History Faculty | Kenyon College

Chair

Name	Contact	Department or Center	Profile Image
Stephen Volz Associate Professor of History Areas of Expertise Africa, colonialism, history of religion	Campus Address Oden Hall 325 Phone Number (740) 427-5836 Email volzs@kenyon.edu	History African Diaspora Studies International Studies

Faculty

Name	Contact	Department or Center	Profile Image
Eliza Ablovatski Associate Professor of History Areas of Expertise Modern Europe, especially Germany and Central/East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; European Jewish and women's history; East European and German film and literature, socialism, war and revolution.	Campus Address Oden Hall 422 Phone Number (740) 427-5892 Email ablovatskie@kenyon.edu	History International Studies Women's & Gender Studies
Patrick Bottiger Associate Professor of History Areas of Expertise History of North American Indigenous Peoples; early America and the American Revolution, agricultural history and Corn	Campus Address Oden Hall 324 Phone Number (740) 427-5597 Email bottigerp@kenyon.edu	History American Studies
Jeff Bowman Acting President Professor of History Areas of Expertise Europe and the Mediterranean between 300 and 1500 C.E., Spain and Portugal, medieval travel narratives.	Campus Address Ransom Hall Phone Number (740) 427-5111 Email bowmanj@kenyon.edu	Provost Law & Society History Religious Studies
Hilary Buxton Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise Modern imperial Britain, colonial and global history, postcolonial science studies, race, gender and disability studies	Campus Address Oden Hall 327 Phone Number (740) 427-5355 Email buxton1@kenyon.edu	History Asian and Middle East Studies
Sylvie Coulibaly Associate Professor of History Areas of Expertise African American intellectual tradition; immigration, border studies and transnationalism; Atlantic history	Campus Address Oden Hall 425 Phone Number (740) 427-5624 Email coulibalys@kenyon.edu	History American Studies African Diaspora Studies Women's & Gender Studies
Robert Franco Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise LGBTQ studies, disability studies, Latin American & Latinx studies	Campus Address Oden Hall 319 Phone Number (740) 427-5090 Email franco2@kenyon.edu	History
Francis Gourrier Assistant Professor of American Studies and History Areas of Expertise African American, 20th Century U.S., Gender, Movement/s, and Education	Campus Address O'Connor House 203 Phone Number (740) 427-5772 Email gourrierf@kenyon.edu	History American Studies African Diaspora Studies
Keith Harris Postdoctoral Fellow CSAD and Department of History Areas of Expertise Early American Republic, History of Capitalism, Political Economy	Campus Address Oden Hall 415 Phone Number (740) 427-5344 Email harris10@kenyon.edu	Center for the Study of American Democracy History
Zachary Hershey Visiting Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise Frontier history, East Asian environmental history, Serbi-Mongolic languages and linguistics	Campus Address Oden Hall 423 Phone Number (740) 427-5206 Email hershey2@kenyon.edu	History
Lauren Jannette Visiting Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise Modern European history, French history, peace history	Campus Address Oden Hall 327 Phone Number (740) 427-5355 Email jannette1@kenyon.edu	History
Nurten Kilic-Schubel Associate Professor of History Areas of Expertise Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.	Campus Address Oden Hall 411 Phone Number (740) 427-5320 Email kilicn@kenyon.edu	History Asian and Middle East Studies International Studies Islamic Civilizations and Cultures Women's & Gender Studies
Alyssa Kuchinski Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Fellow Visiting Ins. History	Campus Address Oden Hall 420 Email kuchinski1@kenyon.edu	History
Glenn McNair Professor of History Areas of Expertise Race and criminal Justice, slavery and southern history, and dynamics of African-American identity formation	Campus Address Oden Hall 315 Phone Number (740) 427-5325 Email mcnairg@kenyon.edu	History American Studies African Diaspora Studies
Alex Novikoff Visiting Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise Medieval history, intellectual and cultural history, interfaith relations, medievalism, historiography.	Campus Address Oden Hall 314 Phone Number (740) 427-5308 Email novikoff1@kenyon.edu	History
Christian Pettersen Visiting Assist Professor of International Studies & History	Campus Address Oden Hall 410 Phone Number (740) 427-5617 Email pettersen2@kenyon.edu	International Studies History
Justin Rivest Assistant Professor of History Areas of Expertise Early Modern France; History of Science; History of Medicine	Campus Address Oden Hall 320 Phone Number (740) 427-5089 Email rivest1@kenyon.edu	History
Melanie Sheehan Postdoc Fellow in the CSAD and the Department of History Areas of Expertise Business history, labor history, U.S. history	Campus Address Oden Hall 414 Phone Number (740) 427-5619 Email sheehan1@kenyon.edu	Center for the Study of American Democracy History
Wendy Singer Associate Provost Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History Areas of Expertise History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.	Campus Address Bailey House 203 Phone Number (740) 427-5324 Email singerw@kenyon.edu	History Asian and Middle East Studies International Studies Islamic Civilizations and Cultures

Emeriti

Name	Contact	Department or Center	Profile Image
Reed Browning Professor Emeritus of History	Campus Email browninr@kenyon.edu	History
Ruth Dunnell Professor Emerita of History Areas of Expertise Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.	Campus Email dunnell@kenyon.edu	History Asian and Middle East Studies International Studies
Bruce Kinzer Professor Emeritus of History Areas of Expertise Modern British history and the British empire	Campus Address Acland House 04 Phone Number (740) 427-5318 Email kinzerb@kenyon.edu	History
Will Scott Professor Emeritus of History Areas of Expertise American intellectual, cultural and Southern history.	Campus Email scott@kenyon.edu	History African Diaspora Studies