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Dr. Georgia Mann is
Head of the History & Philosophy Department. She is a European imperial historian
with a focus on the United Kingdom and its
intelligence and propaganda network in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her
M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Texas.
Her publications include biographical essays on John
Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, the novelist whose writings
also reveal aspects of the British imperial
enterprise, and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, a
French restoration architect. She is director
of the department's Internship program and director
of the oral history program. During the summer of 2001, she taught
courses in the Georgia system study abroad program
in Greece and in the summer of 2003, she taught in
London. |
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Dr. Georgia Mann, Department Head (706)
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Ms.
Vicki Dowdy is the Senior Administrative Secretary
in the History & Philosophy Department at NGCSU. She joined North
Georgia in 1982. Her office is located in Young
Hall, Room 105, and she can be reached at 706
864-1903 or by fax at 706 864-1873. |
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Vicki M. Dowdy
(706) 864-1903 Young Hall 105
Senior Administrative
Secretary
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Dr. Richard Byers is a native of
Adelaide, Australia. He received his B.A. and Honors
Degree in History from the University of Adelaide.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Georgia. His research interests include aviation
history, memory and experience, contextualism, and
Modern Europe. He is currently preparing a book on
the achievements and career of Hugo Junkers, German
aviation pioneer. He teaches Historiography, Modern
Germany, World War Two, World Civilization Surveys
and the Modern Middle East. Over the next year he
will also teach Modern Europe and the Holocaust. |
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Dr. Richard Byers (706) 867-2841 Young Hall
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Dr.
Troy Catterson is a native of New York City. He
served in the Army for 10 years as a Chinese
interpreter. He received his BA in Chinese Language
and Literature from the University of Hawaii at
Manoa. He received an MA in Religious and
Theological Studies from Boston University with a
specialization in the relationship between Science
and Religion, where his master's thesis on Quantum
Cosmology and Creation, No Time for Time:
Trans-temporal creation of a time-bound realm
was awarded a prize from the Templeton Foundation,
and published in The Journal of Faith and Science
Exchange. He also received his PhD in Philosophy
from Boston University. His research interests have
coalesced around the interplay of philosophical
logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and meta-ethics.
As such his publications include: "Reducing
Reductionism: On a putative proof of Extreme
Haecceitism." forthcoming in Philosophical
Studies; "The Semantic Turn in Epistemology: a
critical examination of Hintikka's logic of
Knowledge" in New Waves in Epistemology; "The
Problem with the Problem of Trans-world Identity" in
Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics;
as well as "How to Be a Moral Realist without Being
a Realist" in Philosophical Writings. He is
currently Editing a special volume on personal
identity for Synthese, An International Journal
for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of
Science, forthcoming in 2008, which will also
include his article: "On the Subject of
Subjectivity." |
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Dr. Troy Catterson
(706) 867-2793 Dunlap Hall
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ttcatterson@ngcsu.edu
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Dr. Christopher Jespersen
is
Dean of the School of Arts and Letters. He also
teaches in the History Department. Dr.
Jespersen received his Ph.D. from Rutgers
University in 1991. He taught at the University of
Arizona and Clark Atlanta University before joining
North Georgia in 2001. He is the author of American
Images of China, 1931-1949, co-editor of Architects
of the American Century: Individuals, Ideas, and
Institutions in Twentieth-Century American Foreign
Policy, and editor of Interviews with George F. Kennan, in addition to numerous articles. He has
been a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar (twice) and
the East-West Center. In 2000, he received a
Meritorious Service Award from the United Negro
College Fund. |
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Dr. Christopher Jespersen
(706) 864-1771 Dunlap Hall 112
tcjespersen@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Timothy May is a historian of Central Eurasia
and the Middle East with a focus on the Mongol
Empire and nomadic based empires. He received his
Ph. D in History from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a M. A. in Central
Eurasian Studies from Indiana University. His
publications include "A Mongol-Ismaili Alliance?
Thoughts on the Mongols and Assassins" in the
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and "The
Mongol Presence and Impact in the Lands of the
Eastern Mediterranean", published in Crusades,
Condottiere, and Canon: Medieval Warfare and
Society Around the Mediterranean. He is
currently co-authoring a book titled The Horse
and the Origins of Horse Medicine in China with
Paul Buell, Ph. D. of Western Washington University
and David Ramey, D.V.M. as well as working on a book
on the Mongol military in the 13th century. |
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Dr. Timothy May (706) 864-1913
Young Hall
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Dr. Jennifer Lund Smith earned her B. A. from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her main
field is in 19th century American History. Her
publications include chapters in Georgia in Black
and White, and Race in Appalachia, both
of which focus on the African American experience
during Reconstruction. Her work on the effects of
the Civil War on the marriage of Lawrence and Fannie
Chamberlain will be appearing in the forthcoming
book Intimate Strategies. She teaches both
halves of the American History survey as well as the
World Civilization survey course. She has also
taught classes on Reconstruction. |
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Dr. Jennifer Smith (706) 867-2700 Young Hall
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jlsmith@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Tamara Spike
is a historian of colonial Latin America and Native
America. She earned her MA and PhD in History from
Florida State University, and holds a dual BA in
Anthropology and Classical Archaeology. She has
worked as a professional archaeologist on historic
and prehistoric digs throughout Florida, and has
also worked on an Etrusco-Roman site outside of
Siena, Italy. She served as Assistant Director of
the Guadalajara Census Project, a group which works
to analyze censuses from the city spanning the years
1790-1930, and to digitize these censuses for use by
scholars, genealogists, and the public (http://www.fsu.edu/~guadalaj/).
