Highlighted Research Experiences

The Department of History and Philosophy is home to a vibrant research community where faculty and students actively contribute to scholarly conversations across diverse topics and regions. This page highlights recent faculty publications, including books, chapters, and journal articles, as well as grants and research awards. Students can also explore opportunities for hands-on research experience through assistantships, presentations, and publications, supported by departmental initiatives and the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Covers of six academic books: 'Atone: Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation' edited by Brandon D. Lundy, Akanmu G. Adebayo, and Sherrill W. Hayes; 'The Pennsylvania Railroad: Building an Empire, 1846–1917' by Albert J. Churella; 'The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe' by Paul M. Dover; 'Enemies to Allies: Cold War Germany and American Memory' by Brian C. Etheridge; 'The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880–1950' by LeeAnn Lands; and 'The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes' edited by David Jones.

Student Research

Faculty Research

  • HISTORY

    SOCIAL & CULTURAL
    • Diaspora Studies
      • Yoshina Hurgobin
      • Seneca Vaught
      • Bryan McGovern
    • Women & Gender
      • Lauren Thompson
    • Music
      • Jonathan Gentry
      • Amy Dunagin
    • Folk Tradition
      • Hakki Gurkas
    • Urban
      • LeeAnn Lands
    • Media
      • Jonathan Gentry
    POLITICAL
    • Nationalism
      • Jonathan Gentry
      • Bryan McGovern
    • Legal/Public Policy
      • Lauren Thompson
      • Albert Churella
    ECONOMIC
    • Economics & Business
      • Albert Churella
      • Randy Patton
    • Labor
      • Alice Pate
      • Randy Patton
      • Yoshina Hurgobin
    DIPLOMATIC
    • Foreign Relations
      • Paul Dover
      • Brian Etheridge
      • Silke Zoller
    • Terrorism
      • Silke Zoller
    • International Conflict Analysis & Management
      • Seneca Vaught
      • Silke Zoller
    INTELLECTUAL
    • Memory
      • Jennifer Dickey
      • Marianne Holdzkom
    • Information
      • Paul Dover
      • Jonathan Gentry
      • David Parker
    SCIENCE & MEDICINE
    • Lauren Thompson
    AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, & RURAL
    • Tom Okie
    • Albert Way
    • Jiayan Zhang
    PUBLIC HISTORY & PRESERVATION
    • Jennifer Dickey
    • Catherine Lewis
    EDUCATION
    • Caroline Conner
    • Sean Corrigan
    • Nefertari Yancie
       

    PHILOSOPHY

    ASIAN, FEMINIST, and EPISTEMOLOGY
    • Amy Donahue
  • U.S. HISTORY

    • Albert Churella
      • Transportation History and Policy
    • Caroline Conner
      • Social Studies Education, History of American Education
    • Sean Corrigan
      • Social Studies Education, Critical Theory
    • Jennifer Dickey
      • Public History, Historical Preservation
    • Brian Etheridge
      • History of American Foreign Relations
    • Marianne Holdzkom
      • Colonial/Revolutionary US History, History of Memory
    • LeeAnn Lands
      • 20th Century US Urban History
    • Catherine Lewis
      • Public History, Museum Studies, WWII and the Holocaust, Women's History
    • Bryan McGovern
      • 19th Century Irish and Irish American History
    • Tom Okie
      • American Agricultural and Environmental History, Georgia History
    • David Parker
      • History of the American South, Georgia History
    • Randy Patton
      • Business History, Georgia History
    • Lauren Thompson
      • History of Reproductive Health and Women's Rights
    • Seneca Vaught
      • History of Race, Culture, and Policy in Black Studies
    • Albert Way
      • Environmental and Agricultural History of the American South, Georgia History
    • Nefertari Yancie
      • Social Studies Education
    • Silke Zoller
      • History of Terrorism and Political Violence
    • Kris DuRocher
      • History of Identity and Culture

    WORLD HISTORY

    EUROPE
    • Paul Dover
      • Medieval Europe, Diplomacy and Internation Politics in Renaissance, History of Information
    • Amy Dunagin
      • 17th/18th Century Great Britian
    • Jonathan Gentry
      • Modern German Music and Culture
    • Brian Swain
      • History of Greek and Roman Antiquity
    • Alice Pate
      • Russian Labor and Intellectual History
    • Katya Vladimirov
      • Russian and Soviet Intellectual History
    ASIA
    • Hakki Gurkas
      • History of Islamic Folk and Festival Tradition in the Middle East and Central Asia
    • Yoshina Hurgobin
      • Migration in Modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean
    • Masako Racel
      • Intellectual History of Japan
    • Jiayan Zhang
      • Chinese Agrarian and Environmental History
    AFRICA
    • Ryan Ronnenberg
      • African History
    • Seneca Vaught
      • History of Race, Culture, and Policy in Black Studies

Publication News

  • Churella, A. J. (2023). The Pennsylvania Railroad. Indiana University Press.

