Faculty Highlights

Prof. Richard Smith, Senior Instructor, Retiring

May 18, 2021

At the end of the 2020-2021 year, the History Department will be bidding farewell to Senior Instructor Richard Smith. Richard specializes in the history of Tudor/Stuart-era England and has taught courses ranging from Ancient Greece to Modern Europe in his years in the Department. Richard will be missed for his...

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Prof. James Fell, Senior Instructor, Retiring

May 18, 2021

At the end of the Fall 2020 semester, Senior Instructor Jay Fell retired after thirty years with the University of Colorado Denver. Fell specializes in American West, Colorado, and Economic and Business History, and he taught a range of classes within those subjects during his time at CU Denver. Outside...

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Dr. Hunt, Public Historian, Retiring

April 6, 2020

At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the History Department will be saying goodbye to one of its long-time faculty members, Clinical-Teaching Track Associate Professor Rebecca Hunt. Hunt taught her first class at CU Denver in 1999 as a lecturer, and in 2005 she became a Senior Instructor for...

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Tom "Dr. Colorado" Noel Retiring

Feb. 10, 2020

At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the History Department will be saying goodbye to one of its longtime faculty members, Professor Thomas Jacob Noel. Noel has been teaching at CU Denver since 1977. Before he was a professor, he was a student here as well. Noel has earned...

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