Faculty
Below are the Department of History faculty located on the St. Petersburg campus. For full bios and faculty on all campuses, visit the departmental website.
J. Michael Francis
Title: Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies & Professor of History
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Phone: (727) 873-4418
Email: jmfrancis1@usf.edu
Office: SNL 20
Larissa Kopytoff
Title: Associate Professor of Instruction
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Phone: (727)-873-4453
Email: kopytoff@usf.edu
Office: WMS, 2nd Floor
Area of Interest: African history; the history of European empires; and legal history
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Title: John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History
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Phone: (727) 873-4156
Email: emauldin@usf.edu
Office: SNL 100
Area of Interest: Slavery as capitalism; the impacts of the Civil War and emancipation on southern agriculture;
economic stagnation in the shadow of “King Cotton”; the twin processes of industrialization
and urbanization
Adrian O'Connor
Title: Associate Professor
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Phone: (727) 873-4523
Email: oconnora@usf.edu
Office: WMS, 2nd Floor
Area of Interest: Political culture and cultural politics of eighteenth-century France, especially the
relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution