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 HistoryStudies in Travel Writing, and The Journal of Popular Culture.  Dr. Uhlman created the Dayton History Project in the Fall of 2018. Over the next year his student built a webpage about the University of Dayton Arena. The Arcade Project was the next iteration of this collective research seminar model. The goal of the Dayton History Project is to combine traditional historical research with new digital ways of presenting material. This experiential learning approach also seeks to get them involved in bettering the local community by helping raise awareness of Dayton’s rich past.

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. For an update on Dr. Waldron’s accomplishments visit the Project News.