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Faculty

Ewa Bacon, Professor
1975 Ph.D., University of Chicago
1969 M.A., University of Chicago
1968 B.A., Stanford University

Dr. Ewa Bacon is a specialist in Eastern European History and teaches a broad range of subjects including the History of Germany and Russia. After having lived several years in China, she also covers the East Asian History classes of China and Japan. Her most recent classes are in the area of intellectual history: the History of Science and the History of Western Ideas. Her most recent course is in the field of Genocide and Holocaust. She participated in the Hess Seminar at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington DC in 2008. She is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Teaching award, the Br. Louis Seiler Teaching Award in 2006. Her publications are in the field of global history as well as the Holocaust. She is active in her support of Foreign Language instruction at Lewis and the Contemporary Global Studies, a multi-disciplinary and cross college collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business. Active in international and global studies, she directed the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to promote Latin American Studies at Lewis, 2007-2009. Her personal interests focus on art: both appreciating art and creating it.

Dennis H. Cremin, Associate Professor
1999 Ph.D., Loyola University- Chicago
1989 M.A., Midwestern State University
1986 B.A., Humboldt State University

Dr. Dennis H. Cremin teaches Ancient World, Illinois History, Early Modern Europe, Historiography I&II, Culture and Civilization I&II, and Public History at Lewis University. He is especially interested in place based learning and has led a group of Lewis University students in 2007 to study in Italy with Dr. Dominic Colonna (Theology Department). Dr. Cremin has also served as a Port Enhancement Lecturer for Princess Cruise Lines. He served as lecturer in the Mediterranean on the Royal Princess (2007) and the Emerald Princess (2008). Dr. Cremin is Director of the Lewis University History Center. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Joliet Area Historical Museum. He is chair of their collections and exhibits committee. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Will County Historical Society. He is also on the site council for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Gaylord Building Historic Site, in Lockport, IL. Dr. Cremin is author of Chicago: A Pictorial Celebration, Photographs by Elan Penn (New York: Sterling Publishing, 2006). He also co-authored with Charlene Giardina, Starved Rock State Park: The Work of the CCC Along the I&M Canal (Great Britain: Arcadia Publishing, 2002). He is author of several articles and encyclopedia entries including: “From Heartland to Nation: The National Heritage Area Movement at Twenty.” History News – American Association of State and Local History 59: 2 (Spring 2004): 11-15. He is currently directing the creation of the interpretive elements for the Lincoln Landing in Lockport, IL. In the past, he curated of Illinois Passage: Connecting the Continent at the Gaylord Building, Lockport, Illinois (October 1999 to the Present). He also co-curated with Mark Harmon, Celebrating 20 Years of the Gaylord Building on the Public Landing at the Gaylord Building Historic Site (October 25, 2007 to August 2008). He also co-coordinated a team of university faculty and staff that conceptualized, fabricated, and installed Lewis University: Heritage, Growth and Vision at the Joliet Area Historical Museum (January 20-March 18, 2007).

William P. Malone, Assistant Professor
2002 M.Ed., DePaul University
1997 M.A. University of Chicago
1992 M. Div., Mudelein Seminary, St. Mary of the Lake
1988 B.A. Loyola University

William Malone is a Latin American and Atlantic World Historian. Professor Malone studies Indigenous, popular and peasant movements in twentieth-century Guatemala. His teaching interests primarily focus on interdisciplinary and historical studies of Latin America, including study of agrarian societies, ethnicity, popular movements, and revolutions. He also offers courses related to the Atlantic World and Africa. Other areas of interest include social justice, globalization and the culture wars. He completed his MA in history at the University of Chicago and is completing doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Malone’s interests include travel, reading, and sports. He is a native Chicagoan and resides in the Northwest suburbs with his family.

Eileen McMahon, Associate Professor
1989 Ph.D., Loyola University- Chicago
1983 M.A., Loyola University- Chicago
1979 B.A., Loyola University- Chicago

Dr. Eileen McMahon specializes in U.S. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race; Catholic America; the History of Ireland; and the History Great Britain. She also teaches a variety of related classes such as American Women’s History as part of the Women’s Studies Program, the History of Sports in America, the British Empire, Native American History, and Illinois History. Dr. McMahon is the editor of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and had also published “What Parish Are You From? The Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916-1970; (University Press of Kentucky, 1995) and the forthcoming co-authored work with Dr. Ted Karamanski, Northwoods Border River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History (University of Wisconsin Press). She has also published “The Irish in Illinois,” in The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. by Michael Glazer; and “Irish Women in the American Civil War” forthcoming in Irish Soldier in the Mexican-American and Civil Wars (Irish Academic Press); and “The Literary Side to the Soxside of Chicago” Chicago History Magazine, Summer 2008. Dr. McMahon serves as the Director of the Culture & Civilization Program and serves on the Arts & Ideas Committee. She is also the Internship Director and encourages students to work with local historical agencies at part of the Public History Track. The agencies that have sponsored our student interns are: The Joliet Area History Museum, Will County Historical Society, The First Division Museum at Cantigny, Naper Settlement, and the Will County Historic Preservation Department. Dr. McMahon also offers Public History Workshops.

Mark Schultz, Professor
1999 Ph.D., University of Chicago
1989 M.A., University of Georgia
1987 B.A., Franciscan University of Steubenville

Dr. Mark Schultz teaches U.S. history and specializes in African American and Southern history. He also teaches the history of the Vietnam War, American Religious History, Colonial and Early National U.S. History, Historiography, and the Emergence of Modern America from 1876-1945. His first book, The Rural Face of White Supremacy; Beyond Jim Crow, was designated an Editor's Choice by the Atlantic Monthly. He is currently writing one book which will examine the popular meaning and value of education in the Jim Crow South, and another book which will explore the history of African American farm ownership. In 2001-02, he won a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. In his spare time, he enjoys travel and point-contact martial arts sparring

James Tallon, Assistant Professor
2003 M.A., University of Chicago
2000 M.A., University of Chicago
1997 B.S., Winona State University

Professor James Tallon did his graduate work at the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He joined the History Department in 2008 and specializes in the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Nationalism. He has additional interest in the history of modern Iran and North Africa. He is currently working on a project concerning the Albanian Rebellion of 1910-1912 and their impact on the late Ottoman Empire.

Brother John Vietoris, FSC, Associate Professor, Department Chair
2009 Ph.D., Marquette University
1977 M.A., University of Notre Dame
1971 B.A., Lewis University

Brother John Vietoris, FSC,concentrates on nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. History and U.S. Urban History. He teaches a variety of courses that include Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. Since 1941, U.S. Urban History, U.S. Military History, the American Presidency, and Europe Since 1815. Prior to coming to Lewis University, Br. John spent several years as a high school teacher and administrator and works with the College of Education in teaching the course, Methods of Teaching Social Studies Grades 6-12, and observing student teachers. He has traveled in the United States, Canada, and Europe many times visiting historical sites and museums. Besides reading and travel, Br. John enjoys hiking and classical music.