Karl E. Baughman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
Associate Professor of History
Office: 305 G.R. Woolfolk Social & Political Science Building
Phone: (936) 261-3296
Curriculum Vitae
Email: kebaughman@pvamu.edu
Teaching/Research Area of Interest
Dr. Baughman specializes in the Roman Empire and early Christianity. He also dabbles a bit in the wider ancient Mediterranean and the connections between Classical and modern understandings of race and gender.
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Roman Empire
- Early Christianity
- Gender
Dr. Baughman was recently awarded the 2022 Outstanding Fulltime Teaching Award by the Office of the President.
Education
- Ph.D., History
Western Michigan University, 2011 - M.A., Historical Theology
Concordia Seminary, 2004 - B.A. with Honors & Distinction in History
The Ohio State University, 2002
Selection of Courses Taught
- Ancient Egypt & the Near East
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Medieval Europe
- Early Christianity
- World Civilization to 1500
- World Civilization since 1500
- U.S. to 1876
- US 1876 to Present
Selected Research Activities
- Parallel Lives: Romans and the American Founders, with Brook Poston. London & New York: Routledge, 2022. (ISBN: 9781032030746)
- “The Language of Race in the Classroom: Teaching Classical History at an HBCU.” Teaching Classical Languages 12, no. 2 (Spring 2022): 27-47.
- “The Other Woman: Comparing Stereotypes of Ancient Athenian and Modern African-American Women” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of New England, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, March 13-14, 2020
- “Slavery, the Early Church, and the Roman Empire.” In The Mighty and the Mysterious: A Study of Colossians. By Heidi Goehmann. Saint Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, Forthcoming.
- “Coincidence or Conspiracy?: Mark Antony as the Classical Archetype Traitor for Aaron Burr” 114 th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West & South, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 11-14, 2018
- “Mamaea’s Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War. ” In Motherhood in Antiquity. Edited by Dana Cooper & Claire Phelan, 107-121. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- “The Priest and the Princess: Josephus, Poppaea Sabina, and the Fire of Rome” Annual Conference “Neighbours: Relations between Jews and non-Jews throughout History” of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies, The University of New South Wales and the Shalom Institute, Kensington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, February 15-16, 2015
- “Poppaea Sabina, Jewish Sympathies, and the Fire of Rome,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 11, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 1-18.
Selected Service Activities
- Vice President for Texas, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2022-2025
- Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, 2017-present
- Chair, Curriculum Updates Committee, Division of Social Sciences, 2018-present
- Chair, G.R. Woolfolk Lecture Series Committee, Division of Social Sciences, 2018-2019
- Secretary & Division of Social Sciences Representative, Undergraduate Council, 2017-2019
- Member, Curriculum Committee, Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences, 2017-2019
- Faculty Senator for Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences, 2017-2019
- Reviewer for Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016