Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers
Director of Graduate Programs: Kornel Chang, Room 313, Conklin Hall (973-353-5410)
Website: http://history.newark.rutgers.edu
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Professors:
Zeynep Çelik, NJIT; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Architectural history; urban history; cross-cultural history; archaeology and public history
Steven J. Diner, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
U.S. urban history; U.S. immigration history; history of American higher education; U.S. Progressive Era
Ruth Feldstein, SAS-N; Ph.D., Brown
U.S. history, with focus on 20th-century culture and politics; women's and gender history; African-American history
James Goodman, SAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Twentieth-century United States; race; politics, history, and fiction; narrative history
Louis I. Hamilton, SAS-N; Ph.D., