Thomas Prasch (WU 1997- )
Professor and Chair
BA 1974 University of Nebraska; MA 1977 University of Nebraska; PhD 1995 Indiana University
Teaching fields: Europe, Victorian Britain, World Survey
Research fields: Victorian England
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-A: (785) 670-1892
E-mail: tom.prasch@washburn.edu
- "All the Strange Facts": Alfred Russell Wallace's Spiritualism & Evolutionary Thought (excerpt from "Perplext in Faith" Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts)
- A Strange Incongruity: The Imaginary India of the International Exhibitions
- Eating the World: London in 1851
- Ethnicity as Marker in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (from "Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia)
- "Oy, Have You Got the Wrong Vampire" Dislocation, Comic Distancing, and Political Critique in Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killer (1967) [from The Laughing Dead]
- "Radiation's Rising, But One Mustn't Grumble Too Much" Nuclear Apocalypse Played as Farce in Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room (1969) [from The Apocalypse in Film]
Rachel Goossen (WU 2000- )
Professor
BA 1982, Bethel College; MA 1984, University of California (Santa Barbara); PhD 1993, University of Kansas
Teaching fields: Modern US History, US Women, Secondary Education (History & Social Sciences)
Research fields: U.S. Women's History; Peace History, Conscientious Objection; Mennonite History
Department Office/phone: HC 311-D; (785) 670-1762
E-mail: rachel.goossen@washburn.edu
- Rachel Goossen CV
- Defanging the Beast: Mennonite Responses to John Howard Yoder's Sexual Abuse
- Disarming the Toy Store and Reloading the Shopping Cart: Resistance to Violent Culture
- "Like Entering an Armed Camp" Peacemaker Teams and the Language of Violent-Toy Protests
- Mennonite Bodies, Sexual Ethics: Women Challenge John Howard Yoder
Kim Morse (WU 2003- )
Professor
BA University of Kansas; MA 1995 Indiana University; PhD 2000 University of Texas, Austin
Teaching fields: Latin American history, Latin American Indigenous and Religious history, Borderlands, World survey
Research fields: 19th-century Venezuela
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-B; (785) 670-2059
E-mail: kim.morse@washburn.edu
Alan Bearman (WU 2003- )
Professor and Dean of University Libraries
BA 1998 Murray State University; BS 1999 University of Kentucky; MA Murray State 2000; PhD 2005 Kansas State University
Teaching fields: Colonial and Revolutionary America, History of Christianity, American Religious History, Reformation
Research fields: Anglo-American Christianity, Colonial America
Department Office/phone: HC 311C; (785) 670-1855
Webpage: http://www.washburn.edu/faculty/abearman
E-mail: alan.bearman@washburn.edu
Kerry Wynn (WU 2006- )
Associate Professor
BA 1998 Bradley University; PhD 2005, University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
Teaching fields: Women, Native-American, U.S. Survey
Research fields: Women & Gender
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-P; (785) 670-2062
E-mail: kerry.wynn@washburn.edu
Bruce Mactavish (WU 1998- )
Assistant Professor
BA 1983, Furman University; MA 1988, PhD 1993; University of Mississippi
Teaching fields: Civil War, African-American, US survey
Research fields: 19th-century South, rural communities
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-F; (785) 670-2063
E-mail: bruce.mactavish@washburn.edu
Kelly Erby (WU 2011- )
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
BA 2004 The Ohio State University; MA 2007 Emory University; PhD 2012 Emory University
Teaching fields: U.S. history; social and cultural history; race and ethnicity; gender; urban-development
Research fields: nineteenth-century social and cultural history
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-O; (785) 670-2018
E-mail: kelly.erby@washburn.edu
Anthony Silvestri (WU 2008- )
Lecturer
BA 1987 Loyola Marymount University; MA 1992 University of Southern California; PhD 1995 University of Southern California
Teaching fields: World history survey, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Traditional Japan
Research fields: Medieval Manuscripts, Intellectual History, Ancient Religions
Department Office/Phone: HC 311-C; (785) 670-1862
E-mail: tony.silvestri@washburn.edu
Jia Feng (WU 2017 - )
Geography Lecturer
BE 2004 Urban and Regional Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
MA 2009 Geography, Miami University, Oxford, OH
MS 2012 Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI PhD 2016 Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Teaching fields: World Regional Geography, Geographic Information System
Research fields: Migrant Enclaves in Urban China
Department Office/Phone: HC311-N: (785) 670-1127
E-mail: jia.feng@washburn.edu
Department staff
Robin Shrimplin
Senior Administrative Assistant
Department Location/Phone: HC 311 main office; (785) 670-2060
E-mail: robin.shrimplin@washburn.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Joel Gillaspie - E-mail joel.gillaspie@washburn.edu
Jennifer Wiard - E-mail jennifer.wiard@washburn.edu
Emeriti Faculty
William Wagnon (WU 1968-2008)
Professor Emeritus
E-mail:bill.wagnon@washburn.edu
Kennett Cott (WU 1969-2003)
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: ken.cott@washburn.edu
Marilyn Geiger (WU 1962-2000)
Professor Emerita
E-mail: marilyn.geiger@washburn.edu
Sara Tucker (WU 1975-2009)
Professor Emerita
AB 1968 Oberlin College; MA 1975; PhD 1982 Indiana University (Bloomington)
Teaching fields: China, Middle East, Women, World Survey.
Research fields: 19th-20th century women; teaching and computer technology
E-mail preferred sara.tucker@washburn.edu
