History Department | Idaho State University

History Department Faculty:

Kevin Marsh, Ph.D., (Department Chair) Environmental history, modern U.S., U.S. West, Idaho
Allan Christelow, Ph.D., Middle East and Africa
Stephanie Mooers Christelow, Ph.D., Medieval social and economic
Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, Ph.D., (Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters) Early U.S., political history
Sarah Hinman, Ph.D., Historical geography, GIS, public health
Ryan T. Jones, Ph.D., Russia, modern Europe, environmental history
Erika Kuhlman, Ph.D., Gender , U.S. Progressive era social and cultural, American studies, transnational
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Ph.D., (Director, International Studies Program and Economics) African History
J. B. "Jack" Owens, Ph.D., Spain, Renaissance and Reformation
Paul Sivitz, Ph.D., Early America, digital history
Henry Stamm, Ph.D., Native American, U.S. West
Justin Dolan Stover, Ph.D., Modern Ireland, modern Europe, nationalism and terrorism
Laura Woodworth-Ney, Ph.D., (Assoc. V.P for Academic Affairs) U.S. West, women, Native American
Yolonda Youngs, Ph.D., Environmental historical geography, historical GIS, North American West, tourism, national parks and protected areas

Adjunct Faculty:

Jeff Callis, M.A. U.S. History, Europe
Scott Emfield, M.A., U.S. History, Europe
James Francis, M.A. U.S. History
Karen Leibert, Ph.D. Europe
Barry Maheras, M.A., U.S. History
Darrell Reinke, Ph.D., Early Modern Europe
Honoré Storms, M.A. U.S. History
Richard Thompson, Ph.D., Ancient Near East

Kevin Marsh, Ph.D.

Department Chair
Associate Professor
Editor, Idaho Yesterdays

Link to Dr. Marsh's page on academia.edu

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 3309 Modern United States
HIST 4423 Idaho History
HIST 4430 Global Environmental History
HIST 4491 Seminar

Research Interests:

Debates over public resources in the American West. Current work focuses on groundwater development in the American West.

Representative publications:

“Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho.” In Idaho’s Place: Rethinking the Gem State’s Past, edited by Adam M. Sowards. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Moscow, ID: Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies, forthcoming.
"'Save French Pete': Evolution of Wilderness Protests in Oregon." In Natural Protests: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism, eds. Michael Egan and Jeff Crane, 223-44. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, ed. William Cronon. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2007. Publisher's webpage for the book.
Idaho: The Heroic Journey (Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 2006). Co-author with Katherine Aiken and Laura Woodworth-Ney.
"The Ups and Downs of Mountain Life: Historical Patterns of Adaptation in the Cascade Mountains," Western Historical Quarterly 25, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 193-213.
"'This is Just the First Round': Designating Wilderness in the Oregon Cascades, 1950-1964." Oregon Historical Quarterly 103, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 210-233.

Allan Christelow, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 2254 Middle Eastern Civilization
HIST 2255 African History and Culture
HIST 4435 Colonial Frontiers in America and Africa
HIST 4474 Islam and Nationalism in the Modern World
HIST 4478 Imperialism and Progressivism
HIST 4491 Seminar

Representative Publications:

Algerians Without Borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society. Gainesville: Unversity Press of Florida, 2012.
Thus Ruled Emir Abbas : Selected Cases from the Records of the Emir of Kano's Judicial Council
Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria
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Stephanie Christelow, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1101 Foundations of Europe
HIST 2291 The Historian's Craft
HIST 4437 Familes in Former Times
HIST 4438 Women in Pre-Industrial Europe
HIST 4441 The Viking Age
HIST 4446 Social and Economic History
of Greece and Rome
HIST 4448 Medieval Social and Economic History

Research Interests:

Anglo-Norman England; medieval social history; Greece and Rome.

Representative Publications:

“Anglo-Norman Administrations and Their Historians.” History Compass 9, no. 7 (July 2011): 525–536. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00786.x/full
"Names and Ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England," in Names and Naming Patterns, edited by Joel Rosenthal (SUNY Stony Brook) and David Postles (University of Leicester, UK) Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University.
"Chancellors and Curial Bishops: Ecclesiastical Promotions and Power in Anglo-Norman England." Anglo-Norman Studies XXII (2000): 49-69.
"The Royal Love in Anglo-Norman England: Fiscal or Courtly Concept." The Haskins Society Journal (1998): 37-52.
"A Moveable Feast? Itineration and the Centralization of Government under Henry I." Albion 28 (Summer 1996): 187-228.
"A Reevaluation of Royal Justice under Henry I of England." American Historical Review 93 (April 1988): 340-58.
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Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, Ph.D.

Professor of History

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2291 The Historian's Craft
HIST 3307 Early North America
HIST 4418 U.S. History for Teachers
HIST 4465 U.S. Political History
HIST 4491 Seminar

Research Interests:

Early U.S., Thomas Jefferson, Idaho demographics and politics

Representative Publications:

I Tremble for My Country: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.
"'Answering the Call:' The First Inaugural Addresses of Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton." In The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan, eds. Scott L. Bills and E. Timothy Smith, 53-67. Kent State University Press, 1997.
"Assessing the Meaning of Massacre: Boston (1770) and Kent State (1970)." Peace and Change 21 (Apr. 1996): 208-20.
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Sarah Hinman, Ph.D.

