History Faculty

The Saint Louis University Department of History faculty is a community of diverse, internationally recognized scholars, each of whom is engaged in original research.

As faculty at a Jesuit Catholic university, we believe deeply that we have something to contribute to larger global conversations and dialogs about the challenges we face as a city and nation. Our passion is reflected in everything we do — from the titles on our department's bookshelf to the courses we offer our SLU students.

Mark Edward Ruff, Ph.D.
Department chair

Lorri Glover, Ph.D.
Associate chair

Faculty

• Douglas Boin, Ph.D.
• Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Ph.D.
• Enrique Dávila, Ph.D.
• Thomas J. Finan, Ph.D.
• Claire Gilbert, Ph.D.
• Torrie Hester, Ph.D.
• Kenneth Homan, S.J., Ph.D.
• Thomas F. Madden, Ph.D.
• Filippo Marsili, Ph.D.
• Nathaniel Millett, Ph.D.
• Fabien Montcher, Ph.D.
• Katrina Thompson Moore, Ph.D.
• George O. Ndege, Ph.D.
• Jennifer J. Popiel, Ph.D.
• Steven A. Schoenig, S.J., Ph.D.
• Silvana R. Siddali, Ph.D.
• Damian J. Smith, Ph.D.

Affiliated Faculty

• Atria Larson, Ph.D.
• Christopher Tinson, Ph.D.

Emeriti and Retired Faculty

•  Elizabeth Kolmer, Ph.D.
• Charles Parker, Ph.D.
• T. Michael Ruddy, Ph.D.
• Daniel L. Schlafly, Jr., Ph.D.
• Warren Treadgold, Ph.D.

In Memoriam

• Lewis C. Perry, Ph.D.
• Philip R. Gavitt, Ph.D.
• James Hitchcock, Ph.D.
• Michal Rozbicki, Ph.D.
• Elizabeth I. Perry, Ph.D.
• Jose M. Sanchez, Ph.D.

Recent Faculty Publications

The history faculty at SLU published 54 books (monographs and edited collections) and 136 peer-reviewed articles and essays in recent years. Here is a sampling of a few must-reads.

• Fabien Montcher, Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
• Damian Smith, ed., Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241): Power and Authority (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023).
• Charles Parker, Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022).
• Mark Edward Ruff, Germany and the Confessional Divide: Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989, edited volume, co-edited with Thomas Großbölting (New York: Berghahn Books, 2022).