Michael Engh, SJ
CURRICULUM VITAEMichael E. Engh, S.J.
Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive, University Hall 4600
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
Office phone: (310) 338-2716
Email: mengh@lmu.edu
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. 1987
Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California M.Div. 1982
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington M.A. 1976
Loyola University of Los Angeles, California B.A. 1972
Experience1 June 2004 - Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Professor of History
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1 June 2003- Acting Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
31 May 2004 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1994 - 2004 Associate Professor, History Department
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1988-1994 Assistant Professor of History
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Administrative Experience at Loyola Marymount UniversityJanuary 2007- Member, Planning Committee, WASC Special Visit to LMU, April 2008.
April 2008
May
2006-Present Developed and began implementation of “Education that
Transforms,” a five-year Strategic Plan for the Bellarmine College of
Liberal Arts
2005-6 Chair, Search Committee, Dean of Libraries Search; successfully concluded with hiring of the dean.
2004-5
Member, Search Committee, Dean of the Frank R. Seaver College of
Science and Engineering; successfully concluded with the hiring of the
dean.
January 2004-Present Established and sustained the
Campaign Advisory Board for the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, a
twelve-member fundraising board for LMU’s “Right Place. Right Time”
campaign; $13.2 million raised to date towards $24 million college goal.
June 2003- Present Member, Deans’ Council, reporting to the Chief Academic Officer (formerly the Academic Vice President)
August 2003-Present Chair, Council of (department) Chairs, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
July 1994-July 2000 Rector of the Jesuit Community, Loyola Marymount University
Planned and built a new residence for the Jesuit Community at LMU; and planned,
endowed, and hired the first director for the Center for Ignatian Spirituality for LMU
faculty and staff.
October
1994- Member, Board of Trustees, Loyola Marymount University. Served on
the Executive, May 2000 Academic Affairs, and Catholic Identity
Committees.
March-October 1998 Chair, Search Committee, President of Loyola Marymount University; successfully Concluded.
Publications“From
the City of the Angels to the Parishes of San Antonio: Catholic
Organization, Women Activists, and Racial Intersections, 1900-1950,” in
Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices
Catholicism in the American West, ed.by Roberto R. Trevino and Richard
V. Francaviglia (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press,
2007): 42-71.
“Religion, Immigrants, and Americanizers in Los Angeles,
1900-1925,” in Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the
American West, ed. by Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 2006): 27-40.
“’The Best Sort of Liberal Education:’ A History of the
Intellectual Tradition at Loyola Marymount University,” in Fire &
Ice: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, ed. by Mary K. McCullough
(Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, September 2003): 1-28.
Editor.
“Richard Riordan and Los Angeles Charter Reform,” by Matthew J. Parlow
and James T. Keane. Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Los Angeles,
2002.
Editor. Fritz B. Burns and the Development of Los Angeles, by James
Thomas Keane. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California,
2001.
“Practically Every Religion Being Represented,” chapter in Metropolis
in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920’s, edited by William Deverell
and Tom Sitton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001): 201-19.
“Living in the Heteropolis: Understanding Postmodern L.A.,” American Historical Review 105 (December 2000): 1676-82.
“Just
Ones Past and Present,” in The Just One Justices: The Role of Justice
at the Heart of Catholic Higher Education, edited by Mary K. McCullough
(Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2000): 21-36.
Co-editor, Frontiers and Catholic Identities, volume of nine-volume
American Catholic Identities, edited by Christopher J. Kauffman,
(Orbis, 1999).
“Female, Catholic and Progressive: The Women of Brownson Settlement
House of Los Angeles, 1901-1920,” Records of the American Catholic
Historical Society of Philadelphia, 109 (Spring and Summer, 1999):
113-26.
“‘A Multiplicity and Diversity of Faiths’: Religion’s Impact on Los
Angeles and the Urban West, 1890-1940,” Western Historical Quarterly 28
(Winter, 1997): 463-492.
“Workman, Mary Julia,” Encyclopedia of American Catholic History,
edited by Michael Glazer and Thomas Shelley. (Collegeville, Minnesota:
Liturgical Press, 1997): 1517-18.
“Companion of the Immigrants:
Devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe Among Mexicans in the Los Angeles
Area, 1900-1940,” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 5 (August 1997),
37-47.
Contributor, Bibliography of a Metropolis, Los Angeles, 1970-1990,
edited by Hynda Rudd. Los Angeles: Los Angeles City Historical Society,
1996.
Entries for “Boys Town,” Brebeuf, St. Jean de,” “Catholic Action,”
“De Smet, Pierre Jean,” in The Harper Collins Encyclopedia of
Catholicism, edited by Richard P. McBrien. San Francisco: Harper
Collins, 1995.
