Dr. Matthew Mulcahy
Department Chair

HU 318 410-617-2019 mmulcahy@loyola.edu

Biography:

Matt Mulcahy gradated from Macalester College in 1990, worked for two years at the National Museum of American History, and then, missing Minnesota winters, returned to the Twin Cities for graduate school.  He got his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1999.  His first book, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2005.  He is currently beginning a project exploring the great 1692 earthquake in Jamaica.  He will be on parental leave for spring 2006, and has a research sabbatical for fall 2006.  

 Click here for Dr. Mulcahy's Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

HS 345 Peoples of Early America
HS 346 Revolutionary America
HS 348 Civil War and Reconstruction
HS 3343 American Enviornmental History
HS 423 Disasters in American History (Special Topic)
HS 463 Seminar: Topics in Colonial British America

Recent Publications:

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean 1624-1783 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) Click here to view the book's webpage.