The history department has faculty with expertise in Ancient, French Revolution, Russian, Middle Eastern, African, American and Latin American and Caribbean History. Faculty hold appointments in national history organizations and are well respected in their fields of expertise. History faculty offer students international travel to China, Mediterranean countries and Caribbean countries as part of their study of history.

Margaret Mahoney, PhD
BA - University of Great Falls

MA & PhD - University of Minnesota

Teaching fields: Western Civilization, Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, French Revolution

Office: Pasteur 206 (P206)
Phone: (502) 452-8171
Email: mmahoney@bellarmine.edu

Robert Pfaadt, MA
BA - Bellarmine College
MA - Arizona State University

Teaching fields: Western Civilization, Modern European and Russian History

Research interest: Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939

Office: Pasteur 208E (P208E)
Phone: (502) 452-8267
Email rpfaadt@bellarmine.edu

Eric Roorda, PhD
BA - College of Williams and Mary
MA & PhD - Johns Hopkins University

Teaching fields: Latin American History, Vietnam and Watergate, Race Relations and Civil Rights, and Travel Courses to China and Italy

Research interest: U.S. Relations with the Dominican Republic and Cuba, U.S. and Caribbean Maritime History

Office: Pasteur 208A (P208A)
Phone: (502) 452-8168
Email: eroorda@bellarmine.edu

Timothy Welliver, PhD
BA - DePauw University
MA - Ohio University
PhD - Northwestern University

Teaching fields: African history, Middle Eastern history, Islam, Slavery, Nazi Germany

Research interest: 20th-century Zanzibar

Office: Pasteur 208D (P208D)
Phone: (502) 452-8068
Email: twelliver@bellarmine.edu