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Dr. Steve Balzarini
 Associate Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-6697 Office Location Office Hours Dr. Stephen E. Balzarini has been teaching at Gonzaga University since 1978. His academic interests include 19th and 20th century European political and diplomatic history, modern British history and military history. Dr. Balzarini's interest in military history arose out of research on interwar European disarmament and summer participation in the ROTC Military History Workshop at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Dr. Balzarini also has an interest in local and Pacific Northwest history that has been stimulated by his students' work in the Historical Methods class. He has won the Gonzaga University teaching excellence award (1992) and has been recognized in Who's Who in American Teachers (1998). When not studying history, Dr. Balzarini enjoys reading British mysteries and playing golf. |
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Robert Carriker
Professor of History/Arnold Professor Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-6693 Office Location Office Hours Professor of History Robert Carriker is in his forty-sixth year of teaching at Gonzaga University. |
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Dr. Kevin Chambers
Associate Professor of History 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 35 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-3690 Office Location Office Hours Fall 2013 Dr. Kevin Chambers received his doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. Dr. Chambers teaches upper division courses in Latin American history and Historical Methods, lower division courses in United States history. His research in Latin American History centers on the experience of Paraguay, especially the Guarani-speaking populations. He received a Fulbright Fellowships for research in Paraguay in 1996. While teaching at Gonzaga, Dr. Chambers has published chapters about Paraguay in The South American Handbook, an edited volume concerning the history of Latin American countries since 1945. |
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Dr. Eric Cunningham
Associate Professor of History, Assistant Director Catholic Studies Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-5973 Office Location Office Hours Fall 2013 Eric Cunningham has been teaching at Gonzaga since 2003. A specialist in modern Japanese history, Cunningham also teaches courses in world and East Asian history, and regularly teaches seminars in the Catholic Studies Program. |
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Dr. RáGena DeAragon
Professor of History 502 E. Boone Ave AD Box 35 Spokane, WA 99258-0001 Phone: (509) 313-6695 Fax: (509) 313-5718 Office Location Office Hours Dr. DeAragon teaches medieval and early modern history, historical and research methods, and western civilization. Her research focus in on twelfth-century England. She received her BA in History from Santa Clara University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Dr. Robert Donnelly
Chair, Department of History and Associate Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 36 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-3691 Office Location Office Hours Fall 2013: MW 10:00-12:30; TR 9-10:30;
or by appointment Professor Donnelly earned his Ph.D. at Marquette University, M.A. at Portland State University, and B.S. at Western Oregon University. He teaches various topics in U.S. history, including urban history and post-World War II American politics and society. |
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Dr. Betsy Downey
Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 36 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-6696 Fax: (509) 313-5718 Office Location Office Hours Professor Besty Downey received a PhD in history from the University of Denver in 1971. She is an American Historian whose interest, in keeping with her American Studies major, are wide-ranging. She has studied the Cold War, the New Deal, women in American Literature, and women in European History in post-doctoral seminars. She has published on the Cold War, domestic violence on the frontier, and the works of Mari Sandoz. She has developed courses on the Roosevelts, African-American history, American women's history, and Yellowstone National Park. |
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Dr. Andrew Goldman
Associate Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 35 Spokane, WA 99258-0035 Phone: (509) 313-6691 Office Location Office Hours Dr. Andrew L. Goldman has been a member of the Gonzaga History Department since 2002, and Chair of the Classical Civilizations Department since 2007. His fields of special interest are ancient history (Roman and Greek), classical archaeology, and the classical languages (Latin and Greek). He received his BA from Wesleyan University in 1988, and his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He has spent several years living and teaching abroad: he lived in Ankara, Turkey, as a Fulbright Fellow and instructor at Bilkent University (1995-97), and in Rome as a teacher at Duke University's Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (1999-2000). He has worked at numerous ancient sites in the Mediterranean, including Çatal Höyük, Oinoanda, Kerkenes Dag, and, most frequently, Gordion. |
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Richard Goodrich
Lecturer 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: 509-313-6834 Office Location Office Hours
Dr. Richard Goodrich received his Ph.D. in Ancient History
at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Having spent most of his academic
career in the UK, he began teaching at Gonzaga in 2009. His research and
teaching interests are focused on Later Roman/Early Church History. The author
of four books and a large number of journal articles, his most recent work was
a commentary and translation of St Jerome’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Paulist
Press, 2012). At present he is working on a new translation of the works of
fifth century Gallic author Sulpicius Severus. |
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Fr. Michael Maher
