Emeriti Faculty
Howard W. Allen
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
hwallen@siu.edu
Dr. Howard W. Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1959, and joined the SIUC faculty three years later. He was the Executive Director of the Social Science History Association from 1981 to 1993. Professor Allen is an authority on the application of quantitative methods to historical research. He is also the department's specialist on the Progressive Era. His publications include Electoral Change and Stability in American Political History (1971) and Poindexter of Washington: A Study of Progressive Politics (1981).
Michael C. Batinski
Office: Faner 3277, Faner 3362
Phone: 618/453-7862, 618/453-7864
batinski@siu.edu
Dr. Michael C. Batinski came to SIUC in 1968, upon completion of his Ph.D. at Northwestern University. A specialist in colonial America and the early republic, he has written The New Jersey Assembly from 1728 to 1775: The Making of a Legislative Community (1987), and Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor (1996). He is currently working on a two volume study of history, memory, and community in America from 1500 to the present. The first volume, Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts, appeared in 2004. The second volume focuses on Jackson County, Illinois. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Illinois State Historical Society and is book review editor for the society's journal.
H. Arnold Barton
Office: Faner 3264
habarton@siu.edu
Dr. H. Arnold Barton came to SIUC in 1970 and retired in 1996. He earned his doctorate from Princeton in 1962, and received an honorary doctorate from Sweden's ancient Uppsala University in 1989. Dr. Barton's research interests include 18th century Europe, Scandinavia, France, and American immigration. He was the editor of the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly from 1974 to 1990. Among his books are Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914 (1975); Count Axel von Fersen: Aristocrat in an Age of Revolution (1975); The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga (1979); Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 (1986), A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans (1994), Northern Acadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 (1998), Sweden and Visions of Norway: Politics and Culture, 1814-1905 (2003), The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America (2006), and Essays on Scandinavian History (2008), as well as edited volumes, translations, articles and book reviews. In 1988, the Royal Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vasa Order of America named this distinguished historian "Swedish-American of the Year." He received an honorary doctorate from Swedenís Uppsala University in 1989 and was made a Knight-Commander of the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star in 2000 by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Dale Bengtson
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
bengtson@siu.edu
Dr. Dale Bengtson received his Ph.D. from The Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1971, and joined the faculty in 1973. He teaches and does research in the history of religions. His articles and essays have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Professor Bengtson has taught: History 112 (Twentieth Century World), History 202 (America's Religious Diversity), and History 368 (American Religious History).
Browning Carrott
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
Dr. M. Browning Carrott took his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1966, and came to SIUC the next year. Dr. Carrott (who also has a degree in law) specializes in United States Constitutional and legal history. He has published many articles on the Supreme Court in the 1920s. Professor Carrott also teaches a popular course in United States military history.
Donald S. Detwiler
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
detwiler@midwest.net
Dr. Donald S. Detwiler earned his Dr. phil. cum laude at Goettingen University, Germany, in 1961, and joined the SIU faculty in 1967. A specialist in German and Contemporary history, Dr. Detwiler continued to teach a course in twentieth-century dictatorships and global conflict, 1919-1945, and to supervise readings after his retirement in 1998. He is the chairman of the World War Two Studies Association, the vice-president of the international association with which it is affiliated, and a past president of the Association for the Bibliography of History. He is the principal editor of two multi-volume archival collections, World War II German Military Studies and War in Asia and the Pacific, 1937-1949 (1979 and 1980). His books include Germany: A Short History, 3rd ed., rev. (1999); and, with Ilse E. Detwiler as joint author, An Annotated Bibliography on Germany (vol. 72, Clio World Bibliographical Series, 1987).
John E. Dotson
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
jdotson@siu.edu
Dr. John E. Dotson took his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1969, and came to SIUC the next year. During his tenure in the History Department, he taught courses in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history. The author of many articles on the business and maritime history of late medieval Italy, Professor Dotson's Merchant Culture in Fourteenth Century Venice: The Zibaldone Da Canal appeared in 1993. His Christopher Columbus and His Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents (1998) is the fourth volume in the Repertorium Columbianum, an international project to edit the earliest sources documenting the encounter between America and Europe. Professor Dotson has been active in university affairs. He was self-study coordinator for the University's 1999 accreditation review and is acting as a consultant for the current self-study for the 2009 review. For the last five years of his career at SIUC (2001-2006) he was chair of the Linguistics Department. He is currently working on a study of the conflict between Genoa and Venice for domination of Mediterranean Sea in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Charles Fanning
Office: Faner 2042
Phone: 618/453-6851
celtic42@siu.edu
Dr. Charles Fanning, who has a joint appointment in English and History, earned his Ph.D. in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and came to SIUC in 1993. His research combines intellectual and literary history, especially related to Irish-American immigrants. Among his twelve books is Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (1978), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. Professor Fanning was named SIUC Outstanding Scholar in 2004.
