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Ph.D. - University of Southern Mississippi
Dr. Glenn Robins joined the GSW Department of History and Political Science in August 2001. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Southern Mississippi and in 2009 he was a West Point Summer Fellow at the United States Military Academy. He teaches courses on Georgia History, the Cold War Era, and Civil War and Reconstruction. His publications include The Bishop of the Old South:The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk, (2006); The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A Robinson, (2013); and They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War POW Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry, (2011), an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Finalist. He is currently writing a book on Georgia and the Vietnam Era.
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Ph.D. - Florida International University
Dr. D. Jason Berggren came to GSW in August 2009. He teaches courses in American politics, including the U.S. Presidency, the U.S. Congress and Legislative Process, U.S. Political Parties, and Religion and American Politics. In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Florida International University in Miami. Before coming to GSW, he was a post-doctoral teaching fellow at the University of Georgia for two years. He has published a number of journal and newspaper articles on Jimmy Carter and his presidency. He is the faculty advisor for the GSW Student Government Association, GSW Young Democrats, and the GSW chapter of the Pi Sigma Alpha political science honor society. In 2012, he earned the GSW National Alumni Association’s Professor of the Year award.
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Ph.D. - University of Washington
Dr. Susan Bragg attributes her fascination with history to a childhood spent devouring Nancy Drew and Little House on the Prairie books. Since that time, she has continued to explore women’s lives and the history of childhood through her graduate work at the University of Washington and in her teaching. Her work on African American family politics has appeared in the journal California History and in Quintard Taylor and Shirley Moore, eds., African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. She is currently developing a project on gender and the cultural politics of NAACP activism and researching children’s literature from the era of World War I. At GSW, Bragg teaches courses with concentrations in women’s history, African American history, and 20th c. US history. She also advises students in the GSW History Club.
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Ph. D. - University of California
Dr. John LeJeune joined the GSW Department of History and Political Science in August 2016. He completed his Ph. D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego in 2014 and in 2012-13 was a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. He teaches courses in Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, and American Politics, and his published articles include “Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and Playfulness”(in D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), "Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary Leadership” (HannahArendt.net, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2013)), and “Social Dynamics of Abandonment of Harmful Practices: A new look at the theory,” w/ Gerry Mackie (Innocenti Working Paper 2009-06, Special Series on Social Norms and Harmful Practices, UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, Florence, May 2009).
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Ph.D. - University of Nevada
Dr. Paula Martin is a historian of European History specializing in the History of Medicine and Science. Professor Martin received her Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007 and has been with GSW since 2008. In addition to having presented several academic papers at conferences, she is the author of Suzanne Noel: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth Century France, published in 2014 by Ashgate Press as part of their “History of Medicine in Context” series. Dr. Martin is currently working on her second book, John Stephenson (1796-1842): Montreal Scientist, Innovator and Educator. She also is an avid traveler who lives most summers in Paris while researching French archives.
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Ph.D. - Florida State University
Dr. Brian R. Parkinson came to GSW in the fall of 2005. He finished his Ph.D. at Florida State University in 2005, specializing in World History. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern and Latin American history. He has published journal articles and book chapters on topics in Middle Eastern history. Dr. Parkinson is presently writing a biography of Judge Pierre Crabites, a Bourbon Democrat on the Mixed Courts of Egypt.
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M.A. & Ph.D. - Brown University
Dr. Brian Smith joined the History and Political Science department at Georgia Southwestern in 2007. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Brown University. He teaches courses in International Politics, Comparative Politics and the core American Government class. He is director of the Global Studies Certificate Program, the director of the European Union Studies Certificate Program and is the Coordinator of Pre-Law Services. His research interests include political legitimacy, nationalism, party systems in weak democracies, genocide and American foreign policy. He is also obsessed with traveling to Italy and the Czech Republic.
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J.D. - Nova Southeastern University
M.S. - Florida State University
Professor Bonnie K. Levine-Berggren has been an adjunct instructor at GSW since August 2011. She teaches courses in the social sciences, including World & Its Peoples, World Religions, and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In 1999, she earned her J.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale (Davie), Florida and, in 1995, her Master’s degree in religion from Florida State University. She has published several encyclopedia articles on war and religion and women and American politics.
Department of History and Political Science
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229-931-2079
pauline.gillis@gsw.edu