    ‌Dover, P. M. (2023). Engaging with the Past and Present. Taylor & Francis.

    Gleason, C. M. (2023). American Poly. Oxford University Press.

    ‌Gorshkov, B. B. (2023). The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941. Bloomsbury Publishing.

    Holdzkom, M. (2023). Remembering John Adams. McFarland.

    Lands, L. B. (2023). Poor Atlanta. University of Georgia Press.

    ‌Lee Rhyant and Catherine Lewis. (2022). Soaring: Eleven Principles on the Road from Segregation to Success .UGA Press. 

    Walker, D., Lyons, L. M., Vaught, S. D. (2022). Wandering Where We Belong: Historically Underrepresented Faculty in Education Abroad. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Adebayo, A. G., Misako, F. A. (2022). King Leopold’s Legacies: Colonialism and Conflict in the Congo. In S. M. Ghazanfar and Robert Eddy (Ed.), From Columbus to Churchill: Heroes, Villains and Confronting Racism.

    Adebayo, A. G. (2022). The Historical Pirates of the Caribbean: Heroes or Villains? In S. M. Ghazanfar and Robert Eddy (Ed.), From Columbus to Churchill: Heroes, Villains and Confronting Racism.

    Churella, A. J. (2022). Putting a Station in its Place: 30th Street Station and its Relationship to Philadelphia’s Urban Fabric. Ralf Roth and Paul Van Hesvelde, eds., The City and the Railway in the World: 19th to 21st Centuries. Taylor & Francis / Routledge.

    Dickey, J. W. (2023). "Seven Weeks of Heaven: Teaching an Undergraduate Introduction to Public History Course in Half a Semester". Teaching Public History.

    Dover, P. M. (2022). The impacts of paper’s abundance, 1450-1650: an episode in coevolution. In Silvia Hufnagel, Davíð Ólafsson, and Þórunn Sigurðardóttir (Ed.), Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Post-Medieval Europe. Berlin: De Gruyter.

    Dover, P. M. (2022). Written Records and Information in Renaissance Italy. In Kristen Poole (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, gen ed. Kristen Poole, subject ed. Suzanne Sutherland. London: Routledge.

    Parker, D. B. (2022). Homely Philosophy and the Lost Cause: Bill Arp and “Old Gwinnett”. Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South. University of Georgia Press

    Racel, M. N. (2022). Kokumin Dotoku for Women: Shimoda Utako in the Taisho Era. In Shaun O’Dwyer (Ed.), Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan (pp. 77-92). Japan Documents Publishing.

    Vladimirov, K. (2022). "The Bureaucracy of Russian Poland, 1870-1905: A profile". In eds. Vlad Popovici , Alice Velková and Martin Klečacký (Ed.), Climbing up the Social Ladder? Social Mobility of Elites in East-Central Europe in the Long 19th Century v. 25 series Elitenwandel in der Moderne / Elites and Modernity

    Way, A. G., Hersey, M. (2022). Agricultural History's Agroecological Turn. A Companion to American Agricultural History: Wiley.

    Yancie, N. & Bidwell, R.M. (2023). The Notorious R.B.G.: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Her Fight for Equality. In N.Keefer & J. Clabough Thematic Teaching of Women’s Rights Issues with Social Studies Trade Books.

    ‌Zeller, N. R. (2022). “Return to Armed Revolution: The Pathet Lao and the Chinese Communist Party on Paths to National Liberation.” In Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia, edited by Matthew Galway and Marc H. Opper. Canberra:  Australian National University Press.

  • Carroll, F. (2022). "The Completely True Story of the Fraudulent Ethiopian Princess: Racial Stereotypes and Journalistic Conventions in the Framing of a Media Hoax". American Journalism, 39(1/Winter 2022), 51-71.

