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Department of History

Faculty & Staff

Staff
Nadine Fenchak Nadine Fenchak
Program Assistant
HU 322A
Telephone: 410-617-2326
nfenchak@loyola.edu
Chair
Willeke Sandler Willeke Sandler
Associate Professor 
HU 303 
410-617-5479 
wsandler@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Modern Europe; Modern Germany; Imperialism; Nationalism; Public History
Faculty 
 Tracy Barnett Tracy Barnett
Affiliate
HU 306
tbarnett@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: United States History, Nineteenth Century History, Digital History, Public History
Rev. Charles Borges, S.J.
Rev. Charles Borges, S.J. 
Associate Professor 
HU 318 
410-617-2016 
cborges@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Jesuit History in Asia; Indo-Portuguese History; Goa History
David Carey Jr. David Carey Jr. 
Doehler Chair in History; Professor 
HU 310 
410-617-2893 
drcarey@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Latin American History; Indigenous Peoples; Oral History; Gender
 donald collins Donald Earl Collins
Assistant Teaching Professor
HU 313
decollins1@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: 20th Century African American/US History
 Kelly DeVries Kelly DeVries 
Professor 
HU 302 
410-617-2661 
kdevries@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Premodern Military History and Technology

jalali

Bahar Jalali
Visiting Associate Professor
bjalali@loyola.edu
HU308
Areas of Specialization: Middle East

 sam klug

Sam Klug
Assistant Teaching Professor
ssklug@loyola.edu
HU 304
Areas of Specialization:  African American History; 20th Century U.S. History; The U.S. in the World; Colonialism and Decolonization; Intellectual History

Matthew Mulcahy

Matthew Mulcahy 
Professor
Associate Dean for the Humanities
HU 309 
410-617-2019 
mmulcahy@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Colonial America; History of Disasters

okoh

Oghenetoja Okoh 
Assistant Professor 
HU 312 
410-617-5613 
ohokoh@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: 19th/20th Century Africa; West Africa; History of Decolonization; Minority Identities; the History of the African Diaspora

 austinparks Austin Parks 
Assistant Teaching Professor
HU 316
410-617-5069 
acparks@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Eastern Asia
Dr. Brandon Parlopiano Brandon Parlopiano 
Assistant Teaching Professor
HU314
btparlopiano@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Medieval Europe
Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross 
Associate Professor 
HU 311 
410-617-2229 
aross1@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Modern Europe; France; History of Sexuality
Willeke Sandler Willeke Sandler 
Associate Professor 
HU 303 
410-617-5479 
wsandler@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Modern Europe; Modern Germany; Imperialism; Nationalism; Public History
Sara Scalenghe Sara Scalenghe 
Associate Professor 
HU 301 
410-617-2017 
sscalenghe@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Middle East and North Africa; Disability; Gender
Affiliated Faculty
Martha Taylor

Martha Taylor 
Professor of History and Classics;
HU 321B 
410-617-2636 
mtaylor@loyola.edu

Classics homepage

Joseph Walsh

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

Classics homepage

 Thomas McCreight

Thomas D. McCreight
Professor of Classics
HU-250F
410-617-2839
tmccreight@loyola.edu

Classics homepage

Faculty Emeriti 
Dr. John Breihan
John Breihan 
Professor Emeritus 
breihan@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 20th-Century American Suburbia; Aviation History; Late 18th-Century Britain; Military
Katherine Stern Brennan Katherine Stern Brennan 
Professor Emerita 
kbrennan@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Early Modern French History 
Dr. Chuck Cheape Chuck Cheape 
Professor Emeritus 
ccheape@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: U.S. Business and Economic History 
Dr. Bill Donovan Bill Donovan 
Associate Professor Emeritus 
donovan@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Early Modern Portuguese History 
   Jane Edwards 
Instructor 
HU 308 
410-617-2018 
jedwards@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Modern European Intellectual History
 Dr. Steven Hughes

Steven Hughes
Professor Emeritus
schughes@loyola.edu
Areas of Specialization: Modern Italian History; Masculinity; History of Crime

 

Book cover. Title: Political Poetry as Discourse. By: Angela Michele Leonard Angela Leonard 
Associate Professor Emerita 
aleonard@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: African Diaspora; Black Female Jazz Singers; Early 19th-Century British and American Journalism; 19th-Century Propaganda and Political Poetry 
Thomas R. Pegram

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

 

Elizabeth Schmidt Elizabeth Schmidt 
Professor Emerita 
eschmidt@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Late Colonial Southern Africa (esp. Zimbabwe and South Africa); Late Colonial West Africa (emphasis on the Guinea); Foreign Intervention in Africa, Cold War to the Present 
Dr. R. Keith Schoppa R. Keith Schoppa 
Professor Emeritus and former Doehler Chair of Asian History 
kschoppa@loyola.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Chinese Political; Social and Cultural History from 1900 to 1950

































Oghenetoja Okoh
Faculty

Oghenetoja Okoh, Ph.D.

Toja Okoh, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, sees Loyola’s core values as helping her students gain self-confidence, their sense of purpose, and social responsibility

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