Hubert van Tuyll, Professor of History, Department Chair.

Ph.D., Texas A & M University; J.D., Duke University; B.A., University of Montevallo.

Teaching Interests: Military History, Russian History, Modern Western Europe, and Modern Western World.

Dr. van Tuyll is the author of 'Castles Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History (with Jurgen Brauer) (2008)'; The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy, and Survival (2001); America's Strategic Future: A Blueprint for the New Millenium (1998); Feeding the Bear: American Aid to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 (1989) as well as numerous articles and book reviews.

Dr. Heather J. Abdelnur, Associate Professor of History.

Ph.D., Latin American History, Texas Christian University; M.A., Latin American Studies, Tulane University; B.A. (cum laude), Linguistics and History, Newcomb College of Tulane University.

Dr. Abdelnur's research is on women and crime in Latin America's Middle Period. She is working on her first monograph tentatively titled: Petty Theft and Homicidal Maniacs: Women of Color and the Courts in Highland Guatemala, 1750-1850.

Dr. Michael B. Bishku, Professor of History.

Ph.D., New York University; B.A. and M.A., University of Florida.

Teaching Interests: Africa, the Middle East, the Islamic World, the British Empire and Commonwealth.

Dr. Bishku has published numerous articles on modern Middle Eastern diplomatic history and politics, especially regarding Turkey, Israel, and the Caucasus in such journals as Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Policy (formerly known as American-Arab Affairs), Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Maghreb Review, Studies in Contemporary Islam, Israel Affairs, Studies in Zionism, International History Review, Journal of Third World Studies, Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History, Conflict Quarterly, and Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies. Also, he has been a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2003), The Islamic World: Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2004), Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2008), Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), Islamic Attitudes to Israel (Routledge, 2008), and The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism (Mazda Publishers, 2007). Dr. Bishku is the former president of both the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (2005-2006) and the Association of Third World Studies (1995-1996) and was a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Morocco and Tunisia. He taught Modern Middle Eastern History at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey in 2004. Dr. Bishku is currently on the Advisory Board of Oxford Bibliographies Online for Islamic Studies and is working on a book Crossroads of the Caucasus: A Modern History of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Dr. Angela Bratton, Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Ph.D., Indiana University; M.A., Indiana University--Anthropology; B.A. (Summa cum Laude), University of Louisville -- Anthropology & Psychology.

Teaching Interests: Intro to Anthropology, Anthropological Methods, History of Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality in Anthropology, Reproduction, African Culture, Identity, Anthropology of Education, Folklore, Migration and Diaspora, Study Abroad Programs, and Service Learning.

Dr. Bratton researches in the areas of gender, sexuality, reproduction, education, socialization, identity/representation, adolescence, Africa, and feminist ethnography. She recently published a book, An Anthropological Study of Factors Affecting the Construction of Sexuality in Ghana, focusing on her research on identity, schooling, and teenage pregnancy.

Dr. Mark C. Fissel, Professor of History.

Ph.D. & M.A., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Teaching Interests: Britain, European military history to 1700, historical methods, comparative revolutions, comparative ancient civilizations, Renaissance & Reformation.

Dr. Fissel's research focuses on warfare in the early modern world. He is the author of English Warfare 1511-1642 (2001); The Bishops' Wars, Charles I's campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640 (1994); and War and government in Britain, 1598-1650 (1991). He edited with Buchanan Sharp, Law and Authority in Early Modern England (2007) and with D.J.B. Trim, Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (2006). He's completing a book-length study of the battle of Newburn Ford (1640). In 2004 he recieved the university's Louis K. Bell Research Award, and in 2008 the Outstanding Faculty Member Teaching Award. For three years he served as the (founding) President of our campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Dr. Ruth McClelland-Nugent, Associate Professor of History.

Ph.D. Dalhousie University, Canada; B.A. Franklin College of Indiana (Summa cum Laude), History.

Teaching Interests: Colonial and Revolutionary America, Witchcraft in the Atlantic World, American Cultural History, History of Gender and Family, History of Women, World War II Film, History of Canada.

Dr. McClelland-Nugent researches in the areas of 17th-century English theatre and printed media, media and colonial identity in early modern Ireland and British North America, and military women in 20th century film and popular media.

Dr. Perzavia Praylow, Assistant Professor of History.

Ph.D. & M.A. History, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A. in Educational Policy Studies, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in History & African American Studies, Drew University.

