Dr. Trisha Posey
Dean of Undergraduate Studies; Director of Honors Scholars Program; Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Maryland
M.Phil., University of Kent, Canterbury, England
B.A., Grand Canyon University
Dr. Trisha Posey is Professor of history and director of the Honors Scholars Program at John Brown University. Her primary academic interest is the relationship between religion and reform in the 19th-century United States. She has also studied the history of slavery in the United States as well as the enduring legacy of racism left by slavery. Her other areas of academic interest include African history, the history of poverty and welfare, and genocide. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on American religion and reform, teaching about genocide, and the history of Christian higher education in Africa. Her forthcoming co-edited volume Lament and Justice in African American History explores lament in African American history from a theological perspective.
Dr. Posey 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 lives in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, with her husband, Jake, her three children, Eliot, Oliver and Beatrice. She enjoys cooking and eating good food, reading books, running, knitting, and gardening.
