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    History Department Faculty

    This page lists all members of the History Department faculty from 1872 to the present, with the dates of their employment at Towson.

    Click here to see a list of History faculty members by year.

    V. Marion Conser

    1872-1876

    Ella V. Ricker

    1892-1916

    Ella Ricker was a member of the Maryland State Normal School Class of 1883 before becoming its history teacher in 1892.

    Lena C. Van Bibber

    1916-1940

    As the history teacher at the Maryland State Normal School, and later the State Teachers College at Towson, Lena C. Van Bibber was responsible for aqcuiring a collection of three Mesopotamian clay tablets, dating from circa 2,400-2100 BC, which are now held in Albert S. Cook Library's Special Collections.

    Mabel Nims

    1917-1918

    Mary Eckford

    1924-1928

    Mary C. Ott

    1924-1925

    Ida B. Wilson

    1924-1925

    Harriet A. Bader

    1925-1943

    This photograph shows Harriet Bader in a 1941 faculty performance of Curse You Jack Dalton.

    Margaret M. Willis

    1925-1927

    Helen Cowan

    1928-1933

    Hazel Woodward

    1936-1948

    E. Foster Dowell

    1940-1943

    William H. Hartley

    1942-1948

    Mary Catherine Kahl

    1845-1988

    Diana de Krgyer Monsman

    1946-1947

    John W. McCleary

    1947-1977

    In addition to teaching, John McCleary coached tennis at Towson for a number of years. He was inducted into the Towson State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992 and the State of Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame in 1993.

    Sarah B. Galloway

    1947-1948

    Marius H. Livington

    1948-1949

    John Carter Matthews

    1949-1980

    Mahlon Howard Hellerich

    1951-1959

    Robert F. Hunter

    1952-1953

    Harry M. Hutson

    1955-1966

    William F. Nugent

    1955-1958

    George C. Coleman

    1956-1966

    Arnold Blumberg

    1958-1995

    Edward R. Johnston

    1958-1963, 1966-1967

    Herbert D. Andrews

    1959-1991

    Willie L. Rose

    1959-1960

    Perra S. Bell

    1960-1976

    Joseph A. Falco

    1960-1980

    Patricia S. Kruppa

    1960-1964

    Charles C. Onion

    1960-1966

    Joseph W. Cox

    1964-1982

    Gerd Ehrlich

    1964-1965

    Gilbert M. Hill

    1964-1967

    Glenn O. Nichols

    1964-1966

    Salme H. Steinberg

    1964-1966

    Roderick Ryon

    1965-2003

    Elizabeth Studley

    1965-1966

    William C. Hughes

    1965-1967

    Karl G. Larew

    1966-2006

    Harry Piotrowski

    1966-1970

    Fred M. Rivers

    1966-1999

    Victor Sapio

    1966-1969

    Willis E. Dewberry

    1966

    Jenny M. Jochens

    1966-1995

    Armin Mruck

    1966-1993

    Bredahl F. Peterson

    1966-1967

    Norman Wise

    1966-1967

    Ernest Yaniger

    1966-1967

    Mitchell W. Kerr

    1967-1986

    Seward Livermore

    1967-1970

    Frank J. Sanders

    1967-1983

    Myron L. Scholnick

    1967-2004

    John G. Van Osdell

    1967-2004

    Mark Whitman

    1967-2006

    Dean R. Esslinger

    1968-2007

    Jean A. Scarpaci

    1968-1984

    Miryam Kay

    1968-1969

    John B. Boles

    1969-1979

    Edwin A. Hirschmann

    1969-2003

    Wayne C. McWilliams

    1969-2000

    Douglas Martin

    1970-2000

    William Sladek

    1970-1996

    Laura R. Eldridge

    1970-2006

    Richard Nzeadibe

    1971-1978

    W. Manning Marable

    1974-1975

    Paul K. Walker

    1974-1975

    Edward Cox

    1975-1976

    Sandra Greene

    1980-1984

    Cindy Himes Gissendanner

    1984-present

    Teresa Meade

    1985-1986

    LeRoy-Ronald Johnson

    1986-1987

    John Mancini

    1987-present

    Ronn Pineo

    1988-2023

    Judith M. Kerr

    1989-1999

    Patricia Romero

    1989-2012

    John D. Haeger

    1995-2000

    Lynn Johnson

    1995-2006

    Tina Sheller

    1996-2008

    Nicole Dombrowski-Risser

    1998-present

    Allaire Brumfield Stallsmith

    1999-2015

    Steven Phillips

    1999-2015

    Kevin Mumford

    2000-2004

    Akim Reinhardt

    2001-present

    Elizabeth Gray

    2003-present

    Kimberly Katz

    2003-present

    Omar Ali

    2004-2011

    Rita Costa-Gomes

    2004-present

    Wendy Lower

    2004-2010

    Robert E. Rook

    2005-present

    Karen Oslund

    2006-present

    Benjamin Alexander

    2007-2011

    Tait S. Keller

    2007-2009

    Christian Koot

    2007-present

    Michael K. Masatsugu

    2007-present

    Robert Gioielli

    2008-2011

    Jerzy Mazur

    2008-2011

    David Peavler

    2008-2010

    Alhena Gadotti

    2009-present

    Samara Heifetz

    2009-2011

    Amy Sowder Koch

    2009-2013

    Valerie Thaler

    2009-2013

    Karen Cook-Bell

    2010-2012

    Meghan Warner Mettler

    2010-2013

    Benjamin Zajicek

    2010-present

    Ann Cooper

    2011-2013

    Andrew Diemer

    2011-present

    Benjamin Fisher

    2011-present

    Jennifer Van Horn

    2011-2013

    Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan

    2012-present

    Erik Ropers

    2012-present

    LaShonda Mims

    2015-

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    Email: spcoll@towson.edu

    Location: Albert S. Cook Library, Floor 5, Suite 505

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