Dr. Kugler teaches early modern Europe and the ancient world, with courses such as the French Revolution, European women, and the Bronze Age in Greece. Her research is on gender and culture in early modern England, and her publications include Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Sarah Lady Cowper, and “The Experience of Aging in Eighteenth-Century Europe.”
Dr. Murphy works in the area of Renaissance and Reformation Europe. He teaches courses such as The Renaissance, The Reformation, Saints and Scoundrels: The Jesuits from Renaissance to Reformation, the History of the Popes, and Trials of the Centuries. He recently published Confessions: The Autobiography of Pedro de Ribadeneira and Other Writings.
Matt Berg teaches courses on modern Europe with a focus on twentieth century Germany, human rights, genocide, and the sources of conflict. His research and publications examine social democracy and postwar reconstruction in Austria. He is completing a book manuscript treating political culture, reconstruction, and everyday life in Vienna in the immediate wake of World War II.
Dr. Gallo teaches early American and world history, including courses on war in colonial North America, the American Revolutionary era, US history to 1877, and World Civilization since 1500. His research focuses on early American surveying and land speculation. Recent publications include "Property Rights, Citizenship, Corruption, and Inequality: Confiscating Loyalist Estates During the American Revolution" and "William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: The Irish Connection."
Daniel Kilbride's courses cover the nineteenth-century United States, foreign affairs, and the history of slavery. They include Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery & Abolition, the Old South, Abraham Lincoln, and US Foreign Relations. His scholarship examines the US South, antislavery, and American engagement with the rest of the world. His publications include Being American in Europe, 1750-1860 and "Cannibals, Gorillas, and the Struggle over Radical Reconstruction."
Dr. Marsilli teaches modern and colonial Latin American history and ancient antiquity classes, with courses focused on the Cuban revolution, Latin American dictators, and World Civilizations to 1500. Her research centers on colonial icons of national identity and native female mediators in the conquest of the Americas and her latest publications are: “Gender, colonial past, national identity, and mestizaje in Chile: The many faces of ‘La Quintrala’” and “¿Indias Putas, Indias Conquistadoras, Indias Conquistadas? Análisis para una Reflexión sobre el Rol de las Mediadoras Indígenas en la Creación de Imaginarios Nacionales".
Dr. McAndrew specializes in the study of women in the United States from 1945 to the present. In addition, Dr. McAndrew serves as the Director of Teaching Innovation + Enrichment in the office of the Vice-President of Academic Affairs, where she works on enhancing teaching practices and fostering innovation in the classroom. Alongside Richard Clark, Dr. McAndrew helped to establish John Carroll’s educational partnership with the Northeast Reintegration Center, a minimum-security women's prison in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Purdy teaches survey and research courses premodern, modern and contemporary East Asia, Japan and China. He also offers thematic courses on Japanese popular culture and wartime Japan. His research focuses on Japan’s wartime news media and his publications include “The Creation of the Nippon Newsreel Company: Personal Rivalry and Profit in Wartime Japan,” and Modern Japan
Dr. Vourlojianis specializes in United States military history. He has written two books on Ohio's military history and is the recipient of four distinguished teaching awards. In 2000, Dr. Vourlojianis was designated a US Military Academy Fellow and in 2021 he was inducted into John Carroll's ROTC Hall of Fame. His research interests focus on the origins of the American militia and the National Guard.
