Faculty Listings

Faculty:

 Barker, Brett R., B.A, M.A., Ohio State University, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Assistant Professor of History, UW-Marathon County (2004). Courses taught include U.S. Survey, Indians in American History, Civil War and Reconstruction, Wisconsin History. Research specialty: northern home front during American Civil War. Member AHA, OAH, Wisconsin Historical Society Office of School Services State Advisory Board (2005- ). Author of Exploring Civil War Wisconsin: A Survival Guide for Researchers (UW Press, 2003). Also K-8 Program Manager, Marathon County History Teaching Alliance. He is currently working on a biography of Cordelia Harvey for 4th-grade Wisconsin history.

 

 Berger, Jean. A.A. UW-Marshfield/Wood County, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Assistant Professor of History, UW-Fox Valley (2000). Courses offered include: Modern Russian History, Early Russian History, Modern Chinese History, World History Survey, and Western Civilization Survey. Research interests include: Medieval Russian daily life, female terrorists in Tsarist Russia, and female political dissidents in modern China. Publications include: “When Do Women Kill? Life and Death in Tsarist Russia,” in Security in an Insecure World: Historical Perspectives on Radicalism, Terrorism, and State Responses (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006).

 

Crisler, Jane, A.B., M.A. Indiana University, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Associate Professor of History, UW-Waukesha (1991).

 

Emmerichs, Mary Beth.  B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Associate Professor of History. UW-Sheboygan (1997).  Research specialty: The history of crime in 19th-century England.  Present Research:  Murders by Masters and First Mates in the English Merchant Navy in the 19th Century and how they illustrate the difference between life on sailing ships and life on steamships. Men on sailing ships existed in a brutal, violent environment led, frequently, by ignorant and vicious men obsessed with the exercise of their power.  Men on steamships were living a in an environment changed by the introduction of machinery.  It wasn't often much more comfortable, but it was more orderly and led by men who were a bit more educated than sailing captains.  The data allows me to argue that the coming of the Industrial Revolution to the Merchant Navy in the 1840s leaves the sailing ships wallowing in the past (right up until The Great War), while the steamships become more like floating factories.

 Publications:

Co-Editor, with Alice Kehoe, PhD, Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology, University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

    "Trials of Women for Homicide in Nineteenth-Century England," Women and Criminal Justice, Vol. 5 (1) 1993.

    "Getting Away with Murder? Homicide and the Coroners in Nineteenth-Century London," Social Science History, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 2001.

 

 Harris, Paisley. Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Assistant Professor, UW-Fond du Lac (2002). She is a member of the History Department and the Women's Studies program. Her research interests include women's history, African American history, cultural history, and legal history. Her own work focuses on late nineteenth-early twentieth century traveling shows including tent shows by minstrel troupes-"colored" and white, blues in these tent shows, tent rep theater, circuses, medicine shows, and the circuit Chautauquas.

She has published a review essay entitled, "Gatekeeping and Remaking: The Politics of Respectability in African American Women's History and Black Feminism", Journal of Women's History, Volume 15:1, May 2003 and a book review in the most recent Annals of Iowa. She is currently working on several projects including an article on Ma Rainey and the tent shows, an article on the early twentieth century traveling show community and a book manuscript on early twentieth century traveling shows. Her research on Ma Rainey and the tent shows was featured on the Public Radio International program "Riverwalk Jazz" in the summer of 2005.
 

  Jacobs, Michael.

 

 Jozwiak, Elizabeth, B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Assistant Professor of History, U.W.-Rock County (1998) Research interest in American Labor History.

 

  Kallgren, Daniel, Gustavus Adolphus, M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Associate Professor U.W.- Marinette Co. (1995).

 

 Kasparek, Jon. Ph. D., University of Wisconsin - Madison. Assistant Professor, UW-Waukesha.

 

  Klieman, Jeffery, B.A. Lindenwood College, M.A. University of Cincinnati, Ph.D. Michigan State University. Associate Professor of History. UW-Marshfield/Wood County (1988).

