Ph.D. – 2016, University of Southern Mississippi

M.A. – 2003, University of New Orleans

John D. Fitzmorris III, Ph.D. is full-time Instructor of History at the University of New Orleans and the University of Holy Cross.  A native of New Orleans, he received his B.A. from L.S.U. in 1989, an M.A. in Religious Studies from Loyola University in New Orleans, and an M.A. in History from the University of New Orleans. He received his Doctorate in History from the University of Southern Mississippi, where his dissertation was “Bearing the Double Burden: Chaplains and the Problem of Combat in Vietnam” and which he hopes to publish soon.

          A recipient of the George F. Windell Prize for Outstanding Thesis from the University of New Orleans, Dr. Fitzmorris currently teaches U.S. History, Louisiana History, Irish History, the History of the Vietnam War, and The Civil War and Reconstruction. He is currently moderator of the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society at UNO.  He also conducts oral interviews of veterans of all wars for the Library of Congress Veterans Oral History Program.

          He is married to his wife Rose and has a daughter (Madeleine) and a step-son (Johnny), and spends his time outside of teaching history playing golf; following the New Orleans Saints, LSU football, and UNO athletics; and focusing on “all things Irish.”