Faculty & Staff

	Dr. Frederick Schneid B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton, M.A. and Ph.D. Purdue University Department Chair and Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History fschneid@highpoint.edu Office: 129 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9238 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Schneid teaches European history, 1600-1945, and specializes in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era as well as general military history. His most recent publications include European Armies of the French Revolution (2015) The French-Piedmontese Campaign of 1859 (Ufficio Storico) and The Second War of Italian Unification, 1859-1861 (Osprey).
	Dr. Amanda Allen B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, M.T.S. Vanderbilt University, PhD in History Louisiana State University Areas of Specialization: British History, particularly Early Modern England and the Reformation. Instructor of History aallen4@highpoint.edu Office:Couch 118 Phone: (336) 841-9691 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Allen focuses on British History, English Reformation Theology, and Protestant Propaganda. She published The Eucharistic Debate in Tudor England: Thomas Cranmer, Stephen Gardiner, and the English Reformation (Rowman & Littlefield) in 2018 and serves as an Executive Councilor for the Southern Conference on British Studies.
	Dr. Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne B.A. Department of Classics, Middlebury College, Ph.D. Department of Classics, Stanford University. Assistant Professor of History jarthurm@highpoint.edu Office: 105 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9078 Curriculum Vitae Professor Arthur-Montagne is a scholar of social and cultural history in the Roman Empire. Professor Arthur-Montagne focuses on the intersection of history-writing and fictional narrative in the postclassical Mediterranean.
	Katja Brown MBA, University of Texas at Dallas Administrative Assistant for the History as well as the Religion & Philosophy Department kbrown7@highpoint.edu Office: 123 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9691
	Dr. Peng Deng M.A. Sichuan University, Ph.D. Washington State University Professor of History pdeng@highpoint.edu Office: 131 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9117 Curriculum Vitae Professor Deng teaches American history, history of modern China, history of modern Japan, history of US-East Asian relations, and world geography. His most recent publications include Private Education in Modern China (Praeger) and Exiled Pilgrims (Brill).
	Dr. Joey A. Fink B.A. University of Massachusetts, Boston, M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Dec 2015) Assistant Professor of History jfink@highpoint.edu Office: 103 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9543 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Fink specializes in U.S. history, women’s/gender history, the history of labor and capitalism, and oral history theory and method. Her work has been published by Southern Spaces and in North Carolina Women, Their Lives and Times (UGA Press). She has researched and consulted for institutions such as the Southern Oral History Program and the Smithsonian Institute.
	Dr. Michael Kennedy B.A. Seton Hall University, M.A. Rutgers University, Ph.D. LeHigh University Instructor mkennedy@highpoint.edu Office: 104 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-9080 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Kennedy teaches early American History, economic and business history and popular culture. He has published Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas (Routledge) and Over the Threshold: Domestic Violence in Early America (Routledge).
	Dr. Philip Mulder B.A. Calvin College, M.A. and Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor of History pmulder@highpoint.edu Office: 109 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-4574 Professor Mulder teaches the history of early America and the American revolutionary era in addition to survey courses. He directs senior seminar projects in these fields and in cultural and religious history, his academic specialty. He has published A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South (Oxford University Press) and is a volunteer for the literary nonprofit BookmarksNC.org.
	Dr. Paul Ringel B.A. Princeton University, J.D. Boston College, Ph.D. Brandeis University Associate Professor of History pringel@highpoint.edu Office: 130 David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-4547 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ringel specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of 19th century America. In addition to US History surveys, he teaches on the Civil War and American legal history. His book, Commercializing Childhood: The Children's Magazine Industry and American Gentility, 1823-1918 is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. Recently, he presented "The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of Boston's Royal Rooters: A Study in Public Memory, Fandom, and Masculinity."
	Dr. George Simpson B.A. Waynesburg College, M.S. Troy State, Ph.D. West Virginia University Professor of History lsimpson@highpoint.edu Office:123-B David Hayworth Hall Phone: (336) 841-4533 Curriculum Vitae Professor Simpson offers courses on the history of Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and Western Civilization. His most recent publications include "Becoming Samburu: The Ethnogenesis of a Pastoral People in Nineteenth Century Northern Kenya" and "The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-Present."
	Andrew Tzavaras B.A. High Point University, M.A. High Point University, D.Phil. (ABD) New College, University of Oxford Instructor of History atzavar1@highpoint.edu Office:Couch 119 Curriculum Vitae My research centers on the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean. I focus on the building, deployment, and technology of Italian warships within the context of economics, diplomacy, and cross-cultural (and religious) conflict that characterizes Mediterranean warfare of the period. My previous research has focused on the Republic of Venice, and my current research involves the Medici in Tuscany.