University of Richmond Arts & Sciences: Pre-Law

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.

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.

Roundtable Discussion Participant on David Holmes, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2006) at “Christianity and American History” Conference at Liberty University, April 20-21, 2007.

“The Virtuous Republic: A Civic Conversation.” Presented at the Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 25, 2006. Broadcast on Book TV on C-SPAN.

“Transforming Society Through Law: St. George Tucker, Woman’s Property Rights, and an Active Republican Judiciary”. Presented at Symposium entitled: “St. George Tucker and His Influence on American Law” at Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, February 25, 2005. Selected among symposium papers to be published in the William and Mary Law Review in February 2006.

“Culture Wars as a Persistent Issue: The Early Republic’s Debate over Church and State.” Presented as Scholar-in-Residence at Texas Lutheran University to combined history and liberal arts faculties at colleges and universities in and around San Antonio, Texas. September 14, 2000.

“In Perfect Accordance with his Character: Thomas Jefferson, Slavery and the Law,” Indiana Magazine of History, vol. XCV, no. 2 (June, 1999).

“Creating Roles for Religion and Philanthropy in a Secular Nation: The Dartmouth College Case and the Design of Civil Society in the Early Republic,” Journal of College and University Law, vol. 25, no. 3 (Winter, 1999).

“Immigrant Labor and the Milwaukee Road: A Comparative Case Study of Japanese and Mexican Contract Labor,” Railroad History, vol. 179 (Autumn, 1998)

“Searching for Consistency: Jefferson’s Political Ideology and Slavery.” Presented to the Meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians. Bloomington, Indiana. March 2, 1996.

“Employment at Will and the Growth of Statutory Limitation.” Presented as a featured speaker at seminar titled: “Discharge and Documentation in Wisconsin,” sponsored by Lorman Educational Services. Brookfield, Wisconsin, January, 1994.

“Sexual Harassment in the Wake of the Thomas Hearings.” Presented to Rotary International. Evanston, Illinois, March, 1992.

“Personality: May it Sway Employment Decision-Making,” Wisconsin Lawyer, The Journal of the State Bar Association, vol. 64, no. 12 (December, 1991).

‘Security Issues in Dealing with Unions.” Presented before APEX (Assets Protection Executives), a group of corporate Security Directors. Chicago, Illinois, October, 1989.

“Politics and Law: Union Security Agreements and the First Amendment,” Midwest Labor and Employment Law Journal, vol. 1, no. 5, (July, 1984).

“An Interpretation of the Impact of Recent Legal Decisions on EEOC Policy and Procedures.” Presented before the joint Annual Spring Conference of the Wisconsin Chapter of the International Personnel Manager’s Association and the Wisconsin Public Employers’ Labor Relations Association. Madison, Wisconsin, April, 1983.

“Recent Changes in Wisconsin’s Worker’s Compensation Laws.” Presented before the International Society of Safety Engineers, Madison, Wisconsin, October, 1981.

2004 Skystone Ryan Research Prize. Awarded by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. Juried Prize Winner.

2003 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize. Awarded by the Independent Sector for Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. Second Prize awarded by jury panel.

Golieb Fellow, New York University School of Law. Postdoctoral fellowship with junior faculty standing to pursue work in legal history during 2001-2002 academic year.

History Department Nominee for Indiana University Esther Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Selected as the most deserving departmental dissertation in 2000-2001 academic year.

Hodgson Russ Fellow at the SUNY-Buffalo Law School. Research fellowship to complete dissertation and pursue other scholarship while teaching at the law school, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 academic years.

Grant of $2,000 from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy to explore viability of a work on the intellectual and legal career of St. George Tucker, Spring 2000.

Co-recipient of $70,000 grant from the Center on Philanthropy to co-edit a graduate-level text on the history of American philanthropy, Summer 1999.

Awarded mark of “distinction” in passing the major field comprehensive examination for Ph.D. at Indiana University, Spring 1997 (This was the first such award of merit in several years.)

Associate Instructor Fellowship: Stipend and full funding of academic study through Indiana University History Department, 1996-1997 academic year.

Virginia Gunderson Essay Prize: Indiana University annual award for best graduate student essay in United States History, 1996.

Research Fellowship: Research stipend and full funding of academic study through the Center on Philanthropy, January 1995-June1996, and for preparation of dissertation, 1997-2000.

Dr. Mark McGarvie