Division & Division Chair:
Humanities Division, Chairperson Richard A. Leiby
Head of Department & Academic Biographical Info:
Richard A. Leiby, Ph. D. Associate professor of History, teaches European history and is a specialist in the history of modern Germany. He is the author of The Unification of Germany 1989-1990, which was published in 1999 by Greenwood Press. He also has written book chapters on Margaret Thatcher's administration, Jean Monnet and the rise of the European Union, the German postwar economic miracle. He has delivered papers on Nazi resettlement policy, food and nutrition in postwar Germany, and the United States' public health policy in occupied Germany after World War II. He was the year 2000 recipient of the Lindback Excellence in Teaching Award.
A graduate of Albright College in Reading, PA, with a bachelor of arts, Dr. Leiby received a master of arts and a doctorate in history from the University of Delaware.
Office phone: 610.527.0200 ext 2312
Email: rleiby@rosemont.edu
Michelle Moravec, Ph.D. (UCLA 1998) is an Assistant Professor of History specializing in U.S. Women's History. Her current research focuses on women's understandings of miscarriage in early American history and the creation of internet communities by pregnant women.
Office phone: 610.527.0200 ext. 2403
Email: mmoravec@rosemont.edu
Teaching emeritus faculty:
Richard Donagher, Ph.D. Professor of History, teaches modern American history with an emphasis on the twentieth century and foreign policy. Office phone: 610.527.0200 ext. 2317
Email: rdonagher@rosemont.edu
Masood Ghaznavi, LL.B. Associate Professor Emeritus in History, teaches courses in Islamic and Middle Eastern history.
Office phone: 610.527.0200 ext. 2317
Email: ghaznavi@rosemont.edu
Adjunct faculty:
John Bullock, M.A. Lecturer in history of China and Japan
Office phone: 610.527.0200 ext. 2321
Email: jbullock@rosemont.edu