American History
Military History, American History, Europe 1870-Present, Latin America
Richard Damms
Associate Professor and Division Head of Arts & Sciences, Meridian
rdamms@history.msstate.edu(601)-484-0140
20th Century U.S., Diplomacy, Latin America
History of U.S. Foreign Relations, 20th Century U.S. History, Nuclear History
James C. Giesen
Associate Professor and Grisham Master Teacher
jgiesen@history.msstate.edu662-325-3604
Agricultural, Rural, Environmental History, African American, U.S. South
Mark D. Hersey
Associate Professor & Co-Editor, Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society
mhersey@history.msstate.edu662-325-3604
U.S. South, Environmental and Agricultural History, Rural America, African American
American Civil War and Reconstruction, Nineteenth-Century America, U.S. South, American War and Society
Matthew Lavine
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator. Co-Editor of ISIS, the Journal of the History of Science Society.
mlavine@history.msstate.edu662-325-8912
Science and Popular Culture, Technology, American West
Alan I Marcus
William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and Head
aimarcus@history.msstate.edu662-325-7075
History of Technology, Science and Medicine, Intellectual History, Agricultural History
U.S. South, Women's History, 19th and 20th Century U.S
Early American, Early Modern European
Science and Technology Studies, Modern Europe (Especially Mediterranean), Nuclear Studies, Public and Environmental Health, US Empire, Cold War.
Early and Frontier America, Immigration and Ethnicity, Oral History, Public History
Jermaine Scott
Assistant Professor (Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, during the 2019-20 Academic Year)
Twentieth Century African American history, African Diaspora studies, Black politics, Black popular culture, race and sport, postcolonial studies.
Leigh Soares
Assistant Professor (Richards Postdoctoral Fellow, George and Ann Richards Center, Penn State University during the 2019-20 academic year)
662-325-3604
African American History, U.S. South, 19th and 20th Century U.S., History of Education
The US South, Twentieth Century America
Courtney Thompson
Assistant Professor, Phi Alpha Theta Advisor and Medical Humanities Certificate committee chair
cthompson@history.msstate.edu662-325-3604
History of U.S. Women; History of Science; History of Medicine
Michael Vinson Williams
Director of African American Studies and Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso and Adjunct Professor of History, Mississippi State University
mvwilliams@utep.edu915-747-7822 Office, 915-747-8666 Fax
African American History, Twentieth Century America, Africa
19th and 20th Century U.S., History of Religion, U.S. and the World, History of Human Rights