Loyola University Maryland

Department of History

Faculty and Staff

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Rev Charles Borges, S.J.

Associate Professor
HU 318
410-617-2016
cborges@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Jesuit History in Asia; Indo-Portugese History; Goa History
John Breihan

Professor
HU 302
410-617-2427
breihan@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: 20th Century American Suburbia; Aviation History; Late 18th-Century Britain; Military History
Katherine Stern-Brennan

Associate Professor
HU 318
410-617-2424
kstbrennan@aol.com
Area of Specialization: Early Modern French History
Charles Cheape

Professor
HU 303
410-617-2635
ccheape@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: U.S. Business History; American History
Joanne Dabney

Administrative Assistant
HU 322A
Telephone: 410-617-2326
Fax: 410-617-2832
jdabney@loyola.edu
Kelly DeVries

Professor
HU 312
410-617-2661
kdevries@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Medieval Military History and Technology; History of Technology; Medieval History; Military History
Bill Donovan (on leave Spring 2013)

Associate Professor
HU 316
410-617-2891
Donovan@loyola.edu
Area of Specialization: Early Modern Portuguese History
Jane Edwards

Instructor
HU 308
410-617-2018
jedwards@loyola.edu
Area of Specialization: Modern European Intellectual History
Christopher Gardner

Visiting Assistant Professor
HU 306
410-617-5531
ckgardner@loyola.edu
Area of Specialization: Medieval France; Urban Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean; Roman and Customary Law Traditions in Medieval Courts and Universities
Steven Hughes (on leave 2012-2013)

Professor
HU 301
410-617-2229
schughes@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Modern Italian History; Masculinity; History of Crime
Angela Leonard

Assistant Professor
HU 311
410-617-2673
aleonard@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: African Dispora; Black Female Jazz Singers; Early 19th-Century British and American Journalism; 19th Century Propaganda and Political Poetry
Matthew Mulcahy

Associate Professor and Department Chair
HU 309
410-617-2019
mmulcahy@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Colonial America; History of Disasters
Thomas Pegram

Professor HU 305
410-617-2856
tpegram@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century American Political and Social History
Sara Scalenghe

Assistant Professor
HU 301
410-617-2017
sscalenghe@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Middle East and North Africa; Ottoman Empire; Gender; Disability; Italian Colonialism in Libya
Elizabeth Schmidt (on leave 2012-2013)

Professor
HU 313
410-617-2432
eschmidt@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Teaching: African History; Pre-Colonial to Present; African Women's History Research: Late Colonial Southern Africa (esp. Zimbabawe and South Africa); Late Colonial West Africa (emphasis on Guinea)
R. Keith Schoppa (on leave Spring 2013)

Professor and Doehler Chair of Asian History
HU 310
410-617-2893
kschoppa@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Chinese Political; Social and Cultural History from 1900 to 1950
Martha Taylor

Associate Professor, Chair of the Classics Department
HU 321B
410-617-2636
mtaylor@loyola.edu
Classics Homepage
Joseph Walsh

Professor of History and Classics
HU 333
410-617-2896
Department Chair
jwalsh@loyola.edu
Classics Homepage

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What's New

Please join us at the History Department annual picnic and farewell to seniors on Monday, April 29, 2013, 5pm-7pm, in the Humanities Hug Lounge and Refectory. View the poster here.

Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Schmidt on the publication of her latest book, Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013)!

The History Department Spring 2013 Newsletter is here!

Paid Internship Opportunities: The Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, MD are currently accepting applications for multiple paid openings for Summer 2013 with a submission deadline of Monday, April 1, 2013. Visit the website for more information. Please contact Emily Oland Squires with questions at emily.squires@maryland.gov or call 410-260-6443. Internships include: Digitization, Archival File Management and Electronic Archives Internship; Paper and Book Conservation Internship; IT Application Developer Internship; Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Research Internship; Revolutionary Military History Research Internship; Special Collections Newspaper Project Internship; Women's Hall of Fame Research Internship.

Grace Marconi, a Classics major, is featured in a video by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University (U.K.). She appears around the 2:00 minute mark.

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