History at Centre College

9 faculty and 72 courses in History at Centre College.

Faculty

• Jonathon L. Earle, Associate Professor of African History h-index 5
• 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
• Amos Tubb, Gordon B. Davidson Professor of History
  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
• 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
• James V. Morrison, H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Classics
  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
• John Harney, Associate Professor of History
• Mauricio Castro, Marlene & David Grissom Associate Professor of History; Chair of Latin American Studies Program
• Sara Egge, Claude D. Pottinger Professor of History
  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
• Tara Strauch, Paul L. Cantrell Associate Professor of History; Chair of History Program

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 2026-07-01.