Martin Babicz

Martin Babicz

Teaching Associate Professor (Senior Instructor)
Modern US
Martin Babicz received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His primary field of study is the Early United States. He recently co-authored a book with CU History Professor Thomas Zeiler , National Pastime: U.S. History Through Baseball , American Ways Series (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017), which documents the linkages between baseball’s evolution and history of the United States.
Andrew DeRoche

Andrew "Professor Andy" DeRoche

Lecturer
Modern US / Foreign Relations
Professor Andy was born in Maine and graduated from Rumford High School. He then earned a BA in history from Princeton University, focusing on the US Civil War. After teaching and coaching for two years at a prep school in Massachusetts, he continued his Civil War studies at the University of Maine and received an MA in 1993. That year he moved to Boulder to pursue a PhD in the...
Andrew Detch

Andrew Detch

Lecturer
U.S. History
Andrew Detch recieved his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boudler in 2018. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Classics from the Unviersity of Colroado Boulder in 2008 and his earned his M.A. in history from Brown Univesity in 2009. Detch focuses on the identity and culture of early America.
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Steven Dike

Associate Teaching Professor
Steven graduated from the University of Colorado with his PhD in History in 2011. He has been teaching full-time in Honors at the university since spring 2013. His research interests include labor and working class history, intellectual history, cultural history, the history of Puerto Rico, and the history of poverty in America. In his long and varied career, he has worked as a truck driver, pool guy, teacher, college instructor,...
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Susan Guinn-Chipman

Lecturer
European History
Dr. Susan Guinn-Chipman is a curator in Rare and Distinctive Collections, where she develops and coordinates instruction and exhibits for RaD’s Instruction & Outreach. She earned her Master’s degree in Art History (1993) and her Ph.D. in History (2009) from the University of Colorado Boulder and has taught in these disciplines at the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, the University of Colorado Denver, the University of...
John Hatch

John Hatch

Lecturer
Russian History
PhD University of California, Irvine
Nicole Jobin

Nicole Jobin

Teaching Professor
Medieval / Early Modern Europe
Nicole Jobin received her PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2003. Her research interests include the social and economic history of Medieval and Early-Modern Italy and history pedagogy. She is a Senior Instructor at CU Boulder’s Stories and Societies Residential Academic program (SRAP), a 2017-2018 ASSETT Faculty Fellow, and a CU Boulder 2021 Open Educator Award winner. She teaches several European history courses for SRAP and occasionally for...
Julia Ogden

Julia Ogden

Lecturer
Latin American History
Julia Ogden received her PhD in Latin American History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. She has mothered full time and taught part time at Front Range Community College for the last seven years. She is published in the Law and History Review and is working on a manuscript that examines the intersections of sexual abuse, modern ideas of childhood, and the codification of criminal law in...
Todd Upton, Lecturer

Todd Upton

Lecturer
Medieval Europe
Todd Upton’s background includes degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder (Ph.D), the University of Denver (M.A.), and the University of California at Santa Cruz (B.A.). He has taught at CU Boulder, Santa Clara University, and MSU Denver. Recently served as President of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association (RMMRA); research interests include the Crusades, Church history, sermon studies, and medieval romance literature.
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Peter H. Wood

Adjunct Professor
United States • Slavery
Peter Hutchins Wood is the author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), which has been described as one of the most influential books on the history of the American South of the past 50 years. He is a professor emeritus at Duke University in North Carolina, and an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Other works include: Strange New...