Other Faculty
Adjunct Professors Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Name | Subject(s) | |
Laura Lee Corbett | lfishercorbett@fsu.edu | Preserving Historic Sites and Spaces |
Joseph Harmon | joseph.harmon@fsu.edu | World History |
Katie McCormick | kmccormick@fsu.edu | Managing Archives and Historical Records |
Stephen Oleszek | soleszek@fsu.edu | U.S. History |
Vincent Mikkelsen | vpm7371@fsu.edu | US History; The US and Vietnam |
courtesy Faculty
Name | Subject(s) | |
John Corrigan (Religion) | jcorrigan@fsu.edu | American Religious History, Religion and Emotion |
Francois Dupuigrenet (Religion) | fdupuigrenet@fsu.edu | History of the book, visual cultures of France and Italy |
Michael David Franklin (Honors) | mdfranklin@fsu.edu | American Studies, Oral history |
Kristine Harper (University of Copenhagen) | kch@ind.ku.dk | History of Science, Environment, Cold War, Women and Science |
Tahirih Lee (Law) | tlee@law.fsu.edu | Chinese Legal History |
James Sickenger (Classics) | lsicking@fsu.edu | Greek History and Literature |
Emeritus Professors
Peter Garretson
Ph.D., 1974, University of London
Research Interests: Middle East, North Africa
Dr. Garretson received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and specialized in African, especially North African, History. His thesis was on the History of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. His first teaching position was at the University of Khartoum. He then taught at Brooklyn College and Swarthmore College before coming to Florida State University in 1980. He has taught Middle Eastern History at FSU ever since, except for eight years when he was also the Associate Vice President for International Programs.
Bawa Satinder Singh
Dr. Bawa Satinder Singh, a specialist on modern India, especially British rule in the subcontinent, received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Panjab (1951 and 1955) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1961 and 1966). He is the author of The Jammu Fox: A Biography of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Kashmir, 1792-1857 (Southern Illinois, 1974). He has edited the Hardinge Letters: The Letters of the First Viscount Hardinge of Lahore to Lady Hardinge and Sir Walter and Lady James, 1844-1847 (Royal Historical Society, 1986) and My Indian Peregrinations: The Private Letters of Charles Stewart, the Future Second Viscount of Lahore, 1844-1847 (Texas Tech, 2001). Dr. Singh is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
RALPH V. TURNER
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1962, retired as professor emeritus in 1999. He was named a Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State in 1994. He taught medieval and English history, Renaissance and Reformation and served the History Department for several years as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. His research centers on twelfth-century England, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, their sons Richard Lionheart and John, and their French possessions, their administration of justice and the common law, as well as the transformation of their royal servants into professionals. His studies have resulted in papers presented at conferences in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, some forty articles and seven books. He has written both individual biographies of thirteenth-century figures---King John (1994),The Reign of Richard Lionheart, co-authored with R.R. Heiser (2000), Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and Queen of England (2009)--- and collective biographical studies of royal officials, The Origins of the English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton c. 1176-1239 (1985) and Men Raised from the Dust : Administrative Service and Upward Mobility in Angevin England (1988).