Faculty Experts- History
Name: Susan A. AshleyTitle: Professor, dean of college
Office phone: (719) 389-6529
E-mail: sashley@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: M.A. and Ph.D. Columbia University; certificate, European Institute, Columbia University
Came to CC in: 1970
Courses taught at CC: Civilization in the West, Culture, Society, History, France and Italy; European Intellectual History; 20th Century Europe; Crime and Punishment; Nature and Society; French Revolution; 19th Century; History and Memory; Studying History; Imagining the City; Renaissance Florence
Areas of expertise: Criminality in the European past; the individual and nature; the Italian Renaissance; conceptions of deviance in the European past; rogues and rebels; fascism; the French revolution
Major publications: "Making Liberalism Work: The Italian Experience 1860-1914"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Traveling in Italy, living in Italy
Name: Douglas Monroy
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389- 6526
E-mail: dmonroy@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles
Areas of expertise: Mexican-American issues; politics and history of the American family; alternative perspectives on the Cold War; European reason and Indian bodies: rethinking Indian relations with the Spanish and Americans in frontier California; consequences of conquests: Mexicans in the Southwest after 1848
Major Publications: "Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California" "Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression "
Name: Carol Neel (ON SABBATICAL 2007-08 ACADEMIC YEAR)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6527
E-mail: cneel@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: A.B. Bryn Mawr College, 1976; M.A. Cornell University, 1978; Ph.D. Cornell University, 1981
Came to CC: 23 years
Courses taught: European Middle Ages; Ancient Rome; Women, Family, and Childhood; Renaissance and Reformation; History of the Book; History of Science
Areas of expertise: Medieval monasticism; medieval family history; history of Christian spirituality
Major publications: "Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for Her Son" (1993 book in family history); "Medieval Families" (forthcoming, another book in family history
Name: Bryant T. Ragan, Jr.
Title: Associate professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6534
E-mail: bragan@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. University of Texas, Austin, 1981; M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1983; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1988
Came to CC: 2004
Courses taught at CC: Civilization in the West; Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern Europe; Authority and Identity in Early Modern Europe; History of Sex: Traditions; History of Sex and Modernity; The Enlightenment Culture
Areas of expertise: History of sexuality; French history, especially during the eighteenth century; Enlightenment and the French revolution; Gay and Lesbian history
Major publications: Homosexuality in Modern France (Oxford, 1996) (editor); Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection (Oxford, 2001) (editor); and Re-creating Authority in Revolutionary France (Rutgers, 1992) (editor)
Name: Dennis Showalter
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6531
E-mail: dshowalter@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota
Courses taught at CC: German History; Jews in the Modern World; Military History
Areas of expertise: Anything on military history; Arab/Israel; Germany under the Third Reich
Major publications: "Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twenthieth Century"
Pertinent biographical information: Visiting professor at Marine Corps University, Air Force Academy, and West Point
Name: Charles Wilkins
Title: Associate professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6529
E-mail: charles.wilkins@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., Duke University, history; M.A., Ohio State University, history; Ph.D., Harvard University, history and middle eastern studies
Came to CC:
2005
Courses taught at CC: The Great Age of Islam (7th-14th centuries); The History of the Mediterranean (8th century, BCE to 20th century, CE); Nation, Faith and Gender in the Middle East
Areas of expertise: Research interests, focusing on social and political history of the early modern ottoman empire (15th-18th centuries); general interests of social and political history of Arab lands from early modern period to present
Major publications: Dissertation topic: "Neighborhoods, Guilds, and Households: Social Solidarities in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700"; "The Social History of Modern Palestine/Israel"
Pertinent biographical information: Have lived and studied in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt