Mark F. Fernandez
Associate Professor
Office Bobet Hall 430
E-mail: mffernan@loyno.edu
Phone: 504-865-2566
Home Page: http://www.loyno.edu/~mffernan/
Curriculum Vitae
A native New Orleanian, Dr. Fernandez received his B.A. and M.A. Degrees from the University of New Orleans and his Ph.D. from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Fernandez teaches courses on early America, the South, the West, and the American hero. The Loyola Student Alumni Association has twice recognized Dr. Fernandez for meritorious teaching. He has published on topics ranging from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to the history of law in antebellum South. His recent scholarly activities include A Law Unto Itself? Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History, (Louisiana State University Press, 2001) and From Chaos to Continuity: Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862, (Louisiana University Press, 2001) which won the Louisiana Literary Award from the Louisiana Library Association. In 1993 and 1997, Fernandez received grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to direct Summer Institutes for Teachers; in 1998 he received a Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History for his 1997 Summer Institute, "New Orleans through Its Sources." In 1999, Dr. Fernandez received one of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special Humanities Awards for his work with the summer institutes. Since 1994 he has chaired the Standing Committee on Teaching History of the Louisiana Historical Association and has served as a member of the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board.