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Overview
The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley History Department offers a full complement of introductory courses, including surveys of United States History, World History, and History of Western Civilization. Students can easily transfer these courses into general education requirements and major degree requirements in the University of Wisconsin System and in most private colleges. (See the appropriate institutional catalogues for details.) Besides these courses, the instructional faculty teach their courses based on their scholarly interests.
Department Members
Jean K. Berger, Ph. D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Associate Professor
Professor Berger teaches Western Civilization surveys, World History surveys (both ancient and modern), 20th Century World History, Modern Russian History, and Early Russian History.
Professor Berger’s research interests focus on social history in medieval Russia. Specifically, her work examines various aspects of the daily life of the household in Novgorod, Russia from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. During the 2001-2002 academic year she received the Eugene Campbell Post-Doctoral Fellowship in History from Brigham Young University.
Professor Berger is very familiar with university life as both a student and a teacher. As a student she attended the University of WI-Marshfield, Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. As a professor she has taught at the University of Minnesota, Illinois Wesleyan University, Brigham Young University, and the UWFox.
Stephen M. Leahy Ph.D., (Marquette), Senior Lecturer
Professor Leahy teaches the online surveys, and courses on the History of American Science and Technology and History of Minorities in America and the Vietnam War. His biography of Milwaukee Representative Clement J. Zablocki, the author of the War Powers Resolution was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2002. It won the 2002 Halecki Prize for the outstanding book on the Polish experience in the United States. Dr. Leahy is currently developing more online, hybrid, and Interdisciplinary Studies courses. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish American Historical Association and is the editor of the Polish American Historical Association Newsletter. Locally, Steve is a member of IndUS and the Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association. Steve is currently using Geographical Information Systems to research public opinion in Milwaukee from 1950 to 1970. He also collects historical world music recordings.
Professor Leahy possesses a B.S. in Chemistry from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, a M.A. in American History from Arkansas State University, and Ph.D. in Twentieth Century American History from Marquette University.
Steven T. Sheehan, Ph.D., Indiana University, Assistant Professor
Professor Sheehan teaches the United States History Surveys, World War II, Modern U.S. History, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and labor history. His research and publications focus on the history of popular culture, consumer culture and the working class in twentieth-century America.
Michael O’Brien Ph.D., (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Emeritus Professor
Professor O’Brien, who taught at UWFox for thirty years, is now retired from teaching. He remains on campus, completing a biography of President John F. Kennedy.