“From Frontera Faith to Roman Rubrics:” Altering Hispanic Religious
Customs in Los Angeles, 1855-1880,” U.S. Catholic Historian 12 (Fall
1994): 85-105.
“Soldiers of Christ, Angels of Mercy: The Daughters of Charity in Los Angeles,” Vincentian Heritage 15 (September 1994): 25-39.
“Mary Julia Workman, the Catholic Conscience of Los Angeles,” California History, 72 (Spring, 1993): 2-19, 91-95.
Frontier Faiths: Church, Temple, and Synagogue in Los Angeles, 1846-1888. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
“A Most Excellent Field for Work:” Christian Missionary Efforts in
the Los Angeles Chinese Community, 1870-1900,” Gum Saan Journal of the
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 15 (June, 1992):
1-15.
“`Charity Knows Neither Race Nor Creed:’ Jewish Philanthropy to
Roman Catholic Projects in Los Angeles, 1856-1876,” Western States
Jewish History, 21 (January, 1989):154-163.
“Peter Paul Prando, S.J., `Apostle of the Crows,’“ Montana Magazine of Western History, 34 (Autumn, 1984): 24-31.
“Father Peter Paul Prando’s Crow Reservation Photographs,
1894-1895,” Montana Magazine of Western History, 34 (Autumn, 1984):
32-41.
Other Publications“With Her People,” America Magazine, 188 (6-13 January 2003): 15-6.
“Everyone’s
‘Uncle Billy:’ William H. Workman, Los Angeles Pioneer,” Branding Iron,
Los Angeles Corral of Westerners, No. 229 (Fall, 2002): 1, 3-8.
Edited column, “Conozca Nuestra Historia,” in Amen, Instituto de Liturgia Hispana, 9 (Spring 1996), 3.
“They All Pulled Together: Challenges to Community Building in
Nineteenth Century Los Angeles,” The Californians, 10 (May/June, 1993):
22-28.
Papers and Professional Presentations“Japanese
Catholic Women Evangelizers in Los Angeles, 1915-1925,” paper for
conference, “Local Churches/Global Church: Challenge and Mission in the
History of Women Religious,” 25 June 2007, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN.
“Missions, Myth, and the Movies: the History of
Roman Catholics in Los Angeles,” for conference, “Jewish L.A.: Then and
Now,” 14 November 2005, University of California Los Angeles.
“From the City of Angeles to the Parishes of San Antonio: Catholic
Organization, Women Activists, and Racial Intersections, 1900-1950,”
lecture for the 39th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures: “A
Rosary of Hidden Voice: Catholicism in the American West,” 11 March
2004, University of Texas, Arlington, TX.
Chair of panel, ”God, Nation, Race and Space,” for the 2004 Thorton
W. Bradshaw Seminar, “The Most Segregated Hour: Race and Religion in
the American West,” 28 February 2004, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA.
“Amidst the Japanese and Mexicans in Los Angeles: Mary Julia Workman’s
Outreach to Immigrants, 1898-1920,” Annual Meeting, Organization of
American Historians, 4 April 2003, Memphis, TN.
Chair of panel, “Spiritual Journeys and Sacred Landscapes: Religious
Migration in the Twentieth-Century West,” Annual Meeting, Western
History Association, 18 October 2002, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Learning to be American: Some Unintended Consequences of
Americanization in Los Angeles, 1900-1925.” Presented at the Western
History Seminar at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles,
14 November 2002.
“Mutual Understanding and Spiritual Ideals: Los Angeles Catholics and
the Americanization of Mexican Immigrants, 1910-1925,” Spring Meeting
of the American Catholic Historical Association, 16 March 2002,
University of Portland, Portland, OR.
Conference chair (with Clark
Davis) at the Huntington Library, San Marino: “Behind the Cliches,
Beyond the Hype: Race, Place, and Community In Los Angeles.” 9 March
2002.
“Common Needs, Differing Faiths: Catholic Coalition Building in Los
Angeles, 1900-1950,” annual meeting of the Western History Association,
San Diego, CA, 6 October 2001.
“Voices from the Southwest,” Joint Spring Meeting of the American
Catholic Historical Association and the American Society of Church
History, Santa Fe, 25 April 2000.
“Female Catholic, and Progressive:
The Women of Brownson Settlement House of Los Angeles 1901-1920,”
Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San
Francisco, April 20, 1997.
Chair of panel, Annual Meeting, Western Association of Women Historians, Pacific Grove, California, 2 June 1995
“Reimagining Los Angeles: Missing Pieces from a City’s Religious
History.” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, San
Francisco, 8 January 1994.
