Faculty/Staff

Chair

Professor Judy Ann Ford
(Ph.D., Fordham University, 1994)
Medieval Britain, Renaissance and Reformation Europe
Ferguson Social Sciences 104
Judy.Ford@tamuc.edu
903-886-5928

Full-Time Faculty

Assistant Professor Jonathan Bergman
(Ph.D., University at Buffalo-SUNY, 2008)
Twentieth Century United States, Disaster and Related Organizational Histories; Undergraduate Advisor and the History/Social Studies Teacher Ed. Coordinator Advisor
Ferguson Social Sciences 106
Jonathan.Bergman@tamuc.edu
903-468-8742

Assistant Professor Jessica Brannon-Wranosky
(Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2010)
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century United States, U. S. Women and Gender, the U. S. South-including Texas, and North American Civil Rights Movements
Ferguson Social Sciences 107
Jessica.Wranosky@tamuc.edu
903-886-5224

Assistant Professor Sharon Kowalsky
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2004)
Modern Europe, Soviet Russia, Criminology and Gender
Ferguson Social Sciences 105
Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu
903-886-5627

 

Assistant Professor William Kuracina
(Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2008)
India, Social and Political South Asia
Ferguson Social Sciences 104
William.Kuracina@tamuc.edu
903-886-5225

Associate Professor John Howard Smith
(Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY, 2003)
Early America to 1820, Christianity in America to 1865, Race in Early America; Graduate Advisor
Ferguson Social Sciences 117
John.Smith@tamuc.edu
903-886-5219

Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty

Frank von Neuhaus (Ed.D., Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Merry Ressler (M.S., Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Emeritus Faculty

 

Joe Fred Cox
(M.A., East Texas State University, 1967)
American West, Texas

Keith D. McFarland
(Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1969)
Twentieth Century United States, Modern Military; Professor Emeritus & Texas A&M University-Commerce President Emeritus

Harry E. Wade
(Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1967)
Modern Europe, East Asia, World History

Non-Departmental Historians

Dean Ricky Floyd Dobbs
(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1996)
Texas, American West, Southern History; Dean of the University College
Student Access and Success Building (One Stop Shop)
Ricky.Dobbs@tamuc.edu
903-886-5878

Assistant Professor Eric Gruver
(Ed.D, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2008)
20th-Century United States, History of Education; Assistant Director of the Honors College
Prairie Crossing Main Office
Eric.Gruver@tamuc.edu
903-468-3004