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Victoria Jackson is a sports historian who researches the intersection of sport and society.
Jackson's work explores how the games we play and watch tell us much about the communities in which we live. She is also an expert in the history of sport in higher education. Her research connects the effort to expand opportunity for college women in sport and the issues in big-time college sports which disproportionately affect young black men.

Jackson is a clinical assistant professor of history and works with Sun Devil Athletics on a variety of initiatives and is a member of the inaugural cohort of Global Sport Scholars affiliated with the Global Sport Institute at ASU.

Apart from her research, she was a cross country and track and field athlete for UNC and ASU, a national champion for the Sun Devils at 10,000 meters, and a professional runner endorsed by Nike.

Vanessa Fonseca-Ch谩vez鈥檚 work focuses on colonialism and the narratives of southwestern U.S. communities.

An expert in Latina/o cultural studies and Chicano/a literature, Fonseca-Ch谩vez co-directs the Following the Manito Trail project, which looks at the Hispanic New Mexican diaspora from the mid-19th century to the present. 

Fonseca Ch谩vez is an assistant professor of English. She also teaches courses on film in the American Southwest, Indigenous literature, and American ethnic literature.

Fonseca-Ch谩vez is the co-editor of Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Cultural Essays and Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland.

Ayanna Thompson is an expert in Shakespearean studies specializing in Renaissance drama and race in performance. 

Unofficially known as the 鈥淥thello whisperer,鈥� Thompson is the director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and creator of the RaceB4Race symposium, an ongoing conference series and professional network community for scholars of color.

Thompson is a Regents Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Thompson鈥檚 studies also include British literature, theatre, race and gender politics.

She is the author of several books, including "Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars," "Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach," "Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America," and "Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage.鈥�

Nadieszda Kizenko researches and teaches Russian history, with a focus on religion and culture. She explores the history of Orthodox Christianity, saints鈥� lives as a historical source, lived religion, political liturgy, women鈥檚 written confessions, and depictions of religion in film. Her first book, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn State University Press, 2000) examined the cult of a charismatic priest whose cult spanned the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Russian edition appeared as 鈥溞⌒惭徰傂拘� 袧邪褕械谐芯 袙褉械屑械薪懈: 芯. 袠芯邪薪薪 袣褉芯薪褕褌邪写褌褋泻懈泄 懈 褉褍褋褋泻懈泄 薪邪褉芯写禄 (Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006). Her history of confession in Russia spanning four centuries, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, was published with Oxford University  Press in 2021 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/good-for-the-souls-9780192896797?). She has now begun a new project exploring the intersection of women, devotional practice, and writing.

Prof. Kizenko's courses and seminars cover Russian history, East European history, religion and film, and European history in general. Recent dissertations supervised by Prof. Kizenko include:  鈥淪cience and Culture on the Soviet Screen: Russian and Member Republic Biographical Films during the Early Cold War, 1946-1953,鈥� 鈥淧romiscuous Pioneers of Morality: The Code of Ethics of a Secret Service Functionary in Communist Poland as Set by Law and Practice, 1944鈥�1989,鈥� "Sacrifice in the Name of Sacred Duty: The Representation of the Decembrist Wives in Russian Culture, 1825-Present," and "Striving for Salvation: Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations and Revolution in Ireland, 1830-1922.鈥�

Catherine O'Donnell is an expert in cultural and intellectual history, American political thought and religious studies. 

O'Donnell is a faculty head and professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. As an associate history professor, she teaches courses on early American history and the Atlantic World.

O'Donnell is the author of two books, Elizabeth Seton: American Saint and Men of Letters in the Early Republic. She has also written articles appearing in the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Literature, and the US Catholic Historian.

Alan Barenberg specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the social and economic history of the 1930s-1970s. His research focuses on a broad range of topics in the economic and social history of the Russian Empire and the USSR. His book, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale UP, 2014), uses the case of the Arctic community of Vorkuta to resituate the Gulag in the history of the Stalin and post-Stalin eras. Gulag Town, Company Town has been recognized with various prizes, including the Canadian Association of Slavists' Taylor and Francis Book Prize in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2015), the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (Honorable Mention, 2015), and the TTU President's Book Award (First Prize, 2016).

