Specialties: nineteenth-century French political and religious history, history of women and oral history
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 taught courses in World Civilizations and Modern European History. She was advisor to (and founder of) the Alpha-Mu-Pi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph.
