History at Eastern Connecticut State University

History Faculty
  









From left to right, the History faculty are Professors Anna Kirchmann, Emil Pocock, Ann Higginbotham, Stacey Close, Catherine Lynch (Emeritus), David Frye, and Joan Meznar. Not pictured are Professors Jamel Ostwald and  Barbara Tucker.

Stacey Close  (PhD History, Ohio State University, 1992)
  
Professor of History
   African-American History, Recent United States
Webb Hall 325
860-465-4612
closes@easternct.edu
Dominic DeBrincat (ABD History, University of Connecticut)
    Visiting Assistant Professor (2007-08)
    US Legal and Constitutional History
372 High Street
debrincatd@easternct.edu
860-465-5506
Jennifer DeSilva (PhD History, University of Toronto, 2007)
   Visiting Assistant Professor (2007-08)
   Early Modern Europe, Gender, Medieval Europe
Webb Hall 350
desilvaj@easternct.edu
860-465-50038
David Frye  (PhD History, Duke University, 1990)      
  
Associate Professor of History
   Roman Empire, Medieval
Webb Hall 331
860-465-4600
fryed@easternct.edu
Ann Higginbotham  (PhD History, Indiana University, 1985)
   Professor of History and Chair
   Victorian Britain, Women, Modern Europe
Webb Hall 325
860-465-4604
higginbotham@easternct.edu
Anna Kirchmann  (PhD History, University of Minnesota, 1997)
   
Professor of History
   
Immigration and Ethnicity, Recent America, East-Central Europe
Webb Hall 347
860 465-4684
kirchmanna@easternct.edu
Joan Meznar (PhD History, University of Texas, 1986)
   
Professor of History
   
Modern Brazil, Latin America
Eastern Hall 9
860-465-4601
meznarj@easternct.edu

Emil Pocock (PhD History and American Studies, Indiana University, 1984)
   Professor of History and Coordinator of the American Studies Program     

  
US Revolution and Early National Period, Frontier, American Studies,    
   Shopping Center Studies

Webb Hall 352
860-465-4611
pocock@easternct.edu

Jamel Ostwald (PhD History, Ohio State, 2002)
   Assistant Professor of History
   Early Modern Europe, Military, Russian-Soviet history
Webb Hall 349
860-465-0356
ostwaldj@easternct.edu

Barbara Tucker  (PhD History, University of California-Davis, 1974)
  
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies
   US Colonial, Business, Connecticut

Library 473
860-465-4512
tuckerb@easternct.edu

                  
 
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