Missouri State University
History Department
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Faculty and Staff

Modeling excellence in the classroom

The faculty in the department of history represent a class of highly trained and skilled specialists in a number of historical topics, time periods and geographical regions. From the history of the Ozarks to women’s history to military history, the faculty commit to sharing their knowledge with students in an engaging manner, emphasizing the importance of being a good communicator, researcher and problem solver. The faculty also assist students in scheduling their courses, conducting research projects and achieving their educational and professional goals.

Dr. Kathleen Kennedy

Dr. Kathleen Kennedy

Department Head
Professor

KathleenKennedy@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-6730
Office: Strong Hall 415

Teaching: US Survey to 1877 Writing II Upper-level American History Courses

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Dr. Jamaine Abidogun

Dr. Jamaine Abidogun

Associate Professor
BSED and MSED Program Coordinator

JamaineAbidogun@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5916
Office: Strong Hall 444

Teaching: African civilization; women in Africa; teaching of secondary school social studies; supervised teaching (secondary social studies); seminar in supervised teaching; secondary school curriculum for the social studies

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Dr. Holly Baggett

Dr. Holly Baggett

Associate Professor

HollyBaggett@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5206
Office: Strong Hall 433

Survey of the History of the United States to 1877, Survey of the History of the United States Since 1877, Introduction to Historiography, Special Topics in History

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Dr. Brooks Blevins

Dr. Brooks Blevins

Noel Boyd Associate Professor of Ozarks Studies

BRBlevins@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5914
Office: Strong Hall 435

Teaching: Introduction to Ozarks studies; literature of the Ozarks; the Ozarks in American history; the upland south

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Dr. Bela Bodo

Dr. Bela Bodo

Associate Professor

BelaBodo@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-6959
Office: Strong Hall 428

Teaching: World civilization, 1660-present; modern Europe; modern Germany, 1848-present; fascism; holocaust

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Dr. Larry Burt

Dr. Larry Burt

Associate Professor

LarryBurt@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-4149
Office: Strong Hall 418

Teaching: US history before 1877; US history after 1877; Indian history; Plains Indians; graduate seminars and proseminars

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Marcia Butler

Marcia Butler

Assistant Professor

MButler@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5378
Office: Strong Hall 436

Teaching: Modern world history; pre-modern East Asia history; pre-modern world history; modern East Asia history

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Dr. John Chuchiak IV

Dr. John Chuchiak IV

Rich and Doris Young Honors College Endowed Professor
Director

JohnChuchiak@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5425
Office: Strong Hall 441

Teaching: Freshman honors seminar; first year foundations; world history to 1600; US history to 1877; writing II: historical inquiry; Latin American civilization; history of Pre-Columbian Mexico; history of the inquisition in Spain and Spanish America...

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Dr. Marc Cooper

Dr. Marc Cooper

Professor

MarcCooper@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5024
Office: Strong Hall 424

Teaching: World history to 1600

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Dr. Tom Dicke

Dr. Tom Dicke

Professor

TomDicke@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5746
Office: Strong Hall 423

Teaching: International business history primary source seminar; business and society, US, UK and Japan; business and society, colonial times to the present; writing II: historical inquiry; survey of US history since 1877

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Dr. David Gutzke

Dr. David Gutzke

Professor

DavidGutzke@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5065
Office: Strong Hall 427

Teaching: Survey of British history; survey of US history, 1607-1877; historiography; Victorian and Ewardian England; graduate proseminars and seminars

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Dr. Angela Hornsby-Gutting

Dr. Angela Hornsby-Gutting

Associate Professor

AHornsbyGutting@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5681
Office: Strong Hall 410

Teaching: History 122 (2 sections); History 331/332 African-American History

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Dr. Andrew Lewis

Dr. Andrew Lewis

Professor

AndrewWLewis@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5385
Office: Strong Hall 425

Teaching: World history to circa 1600 CE; medieval Europe; the renaissance; senior seminar in history; proseminar in European history; ancient Rome

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Dr. Stephen McIntyre

Dr. Stephen McIntyre

Associate Professor
Dir of Undergraduate Studies

StephenMcIntyre@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5920
Office: Strong Hall 421

Teaching: US labor and working-class history; the automobile in American life; Missouri history; historiography

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Dr. F. Thornton Miller

Dr. F. Thornton Miller

Professor
Dir of Graduate Studies

FTMiller@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5917
Office: Strong Hall 417

Teaching: Colonial America; the American Revolution; early American republic; British Atlantic; legal and constitutional history of the US

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Dr. Worth Miller

Dr. Worth Miller

Professor

BobMiller@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-4141
Office: Strong Hall 419

