Professors
Dr. James Todd Uhlman
Dr. Todd Uhlman is an Assistant Professor of U.S. social and cultural history at the University of Dayton. He writes about the history of mobility, film, and capitalism with an emphasis upon the relationship between identity and political economy. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the National Endowment of the Humanities. His recent publications have appeared in the pages of literary, historical, and interdisciplinary journals including American Nineteenth Century History, Studies in Travel Writing, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Automotive History Review, and The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Dr. Uhlman created the Dayton History Project in the Fall of 2018.
Dr. Caroline Waldron Merithew
Dr. Caroline Waldron Merithew is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton. She specializes in immigration, labor, and women’s history. Her current research focuses on transnational feminism and antifascism to explore women’s central role in the fight against Italy’s colonial quest to dominate Ethiopia, 1920s-1940s. Among her favorite courses to teach are those in Italian Diaspora Studies, Global History, and Historiography. Her scholarship and teaching has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities through grants to participate in the “Doing Digital History” and “Women’s Suffrage in the Americas” Institutes. She is currently serving as a Co-PI with Dr. Carissa Krane (UD Biology) on an NEH Humanities Connections Grant focused on building bridges between Health Sciences and Humanities Curricula. She is grateful to have been part of the project on the Dayton Arcade in which she has learned from students, faculty, and community members alike
Dr. David Darrow
David Darrow is an associate professor of history. His most recent work, Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms, examines agrarian reform in Russia. In addition to courses in Russian history, Dr. Darrow teaches class in the history major core curriculum.
Dr. Patrick Thomas