About Shepherd College

Members of the full-time history faculty hold advanced degrees from major universities in the United States and Canada. The department also benefits from the presence of many qualified individuals in the community who provide special courses on a part-time basis. Although the department's focus is on teaching, many of the members are also engaged in research and publication.

Medieval and Early Modern Europe, History of Italy, Renaissance and Reformation, Gender History

About Shepherd University Studying History at Shepherd University Is History the Right Major for Me? What Can I Do With a Major in History? History-Related Student Activities History Department Faculty Questions? Regional Map of Shepherdstown Dr. Anders Henriksson, Chair Department of History Shepherd University Shepherdstown, WV 25443 (304) 876-5329 (800) 344-5231 ext. 5329 E-mail: ahenriks@shepherd.edu	History Department Faculty Members of the full-time history faculty hold advanced degrees from major universities in the United States and Canada. The department also benefits from the presence of many qualified individuals in the community who provide special courses on a part-time basis. Although the department's focus is on teaching, many of the members are also engaged in research and publication. THE FACULTY Sally M. Brasher Assistant Professor of History Medieval and Early Modern Europe, History of Italy, Renaissance and Reformation, Gender History Ph.D., The Catholic University of America M.A., Minnesota State University B.A., University of Colorado Author of Women of the Humiliati: A Lay Religious Order in Medieval Civic Life. Dr. Brasher's research interests revolve around the development of urban identities in the Middle Ages and their expression in novel religious institutions. She is currently engaged in a study reevaluating the historical model of female religiosity and spirituality of the Middle Ages, through her analysis of the religious orders open to women in the Mediterranean regions between the 12th and 15th centuries. David B. Gordon Assistant Professor of History Modern East Asia, Japan, China, Asian Intellectual history Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa B.A., Indiana University Dr. Gordon has written an essay titled “’The African World’ and ‘the Japanese Spirit’: Cultural Dynamics in the Writings of Wole Soyinka and Watsuji Tetsuro,” which will appear in Comparative Civilizations Review in Fall 2005. He is currently working on a biography of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yatsen, which A.B. Longman has agreed to publish as part of its Library of World Biography series. In the future, Dr. Gordon hopes to compare the writings of two major twentieth-century East Asian thinkers, Watsuji Tetsuro and Liang Qichao, regarding the ethos of the ancient Greek city-state. Anders H. Henriksson Professor of History, Department Chair Ph.D., University of Toronto M.A., University of Toronto B.A., University of Rochester Russia, Modern Europe, Women’s History, Medieval England, World War I Author of The Tsar’s Loyal Germans; The Riga German Community: Social Change and the Nationality Question, 1855-1905; co-author of The City in Late Imperial Russia and articles in Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Journal of Baltic Studies, The Wilson Quarterly, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War and Russian Review. Compiler of Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students. Dr. Henriksson is presently at work on a study of ethnic relations in late Imperial Russia. Robert G. Parkinson Assistant Professor of History Colonial and Revolutionary America, African American, and American Indian history. Ph.D. University of Virginia M.A. University of Tennessee B.A. University of Tennessee Dr. Robert Parkinson is currently revising his dissertation, "Enemies of the People: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation," into a book manuscript. He has been published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography and has articles in the William and Mary Quarterly and Journalism History forthcoming in 2006. Dr. Parkinson has received fellowships from the Library Company of Pennsylvania, the Colonial Williamsburg foundation, the David Library of the American Revolution, the William L. Clements Library, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Mark A. Snell Associate Professor of History and Director, The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War Program Chair, The Civil War and 19th Century America Ph.D., University of Missouri at Kansas City M.A., Rutgers University B.A., York College of Pennsylvania U.S., Military, Jacksonian and Antebellum, Civil War, World War I, World War II Editor of Dancing Along the Deadline: The Andersonville Memoir of a Prisoner of the Confederacy; author of From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin and "Recruiting, the Draft, and Society's Response in York County, Pennsylvania, 1861-65" in Union Soldiers and the Northern Homefront; co-editor and contributor, "Bugle Resounding": Essays on Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era; articles and reviews in The Journal of Military History, Columbiad: A Quarterly Review of the War Between the States, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War, West Virginia History, The Gulf Coast Historical Review; Civil War News, The Society of Civil War Historians, Ordnance Magazine and Blue and Gray; entries in The West Virginia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History. Dr. Snell currently is working on a history and atlas of the Confederate military department system. John E. Stealey III Professor of History Ph.D., West Virginia University M.A., West Virginia University A.B., West Virginia University U.S., Economic, Diplomatic, Reconstruction Era, the Old South, West Virginia Author of Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States: The Virginia Salt Combinations and The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets, essays in West Virginia History: Critical Essays on the Literature, Appalachia in Black and White: Race Relations in the 19th Century Mountain South, and The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans and Craftsmen, as well as the Introduction to the University of Tennessee Press edition of G.D. Hall’s The Rending of Virginia and articles in The American Journal of Legal History, Ohio History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The American Historical Review, West Virginia History and other scholarly journals. Dr. Stealey also serves as Visiting Scholar and Distinguished Historical Editor of the David Hunter Strother Mexican Diaries at the West Virginia University Libraries. Dr. Stealey is presently at work on an investigation of the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872, on a study of post-Civil War racial politics in West Vireginia, and on an edition of David Hunter Strother’s Mexican Diaries. Jerry B. Thomas Professor of History Ph.D., University of North Carolina B.A., West Virginia University Recent America, Gilded Age & Progressive Era, West Virginia, Latin America Author of An Appalachian New Deal. West Virginia in the Great Depression and articles and reviews in West Virginia History, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Journal of Southern History, The Journal of Social History, The History Teacher, The Encyclopedia of Southern History, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, American National Biography, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, and The Encyclopedia of West Virginia. Dr. Thomas also appeared as a commentator in the PBS series West Virginia. Dr. Thomas is currently working on a study of West Virginia in the post-World War II period. Robert Willgoos Associate Professor of History Ph.D., The Catholic University of America B.S., Georgetown University Modern Europe, Britain, Ancient, Military PART-TIME FACULTY Keith D. Alexander (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park) Lecturer: History of Civilization Michael Cavey (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Lecturer: History of Civilization Pamela Edwards (Ph.D., University of Delaware) Lecturer: American History, History of Civilization David Hostetter (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park) Lecturer: The Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, American History, History of Civilization Frank Kenesson (Ph.D., University of Maryland). Lecturer: Ancient, Medieval Raymond Smock (Ph.D., University of Maryland) Director: The Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies. U.S., Political. EMERITUS FACULTY Walter K. Hanak (Ph.D., Indiana University) James C. Holland (Ph.D., Catholic University of America) Go to Top

Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
M.A., Minnesota State University
B.A., University of Colorado

Author of Women of the Humiliati: A Lay Religious Order in Medieval Civic Life. Dr. Brasher's research interests revolve around the development of urban identities in the Middle Ages and their expression in novel religious institutions. She is currently engaged in a study reevaluating the historical model of female religiosity and spirituality of the Middle Ages, through her analysis of the religious orders open to women in the Mediterranean regions between the 12th and 15th centuries.

Dr. Gordon has written an essay titled “’The African World’ and ‘the Japanese Spirit’: Cultural Dynamics in the Writings of Wole Soyinka and Watsuji Tetsuro,” which will appear in Comparative Civilizations Review in Fall 2005. He is currently working on a biography of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yatsen, which A.B. Longman has agreed to publish as part of its Library of World Biography series.

In the future, Dr. Gordon hopes to compare the writings of two major twentieth-century East Asian thinkers, Watsuji Tetsuro and Liang Qichao, regarding the ethos of the ancient Greek city-state.

Ph.D., University of Toronto
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., University of Rochester

Author of The Tsar’s Loyal Germans; The Riga German Community: Social Change and the Nationality Question, 1855-1905; co-author of The City in Late Imperial Russia and articles in Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Journal of Baltic Studies, The Wilson Quarterly, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War and Russian Review. Compiler of Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students. Dr. Henriksson is presently at work on a study of ethnic relations in late Imperial Russia.

Colonial and Revolutionary America, African American, and American Indian history.
Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A. University of Tennessee
B.A. University of Tennessee

Dr. Robert Parkinson is currently revising his dissertation, "Enemies of the People: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation," into a book manuscript. He has been published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography and has articles in the William and Mary Quarterly and Journalism History forthcoming in 2006. Dr. Parkinson has received fellowships from the Library Company of Pennsylvania, the Colonial Williamsburg foundation, the David Library of the American Revolution, the William L. Clements Library, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.

Associate Professor of History and Director, The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War

Ph.D., University of Missouri at Kansas City
M.A., Rutgers University
B.A., York College of Pennsylvania

Editor of Dancing Along the Deadline: The Andersonville Memoir of a Prisoner of the Confederacy; author of From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin and "Recruiting, the Draft, and Society's Response in York County, Pennsylvania, 1861-65" in Union Soldiers and the Northern Homefront; co-editor and contributor, "Bugle Resounding": Essays on Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era; articles and reviews in The Journal of Military History, Columbiad: A Quarterly Review of the War Between the States, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War, West Virginia History, The Gulf Coast Historical Review; Civil War News, The Society of Civil War Historians, Ordnance Magazine and Blue and Gray; entries in The West Virginia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History. Dr. Snell currently is working on a history and atlas of the Confederate military department system.

Ph.D., West Virginia University
M.A., West Virginia University
A.B., West Virginia University

Author of Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States: The Virginia Salt Combinations and The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets, essays in West Virginia History: Critical Essays on the Literature, Appalachia in Black and White: Race Relations in the 19th Century Mountain South, and The Other Slaves: Mechanics, Artisans and Craftsmen, as well as the Introduction to the University of Tennessee Press edition of G.D. Hall’s The Rending of Virginia and articles in The American Journal of Legal History, Ohio History, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The American Historical Review, West Virginia History and other scholarly journals. Dr. Stealey also serves as Visiting Scholar and Distinguished Historical Editor of the David Hunter Strother Mexican Diaries at the West Virginia University Libraries. Dr. Stealey is presently at work on an investigation of the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872, on a study of post-Civil War racial politics in West Vireginia, and on an edition of David Hunter Strother’s Mexican Diaries.

Author of An Appalachian New Deal. West Virginia in the Great Depression and articles and reviews in West Virginia History, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Journal of Southern History, The Journal of Social History, The History Teacher, The Encyclopedia of Southern History, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, American National Biography, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, and The Encyclopedia of West Virginia. Dr. Thomas also appeared as a commentator in the PBS series West Virginia. Dr. Thomas is currently working on a study of West Virginia in the post-World War II period.

Keith D. Alexander (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park) Lecturer: History of Civilization
Michael Cavey (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Lecturer: History of Civilization
Pamela Edwards (Ph.D., University of Delaware) Lecturer: American History, History of Civilization
David Hostetter (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park) Lecturer: The Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, American History, History of Civilization
Frank Kenesson (Ph.D., University of Maryland). Lecturer: Ancient, Medieval
Raymond Smock (Ph.D., University of Maryland) Director: The Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies. U.S., Political.

Walter K. Hanak (Ph.D., Indiana University)
James C. Holland (Ph.D., Catholic University of America)