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History Department 2011-2012History Department 2011-2012

Marvin Slind
Professor of History
563-387-1155

Scandinavia, Germany, modern Europe

Department Head

  • B.A., Pacific Lutheran University
  • M.A., Washington State University
  • Ph.D., Washington State University
  • At Luther since 2000
  • Koren 202
  • Link to Dr. Slind's web page
Brian Caton
Associate Professor of History
563-387-2119

East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, environmental history

  • B.A., College of William and Mary
  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • At Luther since 2003
  • Koren 201
Dr. Robert J. Christman
Assistant Professor of History
563-387-2137

German Reformation, late medieval and early modern Europe, Rome

  • B.A., Boston University
  • M.A., University of Arizona
  • Ph.D., University of Arizona
  • At Luther since 2005
  • Koren 207
Victoria Christman
Assistant Professor of History
563-387-1071

early modern Europe, Low Countries, Reformation, Inquisition

  • B.A., Harvard University
  • M.A., University of Arizona
  • Ph.D., University of Arizona 
  • At Luther since 2005
  • Koren 205
Dr. Keona K. Ervin
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History
563-387-2981

African-American history, women, gender, and sexuality, the Civil Rights Movement, U.S. labor history 

  • B.A., Duke University
  • M.A., Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
  • At Luther since 2010
  • Koren 210

 

Dr. Richard Mtisi
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History
563-387-1264

African history, Latin America and the Caribbean, African diaspora, and environmental history

  • B.A., Hons. University of Zimbabwe
  • M.A., University of Zimbabwe
  • Ph.D., University of Iowa 
  • At Luther since 2005
  • Koren 210
Dr. Edward H. Tebbenhoff
Associate Professor of History
563-387-1691

Early America, social history, historical methods, museum studies

  • B.A., Duquesne University
  • M.A., Duquesne University
  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota
  • At Luther since 1994
  • Koren 210
Jacqueline Wilkie
Professor of History
563-387-1369

social history, women, modern America, museum studies

  • B.A., College of Saint Rose
  • M.A., Northeastern University
  • D.A., Carnegie-Mellon University 
  • At Luther since 1987
  • Main 126
Dr. John R. Christianson
Emeriti
Emeritus, Former Staff Spouse
Scandinavia, early modern Europe, Tycho Brahe
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • B.A., Mankato State University
  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota 
  • At Luther 1967 - 1996
Dr. Richard Cole
Emeriti
Emeritus
Renaissance and Reformation studies, Russian-Soviet history, Italy, Germany
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • B.A., Eastern New Mexico University
  • M.A., University of Iowa
  • Ph.D., Ohio State University 
  • At Luther 1964 - 2005
Dr. Norma Hervey
Emeriti
Emeritus, Student - Not Enrolled this Term

American history, community studies, ethnic history, immigration history, East European and Russian history

  • Professor Emerita of History
  • B.A., University of Akron
  • M.L.S., State University of New York, Geneseo
  • M.A., St. Bonaventure University
  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota 
  • At Luther 1988 - 2006
Dr. Lawrence Williams
Professor of Africana Studies and History
Emeritus

Africana studies, African-American history

  • A.B., Kentucky State University
  • M. Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • M.A., University of Iowa
  • Ph.D., University of Iowa 
  • At Luther 1985 - 2010