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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2014–2016 Programs, Faculty, and Courses History 510  

History 510

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Mark Wasserman, 113B Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (848-932-8343)

Vice Chair for Graduate Education: Professor Belinda Davis, 113B Van Dyck Hall, College Avenue Campus (848-932-8342) 

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Michael P. Adas, Abraham Voorhees Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Global and comparative; colonialism; technology 

Tuna Artun, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Ottoman Empire; medieval and early modern science; late Byzantine

Mia Elisabeth Bay, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
African American; American intellectual and cultural

Rudolph M. Bell, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
European social; Renaissance Italy; quantitative methods

Alastair Bellany, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton             
Early modern Britain

Allison R. Bernstein, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Native American and modern United States; philanthropy and higher education; women

Carolyn Brown, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Africa; labor

Kim D. Butler, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Brazil; African diaspora; Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean studies

Susan Lisa Carruthers, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Leeds (UK)    
U.S. foreign relations; media and war; culture and Cold War; empire

John W. Chambers, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; war and peace studies; film and history; political and U.S. foreign relations

Kornel S. Chang, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Asian-American history, United States in the Pacific world; race, migration, and labor in the Americas

Paul G.E. Clemens, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Early American; history of the South

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women's and Gender Studies, SMLR/SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Labor; women and gender

Barbara Cooper, Professor of History and African Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Boston
Africa; gender and culture

Belinda Davis, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Modern Europe; Germany; gender; popular politics

James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Atlantic world; history of science; early modern; Enlightenment

Rachel Devlin, Associate Professor of History, SAS, Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century American culture and gender

Leah DeVun, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Medieval and Renaissance; science, gender and sexuality

Ann F. Fabian, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
American cultural and intellectual

Melissa Feinberg, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender's Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Central and Eastern Europe; gender history; human rights and citizenship

Leslie Ellen Fishbein, Associate Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Women and gender

David Foglesong, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
American foreign relations; Soviet

Marisa Fuentes, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Postcolonial theory and analyses of sexuality and gender in the early black Atlantic world

Ziva Galili, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Russia; Eastern Europe

Angus Kress Gillespie, Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
American folklore

William Gillette, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Civil War and Reconstruction

Janet Golden, Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Boston
U.S. women; U.S. social; medicine

James Goodman, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Modern U.S. race relations and politics; literature as history

David Greenberg, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and History, SC&I; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth-century United States; political and cultural 

Douglas Greenberg, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Holocaust studies; memory and history; U.S. colonial history

Jonathan Gribetz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Mideast history; Zionism; Jewish-Arab encounter

Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Twentieth-century Eastern Europe; the Habsburg Empire; 20th-century Europe

Jochen Hellbeck, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Soviet Union 

Bayo Holsey, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Ethnography; public history and culture; the slave trade; transnationalism; Africa

Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell                                             Southeast Asian history; Burma; colonialism; race, gender, and sexuality

Paul B. Israel, Director, Thomas A. Edison Papers, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Technology

Jennifer M. Jones, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Early modern Europe; France; European women

Toby C. Jones, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Modern Middle East; political Islam; technology and environment

Benjamin Justice, Associate Professor of Education, GSE; Ph.D., Stanford
Education; prison education; religion in public schools; 19th-century United States

Tarek Kahlaoui, Assistant Professor of Art History and History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Islamic history and culture in the Mediterranean

Temma Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard                       
Comparative women's and gender; Latin America; Spain

Samantha Kelly, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Medieval Europe 

Suzy Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern Korean history; social and cultural history; gender studies; oral history; social theory

Tia Kolbaba, Associate Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto            
Byzantine; religion

Seth Koven, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Britain; women's gender and sexuality; cultural history of modern Europe

Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Latin America; Central America; peasantry; revolution

T.J. Jackson Lears, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. cultural and intellectual

Sukhee Lee, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Middle-period China; early modern China; early modern Europe

Jan E. Lewis, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Michigan
U.S. family and women; early American

Xun Liu, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
China; Daoism; Chinese medicine; modern East Asia

James Livingston, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Northern Illinois
Nineteenth- and 20th-century U.S. intellectual and economic

Julie Livingston, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
Africa; medicine

Kathleen López, Associate Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Caribbean; Latin America; diaspora studies

Phyllis Mack, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Early modern Europe; women's and gender; religion

Neil Maher, Associate Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., New York                     
U.S. environment; technology; medicine and health; 20th-century U.S. social and political

Norman D. Markowitz, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
U.S. political; radical movements

Margaret Marsh, University Professor, FAS-C; Ph.D., Rutgers
United States; gender and medicine; gender and culture; sexuality and reproduction

James P. Masschaele, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Medieval Europe; English economic

Louis P. Masur, Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
American cultural history

Matt Matsuda, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Modern Europe; France; cultural; global 

Richard L. McCormick, Distinguished University Professor of History and Education; Ph.D., Yale
United States political; higher education

Jennifer Mittelstadt, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Twentieth-century U.S. politics; gender, race, and the state; women; military

Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
African American; African diaspora

Stephen Pemberton, Associate Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., North Carolina
Twentieth-century medicine; public health; biomedical services and technology

Jamie Pietruska, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nineteenth-century U.S. culture; science and technology; knowledge production

Clement Alexander Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers (deceased 11/5/14)
African American; U.S. urban and social

Stephen W. Reinert, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Byzantine; medieval Balkan; early Ottoman history

Gary Rendsburg, Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Ancient Israel and Egypt; Bible; history of Hebrew language

Michael Aaron Rockland, Professor of American Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota 
U.S. popular culture

Donald T. Roden, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Modern Japan; social and intellectual

Walter C. Rucker, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Riverside)
Slave culture, resistance, and identity formation in the Atlantic African diaspora

Said S. Samatar, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Modern Africa; nationalism; African literature and religion

Beryl E. Satter, Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
U.S. women; medicine

Johanna Schoen, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., North Carolina
Twentieth-century United States; public health

Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor of History, FAS-C; Ph.D., Princeton
Colonial British North America; revolutionary and early national U.S.; early modern England

Richard Sher, Distinguished Professor of History, NJIT/FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Communications, technology, and enlightenment

Peter Silver, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Colonial and revolutionary North America; American Indian

Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Early modern and modern Jewish; Eastern Europe

Bonnie G. Smith, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Modern Europe; women's and gender; global history

Whitney Strub, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-N; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Modern U.S. history; history of sexuality; film; legal, political, and cultural history

Judith Surkis, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Modern Europe and European empires, especially France and North Africa; gender and sexuality

Sarolta Anna Takács, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Roman and Byzantine history; digital humanities and social sciences

Paola Tartakoff, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Religious and cultural history of medieval Europe

Camilla Townsend, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers         
Latin America; Native America; women's and gender; early America

Gail Triner, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Latin America; Brazil

Andrew Urban, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
U.S. immigration, empire, and labor history; public history and memory

Mark Wasserman, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern Latin America; Mexico

Deborah G. White, Distinguished Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois
African American; women's and gender

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
U.S. cultural; women's and gender; migration

Yael Zerubavel, Professor of History, SAS; Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jewish social, cultural, intellectual, and literary

Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty

James Jones, Professor of Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. religions

Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty

Sandy Russell Jones, Assistant Teaching Professor in History, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Women in Islam; Islamic law; sociology of religion

 
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