Andrew Nolan

Andrew Nolan is a Teaching Professor and Director of the UMBC History Program at the Universities at Shady Grove. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and specializes in modern U.S. history, cultural and constitutional history, and historical writing and research methods.

• Current research: Scopes trial and its implications for American national identity
• Developing the History B.A. program at Shady Grove
• Exploring popular representations of human evolution and dinosaurs in U.S. culture

In 2017, he received the Program Director of the Year Kendall Service Award, and in 2018, he won the inaugural Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC.

His scholarship includes the article "Making Modern Men: The Scopes Trial, Masculinity and Progress in the 1920s United States" (2007), which examines intersections of gender, science, and cultural progress during the 1920s.

Contact: Camille Kendall Building, 4th floor, UMBC at Universities at Shady Grove (nolan@umbc.edu)