History Faculty & Staff
The history department is located on the second floor of the Hoover Academic Building and can be reached by contacting administrative assistant, Phyllis Hartle, or by contacting the individual professors directly.
Phyllis Hartle
Administrative Assistant, Department of History and Politics
Faculty
Caitlin Corning, PhD
Chair, Department of History and Politics
Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Early Medieval church history
- Late Antiquity
- Sub-Roman Britain
Ryan Dearinger, PhD
Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, 性视界传媒 Honors Program
Teaching & Research Interests
- The American West and Pacific Northwest
- Immigration, labor and working-class history
- Environmental history
- Violence in American history
Travis Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Histories of science and technology
- Business history
- History of the book
Rachel Rains Winslow, PhD
Director of Faculty Development
Associate Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Transnational history
- Public democracy
- Policy and culture
Faculty Emeriti
- Kerry Irish, Professor Emeritus of History (kirish@georgefox.edu)
- Paul Otto, Professor Emeritus of History (potto@georgefox.edu)
- Mark Weinert, Professor Emeritus of History (mweinert@georgefox.edu)