Faculty | B.A. in History
Alicia Dewey
- Professor of History
- Ph.D., Southern Methodist University
- J.D., Southern Methodist University
- M.A., Southern Methodist University
- B.A., Davidson College
Alicia Dewey received her doctorate from Southern Methodist University and has taught at Biola University since 2007. Her courses include the History of the American West; California History; American Democracy, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1800–77; the Rise of Modern America (1877–1920); Research Methods in History; the U.S. History Survey; and U.S. History since 1865. When she is not...
Research Interests
- U.S./Mexico Borderlands
- American West
- Business History
- Environmental history/irrigation and water rights
- Mexican-American History
Darin D. Lenz
- Chair, Department of History
- Professor, Department of History
- M.Th. University of Glasgow
- Ph.D. Kansas State University
- M.A. Villanova University
- M.A. AGTS Evangel University
- B.A. California State University, Bakersfield
- A.A. Bakersfield College
After teaching future pastors in a small Bible college in rural India as a guest instructor, Dr. Darin Lenz felt a tug from the Holy Spirit to go to seminary and study church history. After completing his seminary degree, he went on to further historical study at Villanova University. He eventually completed a Ph.D. in History at Kansas State University with a major field in the History of...
Courses
- World Civilizations I
- World Civilizations II
- U.S. History since 1865
- The Church in the American Experience
- History of Christianity
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Early Modern Europe
- Twentieth-Century Europe
- Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- War and Civilization
- Research Methods in History
- Research Seminar