History

LaTonya Thames-Taylor

History

Address:
404 Wayne Hall
West Chester, PA 19382

Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069

Carole Marciano
Departmental Secretary
Office: Wayne 404
Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069
CMarciano@wcupa.edu

Dr. Wayne Hanley
Departmental Chairperson
Office: Wayne 406
Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069
WHanley@wcupa.edu

Dr. Karin Gedge
Social Studies Coordinator
Office: Wayne 416
Phone: 610-436-2971
KGedge@wcupa.edu

Brenda Gaydosh
Acting Graduate Coordinator
Office: Wayne 421
Phone: 610-436-0734
BGaydosh@wcupa.edu

Jonathan Friedman
Director, Holocaust-Genocide Studies
Office: Main 409
Phone: 610-436-2972
JFriedman@wcupa.edu

tonya thames-taylor

Associate Professor of History
432 Wayne Hall
610-436-2970
LThames-Taylor@wcupa.edu

Courses Taught

HIS 150: American Experience
HIS 152: American History from 1877
HIS 358: Economic History of the United States
HIS 362: Violence in America
HIS 366: Turbulent 1960s
HIS 373: African American History
HIS 520: Topics: Race, Bigotry, and Prejudice
HIS 555: Emergence Of Modern America: 1876-1923

About Me

A native Mississippi and granddaughter of a sharecropper, Southern and cultural historian, tonya thames-taylor is a magna cum laude graduate of Tougaloo College (1992) and the University of Mississippi (1994, 2005). She earned her academic degrees through fellowships and scholarships. At West Chester University, she is director of the African American Minor, chair of the Multicultural Faculty Commission, chair of the Executive Committee of the Frederick Douglass Institute, and the director of the FDI Summer Scholars Program. In the community, she serves in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAAACP) as the chair of Education Committee.