Academics
History Faculty
The faculty members in the Department of History are exceptional scholars and teachers. All hold Ph.D. degrees from the nation's most prestigious universities: Cornell, Fordham, Harvard, McGill, Stanford, UCLA, UMass-Amherst. Due to our small classes and emphasis on research projects and practical experience, students have many opportunities to work with the faculty in one-on-one situations.
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Ke-wen Wang, Department Chair 
Professor of History
Coordinator of East Asian Studies Minor
B.A. National Taiwan University
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. Stanford University
Dr. Wang's areas of teaching include East Asian History (China and Japan) and East Asia-West Relations. He has published books and articles on the Chinese Nationalist Party, and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), and is currently researching on newspapers in the republican era (1912-49). He also served as a consultant for three television documentaries. Born and educated in Taiwan, Dr. Wang has taught at universities there and in Hong Kong.
Durick Library 311
Phone: 802.654.2428
Box 101
E-mail: kwang@smcvt.edu
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Thomas Andersen
Associate Professor of History
B.A. Saint Peter's College University
M.A. Fordham University
Ph.D. Fordham University
Dr. Andersen joined the Department of History in 1970. He teaches surveys of Medieval and Early Modern Europe and also conducts a number of upper level seminar courses on European Witchcraft, the Medieval Crusades, and Renaissance and Reformation Europe. In addition, he teaches a history/classics course on the Roman Empire.
Areas of professional interest include Early Medieval Europe, the Crusades, and medieval and early modern intellectual and religious history.
He enjoys a variety of outdoor, warm weather activities, which include boating and, most recently, motorcycling. He has been married to his "soul mate" Jo Ann for thirty-seven years and together they have four grown children and five grandchildren.
Durick Library 308
Phone: 802.654-2337
Box: 103
E-mail: tandersen@smcvt.edu
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George Dameron
Professor of History
Coordinator of Humanities Program
B.A. Duke University
M.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Harvard University
Teaching both in the Department of History and Humanities Program, Dr. Dameron's introductory and upper level courses focus on the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, and Antiquity. He offers courses on Medieval Italy, the Black Death, gender and women’s history, and historiography.
Dr. Dameron has written two books on medieval Florence: Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000-1320 (Harvard, 1991) and Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante (Pennsylvania, 2005). Currently, he is writing the first draft of a third book, The Making of Medieval Florence. Once that project is complete, he intends to write a book on the political economy of grain in north Italian communes in the thirteenth century.
Few people may know that he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin (West Africa), 1975-1977. His interests today focus on tennis, taking care of a 150-year old house, hiking the woods of Vermont, classical guitar and participating in the governance of his town. He is currently the secretary of the Hinesburg Community Land Trust and a former board member of Friends in Adoption, Inc., in Middletown Springs, Vermont.
Durick Library 306
Phone: 802.654.2318
Box 141
E-mail: gdameron@smcvt.edu
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Frank Nicosia
Professor of History
B.A. Pennsylvania State University
M.A. Georgetown University
Ph.D McGill University
Dr. Nicosia teaches courses in Modern European History, the History of Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust; he has lived, studied, and worked in Germany for six years.
Because the Middle East was a minor field of study in graduate school and because he spent two years in the Middle East (most of it as a Peace Corps volunteer) and studied Arabic, he also teaches a course on the history of the Modern Middle East. Dr. Nicosia's research and publications have focused on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and on the policies of Weimar and Nazi Germany in the Middle East.
Durick Library 304
Phone: 802.654.2249
Box: 186
E-mail: fnicosia@smcvt.edu
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Susan Ouellette
Associate Professor of History
B.A. SUNY Plattsburgh
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Durick Library 309
Phone: 802.654.2249
Box: 136
E-mail: souellette@smcvt.edu
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Yovanna Pineda
Assistant Professor of History 
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Pineda's areas of teaching include Latin American history, economic and development history, and social history.
Her areas of research include Industrialization in Argentina, machinery and economic development in Argentina.
Durick Library 307
Phone: 802.654.2472
Box 232
E-mail: ypineda@smcvt.edu
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Douglas Slaybaugh
Professor of History
B.S. Iowa State University
M.A. Iowa State University
Ph.D. Cornell University
Dr. Slaybaugh came to Saint Michael’s in 1986. He teaches American history, including the U.S. History Since 1865 survey and such seminars as the Age of FDR, American Society and Culture Since 1865, and Presidential Elections. His scholarly interests are in biography and political and social history.
Durick Library 310
Phone: 802.654.2465
Box 202
E-mail: dslaybaugh@smcvt.edu
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Additional Faculty:
Dr. James Conley
Associate Professor of Classics
Saint Edmund's Hall, 245
Phone: 802.654.2250
jconley@smcvt.edu
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Rev. Joseph McLaughlin, S.S.E.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Saint Edmund's Hall, 244
Phone: 802.654.2371
jmclaughlin@smcvt.edu
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Dr. Jeffrey Trumbower
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Saint Edmund's Hall 246;
Phone: 802.654.2373
jtrumbower@smcvt.edu