Division of Humanities & Social Sciences

Faculty

Dr. Trisha Posey
Assistant Professor of History

Trisha Posey comes to John Brown University from Maryland, where she earned her Ph.D. in American History at the University of Maryland. Before that, she lived in Canterbury, England, where she finished her M.Phil. She received a B.A. in History from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.

Dr. Posey is interested in interactions between Unitarian reformers and members of the lower class in the nineteenth-century U.S., and the effects of such interactions on the church and the United States as a whole. She is also interested in the history of slavery in the United States, particularly as it relates to encounters between masters and slaves, as well as the enduring legacy of racism left by slavery. She is passionate about teaching American history, the history of poverty in the United States, American slavery, and African history.

Dr. Posey lives in Gentry, Arkansas with her husband, Jake, her son Eliot (soon to be joined by son Oliver, due in December 2009), a dog and a cat, and twenty-five chickens. She enjoys cooking and eating good food, reading books, running, and thinking and writing about social justice.