Erin McCarthy
Ph.D. U.S. Sports History
Email 312-344-7296
Erin McCarthy, Ph.D. received her M.A. in Public History and Ph.D. in U.S. History from Loyola University Chicago. Her master’s thesis was a history of the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1924-1941, and her dissertation, Making Men: the Life and Career of Amos Alonzo Stagg, 1862-1933, looked at sport and higher education at the turn of the 19th century.
She teaches several history and cultural studies courses for the Department of Liberal Education, including the history of sport, oral history and public history, and serves as the Internship Coordinator for Cultural Studies. She was a featured lecturer at the Field Museum for the Baseball as America exhibit in 2003, and in the spring of 2004 gave several area lectures on the topic of Sport and Sexuality. This fall, she will revisit her master’s work on the National Catholic Tournament as part of the Newberry Library’s Sport and Society lecture series.
Recently, she was a fellow at Columbia University’s prestigious Oral History Institute, and each summer she visits the Chautauqua Institute in New York State where she has taught several sport and oral history courses and contributed to a number of panel discussions on early sport at Chautauqua.