Faculty and Staff Contact Information
Please note: "Courses Taught" indicates the courses that the faculty member teaches within the department throughout various semesters, not what the faculty member is teaching during the given semester.
Department Chairperson: Dr. Holly A. Mayer
Department Administrative Assistant: Ms. Laura E. Miller
FULL-TIME FACULTY and STAFF
ARCHER, MADELINE C.
Associate Professor of Art History
Director, Art History Program
Renaissance Art History, American Architectural History, and Historic Preservation
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604A College Hall |
Courses Taught: ARHY 100: Understanding Art ARHY 111: Art History: Ancient to Medieval World ARHY 161: Arts and the Human Experience (art portion) ARHY 302: Early Modern Art ARHY 331: Impressionism/Post-Impressionism ARHY 374: Michelangelo: His Art and World ARHY 379: Origins of the Renaissance |
BLATZ, PERRY
Associate Professor of History
Director, Public History Graduate Program
19th and 20th Century U.S. Business and Labor History, and Pennsylvania History
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616 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151C: Shaping of the Modern World (Learning Community) HIST 203: U.S. to 1877 HIST 220: Boom$, Bust$, and Bailout$ HIST 358W: Civil War and Reconstruction HIST 472W/572: Work and Enterprise in American History HIST 568: Sectionalism HIST 627: Commemoration and Preservation-U.S. History |
CAHALL, MICHAEL
Assistant Professor of History
19th Century American Intellectual and Cultural History
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532 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST/IHP 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 395: Pittsburgh: Place, Peoples HIST 443/543: American Decorative Arts HIST 473W/573: American Intellectual and Cultural History HIST 476W/576: Individualism in American History HIST 477W/577: Nature and the American Experience HIST 526: Museum Studies |
COOHILL, JOSEPH
Assistant Professor of History
19th Century British and Irish History
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607 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 252: India, Pakistan, and South Asia HIST 266: Modern Britain HIST 325: History of Ireland HIST 370: Empire in Modern History HIST 428W/528: The British Empire HIST 519: 19th Century Europe |
DOSEMECI, MEHMET
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Continental Europe
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612 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 214: Western Civilization II HIST 254: Modern Middle East HIST 367: Radical Democracy HIST 522: 20th Century Europe |
DWYER, JOHN J.
Associate Professor of History
Latin American History and U.S. & Latin-America/U.S. & Mexico Relations
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618 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 161: Latin American Civilization HIST 169: Reform and Revolution since 1900 HIST 270: Latin America: Conquest to Independence HIST 271: Modern Latin America HIST 277: History of Mexico HIST 376: Revolution in Modern Latin America HIST 382: Latin American History through Film HIST 482W/582: Inter-American Relations HIST 483W/583: Mexico & the U.S. HIST 491W: Honors Seminar HIST 691: Graduate ResearchSeminar |
HYLAND, MATTHEW
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Public History and Material Culture
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512 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151/151C: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 203: History of the U.S. to 1877 HIST 385: America's Frontiers HIST 396: Public History: Peoples' Pasts HIST 429W/529: Historic Preservation HIST 442W/542: American Architecture HIST 656: Historic Preservation Internship HIST 699: Introduction to Graduate History |
LI, JING "JAY"
Associate Professor of History
East Asian History
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606 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 162: East Asian Civilization HIST 256: Social History of China HIST 291: History of Japan HIST 292: History of Traditional China HIST 293: History of Modern China HIST 379: East Asia and the U.S. HIST 381: East Asian History through Film HIST 485W/585: China in Revolution HIST 488W/588: China and the West |
MAYER, HOLLY A.
Associate Professor of History
Department Chairperson
Early American History
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603 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 203: U.S. to 1877 HIST 311W: Writing History HIST 320: Colonial America HIST 321: The American Revolution HIST 387: Native American History HIST 430W/530: The Atlantic World, 1450s-1750s HIST 479W/579: U.S. Diplomatic History: Independence to World Power HIST 491W: Honors Seminar HIST 563: Early America: Colonization to Revolution HIST 691: Graduate Research Seminar |
MILLER, LAURA E.
Administrative Assistant
millerL739@duq.edu
Office Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PARSONS, ELAINE F.
Associate Professor of History
19th Century American History, specializing in gender, reform, and politics
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609 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 172: American Religious Experience HIST 203: U.S. History to 1877 HIST 204: U.S. History since 1877 HIST 311W: Writing History HIST 364: History of Sexuality in the United States, 1820-2000 HIST 386: The American South HIST 433W/533: Gender in American History HIST 465W/565: Reform in America HIST 571: Expansion and Reform: U.S. History 1868-1929 |
PARSONS, JOTHAM
Associate Professor of History
Medieval and Early Modern European History
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605 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 171C: History of Christianity (Learning Community) HIST 213: Western Civilization I HIST 214: Western Civilization II HIST 311W: Writing History HIST 335: Crime and Criminality: Early Modern Europe HIST 336: Catholic Church to 1800 HIST 342: War in the Pre-Modern Era HIST 401W/501: Medieval Europe HIST 413W/513: Renaissance Europe: Courts and Nobles HIST 511: Early Modern Europe |
RISHEL, Joseph
Professor of History
American Social and Urban History, and History of Pittsburgh
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617 College Hall |
Courses Taught: HIST 204: U.S. History from 1877 HIST 352: U.S. Foreign Relations since World War I HIST 360: Constitutional History of the U.S. HIST 388: U.S. History: 1945 to the Present HIST 391: U.S. History: 1917 to 1945 HIST 470W/570: History of Urban America HIST 699: Introduction to the Graduate Study of History |
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
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611 College Hall |
Courses Taught: ARHY 100: Understanding Art ARHY 112: Art History: Renaissance to Modern World ARHY 210: American Art ARHY 217: Religion, Reason, and Visual Culture ARHY 441W: American Painting and Sculpture HIST 541: American Painting and Sculpture |
STONGE, Carmen
Assistant Professor of Art History
19th and 20th Century European Art, American Modern Art, Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
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615 College Hall |
Courses Taught: ARHY 112: Art History: Renaissance to Modern ARHY 161: Arts and the Human Experience (art portion) ARHY 331: Impressionism/Post-Impressionism ARHY 332W: Art of the 20th Century ARHY 360: German Art--20th Century ARHY 368W: Dada and Surrealism ARHY 376W: Contemporary Art ARHY 390W: Women and Art |
VARDY, Steven B.
Distinguished Professor of History
Russian, Eastern European, and Immigration History
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604B College Hall NOT TEACHING IN FALL 2012 |
Courses Taught: HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World HIST 258: 20th Century Russia HIST 261: Modern Central Europe HIST 331: Modern American Immigration HIST 338: Christianity & Islam: Contending Cultures HIST 445W/545: Imperial Russia HIST 446W/546: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union HIST 450/550: The Cold War |