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Office of Undergraduate Research

History

Faculty Mentors

Rebecca A. Boone, Ph.D.

Department: History

Email: rebecca.boone@lamar.edu

Research interests:

  • Renaissance Europe

Appropriate majors:

  • History

Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr., Ph.D.

Department: History

Email: jimmy@bryan@lamar.edu

Research interests:

  • Cultural history of the early 19th century

Appropriate majors:

  • History

Jeff Forret, Ph.D.

Department: Health and Kinesiology

University Professor

Email: forretjp@lamar.edu

Research interests: 

  • Study of slavery
  • The South
  • Nineteenth-century history

Mark A. Mengerink, Ph.D.

Department: History

Email: mamengerink@lamar.edu

Research interests:

  • German history since 1648

Appropriate majors:

  • History

J. Lee Thompson, Ph.D.

Department: History

Email: lee.thompson@lamar.edu

Research Interests

  • World Cultures
  • the British Empire
  • Victorian England
  • World War I
  • 19th-Century Europea
  • 20th-Century

Yasuko Sato, Ph.D.

Department: History

Email: ysato@lamar.edu

Research interests:

  • Early modern and modern Japanese history and thought
  • Samurai ethics
  • Tokugawa learning
  • The Meiji restoration
  • Japanese feminist thought

Appropriate majors:

  • History