History Department Faculty
Professor Laura Shelton, Chair
Professor Ted Pearson, Associate Chair
Douglas A. Anthony
Professor of History
Benjamin McRee
Professor of History
Maria D. Mitchell
Professor of History
Richard Reitan
Professor of History
Abby M. Schrader
Professor of History
Ted Pearson
Associate Professor of History
Laura Shelton
Associate Professor of History
Gregory Kaliss
Assistant Professor of History
Ilan Benattar
Robert F. & Patricia G. Ross Weis Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies & History
Sotirios Dimitriadis
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
Distribution Requirements:
Joint Majors must fulfill a distribution requirement by taking one course in each of the following areas: United States, European, and World (Latin American, African, Islamic, and Asian) history, one of which must be pre-modern.
Additional Information:
Students should consult with their academic adviser or the History Department Chair for questions concerning requirements for the major/minor.
History majors are advised that command of at least one foreign language is important for those who plan to do graduate work in history.
To be eligible for consideration for honors in History, students must have a grade point average of no less than 3.3 in the major and must complete a significant research project that is deemed outstanding by the review board constituted by the student and his or her adviser. Students interested in standing for honors in History are encouraged to consult with the department chairperson as early as possible.
Off-Campus Study:
Joint Majors in the Department of History are strongly encouraged to study abroad because personal familiarity with foreign cultures is increasingly useful in an ever more interconnected world. Students interested in off-campus study should meet with their academic adviser or the History Department chairperson as early as possible. Typically, students will receive History credit at the 200- or 300-level for courses that they take abroad; these courses will often fulfill other distributional requirements. Those students considering study abroad during their entire junior year must take the History Workshop (HIS 260) by the second semester of their sophomore year at the College.
Majors and minors in the History Department have studied abroad in the following programs in recent years: F&M in Tuscany; IFSA-Butler National University of Ireland, Galway; IFSA-Butler Summer Language and Culture Program at Universidad de Buenos Aires; SIT Study Abroad Peru; SU Abroad Florence, Italy; IES Abroad Vienna; and Advanced Studies in England. See the International and Off-Campus Study section of the Catalog for further information.
