History Faculty
FULL TIME FACULTY
Dr. Iain Anderson
Professor and Chair of History, Director - Graduate Program in American Studies, Co-Director - Indigenous History and Literacy Project
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Iain Anderson grew up in England, came to the United States for graduate school, and subsequently taught at Dana College, Nebraska, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Dr. Anderson joined the History Department at Northeastern State in January 2016. He has published articles on various aspects of African American music, including nonprofit sponsorship of jazz and the commemoration of slave music, and a book titled This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press). He also works on research projects relating to the formation of transnational identities among Danish immigrants and the scholarship of teaching and learning history.
Dr. David Corcoran
Assistant Professor of History, Coordinator of Social Studies Education
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Dr. Corcoran is a Boston native and a career educator. He has taught history and social studies in secondary schools in rural and urban communities of Maine, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. He has lived and taught in Colombia and Ecuador as well. Dr. Corcoran earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of New Mexico in 2011. His research examines the development of inter-American education and culture in the mid-20th century. As an academic historian and a committed classroom teacher, Dr. Corcoran is passionate about supporting aspiring educators and elevating the teaching of social studies in our nation's schools.
Dr. Suzanne Farmer
Associate Professor of History, Director - Center for Women's Studies
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J. Suzanne Farmer is a native of Southeast Arkansas who joined the faculty at NSU in the fall of 2011. Dr. Farmer graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Arkansas, Monticello. She received her M.A. in History with an emphasis on early modern Europe from Western Illinois University and earned a Ph.D. in History with a concentration in British history from The University of Mississippi. Dr. Farmer's research examines the relationship between politics and the economy in late-seventeenth century England by exploring the political participation of wealthy merchants during the Restoration. She is currently working on turning her dissertation into a series of scholarly articles.
Dr. Amanda Johnson
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
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Native American History, U.S. History Since 1877, Women and Gender
Amanda Johnson is originally from the greater Tulsa area and joined the NSU faculty in the fall of 2022. She earned a B.S. in Secondary Education from Oklahoma State University, an M.A. in History from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in History from Oklahoma State University. Her research examines Native American women in the 20th century who transformed the lives of Indigenous peoples by forming cross-cultural networks around issues of cultural renewal, education, incarceration, treaty rights, and the sovereignty of the female body. Her projects include a forthcoming scholarly article in the Journal of Ethnohistory that emphasizes themes of sovereignty, gender, and activism in the 1970s, and a book manuscript centered on her dissertation research of Native women active in the movements of Red Power and Second Wave Feminism.Dr. Lindsay Silver
Assistant Professor of History
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American History from the Colonial Era to the late nineteenth century, American South, Oklahoma History and Government
Lindsay Silver is a Michigan native who has spent 10 years in the South and the West before joining NSU. She earned a B.A. in History and M.A. in American Culture at the University of Michigan-Flint and a Ph.D. in American History at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include intersections of gender, race, and sexuality in American culture during the 19th century. Her current book project, The Life and Death of Kate Townsend: Gender and Power in New Orleans Prostitution, 1858-1883, will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
Dr. Denis Vovchenko
Professor of History
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Denis Vovchenko grew up as part of the Russian minority in Kazakhstan in the former Soviet Union. He studied for his B.A. and M.A. in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Moscow State Lomonosov University. He earned a Ph.D. in Modern European History and the Middle East from the University of Minnesota. Inspired by his religious and cultural heritage, together with a love of learning new languages, Dr. Vovchenko has written several articles about the religious and political aspects of Russia's relations with the Balkans and the Middle East. His book, Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians (1856-1914), is published by Oxford University Press.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Norman Carlisle
Adjunct Instructor of History
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Marcus Edison
Adjunct Instructor of History
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Dr. Russell Lawson
Adjunct Instructor of History
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Jack Reavis
Adjunct Instructor of History
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Jack Reavis is a retired Muskogee Public Schools educator. He teaches courses in American History at NSU.
Dr. Arley Ward
Adjunct Instructor of History
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