History Department Faculty
Meet the Faculty
Areas of Expertise: Europeanist specializing in monasteries and the lives of monks in Medieval Italy, including their tradition of hospitality toward strangers.
Email: chilken@stmarys-ca.edu
Phone: (925) 878-1333
Areas of Expertise: Social and environmental historian of Latin America who specializes in the oil industry in Mexico and earthquakes in Nicaragua
Email: msantiag@stmarys-ca.edu
Areas of Expertise: Historian of Germany and Women’s Studies whose research focuses on the evolution of the nursing profession, public health, and social welfare.
Email: ahs3@stmarys-ca.edu
Areas of Expertise: Environmental history of China, focusing on pandas, science, diplomacy, and medicinal herbs.
Email: ees4@stmarys-ca.edu
Phone: (925) 631-6279
Areas of Expertise: Americanist and public historian who researches the history of amusement parks and how they represent California and the West
Email: aet10@stmarys-ca.edu
Phone: 925-631-4593
Faculty Publications
Abiding Courage
Book by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
German Encounters with Modernity
Book by Katherine Roper
Lincoln's Informer
Book by Carl J Guarneri
Memory and Community in Medieval Southern Italy
Panda Nation
Book by E. Elena Songster
The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938
Book by Myrna I. Santiago
America's Utopian Moment
Book by Carl J Guarneri
