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Department of History
University of Mississippi

19th Century


Robert Colby

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Civil War Era in the United States
Bishop Hall 312  |  662-915-3177
rcolby@olemiss.edu

April Holm

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Religion and Sectionalism, Civil War Era in the United States
Bishop Hall 316 |  662-915-6945
aholm@olemiss.edu


Marc H. Lerner

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D, Columbia University
Comparative Revolutionary Era, Nationalism and Political Culture, Switzerland
Bishop Hall 321 | 662-915-7529
mlerner@olemiss.edu

Theresa H. Levitt

Professor of History
Ph.D, Harvard University
History of Science and Technology, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France
Bishop Hall 323 | 662-915-3792
tlevitt@olemiss.edu


Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, Northwestern University
Empire and Class, Modern Britain
Bishop Hall 337
aslindgr@olemiss.edu


Ted M. Ownby

Professor of History & Southern Studies & Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University
19th- and 20th-century South, Religion and Popular Culture
Barnard Observatory 209 | 662-915-5993
hsownby@olemiss.edu


Eva Payne

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, Harvard University
Gender and Sexuality, 19th- and 20th-century America
ebpayne@olemiss.edu

Paul J. Polgar

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, City University of New York Graduate Center
Slavery and Emancipation 18th- and 19th-century America
pjpolgar@olemiss.edu


Jarod Roll

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D, Northwestern University
Labor and Social Movements, 19th and 20th-century America
Bishop Hall 305 | 662-915-1260
jhroll@olemiss.edu

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Mohammed Bashir Salau

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D, York University, Canada
Islam and Slavery, Precolonial and Colonial Nigeria
Bishop Hall 335 | 662-915-5751
bashir@olemiss.edu


Susan Gaunt Stearns

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, University of Chicago
Political Economy and Western Expansion, Revolutionary America and the Atlantic World
Bishop Hall 330
sgstearn@olemiss.edu

 

Douglass Sullivan-González

Professor of History 
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Politics and Religion, 19th-century Guatemala
Bishop Hall 320  |  662-915-7109
dsg@olemiss.edu

 


Peter Thilly

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D, Northwestern University
Legal Culture and Capitalism, Modern Asia
Bishop Hall 328A  |  662-915-7016
pdthilly@olemiss.edu


Anne Twitty

Associate Professor of History
Ph.D, Princeton University
Slavery and the Law, Antebellum America
atwitty@olemiss.edu