Marianna Byman, Department Chair

Minne Hall 214  |  (507) 457-5413  |  Email: mbyman@winona.edu

    Education: D.A., University of North Dakota, M.S., Winona State University, B.A., Baylor University
    Research area: 19th-century Russian intellectual history

    Teaching areas: European Intellectual/Cultural History, Western Civilization, African Civilization,     French Revolution

    Member of Board of Directors of the Winona County Historical Society

 Seymour Byman

 Minne Hall 217 |  (507) 457-5402  |  Email: sbyman@winona.edu

    Education: Ph.D. Northwestern University, M.A., Roosevelt University, B.A., University of Illinois

    Teaching areas: Western Civilization, History of Christianity, History of attitudes towards death,

    Psycho-history, The Holocaust, Modern Britain

    Click here for a discussion of Professor Byman's teaching philosophy and method.

     Statement of teaching philosophy: "Whatever you're for, I'm against it." (Marx).

 John Campbell

   Minne Hall 135  |  (507) 457-2378  |  Email: jcampbell@winona.edu  

    Co-Director of Law & Society Program

    Education: Ph.D. and M.A., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, B.A., Wesleyan University

    Research area: American slavery, slave culture and abolition
    Teaching areas: U.S. History, The Old South, African-American history, Native-American history

    Historical Research Methods and Historiography

    (Sabbatical leave Academic year 2004-05)

 Kurt Hohenstein

 Minne Hall 209  |  (507) 457-5411  |  Email: KHohenstein@winona.edu

    Director of Paralegal Program and Co-Director of Law & Society Program

    Education: Ph.D, University of Virginia, J.D.,, M.A., and B.A., University of Nebraska

    Research area: U.S. legal and constitutional history

    Teaching areas: U.S. legal and constitutional history, modern U.S. history, U.S. West, Law and Society

 Colette Hyman

Minne Hall 208  |  (507) 457-5880  |  Email: chyman@winona.edu

    Education: Ph.D. and M.A., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, B.A., Brown University

    Research areas: women's history, labor history, Native American history

    Teaching areas: 19th and 20th century U.S. history; Women's history; Food history

 Peter Henderson

Minne Hall 209  |  (507) 457-5414  |  Email: mailto:phenderson@winona.edu

    Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska, J.D. and B.A., Vanderbilt University

    Research areas: Ecuador, Mexico, Latin America

    Teaching areas: Latin American History, Western Civilization

 Matthew Lindaman

Minne Hall 220  |  (507) 457-5877  |  Email: mlindaman@winona.edu

    Director of Social Science/History Teaching Program

    Education: Ph.D., University of Kansas, M.A. and B.A., University of Northern Iowa

    Research areas:  Modern and early modern European history, Russian and East European history, American history, American history of the West and Midwest
    Teaching areas: Western Civilization, Germany, World Wars

 Matthew Lungerhausen

Minne Hall 219  |  (507) 457-5409  |  Email: mlungerhausen@winona.edu   

    Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, M.A., Binghamton University, SUNY, B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

    Research area: Modern Central and Eastern Europe, Photography and Visual Culture, History of the Artic and Antarctic

    Teaching areas: Western Civilization, Nineteenth Century Europe, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Modern China and East Asia

 Gregory Schmidt

Minne Hall 216  |  (507) 457-5408  |  Email: gschmidt@winona.edu

   Education: B.A, M.A, and Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Research area: 19th-century American political culture and constitutional development

   Teaching areas: U.S. survey courses, American Cultural/Intellectual History, American Revolution

        American Constitutional History, The Age of Jackson, Historical Research Methods and Historiography

Tomas Tolvaisas

Minne Hall 215  |  (507) 457-5407  |  Email: ttolvaisas@winona.edu

   Education: Ph.D. Rutgers University, M.A. Purdue University, B.A. Wake Forest University
   Research area: Cold War, History of American Foreign Relations, Modern and Contemporary U.S. history, Soviet and East European History, Globalization

   Teaching areas: U.S. History, History of American Foreign Relations, Vietnam War, International History

 Office Manager:
  Lisa Hessel

 Minné Hall 212  |  (507) 457-5400  |  Email: lhessel@winona.edu