Mark D. McGarvie

Professor Mark McGarvie "has taught history and leadership studies at the University of Richmond since 2003. In addition to his teaching, Professor McGarvie currently serves as the director of pre-law advising. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Indiana University in 2000 and his J.D. from Marquette University Law School in 1981.  He also was a post-doctoral Golieb fellow in legal history at NYU School of Law.

"Professor McGarvie has taught at SUNY at Buffalo Law School, the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary and the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. He practiced law from 1981 to 1994, working at the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and as chief labor counsel for Baxter Healthcare Corporation in Chicago, at the time a $9 billion, 60,000 employee multi-national corporation.  He has published two books and numerous academic journals."

Selected Publications

 * Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds. The Cambridge History of Law in America. (N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter on law and religious establishment in colonial America, co-authored with Prof. Betty Mensch, SUNY-Buffalo Law School.


 * One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, Legal History Series, 2004). Second printing, 2005, as History Book Club Selection. Paperback edition 2005.


 * Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Co-edited with Lawrence J. Friedman. Paperback edition 2004.