History Faculty
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Derek Buckaloo Dr. Buckaloo teaches American history, with special interests in twentieth-century politics and culture, foreign relations, particularly the Cold War and the Vietnam War, and Native American history. His present research is on the "Vietnam Syndrome." |
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Bethany Keenan Dr. Keenan teaches European history. She is particularly interested in twentieth-century Europe, especially France. In her teaching and work, she focuses on transnational relations, social uprisings, and questions of national identity. Her current research is on a group of American expatriates in Paris who protested the U.S. - Vietnam War during the 1960s. |
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David Nordmann Dr. Nordmann teaches Western Civilization in addition to courses in East Asian history. His specialties include Meiji Japan, late nineteenth-century Korea, U.S.-East Asia relations and Asian-American history. |
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Brie Swenson Arnold Dr. Swenson Arnold teaches United States history, specializing in early American history, the Civil War, and women's and gender history. Her research focuses on gender, politics, and popular culture in the Civil War era. |
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Angela Ziskowski Dr. Ziskowski teaches Classical history and archaeology, with special expertise in Greek archaeology. Her interests are in cultural and ethnic identities, the formation of Greek city-states in the Archaic period, ancient Corinth, and pottery studies. |









