Joseph P. Ward History Dean | Professor PhD, Stanford University, History, 1992MA, Stanford University, History, 1989BA, University of Chicago, History, 1987 ESLC 245E +1 435 797 1195 joe.ward@usu.edu https://profile.usu.edu/history/history/images/faculty/Joe-Ward.jpg /history/history/directory/cvs/ward-joe-cv.pdf Joseph P. Ward is a Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Prior to joining Utah State University in 2016, he was a professor and chair of History at the University of Mississippi.  A specialist in the society and culture of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Ward has published more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters, and he is an author or editor of eight books, including Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy: Londoners and Provincial Reform in Early Modern England and (with Robert O. Bucholz) London: A Social and Cultural History 1550-1750.