 

  Leigh, Jeffrey T. Ph. D., Indiana University, 1998. Associate Professor, UW-Marathon County. Director of the Marathon County Teaching History Alliance, 2002-present.  Research: The rise of the periodical press, the emergence of nationalism/liberalism, and the response of the non-national Habsburg Monarchy in mid-19^th century Bohemia.  Publications include: “Print Capitalism or Patronage, Propaganda, and Policing: the Emergence of Printing and the Periodical Press in Bohemia,” in Nationality Papers, Vol 30, No. 3, 2002; “Public Opinion, Public Order, and Press Policy in the Neoabsolutist State, Bohemia, 1849-1852,” in the Austrian History Yearbook, 35 (2004); as well as a number of review of English- and German-language books.  Courses include: Two-semester World History sequence, 20^th Century Europe, The Modern Middle East.  Awards and Grants include: Faculty Member of the Year, UWMC Student Senate, 2003; Teaching American History Grant, U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2004; I.I.E. Fulbright grant to the Czech Republic, 1993-4. 

 

 

  Patrick, Sue C., B.A. University of Texas-Austin, M.A. Texas Tech University, Ph.D. Indiana University. Associate Professor of History. UW-Barron (1990).  Courses taught include American, World, Western Civilization and interdisciplinary seminars.  Research interest is American Economic History with an emphasis on banking.  Five articles in the Oxford University Press American National Biography.

 

  Sexauer, Cornelia (Connie). B.A., M.A., University of Missouri-St. Louis, Ph. D. University of Cincinnati. Dissertation: "Catholic Capitalism: Charles Vatterott, Civil Rights and Suburbanization in St. Louis and the Nation, 1919-1971."  Assistant Professor of History, UW-Marathon County (2002).  Courses taught include U.S. survey, U. S. history 1900-1945, U.S. history 1945-present, U. S. Women’s History, U.S. and the Vietnam War, U.S. Social History through Film.  Research interests include urban/suburban issues, material cultural, the role of women, Mexican migration to Wisconsin post-WW II.  Publications include: “A Well-behaved Woman Who Made History: Sister Mary Antona’s Journey to Selma,” American Catholic Studies, Vol. 115.4 (2004); “Untold Stories – Women in the Civil War,” Cultural Resource Management, National Park Service, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2002), “The Sears Discrimination Case: A Study of Grass Roots Activism,” Perspectives in History: Alpha Beta Phi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Vol. XIII (1997-98). Program Director for Local History, Marathon County History Teaching Alliance.

 

 Sheehan, Steven T. B.A. California State University, Sacramento, M.A. California State University, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Indiana University.  Assistant Professor of History, UW-Fox Valley (2003).  Courses taught include the U.S. Surveys, Recent U.S., Origins and History of World War II, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Work and Workers in U.S. History.  Research interests focus on the emergence and expansion of a consumer culture in the twentieth-century United States.

 

 Storch, Robert D., B.A., M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor of History. UW-Rock (1969).

 

 Thering, Timothy. B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Assistant Professor of History, UW-Waukesha (2002). Courses Taught: U.S. Survey, 1945-Present, U.S. & Vietnam, and U.S. Labor History. Research Interest: U.S. Labor History during the Gilded Age. Forthcoming book to be published by Minnesota Historical Society Press: Co-operative Capitalism: The Story of the Minneapolis Coopers. Public Outreach: The Sixties: A Film History of America's Decade of Crisis and Change (2003).
 

 Thorn, J. Michael, B.A. Oxford University, M.A. University of South Carolina, M.B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Associate Professor of History. UW-Washington and UW Fond du Lac (1986).  Winner of the Rolf’s Foundation Award for Exceptional Teaching Ability  (1999).