Organizer and Chair, “Los Angeles and the
American Dream: New Perspectives from the Los Angeles History Research
Group.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American
Historical Association, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 12
August 1993.
“`A Better Realization of Social Justice’: Mary Julia Workman, Los
Angeles Progressive.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the
American Historical Association, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
Oregon, 14 August 1992.
“Mary Julia Workman, The Catholic Conscience
of Los Angeles,” Los Angeles History Research Group, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California, February 1992.
“Responding to Urban
Poverty: Mary Julia Workman and the Brownson Settlement House of Los
Angeles, 1900-1920,” Conference: “American Catholicism in the Twentieth
Century,” University of Notre Dame, 1 November 1990.
“Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish Women in the Los Angeles
Frontier Community.” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church
History, San Francisco, 29 December 1989.
“From Frontera Faith to Roman Rubrics: Altering Hispanic Religious
Customs in Los Angeles, 1855-1878.” Annual Meeting of the American
Catholic Historical Association, San Francisco, 30 December 1989.
Book ReviewsCatholic
Higher Education: A Culture in Crisis. By: Melanie M. Morey & John
J. Piderit, SJ. American Catholic Studies, 118 (Spring 2007): 60-62.
Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999, by Jorge Iber. Pacific Historical Review, 71 (February 2002): 154-5.
Hispanic Catholicism in Transitional California: The Life of Jose
Gonzalez Rubio OFM (1804-1875). Michael Charles Neri. Catholic
Historical Review, 85 (October, 1999): 657-8.
Religious Contours of California: Window on the Word’s Religions,
Phillip E. Hammon and Ninian Smart, eds. 3 vols. California History, 74
(Spring 1995): 120.
Religion and Society in Frontier California. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. Western Historical Quarterly, 25 (Winter, 1994): 514.
Calendar of Documents and Related Historical Materials in the
Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, for the Episcopate of the
Right Reverend Thomas James Conaty. Miriam Ann Cunningham, C.S.C.,
comp. Catholic Historical Review, 77 (October, 1991): 719-720.
Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857-1980.
Thomas J. Noel. Western Historical Quarterly, 22 (May, 1991): 231-232.
Century of Fulfillment: The Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California, 1840-1947. Francis J. Weber. Catholic Historical Review, 77
(April 1991): 337-338.
Churchmen and Western Indians, 1820-1920. Edited by Clyde A. Milner
and Floyd A. O’Neill. Wisconsin Magazine of History, 70 (Winter,
1986-1987): 137-138.
The Salvation Army Farm Colonies by Clark C. Spence. Southern California Quarterly, 68 (Fall, 1986): 300-303.
An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985 by Antonio
Rios-Bustamente and Pedro Castillo. The Californians, 5
(January-February, 1987): 49-50.
Manuscripts Reviewed“Los Angeles Catholicism and Religious Freedom,” for the Pacific Historical Review, April 2007.
“New Perspectives on California Missions,” by Delores Hendricks, et
al. For Historical Society of Southern California and the National
Center for History in the Schools, U.C.L.A., June 2006.
“History of the First Methodist Church, Los Angeles,” by Charles
Cole. For the Methodist Urban Foundation, Los Angeles, May 2000.
“Go West Young Man; The Role of the Health Seekers in the
Exploration and Settlement of the Southwest,” Western Historical
Quarterly, June 2000.
“Migrants West: Toward the Southern California Frontier,” by Ronald C. Woolsey, Grizzly Bear Press, February 1996.
“Ruined for Life? Response to Sexual Violence: Southern California, 1876-1900,” Journal of Women’s History, 1995.
“Religious Cultures of New Mexico,” Ferenc M. Szasz and Richard W. Etulain, University of New Mexico Press, June, 1994.
Academic AwardsResearch Grant ($25,000), August 2001-May 2002
Fritz B. Burns Foundation
Burbank, California
Mayers Foundation Fellowship Fall, 2000
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California
Historical Society of Southern California Fall, 2000
John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Research Grant
Los Angeles
Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2000
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Dorothy Collins Brown Fellowship, June, 1995
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1992: Frontier Faiths
Award of Merit for Scholastic Excellence, Summer, 1993
Conference of California Historical Societies
University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
Huntington Library/Haynes Foundation Fellowship, Summer, 1991
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Faculty Research Assistance Grant, Summers 1991, 1992, 1993
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
Geiger Memorial Fellowship, June, 1988
Santa Barbara Mission-Archives Library
Old Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Pertinent ActivitiesCommentator,
with Walter Nugent, for the Seminar in American Religion, on Brokers of
Culture: Italian Jesuits and the American West, 1848-1919, by Gerald
McKevitt, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism,
University of Notre Dame, 5 April 2008.
