Rate My Professor Elizabeth Propes

Propes is deeply committed to experiential learning, leading multiple international student trips including to Paris in 2014 and 2017, a month-long excursion to Poland in 2015 co-led with colleagues Michael Birdwell and Jeffery Roberts in conjunction with Austin Peay State University, Georgia and South Carolina in 2013 where students met President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and accompanying a Foreign Languages group to Morocco in 2018. In 2016, she chaired the Ohio Valley History Conference hosted by the History Department, organizing 23 panels featuring 61 papers, a welcome reception, book exhibit, banquet, and farewell luncheon. She has served on the College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, contributed to transforming the Honors Program into the Honors College, chaired tenure and promotion committees for colleagues, participated in faculty development workshops such as Reacting to the Past, and serves as a certified departmental reviewer for Institutional Review Board applications. Propes is the 2026 Program Chair for the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association and has published book reviews in scholarly journals including H-France Review and International Review of Social History.