Faculty/Staff Directory
Sarah Mergel, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Social Sciences and History; Professor of History
- School of Arts & Sciences, Department of History
Room 128
650 College Dr. Dalton, GA 30720
Office Hours
Fall 2019--M: 9:30 to 10:30 and 2:00 to 3:00, T: 10:00 to 10:30, W: 11:00 to 12:00, 2:00 to 3:00, R: 10:00 to 10:30 or by appointment. For the most part, I will be in my office and online during these times. If my schedule changes, I will try to post a note on my office door and in the announcements area of GeorgiaVIEW.
smergel@daltonstate.edu
706-272-2675
Degrees
MA/PHD: The George Washington University
BA: Boston College
Biography
Sarah Katherine Mergel, a professor of history at Dalton State College, studied history at Boston College and The George Washington University. She specializes in American political, intellectual, and diplomatic history especially in the twentieth century. Dr. Mergel is the author of Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon: Rethinking the Rise of the Right, A Biography of John M. Gillespie: A Teamster's Life, and several articles on the American presidency and reform movements in the twentieth century. She is also co-author of History in the Making, an open textbook designed for use in the American survey course.
Course Name/Overview
| Course Name | Course Overview |
|---|---|
| Hist 2111 - United States History to 1877 | |
| Hist 2112 - United States History since 1877 | |
| Hist 3000 - The Study of History | |
| Hist 3755 - American Foreign Policy | |
| Hist 3760 - Gilded Age/Progressive Era America | |
| Hist 3770 - America from WWI to WWII | |
| Hist 3780 - Cold War America | |
| Hist 3785 - The American Presidency | |
| Hist 4930 - Senior Seminar in American History | |
| Hist 3740 - Jeffersonian/Jacksonian America | |
| Prsp 1010 - Perspectives in Liberal Arts |