Dr. Hinman is on leave for the 2012-2013 academic year

Assistant Professor
Director, Glenn E. Tyler Collection

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 2249 World Regional Geography
HIST 4405 Urban History
HIST 4479 Disease and U.S. Public Health
HIST 4489 GIS for Social Sciences
HIST 4490 Cartography: History and Design
HIST 6610 GIS in Historical Studies
HIST 6642 Conferences and Grants

Research Interests:

Historical geography and historical GIS; public health and medical geography; and urban-environment interaction.

Representative Publications:

S.E. Hinman, J.K. Blackburn, and A. Curtis. 2006. "Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid outbreaks in Washington, D.C., 1906-1909: evaluating local clustering with the /G_i */ statistic." International Journal of Health Geographics 5:13.
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Ryan T. Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Teaching Responsibilities

HIST 1102 Modern Europe
HIST 3382 Russia
HIST 4430 Global Environmental History
HIST 4491 Seminar

Research Interests

Science and environment in the expansion of imperial Russia.

Representative Publications:

“A 'Havock Made among Them': Island Biogeography, Empire, and Environmentalism in the Russian North Pacific, 1741-1810,” Environmental History 16, no. 4 (October 2011): 585-609.
“Peter Simon Pallas, Siberia, and the European Republic of Letters.” Studies in the History of Biology 3, no. 3 (September 2011).
“Lisiansky’s Mountain: Changing Views of Nature in Russian Alaska,” Alaska History 25, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 1-21. Best Article Award from the Alaska Historical Society.
“Steller and the Strange Beasts of the Sea.” In Kamchatka Expeditions in Historical Retrospective, edited by A.E. Ryazantsev. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Russia: Kamchatka State University Press, 2007.

Erika Kuhlman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History
Director, Women Studies Program

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 3308 Industrialization and Reform in the United States
HIST 4429 Foreign Relations since 1900
HIST 4439 Women in History

Research Interests:

Reconciliation processes between the United States and Germany following World War I, with specific focus on women's roles in peacemaking.

Representative Publications:

Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. New York: NYU Press, 2012.
Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation Between Nations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"American Doughboys and German FrÃ¤uleins: Sexuality, Patriarchy, and Privilege in the American-Occupied Rhineland, 1918-1923," Journal of Military History 71 (October 2007): 1077-1106
Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
A to Z of Women in World History. New York:Facts on File.

Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Ph.D.

Director, International Studies Program and Associate Professor of History

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1199 World History Since 1500
HIST 2255 African History and Culture
HIST 4478 Imperialism
HIST 4491 Seminar
IS 3300 Travel and Study Abroad
IS 3350 International Symposium
IS 4493 Senior Thesis

Research Interests:

African intellectual history, African social and political history, African philosophy, culture and development, democratization, social movements and comparative politics.

Representative Publications:

The History of Somalia. Westport: ABC-CLIO, Press, 2013.
Africa and the Wider World. Boston: Pearson/Macmillan, 2010.
African History. Iowa: University Readers, Inc., 2010.
War and Peace in Africa: History, Nationalism, and the State. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Missions, States, and Colonial European Expansion in Africa. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Culture and Customs of North Africa: Morocco. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005
African Cultural Values and Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1966. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
"Eastern Nigeria and the Rise of a New Class of Ogaranyas (Wealthy Men) in the Late Nineteenth-century:
A Biography of Chief Igwebe Odum of Arondizuogu (c.1860-1940)." Journal of African Economic History 36
(February 2012): 27-52.
"Neoliberalism in Microcosm: A Study of Precolonial Igbo of Eastern Nigeria." MBARI: The International
Journal of Igbo Studies 1, no.1 (2008): 45-68.
"Civil Society and Igbo Traditional Politics: A Historical Survey of Age Grades, Secret Societies, Social Clubs,
Women's Organizations, and Town Unions since 1900." International Journal of African Studies 6, no. 2
(2008): 15-28.
"Civil Society in the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco." Journal of International Review of Politics and Development 5, no.2 (2007): 37-53.
"Don C. Ohadike: The Man, His Intellectual Legacy and African Historiography." Journal of Dialectical Antropology 10, no. 4. (August 2007): 32-50.
"Deadly Ethnic Violence and the Imperiative of Federalism an Power-sharing: Could a Consociation Hold in Rwanda?" Journal of Commonwealth Comparative Politics 43, no. 1 (March 2005): 82-101.

J. B. " Jack" Owens, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus and Research Professor

Link to Dr. Owen's page on academia.edu

Teaching Responsibilities:

Dr. Owens is retired from full-time teaching.

