Ted Dahlstrand, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean
(419) 755-4222  w  dahlstrand.1@osu.edu
Dr. Dahlstrand arrived at OSU Mansfield in the autumn of 1978 after having taught for a year at the Columbus campus. In 1982, he published a biography of the American Transcendentalist and reformer, Amos Bronson Alcott, and has subsequently published several articles on Alcott and New England Transcendentalism. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award at OSU Mansfield in 1980 and 1987, and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1983. In 1995 he was appointed as Associate Dean to supervise the development of the academic programs and the Mansfield Campus.
Christopher Phelps, PhD
Associate Professor
(419) 755-4380  w  phelps.51@osu.edu
Professor Christopher Phelps is a specialist in twentieth-century American history interested in the relationship between intellectuals, political thought, and social movements. His book Young Sidney Hook, a biography of the famous pragmatist philosopher and New York intellectual first published by Cornell University Press, appeared in paperback with a new preface from the University of Michigan Press in 2005.  Professor Phelps has written introductions to books by Sidney Hook, Upton Sinclair, and Max Shachtman, as well as articles and reviews for such publications as The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.  He has received the Fulbright Award twice, to teach American philosophy and intellectual history in Hungary in 2000, and to serve as the distinguished chair in American studies and literature to Poland in 2004-2005. His current research focuses upon the history of the African-American anti-Stalinist left at mid-century.
Scoppas Poggo, PhD
Assistant Professor
(419) 755-4202  w  poggo.1@osu.edu
Dr. Poggo is originally from the Kuku people of the Southern Sudan. He began his studies in the United States in 1990, after having been a student in the Sudan and in England. He joined the faculty in the Department of African American and African Studies and the OSU-Mansfield campus in the Fall of 1999, after having served as a graduate assistant for several years at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught Introduction to African American and African Studies, as well as the sequences in African-American and African History sequences.

Heather Tanner, PhD
Associate Professor
(419) 755-4368  w  tanner.87@osu.edu

Professor Tanner taught at Bates College, the University of Oregon, and Lake Forest College, before joining OSU as an assistant professor in Fall 2001. She is a historian of medieval northern France, Belgium, and England, and focuses on politics, governance, the public roles of women, religious reform and dissent, and the First Crusade.  Her first book examines early medieval politics and governance, entitled Families, Friends and Allies. Boulogne and Politics in northern France and England, c. 879-c.1162.  She is currently working on a book concerning female inheritance and governance in late 12 th- and early 13 th-century Picardy and Flanders. She has won several prestigious fellowships including a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Faculty (2004) and a National Endowment for the Humanities (1996- 1997). Her most recent conference presentations were at the International Medieval Congress of Medieval Studies ( Kalamazoo, May 2006) and the International Medieval Congress ( Leeds, July 2005).

  Mollie Cavender
Assistant Professor
(419) 755-4318  w cavender.13@osu.edu

M.W.Cavender; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997. Professor Cavender is a specialist in Russian history, with interests in 18th- and 19th-century Russian cultural, social and intellectual history. Most recently, she has published Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia (University of Delaware Press, 2007), and "'Kind Angel of the Soul and Heart': Domesticity and Family Correspondence among the Pre-Emancipation Russian Gentry" in The Russian Review (2002).

Thomas "Tom" Mulligan
Lecturer
(419) 755-4378  w  mulligan.11@osu.edu

M.A. Management, The Ohio State University; M.S. International Relations, George Washington University; M. A. American History, The Ohio State University; Ph.D. American History, The Ohio State University. Professor Mulligan's major area is 19th Century American History and his minor areas are 20th Century American Diplomatic History and Latin American History. He teaches the following courses: American Civilization to 1877, American Civilization since 1877, Latin American Civilizations to 1825, Latin American Civilizations since 1825, History of Ohio, World War II, and Westward Movement in American History.


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