Faculty

Melissa Blair – Ph.D., University of Delaware
Senior Lecturer and Director of Public History
Public History, Architectural History
mfblair@umbc.edu

Terry Bouton – Ph.D., Duke University
Associate Professor
American Revolution, Early National U.S.

bouton@umbc.edu

Christy Ford Chapin – Ph.D., University of Virginia
Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in Public Policy
Political Economy, Capitalism Studies, U.S. 20th century
cchapin@umbc.edu

Silvia Escanilla Huerta – Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
UMBC PostDoctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity
Colonial Latin America
silviak1@umbc.edu

Amy Froide – Ph.D., Duke University
Professor, Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities
Affiliate Faculty in GWST and LLC
Early Modern Britain, Women, Economic History
froide@umbc.edu

Susan McDonough – Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in GWST
Medieval Mediterranean, Sexuality, Law
mcdonoug@umbc.edu

Denise Meringolo – Ph.D., George Washington University
Professor and Chair of History
Public History, U.S. Cultural Institutions, Gilded Age and Progressive Era
ddm@umbc.edu

George Derek Musgrove – Ph.D., New York University (ON LEAVE 22-24)
Associate Professor, Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies
U.S. 20th century, Politics
derek.musgrove@umbc.edu

Andrew Nolan – Ph.D., University of Illinois
Principal Lecturer and Director, UMBC History Program at Universities at Shady Grove
U.S. 20th century, Constitutional, Legal, Race
nolan@umbc.edu

Meredith Oyen – Ph.D., Georgetown University
Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and in Public Policy
Director, Asian Studies Program
U.S. Foreign Relations, China, Transnational Migration
oyen@umbc.edu

Daniel Ritschel – D. of Phil., Oxford University
Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty in Public Policy
Modern Britain, Economic Policy
ritschel@umbc.edu

Anne Sarah Rubin – Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professor
U.S. Civil War, Digital
arubin@umbc.edu

Michelle Scott – Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor and Affiliate Faculty in GWST, LLC, and Africana Studies
U.S. 20th century, Music, African American History
mscott@umbc.edu

Constantine Vaporis – Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor, Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and GWST
Early Modern Japan, East Asia, Asian Studies
vaporis@umbc.edu

Brian Van Wyck -Ph.D., Michigan State University (ON LEAVE 23-24)
Assistant Professor 
Modern Germany, Immigration, Turkish history
bvanwyck@umbc.edu

Mirjam Voerkelius – Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor
Soviet Russia, History of Science, Environment
voerkeli@umbc.edu

Noor Zaidi – Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor and Director of Religious Studies, Affiliate Faculty in GWST
Middle Eastern, Islamic World, Gender
nzaidi@umbc.edu

Jinghong Zhang-Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Assistant Professor
China, History of Medicine, East Asia
jhzhang@umbc.edu