Box 19529
202 University Hall
Arlington, Texas 76019
Faculty
Faculty
Patryk Babiracki
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (2008)
Professor (2009) & M.A Graduate Advisor
Email: patryk@uta.edu
Office: 345 University Hall
Areas: Modern Russia, Eastern Europe, International History, Culture and Society
David Baillargeon
Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara (2018)
Assistant Professor (2021)
Email: david.baillargeon@uta.edu
Office: 323 University Hall
Areas: Modern Britain, British Empire, Colonial Southeast Asia
Kimberly Breuer
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (2004)
Professor of Instruction (2004)
Email: breuer@uta.edu
Office: 314 University Hall
Areas: Colonial Latin America, Mesoamerican Indians, Comparative Colonial History, World History
Stephanie Cole
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1994
Associate Professor (1996) & Chair
Email: scole@uta.edu
Areas: U.S. Social History, Women's History, Race & Gender from a Regional Perspective
Paul Conrad
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Associate Professor (2015) & Ph.D Advisor
Email: paul.conrad@uta.edu
Office: 322 University Hall
Areas: Native American History, North American West, History of Slavery
Imre Demhardt
Ph.D., University of Frankfurt am Main (1995)
Professor & Garrett Endowed Chair in the History of Cartography (2008)
Email: demhardt@uta.edu
Office: 348 University Hall
Areas: History of Cartography, Exploration, Geography, Colonialism, Travel & Tourism
Alberto Ortiz Díaz
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017)
Associate Professor (2021)
Email: alberto.ortizdiaz@uta.edu
Areas: Latin America, the Black Atlantic, Crime and Punishment, History Medicine and Health, Medical Humanities
Sam W. Haynes
Ph.D., University of Houston (1988)
Professor & Director, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies (1993)
Areas: Texas History, 19th-Century U.S
David LaFevor
Ph.D, Vanderbilt University (2011)
Associate Professor (2013)
Email: dlafevor@uta.edu
Office: 343 University Hall
Areas: Modern Latin America, transnational cultural/social history
Andrew J. Milson
Ph.D., University of Georgia (1999)
Professor (2010)
Email: milson@uta.edu
Office: 344 University Hall
Areas: Historical Geography of the U.S., Human Geography, Geographic Education, GIS
Scott W. Palmer
Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1997)
Professor
Email: scott.palmer@uta.edu
Office: 202A University Hall
Areas: Russia, Modern Europe, Technology & Science, Military History
Delaina Price
Ph.D., Yale University (2017)
Assistant Professor (2018), Fenton Wayne Robnett Fellow in American History
Email: delaina.price@uta.edu
Office: 319 University Hall
Areas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century US History, African-American History
Sarah Rose
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago (2008)
Associate Professor (2009)
Email: srose@uta.edu
Office: 328 University Hall
Areas: Disability History, U.S. Policy History, U.S. Labor History, Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Cristina Salinas
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Associate Professor (2012)
Email: csalinas@uta.edu
Office: 326 University Hall
Areas: Mexican-American History, U.S.-Mexico Border, Labor History
Charles Travis
PhD., Trinity College, University of Dublin (2006)
Associate Professor (2016)
Email: charles.travis@uta.edu
Office: 325 University Hall
Areas: Humanities Geographical Information Science Theory, Methods and Applications; Digital and Environmental Humanities
Kenyon Zimmer
Ph.D., Pittsburgh (2010)
Professor (2010)
Areas: US History; Migration, Labor and Ethnic History, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, History of Radicalism
Paulina Hartono
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2021)
Assistant Professor (2023)
Email: paulina.hartono@uta.edu
Sara Collini
Ph.D., George Mason University (2020)
Assistant Professor (2024)
Email: sara.collini@uta.edu
Office: 320 University Hall
Areas: U.S. History; U.S. South; Early America; African American History; Slavery; Women's History; History of Medicine; Digital Methods; Public History
Taylor Tappan
Ph.D., University of Kansas (2022)
Assistant Professor (2025)
Email: taylor.tappan@uta.edu
Office: 312 University Hall
Areas: Geographer with regional expertise in Central America
Emily Chesley
Ph.D. Princeton University (2026)
Assistant Professor (2026)
Email: emily.chesley@uta.edu
Office: 328 University Hall
Areas: Late Antique History, Medieval Mediterranean, Women's History, and Early Christianity
Ann Hawkins
Ph.D. University of Kentucky (1997)
Professor (2010)
Email: ann.hawkins@uta.edu
Office: 346 University Hall
Areas: Nineteenth-century British History; Documentary Editing; History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades
Affiliated Adjunct Faculty
Dan Degges
Ph.D. in History
University of Texas, Arlington
History of Propaganda, Race and Economics in the Atlantic World, West African Cartography
Halen Watkins
Ph.D.
Texas Tech University
Modern US with an emphasis on Sports and Cultural studies
Jonathan Steplyk
Ph.D.
Texas Christian University
Antebellum & Civil War Era
Kimberly Newcomer-Fitzpatrick
Juris Doctorate
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
Michael Stout
Ph.D.
University of North Texas
European History
Angela Austin
Ph.D. in History
University of Texas at Arlington (2024)
Indentured servants, child labor, early modern migration, Britain and Ireland, Native American studies
Karen Beasley
Ph.D. in Transatlantic History
University of Texas at Arlington (2016)
Film History, with emphasis on Studio Era Hollywood and British Cinema; U.S. History; Transatlantic History
Ashley Umphenour
Ph.D. in History
University of Texas at Arlington (2025)
Tudor and long eighteenth-century England; race, women, gender, and sexuality
