History Faculty & Staff
The history department is located in the Center Street House (behind the Lemmons Center) and can be reached by contacting administrative assistant, Phyllis Hartle, or by contacting the individual professors directly.
Phyllis Hartle
Administrative Assistant, Department of History and Politics
Faculty
Caitlin Corning, PhD
Chair, Department of History and Politics
Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Early Medieval church history
- Late Antiquity
- Sub-Roman Britain
Ryan Dearinger, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Teaching & Research Interests
- The American West and Pacific Northwest
- Immigration, labor and working-class history
- Environmental history
- Violence in American history
Paul Otto, PhD
Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Campus Coordinator for Role-Immersion Pedagogy
Teaching & Research Interests
- History of early America and Native Americans
- Role-immersion pedagogy
Travis Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Histories of science and technology
- Business history
- History of the book
Rachel Rains Winslow, PhD
Director of Faculty Development
Associate Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Transnational history
- Public democracy
- Policy and culture
