Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers

Director of Graduate Programs: Karen D. Caplan, Room 311, Conklin Hall (973-353-5410)

Website: http://history.newark.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

Susan L. Carruthers, FAS-N; Ph.D., Leeds (UK)
International history; U.S. foreign relations; cultural and media history

James Goodman, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Twentieth-century United States; race; politics, history, and fiction; narrative history

Jan Ellen Lewis, FAS-N; Ph.D., Michigan
American colonial history; early national period; history of gender

Jonathan Lurie, FAS-N; Ph.D., Wisconsin
American legal history; late 19th-century American political history

Clement Alexander Price, FAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
Afro-American history; history of New Jersey; urban history; public history

Said S. Samatar, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Modern African history; African resistance movements to European imperialism

Beryl E. Satter, FAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century United States; history of women; cultural history

Richard B. Sher, NJIT; Ph.D., Chicago
Enlightenment; technology; urban culture

Odoric Y.K. Wou, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Chinese social and economic history

Associate Professors:

Karen D. Caplan, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Latin American and Caribbean history; history of Mexico

Jon Cowans, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Modern Europe; France; political culture

Gary D. Farney, FAS-N; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Roman republican history; Roman historiography; Roman archaeology

Ruth Feldstein, FAS-N; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. history, with focus on 20th-century culture and politics; women's and gender history; African-American history

Neil Maher, NJIT; Ph.D., New York
American environmental history; 20th-century United States; political and social history

Stephen Pemberton, NJIT; Ph.D., North Carolina
Twentieth-century history of medicine, biomedical sciences, and technology; history of public health

Frederick Russell, FAS-N; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Medieval Western European history; the Patristics; political theory; intellectual history

Assistant Professors:

Eva Giloi, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Nineteenth- and 20th-century European history; modern Germany; cultural history

Allison Perlman, NJIT; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Media and culture; social movements; 20th-century United States

Amita Satyal, FAS-N; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Medieval and early modern south and central Asian history; history of trade; links between ethics and economics; pastoral communities

Timothy Stewart-Winter, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern United States; sexuality/gender; urban

Whitney Strub, FAS-N; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Modern United States; sexuality; law; film; culture; politics

Nukhet Varlik, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Ottoman Empire; early modern Mediterranean; history of medicine