Research Interests:

Dr. Owens's research focuses on early globalization (1400-1800), organized crime, sacred sites and religious devotions, political institutions and the exercise of public authority, Geographic Information Systems and the visualization of historical processes, and Spain.

Representative Publications:

"By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Rebellion, Monarchy, and the Murcian Oligarchy in the Age of Charles V [in Spanish]. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1980.
"An Introduction to the Glenn E. Tyler Collection (History and Philosophy of Medicine and Science)." In Trent Stephens (ed.), Science and Society, a special issue of Rendezvous: Idaho State University Journal of Arts and Letters; 25,1 (Fall 1989): 38-66.
"Spanish Communist Poster Politics in the Transition to Democracy." In B. F. Taggie, R. W. Clement, and J. E. Caraway (eds.), Mediterranean Studies; 4 (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994): 183-214 [illustrated].
"Routes: Teaching About Connections in World History." History Computer Review 19 (Spring 2003): 69-73.

Paul Sivitz, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Teaching Responsibilities

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 3307 Early North America
HIST 4405/5505 Race and Jazz in America

Research Interests:

Early America; Accumulation and Dissemination of Knowledge in the 18th Century

Representative Publications:

"Philadelphia and Its People in Maps: The 1790s" (with Billy G. Smith), The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Camden: Rutgers University-Camden, 2012. http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/philadelphia-and-its-people-in-maps-the-1790s/.
"Epidemic Disease East and West: America, Japan, and Eighteenth-Century Medicine" in SAGAR (South Asia Institute at the University of Texas-Austin) 19 (Spring 2010).
"Lewis & Clark Perish While Crossing the Rocky Mountains." In Turning Points in History: Manifest Destiny, ed., Rodney P. Carlisle. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.

Henry Stamm, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2258 Native American History
HIST 4421/5521 Federal Indian Relations
HIST 4427/5527 North American West

Justin Dolan Stover, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Link to Dr. Stover's page on academia.edu

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1102 Modern Europe
HIST 2291 The Historian's Craft
HIST 3323 Old Regime and French Revolution
HIST 3326 Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 4405/5505 Modern Ireland
HIST 4491 Seminar

Research Interests:

Modern Ireland, modern France, the First World War, Celtic nationalism, the history of loyalty and treason.

Representative Publications:

“Periphery of war or first line of defense? Ireland prepares for invasion, 1907-15.” In Fancia. Paris: Deutsches Historisches Institut, forthcoming 2013.
"Terror confined? Prison violence in Ireland, 1919-21." In Terror in Ireland, 1916-1923, ed. David Fitzpatrick, 219-35. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2012.
"Witness to war: Charles Ouin-la-Criox and the Irish College, Paris, 1870-1." In Études Irlandaises 36, no. 2 (automne-hiver 2011): 21-38.

Laura Woodworth-Ney, Ph.D.

Professor of History and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Link to Dr. Woodworth-Ney's page on academia.edu

Teaching Responsibilities:

Dr. Woodworth-Ney is not teaching in the department during her current administrative appointment.

Research Interests:

Federal Indian policy, federal reclamation policy, women, irrigation ideology, and irrigated settlement in the American West.

Representative Publications:

Women in the American West. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004.
"Negotiating Boundaries of Territory and 'Civilization': The Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation Agreement Councils, 1873-1889." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 94, no. 1 (Winter 2002/2003): 27-39.
"Water, Culture, and Progressive Politics: Albin C. and Elizabeth DeMary and the Struggle for Local Control of the Minidoka Reclamation Project, 1905-1920." In United States Bureau of Reclamation, A Century of Water for the West, 1902-2002. Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2002.

Yolonda Youngs, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Link to Dr. Youngs' page on academia.edu

Teaching Responsibilities:

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2249 World Regional Geography
HIST 4405/5505 Historical Geography of National Parks
HIST 4489/5589 GIS for Social Sciences
HIST 4490/5590 Cartography

Research Interests:

Environmental historical geography, historical GIS, western United states, tourism and outdoor recreation, national parks and protected areas, cultural landscapes, field methods

Representative Publications:

"Editing Nature in Grand Canyon National Park Postcards." Geographical Review 102, no. 4 (October 2012): 486-509.
"On Grand Canyon Postcards." Environmental History 16, no. 1 (2011): 138-147.
"Mapping an Enchanted Solitude: Cartographic Representations of Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A". Full paper. Conference Proceedings of the 25th International Cartographic Conference, 2011.
"Transportation Systems as Cultural Landscapes in National Parks: An Historical and Interpretive Study of Visitors' Transportation Behavior in Yosemite Valley." Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal. 21, no. 9 (2008): 797-811 (co-authored with Dave White and Jill Woodrich).
"Beyond Parks as Polygons: Historical GIS, National Parks, and Opportunities that Beckon Historical Geographers." Past Place: The Newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers 16, no. 2 (2008): 5-6.
Visitor Experiences and Transportation Systems in Yosemite National Park. Final Technical Report. Prepared for USDI National Park Service. Tempe: Arizona State University, 2006 (co-authored with Dave White and Jill Woodrich).