Xi Lian

Professor of History

(812) 866-7202

lian@hanover.edu

Biography:

Professor Lian teaches East Asian History and specializes in Modern China.

Education:

Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany

Dan Murphy '81

Professor of History / Director of the CFI / Humanities Division Head

(812) 866-7222

murphy@hanover.edu

Biography:

Professor Murphy teaches Modern American History and specializes in American Cultural and Military History.

Education:

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Larry Thornton

Professor of History

(812) 866-7201

thornton@hanover.edu

Biography:

Professor Thornton teaches Modern European History and specializes in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

Teaching: Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Genocide, French Revolution and Napoleon, World in 1968, World Since 1945.
Travel Courses: History and Literature of Modern Ireland, War in Vietnam, Russia.

International Experience: Travel to +30 countries. HC Faculty International Study Tour to Soviet Union, 1991. HC Faculty International Study Tour to China, 1993. HC Faculty International Study Tour to Holocaust Sites in Netherlands, Belgium, German, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Israel, 2005. Joseph J. Malone Faculty Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies (travel to United Arab Emirates and Oman), 1993.

Awards: Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1991 and 2004.

Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois

Teaching Areas / Expertise / Specializations:

Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Attitudes about War as Expressed by Oxford University Students, 1919-1939.

Matthew Vosmeier

Professor of History

(812) 866-7211

vosmeier@hanover.edu

Biography:

Professor Vosmeier teaches Early American History and specializes in antebellum politics and culture.

Education:

Ph.D.; Indiana University

Sarah McNair Vosmeier

Associate Professor of History

(812) 866-7210

vosm@hanover.edu

Biography:

Professor Vosmeier teaches post-Civil War American History and specializes in the History of Women and the Family.

Education:

Ph.D.; Indiana University