Assistant Professor of History
Division of General Studies – History
Office: Thompson Hall 212
Office phone: (334) 874-5700 ext. 19758
E-mail:
kbaughman@concordiaelma.edu
Profile
Dr. Baughman has taught history at Concordia College since August 2009. Prior to teaching at Concordia, he was a doctoral student at Western Michigan University, where he successfully defended his dissertation “Women of Foreign Superstition: Christianity and Gender in Imperial Roman Policy, 57-235” in March 2011. His research and teaching interests center on antiquity, gender, and early Christianity.
Education
Ph.D. (History), Western Michigan University, 2011
M.A. (Historical Theology), Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 2004
B.A. (History), The Ohio State University, 2002
Courses Taught
HIS 310 Ancient Near East
HIS 311 Ancient Greece
HIS 312 Ancient Rome
HIS 320 Early Christianity
HIS 111 Early Western World
HIS 112 Modern Western World
Papers/Publications
“A Mamaea’s Boy: Gendered Language and Imperial Authority under Alexander Severus”
Presented at the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies “Vessels of Ignominy: Gender and “Race” as Rhetorical Shaming Devices”, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2012
“When Men were Men & Women Weren’t: Gendered Language and the Memory of Commodus”
Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting “Visualizing Antiquity” of The Classical Association of the Canadian West, Victoria, BC, March 16-17, 2012
“Flavia Domitilla: A Case Study on Gender and Punishment in the Early Roman Empire”
Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of The Classical Association of Canada, Vancouver, BC, May 12-14, 2009
“The Historical Jesus: Secular Historical Accounts of Jesus and the Early Christians”
Presented on “Our World – His View,” WLQV AM 1500, Detroit, MI, July 21, 2007
“The Formation of the New Testament and the Council of Nicaea”
Presented on “Our World – His View,” WLQV AM1500, Detroit, MI, February 3, 2007
“Irenaeus of Lyon and the Gospel of Judas”
Presented at St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Eastpointe, MI, April 23, 200
