History Professors

Professors not yet pictured in Profiles:

Dr. Christopher Dalton, cdalton@hsc.edu, (434) 223-7263
Dr. Ronald Heinemann, rheinemann@hsc.edu, (434) 223-6236
C. Kirk Pilkington, kpilkington@hsc.edu, (434) 223-6226

Dr. Robert H. Blackman Associate Professor of History Maples 004 | (434) 223-6957 rblackman@hsc.edu Knowledge of history is one mark of a liberal education, enlarging your self-understanding.

Dr. John C. Coombs Associate Professor of History Morton Hall 027 | (434) 223-7261 jcoombs@hsc.edu Has as the focus of his research the early Chesapeake, particularly colonial Virginia.

Dr. Eric G. Dinmore Assistant Professor of History Maples 002 | (434) 223-6279 edinmore@hsc.edu Advises students in the Asian Studies Minor program.

Dr. Caroline S. Emmons Professor of History Maples 001 | (434) 223-6297 cemmons@hsc.edu Her research focuses on the history of the U.S. in the mid-20th century, especially the civil-rights movement and the impact of the Cold War on American society.

Dr. James W. Frusetta Assistant Professor of History Morton Hall 022 | (434) 223-7206 jfrusetta@hsc.edu "History is the shank of the social sciences." C. Wright Mills

Dr. Nicole L. Greenspan Associate Professor of History Maples 027 | (434) 223-6354 ngreenspan@hsc.edu We think of marketing and 'spin' as modern phenomena, but my book, Cromwell's Wars: Media, Empire, and Godly Warfare 1650-1685, finds them in the 17th century as well.

Dr. Ralph S. Hattox Elliott Professor of History Morton Hall 318 | (434) 223-6108 rhattox@hsc.edu More than two centuries ago, Thomas Fuller observed that history enables one to gain the "experience of age without either the infirmities or inconvenience thereof."

Dr. Kenneth D. Lehman Squires Professor of History Maples 021 | (434) 223-6309 klehman@hsc.edu “The future is an abstraction, the ‘present’ but a fleeting instant, all else is history.”