Dr. Barenberg teaches specialized courses on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Central Asia, as well as surveys of Western civilization. He has received multiple teaching awards, including the Hemphill-Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Texas Tech Parents Association (2013) and the TTU President's Excellence in Teaching Award (2016).

Before coming to Texas Tech University, Dr. Barenberg received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2007), an M.A. from the University of Chicago (2000), and a B.A. from Carleton College (1999).

Dr. Barenberg has received numerous fellowships, including: Kennan Institute Title VIII Long Term Research Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (2011-12, declined); Institute for Historical Studies Residential Fellowship, University of Texas (2010, declined); Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Fellowship (2005-2006); Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in the Humanities (2003-2004).

In summer 2015, Dr. Barenberg was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

Research Seminar in United States and International History
Human Rights, the United States, and International History
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Public Policy and Politics of the New Deal Era
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I am interested in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students who would like to study and research 20th century United States political and public policy history. Additionally, I will supervise projects that explore the links between domestic political history and America鈥檚 role in the world. Because of my own research agenda, I am happy to work with students interested in the histories of refugees, immigration, and human rights.

In recent years, I have worked with graduate students studying under Prof. Hamm, Prof. Smith Howard, Prof. Fogarty, Prof. Kizenko, Prof. Gauss, and Prof. White.

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Dr. Jamin Wells, associate professor and director of the Public History Master鈥檚 Program, teaches courses in local, environmental, digital, and public history. He also oversees the UWF Digital Humanities Lab.

Wells is committed to researching, writing, and teaching a usable past. He is currently working on several grant-funded projects, including a multi-year project to improve writing instruction for K-12 teachers and a pilot UWF Digital Humanities Lab. His students have worked on projects with numerous community groups and organizations throughout the region. He is also revising his dissertation for publication. This book project, tentatively titled Shipwrecks and the Making of the American Beach, explores the radical transformation of the American coast over the course of the nineteenth century. 

Dr. William B. Lees is executive director of the UWF Florida Public Archaeology Network. He has been involved in archaeological research, academic education, and public education for over 40 years and has worked extensively in the Great Plains and Southeastern United States.

Dr. Lees' research has included terrestrial and submerged archaeology with a focus on the early to mid-nineteenth century and sites of conflict of the American Civil War and the Indian Wars (in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Florida), as well as memorialization of the Civil War and other conflict. He is past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Society of Professional Archaeologists, the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and the Plains Anthropological Society. He is recipient of the McGimsey/Davis Award given by the Register of Professional Archaeologists for outstanding service to professional archaeology.

Dr. Della Scott-Ireton worked with the Pensacola Shipwreck Survey, West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc., Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research and the government of the Cayman Islands before joining the Florida Public Archaeology Network. She currently serves as associate director of FPAN.

Dr. Scott-Ireton is certified as a Scuba Instructor with the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI). She is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and member of the Florida Archaeological Council, and has served on the board of the Society for Historical Archaeology, the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee. 

Dr. Scott-Ireton's research interests include public interpretation of maritime cultural heritage, both on land and under water, and training and engaging 鈥渃itizen scientists鈥� in archaeological methods and practices. She is the author of "Maritime Historic Site Management for the Public" in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer, 2014) and is editor/co-editor of several publications focusing on public interpretation and management of submerged heritage sites including Between the Devil and the Deep: Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage (Springer, 2013), Out of the Blue: Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources (Springer, 2007), and Submerged Cultural Resource Management: Preserving and Interpreting Our Sunken Maritime Heritage (Springer, 2003).

Dr. Scott-Ireton is the recipient of the 2015 Florida Department of State Senator Bob Williams Award for Public Service in Historic Preservation in Florida.

She currently serves as Associate Director of FPAN, and Interim Associate Dean for the UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Thomin manages the Destination Archaeology Resource Center at the FPAN headquarters in Pensacola. He received the 2016 Museum Excellence Award from the Florida Association of Museums.

Dr. Barbara Larson, professor of modern European art history, teaches 19th and 20th-century courses, including art and science in the 19th century, 19th-century European art, women and art, and modern art. 

