UWMC History Department

Brett Barker

Assistant Professor; Program Manager, K-8 History Teaching Alliance

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001

Specialties and Research Interests: American Civil War, American Indian history, social history, public history, history of Wisconsin, history of Midwest

E-mail: Brett.Barker@uwc.edu

Courses:

History 101: United States History to the Civil War

History 240: Primary Sources in History

History 256: Special Topics: History of the Hmong

History 277: Indians in American History 

History 290: History of Wisconsin

History 293: Civil War and Reconstruction 

Jeff Leigh

Associate Professor; Director, History Teaching Alliance

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998

Specialties and Research Interests: Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy, Czechoslovakia, Russia, and Germany

E-mail: Jeff.Leigh@uwc.edu

History 105: Western Civilization through the Renaissance

History 106: Western Civilization since the Renaissance

History 127: The World in the Twentieth Century

History 161: World History to 1500

History 162: World History since 1500

History 226: Twentieth Century Europe

History 275: The Modern Middle East

Cornelia Sexauer

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2003

Specialties and Research Interests: urban history, women's history, local history, public history

E-mail: Connie.Sexauer@uwc.edu

Courses:

History 101: United States History to the Civil War

History 102: United States History since the Civil War

History 218: The United States and Vietnam

History 275: Women in American History 

History 278: History of Minorities in America

History 286: Recent American History, 1945-Present