Eileen Dugan

Eileen Dugan grew up in Houston, Texas. She received her BS in History from Texas Tech University and her MA and Ph.D. in Reformation History from Ohio State University. As a graduate student, Dugan was a Summer Fellow at the Center for Reformation Research Institute and a Fulbright Scholar to Germany.

After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University (Ohio) for one year, Dugan came to Creighton in 1988. She has taught a wide range of courses, including those on the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Crusades, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, the history of Western Science, Tudor and Stuart England, and biography. Besides receiving several college grants for summer research and course development, Dugan was a Fellow to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Duke University in 1995. Her research is primarily concerned with the development of religious ideals and societal attitudes in the early modern era.