Mark C. Molesky Assistant Professor of History Address: 345 Fahy Hall
Phone: (973) 275-2263
E-mail: moleskma@shu.edu
I specialize in modern European intellectual, cultural, and political history, with particular focus on Germany, Austria, France, Portugal, and England. Interests include the Enlightenment, World War I and II, the Holocaust, modern philosophy, and the history of classical scholarship.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
- M.A., Harvard University, 1991
- B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1990
Courses at Seton Hall
- HIST 2265 Germany, 1848 to the Present
- HIST 3242 The French Revolution & Napoleon
- HIST 2211 World War I
- HIST 2212 World War II
- HIST 2180 Introduction to Historical Research
- HIST 1201 Western Civilization I
- HIST 1202 Western Civilization II
Awards, grants and fellowships
- Provost’s Faculty Scholarship Award: Book publication (2005), Seton Hall University
- Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize: Senior Thesis Faculty Advisor Award 2002, Harvard
- Derek Bok Certificate for Teaching Distinction (Harvard) 1993
- Center for European Studies (Harvard) European Summer Travel Grant, 1996
- Phi Beta Kappa (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 1990
Representative Publications
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France (Doubleday, 2004)
Maudits Français!: Trois siècles de relations tumultueuses entre la France et l’Amérique (Éditions Saint-Simon, 2005) French edition of Our Oldest Enemy
