Joel Sipress is a Professor of U.S. and Latin American History. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993. His scholarly interests include the History of the American South, Labor History, and Race and Ethnicity. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Social Inquiry.

Courses: United States Through 1877; African American Voices; Latin America Since Independence; History of Wisconsin; Workers in Industrial America; The Sixties; Women and Men in American Society; The Civil War and Reconstruction; The Shadow of the Mexican Revolution; The Construction of Race and Nation. Publications: "From Learning History to Doing History:  Beyond the Coverage Model," (with David Voelker) in Nancy L. Chick, Aeron Haynie, and Regan A.R. Gurung, eds., Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind (Stylus Publishing, forthcoming); "A Narrowing of Vision:  Hardy L. Brian and the Fate of Louisiana Populism." Journal of The Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7 (January 2008); "Why Students Don't Get Evidence and What We Can Do About It." The History Teacher 37 (May 2004); "From the Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Murder in Grant Parish." Louisiana History 42 (Summer 2001); "Relearning Race: Teaching Race as Cultural Construction." The History Teacher 30 (February 1997).