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 Dr. Gary A. Donaldson
Keller Family Foundation Chair in American History
Director, Center for
Undergraduate Research
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1983
Specialties: twentieth-century U.S. history and
post-World War II foreign policy and politics |
| Dr. Donaldson teaches courses in Modern America
(since 1945), Historiography and Research, U.S. History survey (since
1865), and World Civilizations. In 1996 and again in 1998 he attended
the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. During the 1991-1992
academic year, and again in 1997-98, he served as a Senior Fulbright
Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy at
Beijing Foreign Studies University. His works include The Making of
Modern America (2009); Modern America: A Documentary History of
the Nation since 1945 (2007); The First Modern Campaign, The
1960 Presidential Campaign (2007); Liberalism's Last Hurrah!:
The Presidential Campaign of 1964 (2003); American Foreign
Policy: The Twentieth Century in Documents (2002); and Truman
Defeats Dewey (1998).
Dr. Donaldson may be contacted at: (504) 520-7408 or by e-mail
at gdonalds@xula.edu |
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 Ms. Kelly
Hamilton
Instructor of History
M.A., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Specialties: United States social history
including
immigration and culinary history |
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Ms. Hamilton's publications
include Stuckey's: Simpler Times, Happy
Memories, American Foodways Press (2008). She is currently
researching New
Orleans
African American kitchens prior to the Civil Rights era.
Ms.
Hamilton is
also owner of
New Orleans
Culinary History
Tours
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Ms.
Kelly Hamilton may be
contacted at: (504) 520-7339 or by e-mail at kahamilt@xula.edu
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 Dr. Shamsul Huda
Associate Professor of History
Director, Across Curriculum
Thinking (ACT) Program
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Specialties: social and quantitative history |
| Dr. Huda teaches courses on World Civilizations,
American
history, modern Third World history, and the history of American Law.
He
also regularly offers an advanced course on Mohandas Gandhi and Dr.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. In 1996-97 Dr. Huda was awarded a senior Research
Fellowship
by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. In his spare time, Dr.
Huda composes Bengali poetry. He also edits Abinashi Shabdarashi
(Eternal Words), a literary magazine commemorating the martyrs
of
the 1952 Bengali Language Movement. Dr. Huda received his academic
training
in three countries: Bangladesh, Canada, and the United States, where he
received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Huda may be contacted at: (504) 520-7406 or by e-mail at shuda@xula.edu |
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 Sr. Barbara Hughes, C.S.J.
Professor of History
Ph.D. in Modern History, St. Louis University
M.A., Xavier University of Louisiana
Specialties: nineteenth-century French political
and
religious history, history of women and oral history |
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Sr. Barbara Hughes received
her M.A. from Xavier University, and a Ph.D.
in Modern History
from St. Louis
University.
Her dissertation was on Anticlericalism
in the Writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. She teaches courses in
World
Civilizations and Modern European History. She is advisor to the
Alpha-Mu-Pi
Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and a member of the Congregation of St.
Joseph.
Sr. Barbara Hughes may be contacted at: (504) 520-7410 or by
e-mail
at bhughes@xula.edu |
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 Dr. Elizabeth Manley
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. in Latin American
History, Tulane University, 2008
M.A. in Latin American History, Tulane University, 2002
B.A. in History and Latin American Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
1998
Specialties: modern Caribbean, gender, political participation
and citizenship |
Dr. Manley teaches courses on Latin America, the
Caribbean, and World Civilizations, as well as thematic courses
covering areas of interest such as gender, politics and revolution. Her
research interests focus primarily on issues of gender and
participation in politics, nationalism and revolution, and political
change in the modern Caribbean. Currently, she is working on a project
dealing with the participation of women in the authoritarian
governments of Rafael Trujillo and Joaquin Balaguer in the twentieth-century Dominican Republic.
Dr.
Manley can be reached at (504)520-7409 or at emanley1@xula.edu |
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 Dr. Jonathan Rotondo-McCord
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University, 1991
Specialties: medieval Germany, social and
political history,
comparative world history |
| A medievalist, Dr. Rotondo-McCord teaches the
world history
survey and courses in the ancient Mediterranean and medieval Europe.
Rotondo-McCord
twice received DAAD Fellowships for two year-long research stays in
Bonn,
Germany. His articles and reviews have appeared in Viator,
the Journal of Medieval
History, and Speculum. He
currently holds the W.
K. Kellogg Professorship in History at Xavier University.
Dr. Rotondo-McCord may be contacted at: (504) 520-5270 or by
e-mail
at jrotondo@xula.edu |
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 Dr. Steven J. Salm
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2003
Specialties: Africa, Atlantic World,
urban, youth and popular culture |
| Dr.
Salm teaches courses in African history, the Black
Atlantic World, African Popular Culture, and Research Methods, as well
as the
two-semester sequence in World Civilizations. He taught previously at
the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin
and in
2005 was named History Teacher of the Year by
Xavier University
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Dr. Salm has conducted
fieldwork
in several West African countries, including
Ghana
and
Sierra Leone
,
and has received a number of
awards and fellowships for
his work, including a William S. Livingston Fellowship and a National Endowment for
the Humanities grant. He has published a book, Culture
and Customs of Ghana (
Greenwood
,
2002), as well
as chapters and articles on topics as diverse as gender, youth, music,
literature, religion, urbanization and popular culture. His writings
have
appeared in numerous academic journals and edited books, including African Historical Research: Sources and
Methods and Urbanization and African
Cultures,
among others. He has published four edited
volumes on
urbanization in Africa, the most prominent being African
Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective (Rochester, 2005),
and is
presently revising
a manuscript that investigates the development of youth subcultures in
Accra,
Ghana, since
the Second World War by addressing the changing dynamics of
globalization,
cultural consumption, and identity transformation.
Dr. Salm may be contacted at: (504) 520-5272 or by e-mail at sjsalm@xula.edu |
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Dr. Sharlene Sinegal DeCuir
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2009
M.A., Louisiana State University, 2001
B.A., History, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1999
Specialties: U.S., New South, Civil Rights, African American activism |
Sharlene Sinegal DeCuir is from Lafayette, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in 1999. She received her Masters of Art degree in 2001 and her PhD. in 2009 from Louisiana State University. Her areas of concentration are in American, African-American, and Latin American history. Throughout her academic career, she has focused on the New South period of American history through the Civil Rights Movement, with particular interest on African American activism in Louisiana.
Dr. Sinegal DeCuir can be reached at (504)520-5274 or at ssinegal@xula.edu. |
"History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away." – Martin Luther King Jr.
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