History
Our People
Department Chair
- 403F Wimberly Hall
- jlonghurst@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8344
Specialty areas:
interim History Department Chair Spring 2025
Historian of urban and environmental policy, including transportation and bicycle history, and the social and cultural history of modern America
Academic Department Associate
Faculty
- Professor
- 403D Wimberly Hall
- abeaujot@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6798
Specialty areas:
Public History, Digital Humanities, Community Engagement, Experiential Learning, World History, European History, Material Culture
- Professor
- 403H Wimberly Hall
- jgrider@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8361
Specialty areas:
Maritime history, Labor & Working-class history, Native American history, and history of the American West
- Assistant Professor
- 403C Wimberly Hall
- thamblin@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8360
Specialty areas:
Social studies educator specializing in grades 6-12, focusing on inquiry-based instruction, historical thinking, and civic engagement.
- Lecturer
- 402 Wimberly Hall
- bhamburger@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8343
Specialty areas:
Social Studies Education, World History, Decolonization, History of the Cold War, 20th Century Middle East
- Associate Professor
- 403I Wimberly Hall
- phardy@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8347
Specialty areas:
History of science, technology, and medicine, especially technologies of ocean science.
- Lecturer
- 403G Wimberly Hall
- ahoward@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8348
Specialty areas:
World History; British Empire; South Asia; Kashmir; Imperialism; Geopolitics; Environment
- Associate Professor
- 403P Wimberly Hall
- giguchi@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8355
Specialty areas:
Japanese History, Asian History, and World History; Cultural Studies; Buddhism and other Religions
- Professor
- 403F Wimberly Hall
- jlonghurst@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8344
Specialty areas:
interim History Department Chair Spring 2025
Historian of urban and environmental policy, including transportation and bicycle history, and the social and cultural history of modern America
- Professor
- 401A Wimberly Hall
- vmacias-gonzalez@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8349
Specialty areas:
Latin American, Mexican, Latinx histories and history of race, gender and sexuality. Latin Americanists study the pasts of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A. I focus on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. Research interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ+ history of the Midwest. Service interests include development of outreach programs to increase Latino entry into higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ+ public history programs. I serve on various professional groups in my field. I chair the U.S.-Canada Organizing Committee of the International Historians of Mexico Conference, serve on the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession, and on the organizing committee of REDMUGEN, the network for historians of women, gender, and sexuality in Mexico.
- Associate Professor
- 403N Wimberly Hall
- hmorrison@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8345
Specialty areas:
Modern Middle East History
History of Childhood
Oral History
- Professor
- 403L Wimberly Hall
- gpai@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8352
Specialty areas:
South Asia (and its diaspora); British Empire; colonialism & postcolonialism; gender & sexuality; global studies; material & visual culture; political history; religion
Director, International & Global Studies Program
- Professor
- 403K Wimberly Hall
- kshonk@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6560
Specialty areas:
Modern Ireland/Northern Ireland, Modern Europe, British and French Empires, Fascism, History of Rock 'n' Roll, Modern Africa, World History
- Associate Professor
- 403B Wimberly Hall
- ttrimmer@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6799
Specialty areas:
World History, Migration History, How La Crosse Connects to World History, British Empire 19th-20th C., Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Historical Contextualization Skills)
Executive Director, UWL Oral History Program
- Associate Professor
- 403J Wimberly Hall
- jtrost@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6627
Specialty areas:
History of Identity Theft and Impersonation; Swindling; History of Identification and Surveillance Policy; White-Collar Crime; Juvenile Legal Policy
- Assistant Professor
- 403M Wimberly Hall
- dvesperman@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8359
Specialty areas:
Citizenship and democracy education
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Education Policy
Emeritus Faculty
| Deborah Bufton | |
| Mark Chavalas | mchavalas@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Jess Hollenback | |
| Gary Kuhn | |
| Charles Lee |
| James Parker | |
| James Potts | |
| Richard Snyder | |
| Gregory P. Wegner | gwegner@eagle.uwlax.edu |
| Martin Zanger |