Section
Eastern University History

FACULTY

Eastern’s History faculty provide a lively classroom atmosphere through lectures, discussions, and analysis of images, film, and primary source documents.


Dr. Fred BelkeDr. Fred Boehlke
Professor Emeritus of History/Adjunct Lecturer
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.D., Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer Seminary)
Specialty:  Tudor and Stuart England, Ancient to Medieval Europe, Church History

 

 

Dr. Zbyzek BrezinaDr. Zbysek Brezina
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., M.A. Western Bohemia University, Czech Republic
M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Specialty:  Modern Europe
Sub-fields:  Areas related to 20th century Central & Eastern Europe:  military/intelligence history, political exiles during/after WWII, genocide and ethnic cleansing, the Romani (Gypsy) people, U.S.-European foreign relations
Courses:  INST 161 (Heritage of Western Thought and Civilization:  The Modern World), HIS 352 (Russian History), HIS 323 (the Age of Empires [1848-1914]), HIS 324 (Twentieth Century Europe)

 

Dr. Zbyzek BrezinaMr. Michael Dondzilla
Adjunct Instructor of History
B.A., Valley Forge Christian Academy
M.A., Salisbury University; Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware
Specialty:  Colonial America, American Indian, Antebellum America
Sub-fields:  American Indian Revivals, Atlantic World, American Gun Culture, 18th and 19th Century Britain, American Revolution Prison Ships, American Halcyons
Courses:  HIS 201 (U.S. Survey to 1877); INST 160 (Western Civilization I)

 

 

Dr. Steve GatlinDr. Stephen H. Gatlin
Associate Professor of History
B.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
M.S., Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Specialty:  History of Science, Europe
Subfields:  Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Medicine, Holocaust Studies, Historiography, and Modernist Culture
Courses:  INST 160 (Heritage of Western Civilization I); INST 161 (Heritage of Western Civilization II); Science, Technology and Values; Cultural and Intellectual Background to the Holocaust; European Intellectual history; The Age of Revolution;  The Age of Reason; Historical Background to Freudian psychoanalysis; Historiography; Philosophy of Natural Science; Capstone Course: The Beatles in Dream & History; German Nature Philosophy

 

Dr. Tyler FlynnDr. Tyler B. Flynn
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Miami University (Ohio)
M.A., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Specialty:  Modern U.S., Religion and Culture
Sub-fields:  Protestantism, jazz, film and popular culture, social reform, urban history, world religions, China and East Asia
Courses:  History 201 (U.S. Survey to 1877), History 202 (U.S. Survey Since 1877), History 470 (American Intellectual History), History 330 (Jazz and American History), History 490 (Post-WWII America), History 485 (Gilded Age and Progressivism), INST 160 (Heritage of Western Civilization I), History 330 (East Asian History)

 

Dr. Gary JenkinsDr. Gary Jenkins
John H. Van Gorden Professor in History, Department Chair
B.R.E., Manahath Christian College
M.Div., Reformed Episcopal Seminary
M.A., University of Maryland
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Specialty:  Late Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation Intellectual and Ecclesiastical History; Byzantium and Orthodoxy
Courses:  INST 160/161 (Heritage of Western Civilization I, II), Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, The Renaissance, Age of Reformation, The Enlightenment, Byzantine Empire, Eastern Orthodox History and Theology, The Gnostics Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

 

Dr. Zbyzek BrezinaDr. Michael Lee
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Yale University; M.A. Church History, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Specialty:  Colonial & 19th century America
Sub-fields:  intellectual history, early American history, deism, history of biblical interpretation, perceptions of Islam in early America, history of higher education, transatlantic history
Courses:  HIS202 (U.S. Survey to 1877), HIS 450 (Colonial and Revolutionary America), HIS 460 (the Early American Republic), HIS 470 (American Intellectual History)

 

 

 

 

Dr. John MarshallDr. John Marshall
Faculty Instructor in Christian Studies
B.A., University of North Carolina-Charlotte
M.Div., Ph.D., Westminster Theological Seminary
Specialty:  Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment Europe
Subfield:  Western intellectual history
Courses:  INST 161 (Heritage of Western Civilization), BIB 101 (Old Testament Introduction), BIB 102 (New Testament Introduction)

 

Dr. Gary JenkinsDr. Robert Price
Retired Professor of History/Adjunct Lecturer
B.S., Boston University
M.S., Indiana University
Ph.D., Universit of Illinois
Specialty:  Modern European Diplomatic History, African-American History