Archives: Staff Members

Laura Helton specializes in American literature and history of the twentieth century with an emphasis on African American print culture and public humanities. Her research and teaching interests include archival… Read More

Tom Rocek is an archaeologist specializing in the United States Southwest with an additional concentration on the early Neolithic of central Europe. His research has included studies of historical Navajo… Read More

Zara Anishanslin specializes in Early American and Atlantic World History, with a focus on eighteenth-century material culture. Anishanslin received her PhD in the History of American Civilization at the University… Read More

Cindy Ott is an associate professor in the history department at UD. Her fields of study include food and culture, U.S. environmental history, material and visual culture, and race and… Read More

Jennifer Van Horn is an Assistant Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware. She teaches courses in American art, material culture, and museum studies. Her research… Read More

Mónica Domínguez Torres specializes in the arts of the early modern Iberian World, with particular interest in cross-cultural exchanges between Spain and the Americas during the period 1500-1700. She received… Read More

Jon Cox is an active explorer/photographer, he has traveled to all seven continents. He has been a University of Delaware faculty director of more than twenty photography based study abroad… Read More

Erik Rau is Director of Library Services for Hagley Museum and Library, which documents this history of Americans‘ experience with the free enterprise system, especially businesses, technology, and industrial design. He oversees… Read More

Dr. Mohun specializes in the social and cultural historian of technology.  Her publications include Steam Laundries: Gender, Work, and Technology in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Johns Hopkins University… Read More

Julian Yates is H. Fletcher Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at University of Delaware. He is the author of numerous essays on Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture,… Read More