Member, ABC-CLIO American History Prize selection committee, Organization of American Historians,
2006-2007.
Member, Program Committee, Western Historical Association annual meeting, St. Louis, MO, October 2006.
Member, Editorial Board, The Evolution of Los Angeles City
Government: An Institutional Memory, 1850- 2000, Los Angeles City
Historical Society, 1997 to 2007.
Consultant, Assessment of the Archives of the California Province of the Society of Jesus, Los Gatos, CA, May 2006.
Member, organizing committee for symposium and exhibition, “The
Role of Religious Organizations in the Development of Human Services in
Early Los Angeles, 1850-1900,” St. Vincent Medical Center Historical
Conservancy, Los Angeles, 5 September – 4 October 2000.
History Consultant, “Todos Los Santos: All the Saints of the City.”
Public Art Project of J. Michael Walker, funded by a grant from the
California Council of the Humanities, Fall 2000-2007.
Member, Editorial Board, Western Historical Quarterly, 1998-2000.
Member, Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western Religious History, Western History Association, 1999-2001.
Member, Editorial Board, Southern California Quarterly, February, 1994 to present.
Co-chair and co-founder, Los Angeles History Research Seminar, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; 1991-2003.
Member, Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, 1995 to 2000.
Member, W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Prize Committee, Pacific
Coast Brand of the American Historical Association, 1997; Chair, 1998.
Invited Participant, “LA Interchange” Conference, Getty Research
Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities December 5, 1997.
Member, Advisory Board, Learning with ISLA (Information System for
Los Angeles), National Endowment for the Humanities Funded Project,
University of Southern California, April 1996 to 2000.
Member, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast Branch of American Historical Association. 1996.
Member, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, American Catholic Historical Association, January 1995.
Abstracter, America: History and Life ABC-CLIO Bibliographic Services, Santa Barbara, California; 1992-1995.
Member, Board of Directors, Los Angeles City Historical Society, 1989-1992.
Chair, Marie E. Northrop Lecture Series, Los Angeles City Historical Society, 1992-1995.
Select Presentations“Developing
the Westside,” Future Leaders Training Program, LAX Coastal Area
Chamber of Commerce, Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA, 8 November 2007.
“History of Loyola Marymount University,” – August 2007, August
2006; 23 August 2005; 24 August 2004; 19 August 2003; 31 January, 5
May, 2 July, 20 August, 10 September, 1 and 2 October, and 23 October
2002.
“Frontier Faiths,” Symposium for the Exhibition, “On the Wings of
Angels: “The Role of Religious Organizations in the Development of
Human Services in Early Los Angeles, 1850-1900,” St. Vincent Medical
Center Historical Conservancy, Los Angeles, 5 September 2000.
“’The Best Sort of Liberal Education:’ A History of the
Intellectual Tradition at Loyola Marymount University,” Presentation to
the President’s Institute on the Catholic Nature of Loyola Marymount
University, Los Angeles, 17 May 2000.
“Musing on the Presence of the Muses at LMU,” Presentation to the
President’s Institute on Loyola Marymount University, 18 May 1999.
“Just Ones Past and Present at Loyola Marymount University,”
Presentation to the President’s Institute on Loyola Marymount
University, 19 May 1998.
“Traditions and Transformations at Loyola Marymount University,”
Presentation to the President’s Institute on Loyola Marymount
University, 3 June 1997.
“In the Spirit of our Founding Religious Orders,” Keynote speaker
for Conference for Student Affairs Division, Loyola Marymount
University, 22 May 1997.
“Major Los Angeles Research Collections,” Presentation at
Conference, “Uncovering the Past: Resources for Los Angeles History.”
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 18 January 1997.
.“Trouble in Angel City: Race, Class, and Gender in Los Angeles,
1890-1940,” Faculty Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, 21 March
1994.
California Historical Society, Annual Meeting, 2 October 1993.
Los Angeles City Historical Society, Marie E. Northrop Lecture Series, 14 March 1993.
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 125th Anniversary, 24 January 1993
Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, 25 October 1992.
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 4 March 1992.
“Los Angeles: Our Heritage and Our Future,” Workshop for Senior
High School Principals, Los Angeles Unified School District, 17 April
1990.
Memberships in Associations in the Historical ProfessionAmerican Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Catholic Historical Association
Western History Association
Memberships, Other Societies and AssociationsCalifornia Historical Society
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Friends of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Friends of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Historical Society of the Centinela Valley, California
Historical Society of Southern California
Japanese-American National Museum, Los Angeles
Jewish Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles City Historical Society
School Board, Dolores Mission Grammar School, East Los Angeles, 1996-present.