Faculty

Barton C. Shaw (Ph.D in history, Emory University)
bcshaw@cedarcrest.edu
with interests in American history, the American South and the Populist movement, African Americans and the civil rights movement. He is the author of The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia’s Populist Party (Louisiana State University Press, 1984), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians in 1985. Dr. Shaw has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sheffield (UK). In 1989, he on the Cedar Crest College Alumnae Association Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Kim Spiezio - (Ph.D in political science, SUNY, Binghamton)
kspiezio@cedarcrest.edu
with interests centered on international security issues with a particular emphasis on American national security policy in the post-Cold War era. He has written articles security and American foreign policy and a monograph entitled Beyond Containment: Reconstructing European Security (Lynn Reiner, 1995). He serves as chair of the Social Science department.

James W. Ward (Ph.D in history, New York University)
jjward@cedarcrest.edu
has interests in European and world history, urban history, film and history, and history and memory. He has authored numerous articles on history as represented in film, problems of history and memory, German history and politics, and the politics of culture. He is currently working on a book entitled Unwelcome Monuments: Contending with the Ruins of the Third Reich in Divided and Reunited Berlin. He won the Cedar Crest College Alumnae Association Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1990.