Faculty and Staff Profiles
Department of History
Bloomsburg University
Richard G. Anderson
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Texas Christian University
Specialization: Seventeenth, eighteenth century Europe, Latin
America, Modern Europe.
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 105
Telephone: (570) 389-4163
e-mail: randerso@bloomu.edu
Jeffrey A. Davis
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Washington State University
Specialization: Early National United States, Civil War,
American West,
Pennsylvania
Office address: Old Science Hall, room G14
Telephone: (570) 389-4978
e-mail: jdavis@bloomu.edu
Nancy Gentile Ford
Professor
Ph.D., Temple University
Specialization: United States cultural history, United States
military, recent America
Office address: Old Science Hall, room G15
Telephone: (570) 389-4164
e-mail: nford@bloomu.edu
Michael C. Hickey
Professor
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
Specialization: Russia, Soviet Union, modern European labor
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 130
Telephone: (570) 389-4161
e-mail: mhickey@bloomu.edu
Walter T. Howard
Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Specialization: African American, Africa, twentieth century
United States
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 114
Telephone: (570) 389-4863
e-mail: whowar@bloomu.edu
William V. Hudon
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Specialization: Renaissance and Reformation, Italy,
church history
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 107
Telephone: (570) 389-4159
e-mail: whudon@bloomu.edu
Douglas Karsner
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Temple University
Specialization: United States business and economic history,
urban, diplomatic
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 110
Telephone: (570) 389-4160
e-mail: dkarsner@bloomu.edu
Jeanette Keith
Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Specialization: American social history, United States women,
United States, 1877 to the present
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 133
Telephone: (570) 389-4167
e-mail: jkeith@bloomu.edu
Jeff E. Long
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Specialization: Modern Japan, Korea, militarism
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 127
Telephone: (570) 389-4988
e-mail: jlon2@bloomu.edu
Arthur W. Lysiak
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Loyola University, Chicago
Specialization: England, Far East, Modern Western Europe
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 106
Telephone: (570) 389-4165
e-mail: alysiak@bloomu.edu
Thomas P. Martin
Assistant Professor, Temporary Spring 2009
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Specialization: Early Modern Europe and Modern Atlantic
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 108
Telephone: (570) 389-4651
e-mail: tmartin@bloomu.edu
Elizabeth McCartney
Assistant Professor, Temporary Spring 2009
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Specialization: Early Modern France
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 108
Telephone: (570) 389-4651
e-mail: emccartn@bloomu.edu
M. Safa Saraçoglu
Assistant Professor
Ph. D., Ohio State University
Specialization: Islam, Ottoman Empire, Middle East
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 131
Telephone: (570) 389-4158
e-mail: msaracog@bloomu.edu
Lisa M. Stallbaumer-Beishline
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Specialization: Modern Germany, imperialism, nineteenth
and twentieth century Europe
Office address: Old Science Hall, room 132
Telephone: (570) 389-4979
e-mail: lstallba@bloomu.edu
Christopher Versen
Assistant Professor, Temporary
Ph.D., Florida State University
Areas of Research and Interest: Trans-Atlantic Intellectual History, American Ideas, Politics, and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Victorian Evolutionism, Ethics, Religion, Liberalism and Conservatism in the Western Tradition, American Indian History
Office address: Old Science Hall, room G09
Telephone: (570) 389-5358
e-mail: cversen@bloomu.edu