Associate Professor of History, Director Catholic Studies Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 35 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-6609 Office Location Office Hours Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michael Maher entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1975. Fr. Maher followed a typical course of Jesuit formation that included humanities, philosophy and theology interspersed with various teaching assignments which included teaching 7th and 8th grade science to Native Americans in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, English at Sogong University in Korea, religion to boys in Omaha, Nebraska as well as teaching positions at Marquette University and Saint Louis University. A few years after ordination, he began doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota majoring in early modern European history with additional studies in Chinese History. Fr. Maher has co-edited a book on confraternities and written several articles and book chapters dealing with the implementation and influence of Jesuit practices on various groups. In recognition of his scholarship, Fr. Kolvenbach, then superior general of the Jesuits, appointed Fr. Maher to the Jesuit Historical Institute. Fr. Maher holds this membership in addition to his current position as associate professor of History at Gonzaga University as well as chair of the department of History and the Director of Catholic Studies. |
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Dr. Kevin O'Connor
Associate Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 36 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-6694 Office Location Office Hours Fall 2013 Dr. O'Connor arrived in Spokane to teach at Gonzaga University in the summer of 2004, following stints at Spalding University (Louisville, KY) and Southern Illinois University (Carbondale). A specialist in Russian history, Dr. O'Connor has recently published Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revoution (Lexington Books, 2006). His scholarly interests also extend to the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), about which he has published two books: The History of the Baltic States (Greenwood, 2003) and Culture and Customs of the Baltic States (Greenwood, 2006). Dr. O'Connor's personal interest include international travel, Sasquatch sightings, full-contact wiffleball, catapults, and Falkland War reenactments. |
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Dr. Ann Ostendorf
Assistant Professor of History AD Box 35 Phone: 509-313-5948 Office Location Office Hours Dr. Ann Ostendorf earned a B.A. from St. Louis University and a Ph.D. in American History from Marquette University. She currently teaches classes in Colonial American and early United States history, as well as courses on the Civil War and American Culture. Her scholarly interests include cultural history, studies of ethnicity and race, the lower Mississippi River region and music. Her recent book from the University of Georgia Press is titled Sounds American: National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860. She enjoys world music, travel, yoga, vegetarian soul food, Futbol Club Barcelona and the outdoors. |
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Dr. Ted Nitz
Director of International Studies, Associate Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 36 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: (509) 313-3602 Office Location Office Hours Fall 2013 o Tuesday –
2:45-3:45 p.m. o Wednesday –
10:00-11:00 a.m., 2:00-3:00 p.m. o Thursday
–9:30-10:30 a.m. o Other times
by appointment Dr. Ted Nitz teaches world, Middle Eastern, Islamic, and modern European history, and is the director of International Studies for Gonzaga University. His research and scholarly interests include imperial and Weimar Germany, the early history of the Nazi Party in Hessen-Darmstadt, church and state relations, and European relations with the Middle East. Before beginning his doctoral studies at Washington State University in 1991, he served as an officer in the US Air Force for 23 years with assignments in Germany, the Republic of Turkey, and the United States while traveling throughout Europe and parts of the Middle East. |
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Veta Schlimgen
Assistant Professor of History Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99258 Phone: 509-313-5795 Office Location Office Hours
Dr. Veta Schlimgen joined the
History Department in 2012. She is a U.S. historian and a specialist in the
histories of American expansion and empire, racial and ethnic minorities,
American citizenship and the U.S.Constitution, and the Pacific World. Dr.
Schlimgen teaches courses on U.S. and world history and on American women, U.S.
citizenship, and the history of the Pacific World. Dr. Schlimgen completed the Ph.D. in
history at the University of Oregon in 2010. She taught at University of
California Riverside and California State University Fullerton before coming to
Gonzaga. Her dissertation, which examines racial ideologies, American
imperialism, U.S. law overseas, and Filipino experiences in the Pacific world,
won the 2011 W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award from the AHA-PCB. |
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J. Roderick Stackelberg
Professor of History Emeritus 530 W 24 Ave AD Box 37 Spokane, WA 99203 Phone: 747-2077 Fax: (509) 313-5718 Office Location |
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Fr. Tony Via
Professor of History 502 E. Boone Ave. AD Box 111 Spokane, WA 99258 Office Hours Anthony P. Via, S.J., is a graduate of Gonzaga Prep (1946) and Gonzaga University (A.B. Honors Classical, 1950). He entered the Jesuit order in the fall of 1950 and continued his studies at Gonzaga in philosophy (Ph. L., 1956) and history (M.A., 1956). He also had the opportunity to take post-graduate courses in history at the University of Washington. Father Via was then asked to accept a three-year term on the faculty of the newly established Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon, an honor that was acknowledged in 2005 when the school awarded him the Canisius medal. He taught there from 1956-1959 and then went on to pursue theology studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (S.T.L, 1963). |
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