Position: Assistant Professor
Department: History
Office: Moritz Library in D'Aniello Hall 131
Phone: 913.360.7288
Joshua A. Hoxmeier is an Assistant Professor of History and a member of the Department of History at Benedictine College since 2025. He teaches courses in American history including both halves of the U.S. History survey and upper-division classes on the U.S. since 1945, Interwar Period, U.S. Military History, and Native America. He also teaches classes outside of American history including the Modern Asian survey and a future class on Premodern East Asian History.
His research focuses on the American Catholic Church since World War II. He is particularly interested in dioceses that have been thriving during this period. His most recent publication was a U.S. Catholic Historian article on Catholic education in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska.
He is from Lincoln, Nebraska and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, masters degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and Ph.D. in American History from the University of Illinois Chicago. He enjoys watching and attending sporting events, particularly Nebraska volleyball and football and Kansas basketball, watching movies, and playing video games.