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Department of History Directory
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Sabri Ates
Associate Professor
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Rachel Ball-Phillips
Adjunct Lecturer
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Kate Carté
Professor
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Crista J. DeLuzio
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Melissa Barden Dowling
Department Chair
Associate Professor, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director of Classical Studies
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David Doyle
Director, University Honors Program
Academic Mentor, Dedman College Scholars Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
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Johan Elverskog
Courtesy Professor and Professor and Chair of Religious Studies
Jeffrey A. Engel
Professor
David Gergen Director of the Center for Presidential History
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Neil Foley
Professor, and Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History
Associate Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies
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Brian Franklin
Adjunct Lecturer
Associate Director of the SMU Center for Presidential History
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Andrew R. Graybill
Professor
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Rick Halperin
Adjunct Lecturer
Professor of the Practice of Human Rights
Director, Human Rights Education Program
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Kenneth M. Hamilton
Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies
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Erin R. Hochman
Associate Professor
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Macabe Keliher
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jill E. Kelly
Associate Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Thomas J. Knock
Professor of History and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Bianca Lopez
W.R. Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
![Alexis McCrossen](/-/media/Site/Dedman/Academics/Departments/History/Faculty-Pictures/Alexis-profile-pic.jpg?h=300&iar=0&w=200&hash=4D11D95A64E944057880B222B4D012C5)
Alexis M. McCrossen
Professor
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Pablo Mijangos y González
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in History
Brandon G. Miller
Assistant Director, University Honors Program
Academic Mentor, Dedman College Scholars Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clements Department of History
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Daniel T. Orlovsky
Professor and George Bouhe Research Fellow in Russian Studies
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Ariel Ron
Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era
Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Kathleen A. Wellman
Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Laurence H. Winnie
Senior Lecturer