Teaching: Survey of the history of the US to 1877; survey of the history of the US since 1877; nineteenth century America; Gilded Age/Progressive Era America, 1865-1920; history of the American South, 1607-present

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Dr. Michelle Morgan

Dr. Michelle Morgan

Assistant Professor
Co-Coordinator of the BSED Program

MichelleMorgan@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-6670
Office: Strong Hall 439

Teaching: History of the US since 1877 (and honors section); teaching of secondary school social studies

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Dr. Eric Nelson

Dr. Eric Nelson

Associate Professor
Dean's Fellow for Transformation

EricNelson@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-6437
Office: Strong Hall 416

Teaching: World history to 1500; the reformation; world history graduate proseminar

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Dr. William Piston

Dr. William Piston

Professor

WilliamPiston@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5207
Office: Strong Hall 426

Teaching: US history to 1877; US history since 1877; writing II: historical inquiry; Civil War and reconstruction; the Civil War in the Ozarks; military history of the US; independent readings; internship in public history; historiography...

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Dr. Bethany Walker

Dr. Bethany Walker

Associate Professor

BethanyWalker@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5099
Office: Strong Hall 429

Teaching: World history to circa 1600 CE; survey of Middle Eastern history from 600-1914; history of Middle East since 1914; women in Islam; history and archaeology of the Middle East; Jordan archaeology study away program...

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Per-Course Faculty

Amanda Bodenstein

Amanda Bodenstein

Graduate

Amanda0924@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5479
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: HST 423 and HST 418

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Mary Beth Breshears

Mary Beth Breshears

Per Course Faculty
Supervisor of Student Teaching

MBBreshears@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5511
Office: Strong Hall 410

Teaching: Middle school social studies

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Dr. Dominic Capeci

Dr. Dominic Capeci

Per Course Faculty

DominicCapeci@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5919
Office: Strong Hall 440

Teaching: African American history; US history since 1877 (iTunes course)

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Meaghan Collier

Meaghan Collier

Per Course Faculty

Meaghan1@missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-6959
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: HST 103 World History I

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Greg French

Greg French

Graduate

French417@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5479
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: US History to 1877

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Frederick Goman

Frederick Goman

Per Course Faculty

GomanF@otc.edu
Phone: 417-343-1264
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: US military history; US survey 1 and 2; American West; American Revolution; American Civil War; Western civilization 1 and 2; Spanish 1 and 2; firearms instructor

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Jessica Barnes Jordan

Jessica Barnes Jordan

Per Course Faculty

JessicaJordan@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5749
Office: Strong 461

Adjunct Faculty at MSU from January 2008-Present

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Carey Kelley

Carey Kelley

Per Course Faculty

CKelley@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-6959
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: History 121 and history 122

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Michele Lansdown

Michele Lansdown

Per Course Faculty

LMLansdown@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5749
Office: Strong Hall 461

Dr. Jeremy Neely

Dr. Jeremy Neely

Per Course Faculty

JeremyNeely@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5479
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: History of the United States to 1877 History of the United States since 1877

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La Reva Newcomer

La Reva Newcomer

Per Course Faculty

LaRevaNewcomer@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5511
Office: Strong Hall 410

Teaching: Practicum and student teacher field observations

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Stephanie O

Stephanie O'Neal

Per Course Faculty

StephanieOneal@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5479
Office: Strong Hall 430

Dr. Judith Rice

Dr. Judith Rice

Per Course Faculty

JRice@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5479
Office: Strong Hall 430

Teaching: US history to 1877; US history since 1877

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Gay Russell

Gay Russell

Per course Faculty

GLRussell@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5511
Office: Strong Hall 410

Student Teacher Supervisor

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Staff

Gail Emrie

Gail Emrie

Non-student Part-time

GailEmrie@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5915
Office: Strong Hall 443

Jean Thomas

Jean Thomas

Acad Administrative Assistant I

JeanThomas@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5511
Office: Strong Hall 410

Margie von der Heide

Margie von der Heide

Academic Administrative Assistant II

MargievonderHeide@MissouriState.edu
Phone: 417-836-5511
Office: Strong Hall 410

Graduate Assistants

Patricia Evans

Patricia Evans

Graduate

Evans11107@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

Terri Foster

Terri Foster

Graduate Assistant

Terri26@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

David Hill

David Hill

Graduate

Hill76@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

Tyler Johnson

Tyler Johnson

Graduate Assistant

Johnson302@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

Aleksandra Kinlen

Aleksandra Kinlen

Graduate Assistant

Kinlen2289@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

Ryan Leimkuehler

Ryan Leimkuehler

Graduate Assistant

Ryan152@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420

Rachel Regan

Rachel Regan

Graduate Assistant

Regan19@live.missouristate.edu
Phone: 417-836-5451
Office: Strong Hall 420