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Faculty and Staff

The faculty members of the Department of History at Duquesne:
  • include veteran faculty members, with many years of teaching experience and strong records of research and publication, as well as a number of energetic younger scholars
  • are strongly committed to working closely with students and welcome the opportunity to share their knowledge and skills with all who seek a career in studying the past
The departmental staff is committed to serving and meeting the needs of:
  • History majors and graduate students
  • full- and part-time faculty members
  • the Department Chair and program directors
  • the Duquesne University community as a whole

Full-Time Faculty

Blatz, Perry
Associate Professor of History
19th and 20th Century U.S. Business and
Labor History,
Pennsylvania History
Li, Jing
Associate Professor of History
East Asian History
Cahall, Michael
Assistant Professor of History
19th Century American Intellectual
and Cultural History
Mayer, Holly
Associate Professor of History and Department Chair
Early American History
Coohill, Joseph
Assistant Professor of History
19th Century British and Irish History
Parsons, Elaine
Associate Professor of History
19th Century American History, gender, reform, and politics
Dosemeci, Mehmet
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Continental Europe
Parsons, Jotham
Associate Professor of History
Medieval and Early Modern European History
Dwyer, John
Associate Professor of History
Latin American History and
U.S. & Latin-America/U.S. & Mexico Relations
Rishel, Joseph
Professor of History
American Social and Urban History, History of Pittsburgh
Hyland, Matthew
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Public History and Material Culture

Sienkewicz, Julia A.
Assistant Professor of Art History
18th-20th Century American Art and Architecture, landscape design, aesthetic theory 18th and 19th Century British Art

Vardy, Steven B.
Distinguished Professor of History
Russian, Eastern European, and Immigration History


Part-Time Faculty

Davis, Adam (M.A.)
Joseph, Anthony (M.A., M.S.Ed.)
Rodrigues, Robert (M.A., M.S.Ed.)
Steinmetz, Charles (Ph.D.)
Trimarchi, Carolyn
White, Thomas (M.A.)
Wilf, Charles (Ph.D.)

Administrative Staff

Miller, Laura E. (M.A.)