Loyola University Maryland

Department of History

Faculty & Staff

Willeke Sandler
Willeke Sandler Department Chair, Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, Imperialism, Nationalism, Public History

Nadine Fenchak
Nadine Fenchak Program Assistant
Tracy Barnett
Tracy Barnett Assistant Teaching Professor

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

Areas of Specialization: Jesuit History in Asia, Indo-Portuguese History, Goa History

David Carey Jr.
David Carey Jr. Doehler Chair, Professor

Areas of Specialization: Latin American History, Indigenous Peoples, Oral History, Gender

Miya
Miya Carey-Agyemang Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: African American History, History of Childhood, Women's and Gender History.

Donald Collins
Donald Earl Collins Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Specialization: 20th Century African American/US History

Kelly DeVries
Kelly DeVries Professor

Areas of Specialization: Premodern Military History and Technology

Rebecca Dufendach
Rebecca Dufendach Assistant Teaching Professor
Jalali
Bahar Jalali Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Specialization: Middle East

Sam Klug
Sam Klug Assistant Teaching Professor

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 Associate Dean for the Humanities, Professor

Areas of Specialization: Colonial America, History of Disasters

Okoh
Oghenetoja Okoh Assistant Professor

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

Areas of Specialization: Eastern Asia

Dr. Brandon Parlopiano
Brandon Parlopiano Assistant Teaching Professor

Areas of Specialization: Medieval Europe

Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization: Modern Europe, France, History of Sexuality

Sara Scalenghe
Sara Scalenghe Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization: Middle East and North Africa, Disability, Gender

Martha Taylor
Martha Taylor Professor of History and Classics, Chair of the Classics Department
Joseph Walsh
Joseph Walsh Professor of History and Classics
Thomas McCreight
Thomas McCreight Associate Professor of Classics
Katherine Stern Brennan
Katherine Stern Brennan Professor Emerita

Areas of Specialization: Early Modern French History 

Dr. Chuck Cheape
Chuck Cheape Professor Emeritus

Areas of Specialization: U.S. Business and Economic History 

Dr. Bill Donovan
Bill Donovan Associate Professor Emeritus

Areas of Specialization: Early Modern Portuguese History 

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Jane Edwards Instructor

Areas of Specialization: Modern European Intellectual History

Dr. Steven Hughes
Steven Hughes Professor Emeritus

Areas of Specialization: Modern Italian History, Masculinity, History of Crime

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Angela Leonard Associate Professor Emerita

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 Emeritus

Areas of Specialization: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century American Political and Social History

Elizabeth Schmidt
Elizabeth Schmidt Professor Emerita

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 

Emma Cogan
Alumni

Emma Cogan

Emma’s undergraduate experience at Loyola formed the basis for her work in human rights and public health

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