 

 Trask, Kerry A., professor of history, has taught at UW-Manitowoc since 1972. A graduate of Hamline University in 1965, he went on to receive his M.A. and Ph. D. in history from the University of Minnesota in 1968 and 1971. A native of Canada, Trask is particularly interested in the early history of the Great Lakes region. He is the author of two books: "In the Pursuit of Shadows: Massachusetts, Millenialism, and the Seven Years' War" (1989) and "Fire Within: A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin" (1995). "Fire Within" won awards from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Library Association. Trask has also published articles and reviews in numerous professional journals, including: "American Historical Review," "Ethnohistory," "The William and Mary Quarterly," "The Wisconsin Magazine of History," "Michigan Historical Review," "The American Review of Canadian Studies," and "Voyageur." He served as chair of the UW-Colleges Department of History from 1985-1989, and was Interim-Dean of UW-Sheboygan in 1996. Professor Trask teaches the introductory courses in the History of the United States, and the History of Western Civilization, as well as the History of the World in the 20th Century, the History of the Great Lakes Region, the History of Minorities in America, and team-teaches a course in the History and Geography of Wisconsin. He has served on the advisory board of the UW Systems Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the editorial board of the historical journal "Voyageur," and as president of the Manitowoc Public Library's Board of Trustees. He has been a participant with the Wisconsin Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau and in three National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes. Currently, he is working on a study of the Black Hawk War. 

 

 Veninga, James F. B.A., Baylor University, M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, M.A., Ph.D. Rice University (interdisciplinary program in history and religious studies). Campus Dean and Associate Professor of History, UW-Marathon County (2000). Publications include: The Biographer’s Gift, editor and contributor, Texas A&M University Press, 1983; Vietnam in Remission, co-editor, Texas A&M University Press, 1985; Standing with the Public: The Humanities and Democratic Practice, co-editor, Kettering Foundation Press, 1997; The Humanities and the Civic Imagination: Collected Addresses and Essays, 1978-1998, University of North Texas Press, 1999. Most recent publication: “How Shall We Respond When Religion Becomes Violent?” Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. LXX, No. 6, January 1, 2004. Previous teaching positions: Baylor University (American Studies), University of Texas at Austin (American Studies), University of St. Thomas (Religious Studies).

 

 Zorea, Aharon. Ph.D., Saint Louis University. Assistant Professor, UW-Richland.

 

Teaching Academic Staff:

 

 Burg, Robert. B.A., M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ph.D. Purdue University.  Courses taught include the United States survey; the Frontier in American History; the Civil War and Reconstruction; the United States and Vietnam; Recent American History, 1945-Present; and Recent Latin American history.  Author of "Amnesty, Civil Rights, and the Meaning of Liberal Republicanism, 1862-72," in American Nineteenth Century History, Fall 2003 and “Liberal Republican Movement,” Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, edited by Thomas Adam (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005), II: 664-666; and is a member of the H-Pol Advisory Board.

 

Degnitz, John. Lecturer, UW-Washington County.

 Fingerson, Kyle. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lecturer, UW-Baraboo.

 

Kalney, Cheryl. Lecturer, UW-Manitowoc.

 

 Karau, Mark.  Karau, Mark. B.A. Marquette University, M.A. Marquette University, Ph. D. Florida State University. Instructor of History, UW-Washington County, UW-Fond du Lac, UW Colleges On-line program. Courses taught include the introductory Western and World Civilization Surveys, Russia since 1917, Twentieth Century Europe, Twentieth Century World, and the first half of the American History Survey. His first book, ‘Wielding the Dagger’: The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918. was published in 2003 by Greenwood Press. He also has published articles in the Journal of Military History and Relevance: The Journal of the Great War Society. His research interests center on the First World War, in particular the role of the German navy in the conflict. He is currently beginning a project examining the consequences of the Battle of the Heligoland Bight in 1914.

 

 Leahy, Stephen M., Senior Lecturer. UW-Fox Valley (1995).

 

Wilson, Claire. Lecturer, UW-Marinette.

 

Affiliated Faculty:

 

 Chase, Paul, B.A. Northland College, M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ph.D. The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dean U.W.-Barron County (1997).