Larson is a world-renowned scholar of science and 19th-century visual culture, with a focus on evolutionism, medicine, history of the brain and mind, and the art movement Symbolism. 

She is the author of The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon, a book that delves into the scientific interests of Redon, a French artist.  She is lead editor of The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture and Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History.  Larson has contributed a number of catalogue essays to international exhibitions and authored many articles on issues in art and science.  She is a series editor of Art and Science since 1750 for Routledge Press, inclusive of volumes that explore how the arts are informed by emerging scientific theories and technologies. 

Larson has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of Melbourne. 

John Markowitz, lecturer, teaches painting and art history.

For more than 25 years, Markowitz has taught at the university level and worked as a professional artist with an active exhibition record. He has participated in invitational group exhibitions, such as the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama; The Susquehanna Art Museum in Pennsylvania; The Doshi Art Gallery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; The Kipp Gallery at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Cava Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Demuth Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania; and The Institute of Contemporary Art of Philadelphia.

He has also had solo exhibitions at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Millersville University of Pennsylvania and the Morris Street Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.

Markowitz is a frequent guest lecturer at various institutions on topics ranging from Albert Pinkham Ryder: An American Visionary; Art Historical Survey of the Development of Abstraction in the Twentieth Century; The Buried Narrative in Abstract Painting; and The Celebration of Visibility. He also has curated exhibitions and published catalogs for the Millersville University of Pennsylvania, and the University of West Florida.

Before he came to UWF in 2000, he taught at Millersville University, Lebanon Valley College, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Dr. Justin M. Sturgeon is an authority on the visual culture of late-medieval Western Europe.

Assistant Professor of Art History at UWF, Sturgeon's research centers on illuminated medieval manuscripts and understanding the interaction between text, image, and material culture in order to address questions about chivalric identity and status. His dissertation and forthcoming monograph examine these issues within the context of Ren茅 d鈥橝njou鈥檚 Livre des tournois (a 15th-century treatise that describes and visualizes the author鈥檚 idealized form of a late-medieval tournament).

Sturgeon is a contributor to a forthcoming volume of conference proceedings, and has served as a contributing writer and editor for the supplemental material of a university level art history text.

He is co-organizing a conference, 鈥淩edefining the Boundaries of Political Literature in Late-Medieval Europe,鈥� to be held at the University of South Denmark in Odense in 2017.

Christine Becker received her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and Ph.D. in Communication Arts: Film Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. She has been in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame since 2000, specializing in film and television history, critical analysis of film and television, and media industry studies. She also teaches courses for the Sports, Media, and Culture Minor.

Specialties:
Film and television history
Critical analysis of film and television
Media industry studies
TV narrative and Aesthetics
British television
Sports and television
Stardom and celebrity
History, Theory, and Criticism

Research Interests:
media industries, television history, TV narrative and aesthetics, British television, sports and television, stardom and celebrity

Representative Publications, Performances, and Creative Works
It鈥檚 the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on Fifties Television. (Wesleyan University Press, 2008).

鈥淏BC America: Cloning Drama for a Transnational Network,鈥� in Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, and Matt Hills, eds., Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans. (Oxford University Press, 2019), 69-86.

"Accent on Talent: The Valorization of British Actors on American Quality Television,鈥� in Christopher Hogg and Tom Cantrell, eds., Exploring Television Acting. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018), 140-153.

鈥淥ff Goes the Telly: Writer Discourse on the Life on Mars Franchise Finales,鈥� Journal of Screenwriting (Vol 6 Num 2: 2015): 173-188.

"Paul Newman: Superstardom and Anti-Stardom,鈥� in Pamela Robertson Wojcik, ed., New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s, Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2011), 14-33.

Bill L. Smith, director of the Martin Institute and Program in International Studies, claims to have the best job on UI's campus. A historian by training, he finds the combination of fields of study embodied in the International Studies degree fits his interests perfectly, prompting him to embrace the interdisciplinary program wholeheartedly. He says that one of the great things about working with the Institute and Martin School (as well as the affiliated Borah Foundation) is the chance to study new topics every year, which is a rare treat for an academic. He points to the uncommonly engaged and consistently excellent students affiliated with the Martin Institute as one of the true joys in life.