History Faculty
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Dr. Jared Burkholder
(605) 274-4620
jared.burkholder@augie.edu
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WebsiteJared Burkholder earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa where he held a fellowship in the Department of Religious Studies and numerous teaching assistantships. Professor Burkholder’s area of specialization is the history of religion in western society and more specifically, in North America. He has presented academic papers in conjunction with a variety of organizations including the Conference on Faith and History and the American Academy of Religion. His research focuses on eighteenth century Moravians in the Atlantic world and in particular, the Delaware Valley. Burkholder is working on several articles including, “John Okely, Moravian Strategy, and the ‘Tennentist’ Response in the Delaware Valley, 1742-1743,” which will appear in the Journal of Moravian History as well as “Moravian Itinerants and Colonial Mennonites: Continuing the Story,” which will appear in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. At Augustana, he teaches courses on Western Civilization, American history and Religion. [link to full CV]
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Dr. Geoffrey Dipple (Chair)
(605) 274-5324
geoffrey.dipple@augie.edu
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Geoffrey Dipple received his Ph.D. in Early Modern European history from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Before joining the faculty at Augustana, he taught at the University of Ottawa, Queen’s University and the University of Toronto. In addition to regularly teaching introductory classes on the history of western civilization, he also offers courses on the history of the Middle Ages, the Reformation, Hitler and the Holocaust, and on genocide in the twentieth century. His publications include Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and the Campaign against the Friars (1996), Radical Reformation Studies: Essays Presented to James M. Stayer, co-edited with Werner O. Packull (1999), and “Just as in the Time of the Apostles:” Uses of History in the Radical Reformation (2005). He is currently working on a book-length translation of German Reformation pamphlets into English, a book on literary and lived utopias during the Protestant Reformation and a book chapter on criticism of the mendicant friars in medieval German literature. [link to full CV]
____________________Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson
(605) 274-5335
jeffrey.johnson@augie.edu
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Jeffrey Johnson is Augustana's modern Americanist. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University, where he was the Pettyjohn fellow and the Herman J. Deutsch fellow. He has also taught at Gonzaga University and the University of Idaho and has held fellowships at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Montana Historical Society, and Harvard University. His research focuses on Gilded Age and Progressive Era politics and culture in the West and his recent articles have appeared in Journal of the West and Idaho Yesterdays. Professor Johnson's first book, They are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925, is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. At Augustana, Johnson teaches courses on Recent U.S. History, historical methods / historiography, Western Civilization, and American Radicalism. As a public historian, he has worked for the National Park Service, Renewable Technologies. Inc., and the National Parks Conservation Association. [link to full CV]____________________
Dr. Michael J. Mullin
(605) 274-5322
michael.mullin@augie.edu
Madsen Center 235Dr. Mullin received his Ph.D. from the University of California—Santa Barbara, where he also served as a lecturer in the history department. Trained as a colonial historian, with a special emphasis on American Indians, he teaches departmental courses in American history until 1877, Revolutionary America, the American Civil War, Western Civilization, and two different courses on American Indian history. His scholarly work has appeared in The American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and Mid-American Historical Journal. He is currently revising a manuscript concerning the Delaware Indians and Pennsylvania during Seven Years War. Dr. Mullin received the College’s inaugural Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award as outstanding teacher at Augustana. In addition to advising history majors, he oversees the College’s Social Studies Teaching Major. [link to full CV]
____________________Dr. Margaret Preston
(605) 274-5325
margaret.preston@augie.edu
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Margaret Preston is an Associate Professor of History and received her Ph.D. from Boston College in 1999. She is a social and economic historian who also focuses on issues of gender in modern Ireland, Britain and India. Published in 2004, her book: Charitable Words: Gentlewomen, Social Control and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin focuses upon the intersections of race, gender, class and social control within the language of charity. She has also published her research in The Historian, Eire-Ireland and New Hibernia Review. A recipient of a 2005 grant from the University of Notre Dame, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Preston has also looked at the role of Irish women in the Dakotas. Preston teaches courses on Modern Europe, Ireland, World War I and Western Civilization. She has lived and traveled extensively in Ireland and England and regularly co-teaches a course that takes students to Ireland and England during Augustana's January term. [link to full CV]____________________
Faculty Emeriti
John Bylsma (1969 - 2000)
Endre Gastony (1966 - 1997)
Duane Matz (1968 - 1998)
Gary Olson (1968 - 2005)
Lyn Oyos (1957 - 1994)
