Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., an authority on modern European history, including histories of racism and antisemitism, and the history of advertising and consumerism, is the new chair of the Department of History.
Wiesen comes to the department from Southern Illinois University’s Department of History, for which he has been department chair since 2016 and a member of the faculty since 1998.
“It’s an honor to be named the chair of the Department of History,” Wiesen said. “I am thrille...
Andrew Baer studies race and policing in the twentieth-century American city. Born in the Ohio Rust Belt in the early 1980s and raised in Sun Belt Florida, his interest in history began with observations about inequality and injustice in the present day. Drawn by history’s ability to influence contemporary struggles for social justice, Andrew began his academic career studying the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. After moving to Chicago, his attention shifted forward in time and rel...
Dr. John Van Sant joined the Department of History at UAB in the Fall of 2000. He has presented several papers on his research at regional, national, and international history and Asian studies conferences. His research is primarily on the political, ideological, and cultural changes in Japan during the nineteenth century. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Japan and China, plus World history undergraduate courses. Dr. Van Sant also works with the Advanced Placement World History p...
Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., an authority on modern European history, including histories of racism and antisemitism, and the history of advertising and consumerism, is the new chair of the Department of History.
Wiesen comes to the department from Southern Illinois University’s Department of History, for which he has been department chair since 2016 and a member of the faculty since 1998.
“It’s an honor to be named the chair of the Department of History,” Wiesen said. “I am thrille...
Born in Seattle, Washington, Pam Murray spent much of her youth living with her family abroad (Panama, later France & Germany) and in several parts of the US (northern Virginia, New Mexico), experiences that sparked her interest in history as well as languages and culture. Exposure to New Mexico’s rich Hispanic heritage, along with curiosity about her maternal background—including relatives in Medellin, Colombia—encouraged her to specialize in Latin American history.
In 2012, Dr. Murray...
Dr. Tondra L. Loder-Jackson holds a primary appointment as professor of educational foundations in the UAB School of Education, where she helped to establish and formerly directed the UAB Center for Urban Education. She also holds secondary appointments in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences as a professor in the African American Studies Program and the Department of History, as well as, a senior faculty associate in the Institute for Human Rights. She has worked on anti-poverty, anti-discrimin...
