Associate Professor
Department
Staff/Faculty
Faculty
Office #
Thomas 305
Degrees
Ph.D.-U.S. History, University of Cincinnati (2014); MA-U.S. History, Slippery Rock University (2009); BS-U.S. History, Slippery Rock University (1996)
Year Appointed
2017
Courses - Fall
- Civil War
- U.S. History to 1877
Courses - Spring
- U.S. History Since 1877
- Professional Historian
Biography
Dr. Brandon Downing focuses on early American history, particularly Native-white relations along the frontier. He has taught courses in U.S. History (both to 1877 and after 1877), Colonial America, American Revolutionary Era, Native American History, Atlantic World, Professional Historian, and Introduction to Public History. His current book manuscript is “‘Barbarous Tribes of Savages’: Violence and Conflict on the Periphery of Empire in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic, 1750-1776.” Prior to working at Marietta, Dr. Downing was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.