History Faculty & Staff

The history department is located on the second floor of the Hoover Academic Building and can be reached by contacting administrative assistant, Phyllis Hartle, or by contacting the individual professors directly.

Phyllis Hartle

Phyllis Hartle

Administrative Assistant, Department of History and Politics

Faculty

Caitlin Corning

Chair, Department of History and Politics

Professor of History

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Early Medieval church history
  • Late Antiquity
  • Sub-Roman Britain
Ryan Dearinger

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

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

Assistant Professor of History

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Histories of science and technology
  • Business history
  • History of the book
Rachel Rains Winslow

Director of Faculty Development

Associate Professor of History

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Transnational history
  • Public democracy
  • Policy and culture

Faculty Emeriti

Kerry Irish

Kerry Irish, PhD

Professor Emeritus of History

Mark Weinert

Mark Weinert, PhD

Professor Emeritus of History