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Associate
Professor and Chair David Imhoof earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses on modern Europe, Germany, the Holocaust, and cultural history. He has written articles on various aspects of German cultural history and is a completing book on political change and cultural life in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a collection on festivals in modern Germany.
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Imhoof in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
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Associate
Professor George Wei (on leave in China 2006-2008) holds a Ph.D. from
Washington University and teaches East Asian history and U.S. history.
He is author of the book, Sino-American Economic Relations,
1949-1994, and more than a dozen articles in both English and
Chinese as well as the editor of two books on Chinese nationalism.
Dr. Wei is currently working on a book about Chinese women. |
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Assistant
Professor Cymone Fourshey received her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Fourshey focuses on East African history before the 18th century. Her areas of research interest are Social and Cultural History of East Africa, African Gender Systems, Political History, Environmental History, and the Indian Ocean world. She is currently working on her manuscript, "Strangers, Immigrants, and the Established: Hospitality as State Building Mechanism in Southwest Tanzania 300-1900CE." She served as the Africa Consulting Editor for the Great Events from History: The Middle Ages (2005).
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Assistant
Professor Edward Slavishak holds a Ph.D. from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches classes on United
States history since the late nineteenth century. His research
interests include the history of leisure and consumerism, urban
social history, and work spectacles. He is completing a book titled Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh. |
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Assistant
Professor Karol K. Weaver earned a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. She offers courses on American history, women's history, and the history of medicine. Her research interest focuses on the history of healers. Her book, Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2006. She is completing a book on the history of medical care in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania.
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Visiting Assistant Professor Kwok-Yiu Wong holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research interests include political and intellectual history of medieval China, and the history of Chinese science. He teaches classes on traditional and modern East Asia, and social history of late-imperial China. Currently he is working on a project of literati culture in late-Tang and Five Dynasties China. |
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Charles
B. Degenstein Professor Emeritus Donald Housley holds
a Ph. D. from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests
are in the social history of the United States, and he is currently
writing a history of Susquehanna University. Dr. Housley retired
after the 2003-2004 academic year, but he continues to supervise
student research and internships.
Joining Dr. Housley in the photo to the left are his first and
last summer research assistants. On the left is Amy Bischof, ’95,
Curator of the Hershey Museum. On the right is Lora Woodford,
’05.
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Provost
Linda A. McMillin, earned a Ph.D. from the University
of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in medieval history
with focused research on religious women in the 12th and 13th
centuries. She teaches social, cultural and economic history of
Europe between 800 and 1700 and women’s studies and is co-editor
of the book Hrotsvit of Gadersheim: Contexts, Identities,
Affinities, and Performances. Dr. Mcmillin was recently chosen
to be the provost of Susquehanna University. She will still continue
to teach in the department but on a lesser scale. Provost
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