The History Department has three full-time faculty members who teach courses in the history department and beyond.
Doane College History Department:
l-r: Dr. Molly Rozum, Dr. Mark Orsag, Dr. Kim Jarvis
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Mark Orsag, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History. At Doane since 1998.
Dr. Orsag was born and grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Rebecca Word-Orsag currently reside in Gretna, Nebraska with their Welsh Terrier Griffin. Dr. Orsag is an avid rock climber (climbing outdoors in the summers in South Dakota and Wyoming) and is involved annually with the Hitchcock Nature Center Hawkwatch (a count of hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures migrating south through Western Iowa's Loess Hills) every autumn.
Dr. Orsag received his Ph.D. in European History from Michigan State University. His area of research is in Russian and Soviet History. Dr. Orsag teaches course on Roman, Russian, British, and Asian history, among others. He also directs the Senior Honors Project every spring semester. He also teaches in the first year Liberal Arts Seminar program.
In 2002-2003, Dr. Orsag was awarded the Doane College Student Congress Teaching Award. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Molly P. Rozum, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History. At Doane since 2001.
Dr. Rozum was born and grew up in South Dakota. She spent several years in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before returning to the Plains.
Dr. Rozum, who received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has degrees in United States History, Folklore, and American Studies. Her research focuses the Great Plains of North America and her dissertation, "Grasslands Grown: A Twentieth-Century Sense of Place on North America's Northern Prairies and Plains," received the Pauline Maier Best Dissertation in American History Prize, The Historical Society, Boston, MA, in 2002. In 2003-2004, Dr. Rozum was awarded the Thomas O. Enders Fellowship, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and sent the year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Her work can be found in numerous publications.
Dr. Rozum teaches course in American history, including the American West, Native American history, the American Revolution, the history of race relations in the United States, and American Women's History. Dr. Rozum is the Director of the Doane College Honors Program.
In 2005 Dr. Rozum worked with the Doane College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction Dr. Jay W. Gilbert. Her presentation was " 'For the Millions Rather than the Few:' John Phillip Sousa, Order and Art in 1900 America."
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Kimberly A. Jarvis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History. At Doane since 2003.
Dr. Jarvis was born and grew up in Connecticut. After receiving a Master's Degree in Counseling, specializing in Student Personnel in Higher Education, Dr. Jarvis worked in college admission for four years. She spent the next several years in New Hampshire and Maine, before beginning her career at Doane.
Dr. Jarvis received her Ph.D. in History from the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on American environmental history. Her book, Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It (University of Press of New England, 2007) is a study of the history of Franconia Notch in New Hampshire's White Mountains and the 1920s conservation campaign that created a state park in the region. Dr. Jarvis offered a series of lectures about her book in New Hampshire's White Mountains region in July 2008. The talks were sponsored by the Weeks State Park Association, Lancaster, NH. Dr. Jarvis's work is also included in American Wilderness: A New History (2007) in A Landscape History of New England (2011).
Dr. Jarvis teaches courses in American history, medieval history, and the history of the Islamic Middle East. She also teaches in the first year Liberal Arts Seminar program and the Honors program.
Dr. Jarvis was part of the 2009 Fulbright Hays Seminars Abroad program in Oman and Jordan. In December 2006 and January 2007 Dr. Jarvis was one of 12 American faculty members participating in the Teaching Islam and Middle East Culture Seminar, Amman, Jordan. The three-week seminar included visits to a range of archeological, historical, cultural, and religious sites as well as presentations from scholars and government officials. She took part in a Doane College Interterm travel course to Egypt in January 2010.