title
Home Faculty Graduate Programs Undergraduate Studies General Information Contact Us End

Faculty

Department Chair
David Wrobel

American Indian History
William J. Bauer

Asian History
Sue Fawn Chung

European History
Andrew Bell
Gregory Brown
Colin Loader
Michelle Tusan
Janet Ward
Paul Werth
Elspeth Whitney

Latin American History
Tom Wright

Near Eastern & Islamic History
John Curry

U.S. History
Jay Coughtry
Kevin Dawson
Joseph A. (Andy) Fry
Marcia Gallo
Joanne Goodwin
Greg Hise
David Holland
Eugene Moehring
Elizabeth W. Nelson
Todd Robinson
David Tanenhaus

U.S. West History
Raquel Casas
Andrew Kirk
David Wrobel

 

 J. Andy Fry. Ph.D.
Joseph A. (Andy) Fry, Ph.D.

Office: Wright Hall B 306
Phone: (702) 895-3173
Email: joseph.fry@unlv.edu

Website: Joseph A. (Andy) Fry, Ph.D.

  • U.S. Foreign Relations
  • Gilded Age
  • Southern History

Joseph A. (Andy) Fry is Distinguished Professor of History. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1970 and 1974 and his B.A. from Davis and Elkins College in 1969. He joined the UNLV faculty in 1975. He teaches courses on U.S. foreign relations, history of the South after 1850, U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the U.S. history survey.

Dr. Fry has published four books: Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth Century America (1982); John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy (1992); Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973 (2002); and Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings (2006). He has published articles in Diplomatic History, the Pacific Historical Review, and various other journals and collections. He is the series editor for Biographies in American Foreign Policy published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. To date, eleven volumes have appeared.

Dr. Fry's current research focuses on the American South and the Vietnam War, and he serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.