ADDRESSES:
Box 84
Department of History
Loyola University
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 865-2566
email: <mffernan@loyno.edu>
PRESENT POSITION:
Associate Professor of History, Loyola University.
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. College of William and Mary in Virginia, December
1991.
M. A. University of New Orleans, May 1985.
B. A. University of New Orleans, May 1983.
FIELDS OF STUDY:
Early America, Southern, Legal/Constitutional, Louisiana, Virginia.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Warren M. Billings and Mark F. Fernandez, eds., A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001). Purchase the book!
Fernandez, From Chaos to Continuity: Evolution of Louisiana's
Judicial
Ssytem, 1712-1862, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University,
2001).
Purchase the book!
Winner of the Louisiana Literary Award!
RECENT ARTICLES:
"Reshaping America: Legacy of the Louisiana Purchase," with Jon
Kukla, Journal of the West, (Summer
2004), 5.
"The Constitution Comes to Louisiana: Legal and Constitutional
Implications of the Louisiana Purchase," Journal of the West, (Summer
2004), 23-31.
"Mapping Nineteenth-Century Louisiana," in Lemmon, Magill, and Wiese, eds., Charting Louisiana, (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003).
"Edward Livingston and the Problem of Law," in Peter J. Kastor, ed.,
The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation,
(Congressional
Quarterly Press, 2002.
WORLD WIDE WEB:
Preliminary Index to the Original Suit Records of the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans, 1804-1809, (this is an inventory based on my notes and compilations).
OLDER PUBLICATIONS:
Articles and reviews in various books, encyclopedias, and refereed journals including:The Historian, William and Mary Quarterly, American Journal of Legal History, North Carolina Historical Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Louisiana History,Journal of Southwest Georgia History, New Orleans Review.
REFERENCES:
Available upon Request