Michael J. Galgano is Professor of History and Head of the Department. He received the Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and the B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia.
      Dr. Galgano teaches courses in World, Modern Europe, the History of the Family, and Historical Research Methods. His research interests include family history, social and gender history. He has contributed to American Benedictine Review, Recusant History, and History Microcomputer Review, Reader's Guide to British History, the Dictionary of National Biography, The World of William Penn, and The Formation of Life Stages in English Literature.

Michael James Galgano
(Department Head)
History Department
JACK 201
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 6132
e-mail: galganmj@jmu.edu