Faculty
- Name
- Christopher Brooks
- Title
- Professor of History
B.A., 1994, East Stroudsburg University
M.A., 1998, East Stroudsburg University
M.Litt. (studies), 2001, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Phil., 2006, University of Kassel
- cbrooks@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3913
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 B
Prof. Brooks’ current research deals with John S. Rock, the first African-American attorney admitted to argue before the US Supreme Court and has worked with the Institute for Justice and National Constitution Center on the topic.
- Name
- Don Dellipriscoli
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
B.S., 1993, East Stroudsburg University
M.A., 1995, East Stroudsburg University
- ddellipris@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3234
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 B
In addition to serving as Department Chair, Professor Dellipriscoli teaches American Business History, Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics and First Year Experience. Professor Dellipriscoli is also the Social Studies Content Supervisor for Secondary Education.
- Name
- Christopher Dudley
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
B.A., 2001, Oberlin College
M.A., 2003, University of Chicago
Ph.D., 2010, University of Chicago
- cdudley@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3284
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 N
Dr. Dudley's research is on post-revolutionary politics in early eighteenth century Britain, when many aspects of the modern world first emerged. This research informs his teaching on a wide range of subjects, primarily early modern and modern European history.
Teaching Interest
Modern world and global history.
European history from the medieval to modern eras, especially the 16th to 18th centuries.
Comparative and cross-national history of topics such as capitalism, the Reformation,
and revolution.
Britain and the British empire.
Research Interest
Politics, political parties, and voter behavior.
Political economy, consumer society, and the roots of industrialization.
Religion, especially religion in politics and the development of religious toleration.
British imperial and overseas relationships, including their role in creating European
and global systems.
Student Group Advising
History Club
- Name
- Shannon Frystak
- Title
- Professor of History
B.S., 1990, Bowling Green State University
M.A., 1997, University of New Orleans
Ph.D., 2005, University of New Hampshire
- sfrystak@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3262
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 J
Dr. Shannon Frystak is an award-winning writer and historian who specializes in the Modern Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on female activism. Her most current research is a biography of Lucille Watson, owner and manager of Cross Keys Plantation in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
Teaching Interest
African-American History, Southern History, Women's History, Labor History, the Civil Rights Movement, the 1960s
Research Interest
African-American History, Southern History, Women's History, Labor History, the Civil Rights Movement, the 1960s
Service
Member of ESU's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and The Cassandra Project – To promote awareness of how to resist rape culture on southern college/university campuses and to identify and prevent sexual harassment for students and faculty in departments of history across the South, sponsored by the Southern Historical Association/Southern Association for Women Historians, 2017 – present.
Student Group Advising
Former faculty advisor for the Black Student Union 2010-2019 and affiliated with/supporter of PRIDE
Publications & Presentations
Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967,
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009, re-released November 2019 for
the 10 year anniversary in paperback.
Lucille Watson: Chatelaine of Cross Keys Plantation, Baton Rouge: Louisiana University
Press, forthcoming.
Confessions of an Academic Bartender: Essays on Life Inside and Outside of the Guild,
forthcoming.
Co-Editor, with Mary Farmer-Kaiser, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times Volume
II – Southern Women Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.
As well as multiple book chapters, essays, and Op Eds.
- Name
- Jeffrey Hardy
- Title
- Associate Professor of Geography, Department Chair
B.S., 1991, Mississippi State University
M.S., 1993, Louisiana State University
Ph.D., 1998, Louisiana State University
- jhardy@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3660
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 W
- Name
- Shixiong Hu
- Title
- Professor of Geography
B.S., 1990, Henan University, China
M.S., 1995, South China Normal University
Ph.D., 2004, State University of New York at Buffalo
- shu@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3733
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 V
Dr. Hu offers Physical Geography, Geology, Geomorphology, Watershed Management, GIS courses. His research interests include Fluvial Processes, Water Resources Management, and GIS/RS Application.
- Name
- Michael Gray
- Title
- Professor of History, Public History Coordinator
B.A., 1990, East Stroudsburg University
M.A., 1991, East Stroudsburg University
Ph.D., 1998, Kent State University
- mpgray@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3286
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409 F
Besides teaching history at ESU, Dr. Gray is working on a third book dealing with Civil War prisons. He also serves as series editor of Voices of the Civil War with University of Tennessee Press, where he has overseen the release of 9 publications to this date.
Teaching Interests
Civil War
U.S. Military
Frontier History
Public History
Research Interest
Civil War prisons
- Name
- Erin O'Donnell
- Title
- Associate Professor of History
B.A., 1985, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
M.A., 1991, North Carolina State University
Ph.D, 2009, University of Chicago
- eodonnell@esu.edu
- Phone
- (570) 422-3535
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall 409
Specialties
Modern World Civilizations, Modern India, Modern China, History Through Film, Asian Film, Indian Film.
Research Interests
Modern Bengal and Bangladesh, Bengali and Hindu/Urdu Film, Photography in India, Marxist Critical and Cultural Theory.
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Stroud Hall
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3286
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3937 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Department Chair
- Name
- Jeffrey Hardy
- E:
- jhardy@esu.edu
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3660
