor of History
Department Chair
Robert McElvaine specializes in aspects of twentieth-century American history, empha-sizing cultural, political, and sexual and gender history, and teaches courses on American culture in decades of twentieth-century America. He is the author or editor of nine books, including five on the era of the Great Depression. His most recent major work is a reinterpretation of human history from evolution to the present, Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History (McGraw-Hill).

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David C. Davis EMAIL
Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., Baylor University
B.A., William Carey College
(601) 974 -1292
Office: CC 31

Associate Professor of History
Associate Dean, Arts & Letters
Field work in northern Ghana led to David’s dissertation on the lungsi drummers and their role in preserving oral traditions of the Mamprusi. Research in archaeology, Islam, and Christian missions help inform his courses in African history and research and travels in Israel, Jordan, and Turkey provide first-hand knowledge of the complexities of the modern Middle East. As former director and occasional contributor to the Heritage program, David builds on these experiences to help freshmen explore the global dynamics that have shaped the cultural heritage of the West.

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William K. Storey EMAIL
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
A.B., Harvard University
(601) 974 -1331
Office: CC 27

Professor of History
Director of the Core Curriculum
William Storey researches and teaches about the environment; technology; the world wars; Southern Africa; and the British Empire. He is the author of Writing History: A Guide for Students (Oxford, 2nd ed., 2003) and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (Rochester, 1997) as well as a forthcoming book, Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial Southern Africa.

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Kristen T. Oertel EMAIL
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
B.A., Cornell College
(601) 974 -1290
Office: CC 24

Associate Professor of History
Dr. Oertel teaches classes in early American history and specializes in courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, African American history, Colonial America and the History of Sexuality. Her research focuses on race and gender in the 19th century and her first book, Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas, was published by LSU Press in 2009.

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Amy Wiese Forbes EMAIL
Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.Ed., University of Georgia
M.A., University of Georgia
B.A., Louisiana State University
(601) 974 -1369
Office: CC 29

Associate Professor of History
Amy Wiese Forbes teaches courses in Modern European history that emphasize politics and culture, and specializes in the history of nineteenth-century France. She also teaches courses in medical history and European women’s and gender history. She is a very active author within her areas of study; one of her most recent works, The Satiric Decade:  Satire and the Rise of Republicanism in France, 1830-1840,  is forthcoming from Lexington Books November 2009.

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Andrew Paxman EMAIL
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A. (Latin American Studies): The University of California, Berkeley
M.A. (English Literature): University of Delaware
B.A., University of Southampton, England
(601) 974-1338
Office: CC 26

Assistant Professor of History
Andrew Paxman teaches Latin American history and specializes in 20th-century Mexico.  He also teaches courses on contemporary Latin American Studies, film history, and biography.  A former Mexico-based journalist, he is co-author of El Tigre: Emilio Azcárraga y su imperio Televisa, the biography of a Mexican media mogul.  He is now finishing a life-and-times study of William O. Jenkins, a small-town Tennessean who became the richest businessman in Mexico.

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