History Faculty + Staff

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Our faculty and staff are everything you would want from a support team during your college career. The past experiences our team has in research and expertise in their areas provide you with amazing resources and support! We work closely with our students to help them discover their areas of interest and help to develop that into something great. We expect excellence out of our team as well as our students, we collaborate in order to achieve success all the way around.

Dr. David Jones, Ph.D.

English | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | University Honors Program | History

Interim Department Chair, History | Professor of English
- jonesm@uwec.edu
- Centennial Hall 4402, Eau Claire | Directions
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Kaitlin Augustine

History

Graduate Assistant-History
- augustkj5765@uwec.edu
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Selika Ducksworth-Lawton

History | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor
- 715-836-4886
- duckswsm@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 712, Eau Claire | Directions
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Pam Golden, M.A. (she/her/hers)

History

Academic Department Associate
- 715-836-5501
- goldenp@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 701, Eau Claire | Directions
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Dr. Robert Gough Emeritus

History
Joanne Jahnke-Wegner

History

Assistant Professor
- 715-836-4379
- jahnkejm@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 716, Eau Claire | Directions
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Dr. Cheryl Ana Jimenez Frei (she/her/hers)

History | Latin American and Latinx Studies

Assistant Professor | Co-director of the Public History Program

Dr. Jiménez Frei's research and teaching specializations are in public history, modern Latin America, Argentina and the Southern Cone, memory studies, and cultural history. She is a founder of the Western WI COVID-19 Archive and a core member of the WI Latinx History Collective.
- 715-836-2956
- freica@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 717, Eau Claire | Directions
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Greg Kocken

History | McIntyre Library

Head of Special Collections and Archives | Associate Professor
- 715-836-3873
- kockeng@uwec.edu
- McIntyre Library 5022A, Eau Claire | Directions
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Gerardo Licon

History | Latin American and Latinx Studies

Assistant Professor
- 715-836-4224
- licong@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 353, Eau Claire | Directions
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John W. Mann

History | American Indian Studies

Professor | Director of Public History Program | Graduate Programs Director
- 715-836-5850
- mannjw@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 719, Eau Claire | Directions
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Dr. James Nealy (he/him/his)

History

Associate Lecturer
- nealyj@uwec.edu
- Office hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6 - 8 p.m. or by appointment
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James Oberly Emeritus

History | American Indian Studies
Joseph Orser

History | English

Senior Lecturer

Joe Orser studies the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other. His current research focuses on American missionaries in Thailand. He welcomes the opportunity to work with student researchers on the cultural and social dimensions of Asian American history, the American experience in Southeast Asia, Hmong history, and global history. He has led immersion experiences to Thailand and China.
- 715-836-5705
- orserja@uwec.edu
- Centennial Hall 4207, Eau Claire | Directions
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Louisa Rice

Academic Affairs/Provost | History

Professor of History
- 715-836-5276
- ricelc@uwec.edu
- Schofield Hall 208A, Eau Claire | Directions
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Teresa Sanislo (she/her/hers)

History | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor
- 715-836-4318
- sanisltm@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 720, Eau Claire | Directions
- Office hours: Mon & Wed 1-2 p.m., Fri 3:45-4:45 (virtually) + by appointment
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Janet Seymour

History

Field Services Representative
- 715-836-2250
- dykemaji@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 728, Eau Claire | Directions
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Reiko Shinno

History

Professor
- 715-836-4995
- shinnor@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 724, Eau Claire | Directions
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David Soll

History | Public Health and Environmental Studies

Assistant Professor
- 715-836-5909
- solld@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 361, Eau Claire | Directions
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Jordan Stish

History

Graduate Assistant-History
- stishje0190@uwec.edu
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Andrew Sturtevant (he/him/his)

History | American Indian Studies

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dr. Sturtevant is a historian of Early America with an emphasis on Indigenous history and the history of colonialism. He is writing a book about Pontiac's War, in which some Native people tried to remove the British occupiers from the Great Lakes area. He regularly teaches the methodology courses, HIST 288 and HIST 489 and has done student-faculty research about how K-12 teachers incorporate Sacagawea into lessons on American history.
- 715-836-4112
- sturteak@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 714, Eau Claire | Directions
- Office hours: Mon 4-5 p.m., Tue & Thurs 3-5 p.m. or by appointment
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Patricia Turner

History

Professor
- 715-836-3369
- turnerpr@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 721, Eau Claire | Directions
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Matt Waters, Ph.D.

Languages | History

Professor
- watersmw@uwec.edu
- Centennial Hall 4923, Eau Claire | Directions
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Dr. Margaret Weber (she/her/hers)

History

Lecturer

Margaret Weber is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. She received a doctoral degree in Rural, Agricultural, Technological, and Environmental History Program from Iowa State University in 2018. Weber has published articles and essays in Agricultural History, HNET, and Enterprise & Society, including 2020’s, “The Cult of Convenience: Marketing and Food in Postwar America.”
- webermb@uwec.edu
- Hibbard Humanities Hall 718, Eau Claire | Directions
- Office hours: Tuesdays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. + by appointment
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