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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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