    Conner, C. J. & Graham, T. C. (2022). Using an instructional model of historical empathy to teach the Holocaust. The Social Studies.

    Conner, C., & Miskewicz, A. (2023). ATTACKING ANTISEMITISM: Investigating How Museum-Led Professional Development Affects Preservice Teachers' Preparedness to Teach the Holocaust. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 25(1-2), 115+. 

    Churella, A. J. (2022). "Public Policies and Private Agendas. The Contested Development of USA High-Speed Passenger Rail Transport (1960s-1970s)". Journal of Transport History, 43(1),

    Duncan, C., Etheridge, B., Jeremy, M. (2022). Serious Analog Game Development Across Disciplines. Analog Game Studies, 9(2).

    Dunagin, A. (2023). Liberty or Death: Patrick Henry, Theatrical Song, and Transatlantic Patriot Politics. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21(3), 491-505.

    Gentry, J. (2022). “Unveiling Musical Production: Strauss, Mahler and Commodity Fetishism in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review (19)3. 459–80. 

    McGovern, B. P. (2022). Richard O'Gorman and Young Ireland on Race, Class, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Irish America. New Hibernian Review, 26(2), 112-131.                                         

    Reidy, J. (2022). "The Works of Gelasius of Caesarea: A Potential Source of Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History?". Journal of Early Christian Studies, 30(Winter 2022 (30.4)), 269-292.

    Thompson, L. M., O'Donnell, K. (2022). Allies, not authorities: Historical and bioethical considerations for a post-Roe world. Bioethics, Wiley, 36(8), 819-820.

    Thompson, L. M. (2022). Roe v Wade and Feminism: The Limits of Public Memory. The Docket - Law and History Review.

    Thompson, L. M. (2022). Contemporary Comstockery: Legal Restrictions on Medication Abortion. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

    Traille, Kay. (2023). "Common Sense" and Issues of Social Justice in History Education. The History Teacher. 56. 319-341. 

    Acharya, T., Dhungana, G. K., Traille, K., & Dhakal, H. (2023). Senior Citizens in Nepal: Policy Gaps and Recommendations. Gerontology & geriatric medicine, 9, 23337214231179902. 

    Way, A. G. (2023). The Grass Problem: Agrostology, Agriculture, and Environmental Transformation in the New South. Environmental History.

    Zoller, S. (2023). Terrorist Extradition through the Ages. Terrorism Through the Ages. (19)6, 338-351.

  • Conner, C. J. (Principal), Bohan, C. H. (Co-Principal), Badger, J. (Supporting), Grant, "Supporting Holocaust Education for Atlanta Area Preservice Teachers through Collaborative Research, Resources, and Partnerships", Sponsored by Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC), Local, $6,000.00, Funded. (2021 - 2022).

    Dover, Paul, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant ($5,000).

    Durocher, K., Grant, "Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage Grant", Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and American Library Association, Federal, $1,000.00, Currently Under Review. (2021 - Present).

    Vaught, S. D., Keleher, M., Purcell, J. W., Bohannon, J. L., Skaggs, C. T., Durocher, K., Grant, "Journeys in Justice: Retracing Freedom Summer through the Classics and Humanities", Sponsored by Teagle Foundation, $25,000.00, Funded. (December 2022 - 2023).

    Gentry, J., Grant, "RCHSS Research/Scholarship Support Grant", Sponsored by RCHSS at ֱ, $3,583.00. (October 2021 - August 2022

    Okie, W. T. "The Natural History of the American East in Five Wayside Plants," National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend, $6,000, funded (2022-2023).

    Silva, E. P. (Co-Principal), Vaught, S. D. (Co-Principal), Gutierrez, R. (Supporting), Grant, "IDEAS Initiative Workshop Proposal", Sponsored by U.S. Department of State, ֱ, $14,081.00, Currently Under Review. (September 2022 - Present)

    Scott, H. I., Jackson, R. O., Vaught, S. D., Grant, "Global Learning for a Lifetime: Supporting Black Students at Home and Abroad", Sponsored by Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC), Other, $12,500.00, Funded. (October 15, 2021 - Present)

    McClatchey, I. S., Nandan, M., Porter, K. J., Vaught, S. D., Grant, "Community Engagement for Better Behavioral Health", Sponsored by HRSA, ֱ, $943,958.00, Funded. (August 2021 - Present)