History
Our People
Department Chair
401A Wimberly Hall
kshonk@uwlax.edu
608.785.6560
Specialty areas:
Modern Ireland, Modern Europe, Fascism, History of Rock 'n' Roll, Social Studies Education, World History
Academic Department Associate
Faculty
Professor
403C Wimberly Hall
abeaujot@uwlax.edu
608.785.6798
Specialty areas:
Public History, Digital Humanities, Community Engagement, Experiential Learning, World History, European History, Material Culture
Professor
403D Wimberly Hall
mchavalas@uwlax.edu
608.785.8360
Specialty areas:
Ancient Near East, Classical, Biblical, archaeology
Professor
403H Wimberly Hall
jgrider@uwlax.edu
608.785.8361
Specialty areas:
Maritime history, Labor & Working-class history, Native American history, and history of the American West
Lecturer
402 Wimberly Hall
bhamburger@uwlax.edu
608.785.8343
Specialty areas:
Social Studies Education, World History, Decolonization, History of the Cold War, 20th Century Middle East
Associate Professor
403I Wimberly Hall
phardy@uwlax.edu
608.785.8347
Specialty areas:
History of science, technology, and medicine, especially technologies of ocean science.
Associate Professor
403P Wimberly Hall
giguchi@uwlax.edu
608.785.8355
Specialty areas:
Japanese History, Asian History, and World History; Cultural Studies; Buddhism and other Religions
Professor
403F Wimberly Hall
jlonghurst@uwlax.edu
608.785.8344
Specialty areas:
Historian of urban and environmental policy, including transportation and bicycle history, and the social and cultural history of modern America
Professor
403J Wimberly Hall
vmacias-gonzalez@uwlax.edu
608.785.8349
Specialty areas:
Latin American, Mexican, Latinx histories and history of race, gender and sexuality. Latin Americanists study the history of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A. I focus on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. Research interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ history of the Midwest. Service interests include development of outreach programs to increase Latino entry into higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ public history programs, and faculty promotion and retention programs. I serve on various professional groups in my field. I chair the U.S.-Canada Organizing Committee of the International Historians of Mexico Conference, serve on the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession, and on the organizing committee of REDMUGEN, the network for historians of women, gender, and sexuality in Mexico.
Associate Professor
403N Wimberly Hall
hmorrison@uwlax.edu
608.785.8345
Specialty areas:
Modern Middle East History
History of Childhood
Oral History
Professor
403L Wimberly Hall
gpai@uwlax.edu
608.785.8352
Specialty areas:
regional and transnational history of South Asia; South Asian diaspora in the U.S.; British Empire; religion and politics; material and visual culture; gender; global studies
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Director, International & Global Studies Program
Professor
401A Wimberly Hall
kshonk@uwlax.edu
608.785.6560
Specialty areas:
Modern Ireland, Modern Europe, Fascism, History of Rock 'n' Roll, Social Studies Education, World History
Associate Professor
403B Wimberly Hall
ttrimmer@uwlax.edu
608.785.6799
Specialty areas:
World History, Migration History, How La Crosse Connects to World History, British Empire 19th-20th C., Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Historical Contextualization Skills)
Executive Director, UWL Oral History Program
Associate Professor
336A Wimberly Hall
jtrost@uwlax.edu
608.785.6627
Specialty areas:
History of Identity Theft and Impersonation; Swindling; History of Identification and Surveillance Policy; White-Collar Crime; Juvenile Legal Policy