John S. Haller, Jr.
Office: 1205 W. Chautauqua
Phone: 618/563-3460
jhaller@siu.edu
Dr. John S. Haller, Jr., received his baccalaureate degree from Georgetown University (1962), his masterís from John Carroll University (1964), and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1968). Before joining SIUC in 1990, he was affiliated with Indiana University, California State University-Long Beach, and the University of Colorado. A professor of history and medical humanities, and former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences, Dr. Haller teaches courses in American intellectual history, the history of medicine, and honors. He is the author of Outcasts From Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 (1971; 1975; 1995); The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America (1974; 1977; 1995) with Robin Haller; American Medicine in Transition, 1830-1910 (1980); Farm Carts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1794-1925 (1993); Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939 (1994); Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 (1997); The Making of a Medical Practice: An Illinois Case Study, 1885-1938 (1997) with Barbara Mason; A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, 1845-1942 (1999); The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 (2000); The History of American Homeopathy: The Academic Years, 1820-1935 (2005); The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care (2009); Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine (2010); Sectarian Reformers in American Medicine, 1800-1910 (forthcoming 2010); and more than sixty-five refereed articles. He is also the author of the electronic book, Samuel Thomson and the Poetry of Botanical Medicine, 1810-1860 and three data sets on reform medical colleges, societies, and journals published on the website of the Lloyd Library and Museum. His current research interests lie in the areas of medical theory and alternative medical systems. Before retiring in 2008, Dr. Haller served for eighteen years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.
Vincent A. Lacey
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
vlacey@siu.edu
Dr. Vincent A. Lacey completed his Ph.D. in History at SIUC in 1984. Dr. Lacey is the Director Emeritus of the Computer Assisted Instruction and Research Laboratory (CAIRL) on campus. Professor Lacey also teaches our course on Quantitative Research in History. He is the co-author of Illinois Elections, 1818-1900: Candidates and Country Returns for President, Governor, Senate and House of Representatives (1992).
Edward J. O'Day
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
edoday@siu.edu
Edward J. O'Day, Emeritus Associate Professor of History, studied Central and East European History with Leonard Lundin and Robert Byrnes at Indiana University and joined the SIUC faculty in 1962. OíDay taught courses in modern European history and historical methods before retiring in 1998, but his recent research and writing focus on Ireland, Irish America, American immigration, and family history. He is a former president of the Illinois State Genealogical Society (1989-1991) and of the Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois.
Professor O'Day has given papers in Belfast, Cork and Galway in Ireland, and before several groups in the United States, including the American Conference for Irish Studies, the National Genealogical Society and the Wisconsin State Sesquicentennial Family History Conference. His study of Irish immigration to New England prior to the Great Famine was published in New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora, edited by Charles J. Fanning (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).
David P. Werlich
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
elmaximo@siu.edu
Dr. David P. Werlich has taught history at SIUC since 1968, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. An emeritus professor since 2003, he continues to teach an occasional course in Latin American history--most notable offerings on Mexico and the Andean region.
David L. Wilson
Office: Faner 3264
Phone: 618/453-7865
dwilson@siu.edu
Dr. David L. Wilson came to SIUC in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1974. He taught United States Foreign Relations with special interests in Sino-American relations during the 1920s and 1930s and the American Civil War. He joined the faculty full time in 1991 after serving for many years as an associate editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Dr. Wilson is the co-author of The Presidency of Warren G. Harding (1977), co-editor of Ulysses S. Grant: Essays and Documents (1981), and has written numerous scholarly articles. His most recent article, "Trading Places: The Historic Roots of United States Trade Policy," appeared in Estudios Norte Americanos, 3 (2004): 247-259. He served, most recently, as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate School. He has been an emeritus professor since 2010.
