People

Faculty (Alphabetical)

Listings of faculty by rank as well as by chronological and geographical specialties are accessible here.

Name

Title

Areas of Focus

Aziz, Zaib un Nisa

aziz130@usf.edu

Assistant Professor

(Tampa campus)

Modern British Empire, Modern South Asia, Decolonization, Global History, Comparative Empires, Intellectual History

Benadusi, Giovanna

benadusi@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Renaissance/Early Modern History, the Mediterranean, Social History, Gender and Class

Boterbloem, Kees

cboterbl@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Russian and Soviet History, Dutch History, History of European Empires

Burke, Kyle

burke3@usf.edu

Assistant Professor

(Tampa campus)

Modern US and Global History; the Cold War; War and Society; Political Violence and Radicalism

Byington, Richard

rbyington@usf.edu

Associate Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

Florida History, Atlantic World Revolutions, the Early American Republic, Native American History

Cali, Denise

denisecali@usf.edu

Assistant Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

Classical Archaeology, Greek and Roman Civilization, Mediterranean Material Culture

Connolly, Brian

bconnolly@usf.edu

Associate Professor and Department Chair

(Tampa campus)

19th Century US History, History of Sexuality, Historical Theory, Kinship

Decker, Michael

mjdecker@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Byzantine History and Archaeology, Economy and Society of Late Antiquity

Francis, J. Michael

jmfrancis1@usf.edu

Professor of History and Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies

(St. Petersburg campus)

Florida History, Transatlantic History, Early Modern Paleography

Hauser, Mark T.

markhauser@usf.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction

(St. Petersburg campus)

19th and 20th Century US History, War and Society, Popular Culture, Business History

Johnson, David K.

davidjohnson@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

20th Century US History, the Cold War, History of Sexuality, Gay and Lesbian History

King, Matt

matthewking1@usf.edu

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

(Tampa campus)

The Crusades, the Medieval Mediterranean, Norman Sicily, Digital Humanities

Knight, Jennifer

jlknight@usf.edu

Associate Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

Medieval British Isles, Medieval Society and Identity, Women and Gender, Celtic Diaspora

Kopytoff, Larissa

kopytoff@usf.edu

Associate Professor of Instruction

(St. Petersburg campus)

Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, History of Empires

Levy, Philip

plevy@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Public History; Early Americal Historical Archaeology; Museums; Memory and Commemoration; Environmental Sustainability

Mauldin, Erin Stewart

emauldin@usf.edu

John Hope Franklin Chair of Southern History

Associate Professor

(St. Petersburg campus)

U.S. Environmental History, Civil War/Reconstruction, History of the U.S. South, African American History, Atlantic World

Novoa, Adriana

ainovoa@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Modern Argentina, Science in Latin America, Race and Gender in Latin America

O'Connor, Adrian

oconnora@usf.edu

Associate Professor

(St. Petersburg campus)

Early Modern and Modern Europe; Eighteenth Century France

Ottanelli, Fraser

ottanelli@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Post-1865 US History, U.S. Radical Movements, Immigration and Ethnic History, Comparative Migration

perryjs@usf.edu

Associate Professor

(Sarasota-Manatee campus)

Roman Empire, Ancient Sports, Modern Depictions of Antiquity, Fascism

Perry, John

jperry10@usf.edu

Assistant Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

United States in the Middle East, Modern Middle East, Cold War, Decolonization, United States in the World

Ramos, Frances

framos@usf.edu

Associate Professor

(Tampa campus)

Colonial Latin America, Bourbons and the Spanish Atlantic, Political Identity and Public Ceremony

Tanasi, Davide

dtanasi@usf.edu

Professor

(Tampa campus)

Archaeology of Sicily and Malta, Mediterranean Prehistory, Biomolecular Archaeology of the Mediterranean Diet, Digital Archaeology

Vickers, Jason

vickers1@usf.edu

Assistant Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

American Slavery, African American Biography, Antebellum United States, History in the Movies

Yacovazzi, Cassandra L.

cyacovazzi@usf.edu

Associate Professor

(Sarasota-Manatee campus)

 20th and 19th century US women鈥檚 history; consumer culture; religious history

Affiliate faculty

Name

Title Department

Lahey, Laurie

lahey@usf.edu

Associate Professor of Instruction

(Tampa campus)

School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies

Ponton, David

dponton@usf.edu

Assistant Professor

(Tampa campus)

School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies

Emeritus Faculty

Name Area of Focus

Arsenault, Ray

American History, Civil Rights History

Belohlavek, John

19th Century Political and Diplomatic History, Jacksonian America 

American History and Politics, Gender History

Fernandez, Susan

Latin American History, Florida History, History of Cinema

Ingalls, Robert P.

The American South, Tampa History, Modern America

Mormino, Gary

Italian History, Florida History

Murray, William

Greek History and Archaeology, Naval History of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures