Professor Ostoyich joined the History Department in 2006 after having taught at The University of Montana, and  is a former Notre Dame Erasmus Fellow and former Harvard Business School Research Associate.

He received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard for his dissertation “The Transatlantic Soul: German Catholic Emigration during the Nineteenth Century.” 

The German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) has recently published his book, The German Society of Pennsylvania: A Guide to Its Book and Manuscript Collections.  He is currently working on two book projects: the first (with Johannes Heil) is a broad history of confessional conflict in German history, and the second (with Birte Pfleger) is a biography of Kuno Francke (founder of the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, Ma.). 

Professor Ostoyich’s research has been funded by such institutions as The Krupp Foundation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the German Historical Institute, and the Charles Warren Center for American History (Harvard). 

At Valpo, Professor Ostoyich instructs general courses in Western Civilization and Modern European History, as well as specialized courses in German History. 

In his spare time, he listens to the music of Richard Strauss, Beck, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, and George Pasles’ Overlord.  His lifelong pursuit is to emulate the Bee Gees.