Members of the University of the South's History Department exhibit a remarkable range of interests and areas of expertise:
Julie K. Berebitsky is an Americanist who is a specialist in women's history.
Harold G. Goldberg teaches and does research in Russian history and has well-developed interests in the Far East as well.
Roger Levine is a specialist in the history of Africa, and in particular of Southern Africa.
Andrea Mansker is a modern European historian, with a special interest in issues of sexuality, gender, and honor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Liza McCahill is an early modern historian with a special interest in the culture of Renaissance Rome.
Carmen E. McEvoy is particularly interested in and well informed about Latin America and the European background to the discovery and colonization of the New World.
W. Brown Patterson teaches European and British history in the early modern period - Renaissance to Enlightenment - and has a special interest in intellectual and religious history.
Charles R. Perry's interests cover the whole course of British history; his special expertise is in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
William W. "Woody" Register is an Americanist who works especially in the area of popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Susan J. Ridyard's major field is medieval European and British history; she also teaches the history of ancient Greece and Rome.
Houston B. Roberson is an Americanist with strong interests in African-American history and in the social and cultural aspects of the American experience.
Samuel R. Williamson's teaching and research focus on south central Europe in the early twentieth century and on the history of intelligence in political and military history.
John C. Willis teaches and pursues research on the American South, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is very well informed about economic and social history in the Reconstruction period and after.
