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Matthew O’Brien

  • Instructor of History

Department: History and Anthropology

Office: James and Marlene Howard Hall 340

Phone: 732-263-5741

Email: mobrien@monmouth.edu


Professor O’Brien is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, where he is completing his dissertation, “Valuable Service: A Study of William Trumbull, English Agent to the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1605-1625.”He examines the intersection of confessional identity, international politics, and court intrigue in the first three decades of the seventeenth-century. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University, and he has an M.A. in History from Fordham University.

Courses

Recently Taught Classes

2024 Fall

  • War and Peace – PR 470
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective I – HS 101

2024 Spring

  • War and Peace – PR 470
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective II – HS 102

2023 Fall

2023 Spring

  • Business and Economic Development of the United States – HS 310
  • War and Peace – PR 470
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective II – HS 102

2022 Fall

  • Mind Over Matter – PR 469
  • War and Peace – PR 470
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective I – HS 101

2022 Spring

2021 Fall

2021 Spring

Frequently Taught Classes

  • Historical Studies (HS 110)
  • Revolutions (HS 148)
  • War and Peace (PR 470)
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective I (HS 101)
  • Western Civilization in World Perspective II (HS 102)