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Department of History
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

Department Chair
Katherine A. Chavigny

434-381-6234
kchavigny@sbc.edu

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Sweet Briar History Faculty

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From left to right Dr. Berg, Dr. Laufenberg, Dr. Chavigny (Dr. Ashbrook not pictured)


Gerald M. Berg, Ph.D. Professor
Office: 304 Benedict Phone: 6212
Email: gberg@sbc.edu
C.V.

Precolonial Africa, Modern Israel, European Military, History of Ideology, Historiography

 


Kate Chavigny, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Department Chair

Office: 306 Benedict Phone: 6234
Email: kchavigny@sbc.edu
C.V.

Social and Cultural Historian of 19th century America, with Research Interests in the History of Popular Religion, Medicine, and Addiction.


 


Lynn M. Laufenberg, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor

Office: 305 Benedict Phone: 6189
Email: llaufenberg@sbc.edu
C.V.

Medieval/Early Modern Europe, Italian Renaissance, Britain to 1689, Legal History, Social History, Gender


 

John Ashbrook , Ph. D.

Assistant Professor
Office: 303 Benedict Phone: 6174
Email: jashbrook@sbc.edu
C.V.

Modern Europe, European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Ottoman History, Political History

 

 
 

 

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