Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers
Director of Graduate Programs: Karen D. Caplan, Room 312, 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
Steven J. Diner, FAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
U.S. urban history; U.S. immigration history; history of American higher education; U.S. Progressive Era
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
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, NJ IT; Ph.D., Chicago
Enlightenment; technology; urban culture
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
Eva Giloi, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Nineteenth- and 20th-century European history; modern Germany; cultural 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
Assistant Professors:
Kornel Chang, FAS-N, Ph.D., Chicago
Modern United States; race, ethnicity, and immigration; Pacific world
Mark Krasovic, FAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
Modern United States; cultural; urban; public humanities
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
