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

Dr. van Tuyll is the author of 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, Assistant 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 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, in such journals as Middle East Policy (formerly known as American-Arab Affairs), Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 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, 2008), Israel and the Islamic World (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 and is currently working on a book Crossroads of the Caucasus: A Modern History of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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.

Dr. Mark C. Fissel, Professor of History. M.A. & Ph.D., 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.

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. Wayne Mixon, Professor of History. Ph.D., University of North Carolina; B.A. and M.A., University of South Carolina.

Teaching Interests: American South, Twentieth Century U. S., Social, Literary and Intellectual History.

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

Teaching Interests: Introductory Anthropology & Cultural Anthropology; History & Culture of India; North American Indians; Religion, Culture & Society; Sex, Gender and Culture.

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.

Teaching Interests: Western United States, African American History.

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.

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

Dr. Turner is currently editing and contributing to a collection on "Madness and Law in the Middle Ages." She is also finishing a manuscript on "The Care and Custody of the Mentally Incapacitated in Medieval England." Her research interests include the intersection of law and medicine in medieval England, alchemy, the history of medicine, society and culture in late medieval and early modern England, and the history of religion. She is 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, (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 (2008).

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.