Methodist University - History Faculty

Faculty

Dr. Carl Dyke
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Temple University
Ph D., University of California-San Diego
Phone: (910) 630-7112
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I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania with two years in Italy thrown in for variety. After studying history, sociology, philosophy, political science, and literature in college, I focused on modern European history for my graduate work. For several years I got wide-ranging again and taught philosophy, sociology, and human development at several colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, then settled down to teach history at Methodist University.

Dr. Karen M. Kletter
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Phone: (910) 630-7079
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I’m originally from New York, which is also where I got my B.A. and my Masters degrees before moving to North Carolina to finish my Ph.D at UNC Chapel Hill. I was trained as a medieval historian, but I also teach classes in ancient history, the history of the Renaissance and Reformation and the history of early science. My own particular areas of interest are medieval cultural and intellectual history. I’m especially interested in how people in earlier times thought about and wrote history Currently I’m researching and writing about accounts of interreligious relations and violence in the period of the Crusades. In addition to being a historian, I’m also a musician. I play the piano and I sometimes sing, these days with the North Carolina Master Chorale in Raleigh.

Dr. Peter Murray
Professor of History
B.A., Wofford College; M.A. and Ph.D., Indiana University
Phone: (910) 630-7075
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Web Page: www.methodist.edu/history/pcmurray

Dr. Murray teaches introductory History courses, and upper level courses in American and East Asian history. Dr. Murray is currently preparing a final draft of his book examining the effects of the Civil Rights movement on the Methodist church, which is entitled Methodists and the Crucible of Race.

Dr. Rebecca Woodward Wendelken
Department Chair
Assistant Professor of History
B.A. Kennesaw State College; M.A. and Ph D. Emory University
Phone: (910) 630-7589
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I was born in West Virginia and did my graduate work at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. I wrote my dissertation on an early twentieth century British copper mine in what is now the Republic of Kazakhstan. I teach courses in Russian and Central Asian history, world history, labor and capital, ethnicity and conflicts, especially those in southwestern Asia and the Middle East.

Department of History