Her research focuses on the cultural reconstruction
of the Timucua Indians of Spanish Florida. |
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Dr. Tamara Spike (706) 864 1912
Young Hall 303
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Dr. Eugene S.
Van Sickle is an historian of American history,
from the colonial era through the Early Republic.
He received his Ph.D from West Virginia University.
His research interests explore American involvement
in the transatlantic community in the 18th
and 19th centuries, including American
colonization in West Africa. He is currently
preparing a book on John H.B. Latrobe and the
Maryland colonization movement. He teaches the
surveys of American history and advanced courses on
the history of early America. |
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Dr. Eugene VanSickle (706) 864-1911
Young Hall 116
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Dr. S. N.
Wiedmann graduated summa cum laude with a
B.A. in Philosophy and Religion conferred by the
University of Northern Iowa in 1990. She remained
at UNI and completed an M. Phil. degree in
Philosophy in 1992. Her Ph.D. was conferred by the
University of Miami in 1996 where she was a
University Fellow. Her primary areas of interest
include Kant, Rawls, Ethics, Environmental Ethics,
and Political Philosophy. |
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Dr. Sally Wiedmann
(706) 867-2745 Dunlap Hall 201B
snwiedmann@ngcsu.edu
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Mr. Shannon Bontrager is adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. He earned his M.A. in
History in 2001 at Central Michigan University, and
his B.A. in 1996 at Ambassador University in Texas.
Mr. Bontrager is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at
Georgia State University. His fields of study
are: 19th Century U.S. Culture, 20th Century
U.S. Culture, Transnational U.S., Modern Britain,
World Religion, and Urban History. |
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Mr. Shannon Bontrager (706) 864-1645
BB&T Bldg, 3rd Floor, Room 338
stbontrager@ngcsu.edu |
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Dr. Robert
Eldridge Bouwman graduated from Florida
Presbyterian College (now Eckerd) in 1970 and
received an M.A. and a Ph.D. (1975) from Emory
University. His specialty was American intellectual
history. In 1978, he published Traveler’s Rest
and the Tugaloo Crossroads, a local history set
in northeast Georgia. In the early 1980s, he was the
historian for the Georgia Office of Indian Heritage
in the Georgia Archives. From 1983 to 2003, he wrote
programs for business applications. In 1998, Bouwman
became an adjunct professor. He taught in the
History Department at North Georgia 2002-2005. After
a year at Kennesaw State, he returned to North
Georgia for the 2006-2007 academic year. |
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Mr. Robert Cuddy is an adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. He will earn his
M.A. in Education, Social Sciences, August 2007 at
North Georgia College & State University. |
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Mr. Robert Cuddy (706) 864-1903
Young Hall, Classrooms 206
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Ms. Heather Murray is an adjunct
in the History & Philosophy Department. She is a candidate
for Doctorate of Philosophy in American History;
Louisiana State University. |
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Ms. Heather Murray
(706) 864 1645 BB&T Bldg, 3rd Floor,
Room 338
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Aubrey
Underwood is a PhD candidate currently working
on her dissertation on the reheating of the Cold War
from 1976-1985. She received her BA in anthropology
from the University of Alabama and her MA in history
from Georgia State. Aubrey recently presented her
work at the 2007 American Historical Association's
annual conference and is working on an article on
religious cinema and the Cold War. In addition, she
contributed to the documentary film, Muted Riot:
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, which received
special recognition from Georgia State University.
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Ms. Aubrey Underwood (706) 867-2881
Young Hall, Room 304
anunderwood@ngcsu.edu
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Dr. Jack T. Wynn
is
an adjunct in the History & Philosophy Department. Dr. Wynn majored in history at Georgia State
College, Atlanta, and received his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in Anthropology from the University of
Missouri-Columbia. His dissertation was on the Tairona people of northern Colombia. His specialty
of Latin American archaeology led him to field work
in Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay. He
taught at Mississippi State University, where he
co-founded the Latin American Studies Program and at
the Universidad Nacional del Uruguay under Fulbright
sponsorship. He has taught Anthropology part-time
at North Georgia since 1992. From 1979 until his
retirement in 2000, Dr. Wynn was Forest
Archaeologist for the Chattahoochee-Oconee National
Forests, where he helped discover a 10th century
American Indian culture, the Vining people in middle
Georgia. He published a summary of the Mississippian
period archaeology of northern Georgia, overviews of
cultural resources on the national forests, and
articles and papers at professional meetings on
Georgia archaeology and history. Since 1997, he has
directed excavations at the 19th century
mill village of Scull Shoals in Greene County. He
is president of the non-profit Friends of Scull
Shoals, Inc., set up to develop an educational
center there. With Friends sponsorship, and aided
by Passport In Time archaeology volunteers, his
research continues at the old mill town. Dr.
Wynn's Anthropology Page can be found
HERE. |
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(706) 867-2881 Young Hall
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