Department of History Maintains Scholarly Reputation
History faculty and graduate students continue to uphold the department’s national reputation for scholarship.
Nine faculty – Douglas Boin, Thomas Finan, Lorri Glover, Torrie Hester, Thomas Madden, Steven Schoenig, S.J., Silvana Siddali, Mark Ruff and Luke Yarbrough – have either recently published books or have a book appearing in early 2017, all with highly reputable presses. These books address a diverse array of topics in many different periods and regions of the world.
In addition, Claire Gilbert, Ph.D., won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2017-18. Fabien Montcher, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor, currently holds the John H. Elliott Inaugural Chair at the Institute for Advanced Study.
" I am very proud of the research productivity of the history faculty and graduate students," said department chair Charles Parker, Ph.D. "They have established national reputations in their chosen fields of expertise and have worked tremendously hard to foster a culture of academic excellence at SLU."
The Books
- Late Antiquity: A Social and Cultural History (Wiley 2017) by Douglas Boin, Ph.D.
- Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier (Brepols 2016) by Thomas Finan, Ph.D.
- The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution (Johns Hopkins, 2016) by Lorri Glover, Ph.D.
- Deportation: Origins of U.S. Policy (University of Pennsylvania 2017) by Torrie Hester, Ph.D.
- Istanbul: A City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World (Viking 2016) by Thomas Madden, Ph.D.
- Bonds of Wool: The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages (Catholic University 2016) by Steven Schoenig, S.J., Ph.D.
- Frontier Democracy: Constitutional Conventions in the Old Northwest (Cambridge 2016) by Silvana Siddali, Ph.D.
- The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1975 (Cambridge 2017) by Mark Ruff, Ph.D.
- Uthman ibn Ibrahim Al-Nabulusi: The Sword of Ambition, Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt (NYU Press 2016) by Luke Yarbrough, Ph.D.
Since 2010, SLU’s history faculty have published 42 books, 110 peer-reviewed articles and essays, and won $908,000 in grants from foundations that include the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The history program is ranked No. 84 in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Programs list. History doctoral students since 2010 have published more than 25 articles and two books, and have won numerous fellowships.