Jordan Kellman

Jordan Kellman is a Professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As dean he focuses on championing the power of the liberal arts to expand students’ horizons, elevate public discourse, and solve human problems, and on creating opportunities for international experiences for students and faculty. Kellman teaches world civilization, early modern European history, Atlantic World and French colonial history and the history of science. His research focuses on French scientific travelers in the Americas and the Pacific in the 17th and 18th centuries.