Elizabeth A. Drummond, PhD, Director
Elizabeth Drummond is associate professor of history in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies, and the director of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program in Social Studies/History at LMU. She was educated at Georgetown University, with a Bachelor’s degree from the School of Foreign Service, a Master’s in German and European Studies, and a Ph.D. in History. Professor Drummond is a social and cultural historian of modern Central Europe, with a focus on national identity, nationalist mobilization, and the experience of national conflict in the German Polish borderlands. More recently, she has been working on a project about the Weimar-era German artist Max Thalmann. Professor Drummond received a 2025 Humanities Initiatives grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a two-year summer institute for high school students about “the public uses of the past.” She is a member of the team that founded and maintains the interdisciplinary digital project the German Studies Collaboratory and a co-founder of the German Studies Association’s Teaching Network. Professor Drummond teaches broadly in modern European and global history, including first-year seminars on the First World War and the Holocaust, introductory surveys in world history, environmental history, and European history, and upper-division courses about modern Germany, European imperialism, gender history, popular culture, and public history. She received the 2022 President’s Fritz B Burns Distinguished Teaching Award from LMU, a 2022 Teacher Eddy Award from the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce, and the 2018 Popiden Distinguished Faculty Service Award from LMU’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. Professor Drummond’s previous leadership roles include chair of History (2017-2021), chair of the BCLA College Council, and Faculty Senate President (2015-2017). Announcement Website
Ward Celeste, Administrative Coordinator
Celeste Ward is the Administrative Coordinator for The Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts. She has spent over a decade working at Loyola Marymount University. Celeste earned her BA from University of Michigan and her MFA from American University in Washington DC.
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Alyssa Castellanos, Research Assistant
Alyssa Castellanos is a History major, with a theology minor, and part of the Student Preparation Program. She plans to become a history teacher. At the Marymount Institute, Alyssa is doing research on the Marymount educational tradition tradition, the history of Marymount College, and the Loyola Marymount merger. In her own words, “This work means a lot to me, as I want to make sure this history is represented at our school today.” Alyssa is studying abroad during the spring 2026 semester.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council consists of LMU faculty, staff members, students, and appropriate external stakeholders. It provides counsel and support for the activities of the Marymount Institute. Members identified with an asterisk (*) also serve on the Executive Committee, which meets regularly to advise the Marymount Institute director.
- Lane Bove, Marymount College Alumna, Chair of the Council*
- Judge (retired) Irma Brown, Marymount College Alumna
- Kat Brown, Director of Mission & Identity programs, Mission & Ministry
- Elizabeth Drummond, Director of the Marymount Institute & Associate Professor of History, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts*
- Isabella Garcia, undergraduate student, Marians Student Organization
- Mary Genino, RSHM, Provincial Superior, RSHM, ex officio*
- Karie Huchting, Professor of Educational Leadership, School of Education*
- MaryAnne Huepper, CSJ, Director, CSJ Center for Reconciliation & Justice
- Louvenia Jackson, Chair & Associate Professor of Marital & Family Therapy / Art Therapy, College of Communication & Fine Arts
- Layla Karst, Graduate Director & Associate Professor of Theological Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
- Terri Mangione, Dean of Students & Vice President of Student Affairs
- Lisa Piumetti Farland, Executive Director of Strategic Alumni Engagement
- Norma Provencio, President, Provencio Advisory Services
- Mairead Sullivan, University Core Director & Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
- Audrey Ann Wood, undergraduate student, Gryphon Circle
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
The Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary are an international congregation of Catholic women religious. They serve in 13 countries in diverse ministries, with a focus on the education of girls and women. For more information, please see the website for the Western American Area.