Faculty

Hannah Anderson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a historian of early America and she is interested in the history of science, environmental history, and gender history. Her book manuscript, Lived Botany: Settlers and Natural History in the Early British Atlantic, examines how settlers exchanged botanical knowledge with Indigenous people and how these interactions … Hannah Anderson

Dr. Kyungsun Lee is an assistant professor of Geography and coordinator of geography in the Department of History. As an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on investigating the governance of socio-technical systems for urban water sustainability transitions. She is particularly interested in the social-political aspects of unconventional freshwater resources, including desalination, wastewater … Kyungsun Lee

Barclay Key was a bicentennial baby who spent much of his youth in Moulton, Alabama, about 90 miles northwest of Birmingham. His grandparents toiled in a variety of jobs:  picking cotton, raising a few cattle and hogs, driving a school bus, inspecting clothes in a garment factory, and working at the Ford plant in Muscle … Barclay T. Key

Charles W. Romney, Professor of History and Graduate Coordinator of the Public History M.A. program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received his doctorate in history from UCLA. He teaches classes on American history, digital history, and world history, and recently taught a new class on the “History of the Internet.” Romney is … Charles W. Romney

Katrina Yeaw received a Ph.D. in modern Middle Eastern and North African history from Georgetown University in 2018. Her research interests include gender, race, colonialism, violence, memory, law, resistance and collaboration, and colonial and post-colonial literature. Her current manuscript project, “Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, … Katrina Yeaw

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  Nathan Elliot Marvin is an associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he is also a Gender Studies affiliate faculty member. He teaches courses on world history, historical methods, and upper-level seminars on the histories of France, the Haitian Revolution, and the Atlantic world. His research explores the … Nathan Marvin

Dr. John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Kirk was born and educated in the United Kingdom, where he taught at the University of Wales and the University of London before moving to UA Little Rock in the summer of 2010. He … John A. Kirk

  Marta Cieslak received her Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo and joined the Department of History at UA Little Rock in 2017. Dr. Cieslak specializes in transatlantic history and her work spans East-Central Europe and the United States as she investigates historical connections and parallels between these two regions. Her research interests include transatlantic … Marta Cieslak

Jess Porter is director of the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. Before that, he served as History Department chair, an associate professor, and coordinator of geography at the university. Dr. Porter came to UA Little Rock in 2009 and holds a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University where he was awarded with … Jess C. Porter