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Faculty
Bios
dewindte@udmercy.edu
313-993-1098 |
Professor of History. A
distinguished member of the faculty since 1968, he teaches
courses on the history of England and the Middle Ages.
He holds a Ph.B. from the University of Detroit, the Licentiate
of Medieval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval
Studies, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for Medieval
Studies at the University of Toronto. A recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, he is also a member of the Royal
Historical Society. Among his several books are Royal
Justice and the Medieval English Countryside (2 vols.,
1981) and Ramsey: The Lives of an English Fenland Town,
1200-1600 (2006), both co-authored with Anne R. DeWindt.
He is now engaged in a study of the popularization of
English history through drama in late Elizabethan and
early Jacobean England. |
finkenre@udmercy.edu
313-993-1016 |
Professor and Chair of History and Director
of the Black Abolitionist Archives. A member of the faculty
since 1996, he teaches courses on African American history
and nineteenth-century America. As Associate Editor of
the Black Abolitionist Papers Project at Florida State
University from 1981 to 1991, he coedited the five-volume
Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 (1985-92)
and Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on
Race, Slavery, and Emancipation (1993). He recently
published a revised and expanded second edition of Sources
of the African American Past (2004), a market-leading
documentary sourcebook. He is now engaged in a project
to recapture and republish African American writings on
slavery and race prior to 1830. He received the Ph.D.
from Bowling Green State University and has been a fellow
of the National Historic Publications Commission and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. |
muhammde@udmercy.edu
313-993-1024 |
Assistant Professor of History. Since
joining the faculty in 2001, he has taught courses in
African American and American constitutional and legal
history. He earned the B.A. from Morehouse College, the
M.A. from Miami University, and the Ph.D. from Bowling
Green State University. He is currently working on a book-length
study of Muhammad Ali and the Nation of Islam in the civil
rights era. |
robinsod@udmercy.edu
313-993-1107 |
Associate Professor of History. After
receiving a Ph.D. from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook, she joined the faculty in 2001. She teaches
courses in the history of modern Europe (especially Britain)
and the modern Middle East. Published: The Harem, Slavery,
and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in
the Late Nineteenth Century (2006). |
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steversn@udmercy.edu
313-993-1099 |
Associate Professor of History. A member
of the faculty since 1981, she teaches courses on the
ancient Mediterranean world, Renaissance Italy, and the
history of art and architecture. Each year, she directs
and teaches in the college’s Summer Study Abroad
program in Volterra, Italy. The author of several articles
on Renaissance humanism and philology, she is currently
engaged in a book-length comparative study of four Italian
art cities. She has been a recipient of fellowships from
the Danforth Foundation and the Renaissance Society of
America. She earned the A.B. from Sarah Lawrence College
and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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sumnergd@udmercy.edu
313-993-1121
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Professor of History. He joined the
faculty in 1993 and teaches courses on twentieth-century
American politics and culture. He is the author of Dwight
Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of Cosmopolitan
Democracy (1996) and is currently working on a book-length
biography of American writer Kurt Vonnegut. A fellow of
the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for
the Humanities, he also was selected as a Fulbright Scholar
at the University of Rome (2001). He holds the B.A., M.A.,
and Ph.D. from Indiana University, as well as a J.D. from
the University of Michigan. |
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bushkt@udmercy.edu
313-993-3254 |
Associate Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts & Education and Instructor of History.
Among the courses she teaches are the history of American
women and the history of Canada. She came to the university
in 1982, after earlier receiving the B.A. and M.A. from
the University of Detroit. |
David
Lucsko
lucskodn@udmercy.edu |
Managing Editor of Technology and
Culture, he teaches engineering ethics and the history
of American technology. He is the author of Manufacturing
Muscle: The Hot Rod Industry and the American Fascination
with Speed, 1915-1985 (2007). He holds a B.S. from
Georgia Tech and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He joined the UDM
staff in 2005. |
staudejm@udmercy.edu
[website] |
Professor of History. A distinguished
member of the faculty since 1981, he is now the Assistant to
the President for Mission and Identity. Among his publications
are Technology’s Storytellers: Reweaving the Human
Fabric (1985) and numerous articles. He also edits Technology
and Culture, the journal of the Society for the History
of Technology. He has received several visiting appointments,
including Bannon Scholar at Santa Clara University (1986), Dibner
Fellow at MIT (1993), and Gasson Professor at Boston College
(1998-2000). He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from St. Louis University
and the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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