History at Centre College

9 faculty and 72 courses in History at Centre College.

Faculty

• James V. Morrison, H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Classics h-index 11
  Homer and ancient epic, Greek literature and historiography, Late Republican and Augustan literature and history, and classical tradition in 20th century literature and culture; Author of "Homeric Misdirection: False Predictions in
  Notable: “Homeric misdirection: false predictions in the Iliad” (1993) · 169 citations
• Jonathon L. Earle, Associate Professor of African History h-index 5
  Notable: “Reading revolution in late colonial Buganda” (2012) · 9 citations
• Sara Egge, Claude D. Pottinger Professor of History h-index 4
  Gender, ethnicity, and rurality in the American Midwest, historical constructions of political representation and citizenship, and historical intersections of agriculture, food production, hunting, and the environment. Her book, ent
  Notable: “Woman Suffrage is a Midwestern Story: Gender, Region, and Nativism, 1880–1920” (2018) · 8 citations
• Amos Tubb, Gordon B. Davidson Professor of History h-index 2
  The British Civil War and the Commonwealth. Published such articles as Printing the Regicide of Charles I and Mixed Messages: Royalist Newsbook Reports of Charles I’s Execution and the Leveller Uprising. Download C
  Notable: “THE ANALYSIS OF ROMANO‐BRITISH POTTERY BY ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY” (1980) · 44 citations
• Steve M. Beaudoin, Ewing T. Boles Professor of History h-index 2
  The history of modern France and poverty. His current research focuses on a poison pen campaign in the French city of Tulle just after the First World War, which inspired the classic French film, Le Corbeau. COURSES TAUGHT The
  Notable: “Current Debates in the Study of the Industrial Revolution” (2000) · 6 citations
• John Harney, Associate Professor of History h-index 2
  Notable: “An American Adventure: The United States Vincentians in Jiangxi Before 1949” (2016) · 2 citations
• Danielle La Londe, Associate Professor of Classics
  Es on political thought in Latin poetry of the late republic through the age of Nero. She is currently writing a commentary of Vergil’s pastoral poems, the "Eclogues" for Dickinson College Commentaries, and an article on the influence of Vi
• Mauricio Castro, Marlene & David Grissom Associate Professor of History; Chair of Latin American Studies Program
• Tara Strauch, Paul L. Cantrell Associate Professor of History; Chair of History Program
  Notable: “Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory by Robert E. May” (2021)

Courses

• Inventing the Modern World-I HIS 110
• Emperors to Republics HIS 111
• The Global Crisis HIS 115
• The Age of European Imperialism HIS 116
• History of Concentration Camps HIS 117
• Inventing the Modern World-II HIS 120
• Cultivating the Wilderness: North America HIS 121
• With Liberty and Justice for All: The US Since 1865 HIS 126
• Reconstructing American Democracy HIS 127
• Revolutionary & Napoleonic France HIS 222
• The English Civil War HIS 223
• Recession, Memory, and Film HIS 224
• Inventing the United States-I HIS 230
• Inventing the United States-II HIS 240
• Hollywood in Depression and War FLM 268
• History of Ancient Greece HIS 301
• History of Ancient Rome HIS 302
• Knights and Barbarians HIS 303
• Rome at War HIS 304
• Europe in Revolution HIS 308
• Europe in the Age of Hitler HIS 309
• Modern France HIS 311
• World War II France HIS 312
• Ancient Greek Society and Culture HIS 314
• Italy in War HIS 315
• Middle East History & Society HIS 319
• The Wars of the Roses HIS 327
• Churchill's World HIS 328
• Economic History of the Modern World HIS 329
• Chairman Mao's China HIS 333
• Age of the Samurai HIS 340
• Modern Japan: Samurai to Sony HIS 342
• First World War in Africa HIS 343
• Modern Africa HIS 352
• Rock 'n' Roll and the Postwar United States HIS 360
• American Environmental History HIS 361
• The Early American Republic HIS 362
• New York and Its Peoples, Past and Present HIS 363
• Colonial America HIS 364
• The American Revolution HIS 365
• America: North and South HIS 367
• Latinx Communities in the United States HIS 368
• Building the American City HIS 370
• Religion in Latin America HIS 371
• American Girls: Playing with History HIS 373
• Creating Corporate America HIS 374
• History of Gender in the U.S. HIS 375
• America in the World Wars HIS 376
• The British Empire HIS 384
• The Crusades HIS 387
• 20th-Century Vietnam HIS 391
• What If: Counterfactual and Alternative History HIS 392
• Popular Sport and the Modern World HIS 393
• Public History: Who Owns the Past? HIS 394
• Assassins HIS 395
• The Global Cold War and Film FLM 396
• The Nazi Rise to Power HIS 409
• Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome HIS 412
• African Film HIS 431
• Creating the Orient HIS 434
• Ghana and West Africa's Pasts in the Black Atlantic HIS 452
• South Africa: Myth, Memory and Popular Imagination HIS 457
• History of American Slavery HIS 464
• Haunted American History HIS 470
• World War II: History & Memory on the Western Front HIS 473
• Age of Hamilton HIS 474
• Puerto Rico - Identity and Nation HIS 476
• History and Video Games HIS 482
• Memory and the End of Empire HIS 483
• History Bots HIS 484
• African Origins of the Holocaust HIS 485
• Research Seminar HIS 500

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.