History Department Experts
To reach these experts, please contact Associate Director of Communications and Media Relations Kristen Magda at 508-565-1628; kmagda@stonehill.edu or Director of Communications and Media Relations Martin McGovern at 508-565-1070; mmcgovern@stonehill.edu.
Kevin Spicer, C.S.C.
History Department Chair/Associate Professor of History
Areas of expertise: History; Religion: Catholic-Jewish relations; Holocaust; German history; Author of Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism.
John C. Rodrigue
Professor of History
Areas of expertise: U.S. Civil War; U.S. South; Reconstruction era; African-American history.
Shane J. Maddock
Associate Professor of History
Areas of expertise: History; International relations; Politics; War; Popular culture; Sports; Editor of The Nuclear Age.
Edward McCarron
Associate Professor of History
Areas of expertise: History of Colonial America; Nineteenth century America; Social history; Irish history; The Atlantic world.
James Wadsworth
Associate Professor of History
Areas of expertise: The Portuguese Inquisition; Pre-contact system of trade and exchange in the Western Hemisphere.
Linzy Brekke-Aloise
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: American Revolution through the nineteenth century; Consumer and material culture; Gender and women's history; Race; The development of capitalism; Political culture of the antebellum period.
Elizabeth Belanger
American Studies Program Director/Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: Gender and women's history; Urban history; Public history and cultural geography; 19th and 20th century America culture.
Matthew Dunne
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: Modern United States culture; Social and urban history; U.S. foreign policy; Modern Britain.
Amy E. Houston
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: Cultural, religious and intellectual history of early modern Europe, especially France; History of the book; Dissemination of print; French civil and religious wars of the sixteenth century; Cultural and intellectual responses to warfare; Religious conflict and coexistence in Reformation-era Europe; History of medicine; Relationship between popular and learned culture; History of magic and witchcraft in the early modern period.
Barry Knowlton
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: European History; European Intellectual History; Historiography.
Karen Teoh
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of expertise: Modern Chinese history; Southeast Asian history; Chinese global migration; Diaspora from the late imperial era to the present; Influence of gender, ethnicity and cultural hybridity on group identities and individuals; Influence of women's transnational networks through Chinese and English girls' schools in colonial Southeast Asia.
Brooke Barbier
Adjunct Lecturer
Areas of expertise: Boston Gleaning Circle (a women's literary circle formed in 1805); American Revolution; Early Republic; 18th, 19th, and 20th Century American Gender; Urban History; Colonial Latin-America; Western History; Environmental History.