Daniel Usner is the author of Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (University of North Carolina Press, 1992), which won the Jamest

How do young people, technologies, social worlds, creative practices, and families interconnect to affect each other? My research addresses this question as my teen daughter and I explore the impor

Neil J. Lehto is a 65-year-old attorney who lives in Berkley, Michigan. He and with his wife, Cheri, have seven daughters.  So far, they have seven grandsons, Andrew, Joseph, Ayden, Austin, Ma

Professor Beckwith has taught at Indiana University for 41 years, in which time he has developed 48 distinct courses. He is one of the most prolific and versatile researchers in the field of Centra

David Wheeler-Reed is a postdoctoral visiting research fellow at Yale Divinity School and an instructor in religious studies at Albertus Magnus College. His work focuses on the New Testament, the a

I am a teacher and historian of Mexico in the context of the Americas and the World. I aim to understand the histories of popular communities as they engaged colonial rule and early capitalism, nat

Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

He has pr

Michael A. Gomez is currently Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, having served as the founding director of the Association for the Study of t

My courses seek to place the history of the Jews in the United States into a variety of contexts, including the larger history of the United States and the history of the Jews in other lands at the

I am a historian of Native America with research and teaching interests that explore the entangled histories of Native American and African American people. I am also interested in intellectual and

Kendra Taira Field is Associate Professor of  History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy  at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Count

Professor Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles, works of public scholarship and essays as well as four published books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Pue

Robert Wuthnow is Gerard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Sociology Emeritus and former director of the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion. He is the author of more than three dozen

Richard Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History. Professor Bushman specializes in the social and cultural history of the United States. 

He received his B.A., M.A., an

Joel Mokyr conducts research on the economic history of Europe, and specializes in the period 1750-1914. His current research is concerned with the understanding of the economic and intellectual ro

Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited about forty books in modern German and European history. Starting with Hitler’s seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved

Hans-Lukas Kieser is associate professor in the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle in Australia and adjunct professor of history at the University of Zurich in Switzerl

Dr. Laura Miller received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1988. She came to UMSL in August 2010. Endowed Chair in Japanese Studies.

After graduation from the Univ

I specialize in modern Japanese literature and cinema, media history, and translation studies. My first book, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-

I teach Medieval History and offer a first-year introductory course in the topic called ‘Rome to Renaissance’. My research and second and third-year teaching focus on Byzantium (or the Byzantine em