 

Emeritus Faculty:

 

Bower, Jerry L., B.A. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, M.A., Ph.D. Michigan State University. Professor of History. UW-Richland Center (1967). Courses taught Western Civilization, History of Wisconsin, and Latin American History.  He is interested in how local history reflects our nation’s history.  Currently engaged in writing a history of the U.W. Colleges.  Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award from the Wisconsin Association for the Promotion of History, 1989 and Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992. 

 

Brandes, Stuart D., B.A., M.A., Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor of History. UW-Rock County (1967-1999).  Department chair of history, UW Centers, 1981-84.  Chair, Center System salary equity committee, 1974-77.  Center System representative, all-university task force on faculty compensation, 1981.  Chair, UW-Rock County Steering/Budget Committee, 1994-95.   Chair, Social Science Division, 1993-1999.  President, American Association of University Professors, UWC-Rock County chapter 1996-1999.  Author, American Welfare Capitalism, 1880-1940, University of Chicago Press, 1976, 1984 (paper).   Warhogs:  A History of War Profits in America, University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

 

Dennis, Donald D., B.A. Westminster College, M.A., Ph.D. University of Utah, Associate Professor of History. U.W.-Medford (1970-1984), UW-Fond du Lac (1984-1999).

 

Goodrum, R. Gordon,  Associate Professor of History. U.W. Sheboygan and Manitowoc (1964-1968). U.W.-Waukesha (1968-1993).

 

Grinde, Harlan, Associate Professor of History. U.W.-Marathon County (1963-1998)

 

Huehner, David Robert, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, U.W.-Washington (1972-2006). Professor of History and Chair University of Wisconsin Colleges Department of History, 1991-2004. Chair of University of Wisconsin Colleges Department Chairs, 1995-1997.  Chair of the U.W. Colleges Appeals and Grievance Committee from 1980-1988.

Courses taught included the United States survey, Violence in American History, The Civil War and Reconstruction, and The History of Southeastern Wisconsin in the Nineteenth Century. Research interests include History of American Higher Education, Historical Demography, and Nineteenth Century American Social History. Numerous articles, papers and reviews on Nineteenth Century college students, teaching methods, demography, and courseware.

Charter member of the Social Science History Association. Coordinator of the American Historical Association/Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education project "Integrating Women’s History into the Survey Course. Co-Founder of the Wisconsin Student History Network. Member of the Organization of American Historians-Advanced Placement Advisory Board on Teaching the U.S. History Course 2003-present. Currently Midwestern Core leader for the American Historical Association project "Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Reconceptualizing the Introductory History Course." Awarded Rolfs Educational Foundation Award for Exceptional Teaching Ability, 1998  

 

Lorence, James J., B.S., M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor of History. UW-Marathon (1966-2001).  Courses taught U.S., 1865-Present; U.S., 1917-1945; U.S., 1945-Present; Vietnam. Carnegie Case Wisconsin Professor of the Year, 1994-95.  SHSW Award of Merit (for Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Alliance)-1995.   Member, (elected), American Historical Association Teaching Division (1993-1995).   William Best Hesseltine Award-for "G.J. Boileau and the Politics of Sectionalism.  American Association for State and Local History Certifacation of Commendation (for Woodlot and Ballot Box)-1978.  Emil Steiger Award for Excellence in Teaching ( UW System-1970).   American Historical Association.  Organization of American Historians.   Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.

 

McLane, Margaret, B.A. Vassar College, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison.  U.W. Fond du Lac (1972-1993)

 

O’Brien, Michael J., B.A. University of Notre Dame, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor of History. UW-Fox Valley (1972).

 

Somers, Mary H., B.A., M.A., City University of New York-Hunter College, Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate School. Assistant Professor of History. Dean U.W. Barron County (1988-1998)  U.W.-Waukesha (1988-1999).

 

Werner, Steven E., B.A. Lawrence University, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Associate Professor of History. UW-Waukesha (1974-2005).   Courses taught American and European History, and History of Western Civilization.   Member of Phi Beta Kappa, American Historical Association, and the Historical Society.