Dr. Praylow writes and researches from a broad historical agenda around the themes of race leadership; the development of education for blacks; African American social and civic life in the city; black church history and community development; and nonprofit organizations and social justice. Related to these broad interests, Dr. Praylow is working on two book projects. Her first book project, tentatively titled Educating the Talented Tenth: Fisk University Students, the Politics of Race Leadership and the Struggle for African American Equality, 1866-2012, is a history of the education of black students at Fisk University, their training for Race Leadership and their contributions to the struggle for African American civic and social equality throughout the twentieth century. Her second book project, Living Free:  African American Social and Civic Equality in Augusta, GA 1876-2013, is a historical study of the black community’s pursuit of social and civic equality in Augusta, GA since Reconstruction. Dr. Praylow’s other intellectual projects include a history of black women’s schooling and higher education in the U.S. South founded by Christian-philanthropists between 1860 and 1930 and a history of African American life and culture in Jersey City, NJ  1880-2004. She is also completing an article on the history of black women’s integration of the Women’s College at Duke University between 1963 and 1972.

Dr. Jennifer M. Trunzo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Ph.D, Brown University.

Teaching Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Native American Cultures.

Dr. Trunzo's courses include: Intro to Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Native American Cultures, North American Archaeology, Historical Achaeology, and the Anthropology of Religion. Future courses will include Biological Anthropology, Archaeology Field Methods, and The Archaeology and Anthropology of War.

Dr. Trunzo’s research interests include Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology of the New World, Native American Cultures, Colonial American Culture, Warfare, Political Anthropology, Identity, and Ceramics Analysis.

Dr. Wendy Turner, Professor of History.

Ph.D. and M.A., UCLA; B.A. and M.A., California State University, Sacramento; A.A., American River College.

Teaching Interests: Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Medieval and Early Modern England, History of Women, History of Science and Medicine, History of Religion, History of Connections between Science & Science Fiction.

Dr. Turner is the editor of Madness in Medieval Law and Custom (Brill, 2010) in which she has three chapters. She is also the senior editor and a contributor to a second collection, The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examing Disability in the Historical, Legal, Literary, Mediecal, and Relgious Discourses of the Middle Ages (Edwin Mellen, 2011). Her monograph on The Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabiled in Medieval England is in press with the Cursor Mundi series of Brepols Publishers. She is also the author of "Mental Incapacity and Financing War in Medieval England" in The Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus, vol. 2, edited by L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay (Brill, 2008) and "The Legal Regulation and Licensing of Alchemy in Late Medieval England" in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays, edited by Christine Corcos (2010) and other articles. Other publications and works in progress are on her cv, a copy of which is posted on her website. Dr. Turner's research interests include the intersection of law and medicine in medieval England, alchemy, the history of disabilities, medicine, society and culture in late medieval and early modern England, and the history of religion.

Dr. Steven D. Weiss, Associate Professor of History.

Ph.D. & M.A., University of Wisconsin; A.B., University of Illinois.

Teaching Interests: 19th-century European Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Contemporary Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social & Political Philosophy, 20th-century Ethical Theory, Environmental Ethics, Business Ethics, Introduction to Ethics, Ethical Issues in Death & Dying.

Dr. Weiss's research interests cover ethical theory, applied ethics, 19th-century European philosophy, the history of philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and critical thinking. He is currently working on the ethics of designer drugs for brain enhancement.

Dr. Wayne Mixon, Professor of History.

Ph.D., University of North Carolina; B.A. and M.A., University of South Carolina. (retired)

Dr. Mixon researches in the area of Literary history and is the author of The People's Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South (1995).

Dr. Christopher Murphy, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.

Ph.D, University of Virginia; B.A. and M.A., University of Georgia.

Dr. Murphy researches the history of the Augusta Arsenal & the archaeology of the Arsenal. He did his dissertation on the Islamic culture of the Indian Subcontinent and continues his interest in the culture and people of India.

Email: cmurphy@aug.edu

Mr. Michael Searles, Assistant Professor of History.

Ph.D. Candidate at Union Institute; M.A., Howard University; B.A., Southern Illinois University.

Prof. Searles is a leading expert on Black Cowboys in Western history. He is the editor with Bruce A. Glasrud of Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology (2007) and a contributor to Black Cowboys of Texas, edited by Sara R. Massey.

jbarney@aug.edu

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