Howard Berger

     Howard Berger is the J.P. Weyerhaeuser Chair of American History. He received his B.A. (with Honors in History, and Phi Beta Kappa) from George Washington University, and earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His specialty is in American Intellectual History.

     Dr. Berger joined the College of Idaho faculty in 1982. His regular courses include: Modern Western Civilization, Introduction to the History of the U.S., History of American Ideas, National Socialism and the Final Solution, America in the 1960s, History of U.S. Foreign Policy, The American Westward Movement, The U.S. since 1945, The American South since 1865, Jewish History, and Modern Russia and the U.S.S.R.  In addition to regular courses, Dr. Berger has led three student study tours to Israel. 

Mee-Ae Kim

     Mee-Ae Kim teaches Latin American  and World History.  She received a B.A. from San Jose State University, a M.A. in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame, a M.A. in U.S. History and a Ph.D. in Latin American and World History from Washington State University.  Her primary area of specialization is Mexico, Mexican nationalism and Asian migration.  

     Dr. Kim joined the C of I faculty in 2001.  Her regular courses include: World Civilization (ancient and modern), Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and the Caribbean, and Military and Society in Latin America.

Steven Maughan

     Steven Maughan teaches modern European and non-Western history. He earned a B.A. from The College of Idaho, graduating summa cum laude, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.  In support of his dissertation research he received a Mellon Fellowship and a Fulbright Full Grant which he used to conduct research at King's College, London. His primary areas of expertise are the British Empire, the culture of Victorian and Edwardian England, and foreign missions. He has published "'Mighty England Do Good': the Major English Denominations and Organisation for the Support of Foreign Missions in the Nineteenth Century," Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues, ed. R. Bickers and R. Seton (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1996); "Civic Culture, Women's Foreign Missions, and the British Imperial Imagination, 1860-1914," in Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History, ed. F. Trentmann (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2000); and "Imperial Christianity?  Bishop Montgomery and the Foreign Mission of the Church of England, 1895-1915," in The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914, ed. A. Porter (Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2003).

     Dr. Maughan began his tenure at The College of Idaho in 1992. His regular courses include: Early Modern Western Civilization, Europe in the Eighteenth Century, Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Europe in the Twentieth Century, Modern India, Modern European Intellectual History, The British Empire, 1756-1960, and Modern Britain. Dr. Maughan led foreign study tours to London during winter session 1995, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007.

Mark Smith

     Mark Smith currently serves as the Academic Vice President of The College of Idaho.  He continues to teach two courses per year in pre-modern European History. He received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Westmont College, having graduated summa cum laude, a M.Div. in Church History from Denver Seminary, a M.A. and Ph.D. in Ancient/Medieval/Reformation History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His primary area of specialization is the Roman Empire. Dr. Smith has published several articles, including: "A Hidden Use of Porphyry's History of Philosophy in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica," Journal of Theological Studies (1988); "In Search of Santa," Timeline (1991); "Ancient Bisexuality and the Interpretation of Romans 1:26-27," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1996); "Eusebius and the Religion of Constantius I," Studia Patristica (1997);  "Paul and Ancient Bisexuality," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1997); "The Religion of Constantius I"  Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (1998); "A Tale of Two Julias: Julia, Julias and Josephus," in the Bethsaida Excavations Report, Vol. 2 (1999);  "Of Jesus and Quirinius"  Catholic Biblical Quarterly ( 2000); "The Religious Coinage of Constantius I"  Byzantion (2001);  "Eusebius of Caesarea and the Fate of Bethsaida" and "Bethsaida in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder," in the Bethsaida Excavations Report, Vol. 3 (2005).  He is also a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Bethsaida Excavations in Israel. Students are invited to join the team of excavators each summer.

     Dr. Smith has been a member of the C of I faculty since 1989.  His regular courses have included: Ancient/Medieval Western Civilization, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, The Reformation, History of Christianity, Ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he is involved in off-campus study, including past study tours of Greece, Turkey and Italy (1993, 1999, 2004) and Hawaii (Winter, 1997).

Jeff Snyder

jsnyder@collegeofidaho.edu

     Jeff Snyder joined the C of I faculty in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he specialized in the study of modern Chinese history and East Asian religion. His dissertation research was conducted at the Institute for Qing History in Beijing while on a Fulbright fellowship, and his book manuscript, Dry Spells: Rainmaking, Power, and the State in Late Imperial China will be published in the Harvard East Asian Monograph Series.