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Joseph G. McGraw, Jr.
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Joseph G. McGraw, Jr.
Department Chair, Humanities and Public History; Assistant Professor of History
Location: Library
Phone: 443-334-2549
Email Address: f-mcgraj@mail.vjc.edu
EDUCATION
B.A., M.A., University of Virginia
J.D., University of Baltimore
COURSES TAUGHT
- American Legal History
- History of Technology
- World History I and II
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Joseph McGraw, Chairperson of the Humanities Department (history, music, philosophy, and religion) and Director of the College Honors Program, received his BA and MA degrees in History from the University of Virginia where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his JD degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law and is a member of the Maryland bar. Prior to joining the Villa Julie College faculty i 1998, he practiced law for 12 years as a real estate and fair housing/equal employment opportunities attorney, lobbyist and director of the Greater Baltimore REALTORS® Political Action Committee, and legal counsel to the Maryland State Legislature.
In addition to teachng history, he has taught business law, principles of management, torts, and legal research at VJC. In the past he has also served the college as the Senior Academic Advisor and the Director of Study Abroad and Washington Internships. He currently is in the process of developing new VJC courses on the history of American business and the age of American industry and labor (1877-1945).
Outside the classroom, he has lectured on Baltimore in the Civil War; James Madison, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Christian Realism of the American constitutional system; and international travel tips and why it is important to know Old Norse when purchasing cereal milk in Iceland. He is passionate about the importance of history education at the elementary and secondary levels and in museums and historic sites and about study abroad and Washington internships. He also is a "nut" about the American Civil War.
PUBLICATIONS
Co-author, "The Importance of Estate Planning," Maryland Builder (Home Builders Association of Maryland_, XXXVIII (1997), 20-21.
Contributor, Preparation of a Settlement Sheet and Post Closing Procedures (MICPEL: 1996).
Numerous articles, Real Estate News (Greater Baltimore Board of REALTORS monthly newspaper: 1986-1995).
"'To Secure These Rights': Virginia Republicans on the Strategies of Political Opposition, 1788-1800," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Virginia Historical Society), XCI (1983), 54-72.
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