Faculty

Connie Zeanah Atkinson, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Ethel and Herman Midlo International Center for New Orleans Studies (PhD, University of Liverpool, 1996). Local and Regional, U.S. Cultural, Popular Music. Publications include “Whose New Orleans? Music’s Place in the Packaging of New Orleans for Tourism” in Simone Abram, Jacqueline D. Waldren and Donald V.L. Macleod, eds., Tourism and Tourism: Identifying with People and Places (1997); Nashville of the North: Country Music in Liverpool (ed.) (1997); and “Creativity, Compromise, and the Tourist Industry in New Orleans” in Helen Taylor and Richard Wilde, eds., Dixie Debates (1996); and Ceilis, Jigs and Ballads: Irish Music in Liverpool. (ed.) (1994). c.atkinson@uno.edu

Günter J. Bischof, Professor and Department Chair and Director, (PhD, Harvard University, 1989). Diplomatic History. 2003/4 Marshall Plan Professor of Austrian Studies. Founding Co-Editor of “Eisenhower Center Studies of War and Peace” (8 volumes) and Contemporary Austrian Studies (14 volumes), author of Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-1955 (1999), co-editor Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955 (2000) and Normandieinvasion 1944: Internationale Perspektiven (2001), as well as books and articles on American diplomatic and international history, World War II, and Austria and Central Europe. Recipient of the Early Career Achievement (1999) and Senior Career Achievement (2005) Awards of the UNO Alumni Association, and the Austrian Haslauer Foundation Contemporary History Award (2003). Courses on American and European diplomacy, World War II, Vietnam War, the Cold War, and Twentieth Century Austria. Research interests include Cold War and World War II, U.S. – Austrian relations, prisoners of war and historical memory. gjbischo@uno.edu

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Joe L.Caldwell, Associate Professor (PhD, Tulane University, 1988). African-American, Southern History, Louisiana. jcaldwel@uno.edu

Catherine Candy, Assistant Professor (PhD, Loyola University, Chicago, 1996). Modern Ireland, India, British Empire. ccandy@uno.edu

Robert L. Dupont, Associate Professor (PhD, Louisiana State University, 1999). 20th Century US, New Orleans, Louisiana. rldupont@uno.edu

Raphael Cassimere, Jr., Seraphia D. Leyda University Teaching Professor (PhD, Lehigh University, 1971). American Constitutional and African-American History. Author of African Americans in New Orleans before the Civil War (1996) as well as articles on civil rights and legal history. Courses taught include U.S. and Louisiana history and advanced courses in African American and U.S. constitutional history. Research interests include early American and Louisiana history and African American slavery. rcassime@uno.edu

Andrew Goss, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Michigan, 2004). Indonesia, Southeast Asia. agoss@uno.edu

Arnold R. Hirsch, Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Professor for New Orleans Studies and University Research Professor (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1978). Urban History. Author of Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (1983, 2d ed. 1998) and of articles on the role of government in fostering segregation, the rise of black mayors, urban renewal, and public housing, as well as co-editor and contributor to Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization (1992) and Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America (1993). Research interests include issues related to race and housing, urban politics, and the civil rights era. ahirsch@uno.edu

Allan Millett, Director of the UNO Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History, (PhD, Ohio State University, 1966). A retired colonel from the Marine Reserve, Prof. Millett specializes in the history of the American armed forces, military policy, military innovation and America's 20th century wars. In addition to The War for Korea, he has written five books: The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909 (1968); The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army 1881-1925 (1975); Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (1980, rev. 1991); In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U. S. Marine Corps, 1917-1956 (1993) and Their War for Korea (2002). With co-author Williamson Murray, his A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War (2000) has won international acclaim. He is co-author of For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States , 1607-1983 (1984, rev. 1994). amillett@uno.edu

Mary Mitchell, Assistant Professor (PhD, New York University, 2001). United States History. Author of a forthcoming cultural history of African American childhood and the politics of freedom in the nineteenth century, as well as articles and book reviews on race and Reconstruction in the American South and the comparative history of race and gender in the U.S. South and Latin America. Courses taught include United States history, history of the American South, the age of emancipation in the Atlantic World, and a graduate seminar on researching the history of race in the United States. mnmitche@uno.edu

Michael Mizell-Nelson, Assistant Professor (PhD, Tulane University, 2001). Louisiana, New Orleans, United States, Labor mmizelln@uno.edu

James H. Mokhiber, Assistant Professor and Paralegal Program Advisor (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 2002). African, French, Colonial, World, Cultural. jmokhibe@uno.edu

Madelon M. Powers, Associate Professor (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991). US Urban, Women's Studies. mpowers@uno.edu

Jeffrey K. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and the 2004/5 Marshall Plan Professor of Austrian Studies (PhD, University of Michigan, 2002). Modern Europe, Central Europe, Germany, Cultural, Social & Environmental History, Nationalism.  Recent publications include: "Environmental Protest in Wilhelmine Berlin: The Campaign to Save the Grunewald," in From Heimat to Umwelt: New Perspectives on German Environmental History.  Frank Zelko (ed.).  Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, Supplement 3 (2006).  Forthcoming publications include "Imagining a Homeland: Constructing Heimat in the German East, 1871-1914," in National Identities 9 (early 2007); and "Environmental Chauvinism in the Prussian East: Forestry as a Civilizing Mission on the Ethnic Frontier, 1871-1914," in Central European History 41 (early 2008).  Dr. Wilson is currently working on a book concerning the contested meanings of forests in imperial Germany. jkwilson@uno.edu

Emeriti

• Ida Altman (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University). Latin America. University Research Professor, 1982 to 2006. Professor of History, University of Florida, 2006 to present, ialtman@history.ufl.edu

• Warren M. Billings (PhD, Northern Illinois University, 1968). Early America. Distinguished Professor, wmbhi@uno.edu

• Gerald P. Bodet (PhD,Tulane University, 1963; Professor). Tudor and Stuart England, British Empire.

• Michael D. Clark (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1965; Professor). US Intellectual History

• Richard H. Collin (PhD, New York Universiy, 1966; Professor). US Twentieth-Century, Cultural, Comparative.

• Jerah Johnson (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963; Professor). Renaissance, Reformation, European Urban, Historiography, New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Gordon H. Mueller (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1969; Professor). European Diplomatic, Germany.

• John T. O'Connor (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1965; Professor). Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Europe, French Revolution and Napoleon.

• William R. Savage (PhD, University of Chicago 1969; Professor). Twentieth-Century Europe, France, Social Radicalism.

• William H. Stiebing, (PhD, The University of Pennsylvania, 1970). Ancient, Archaeology, Early Christian.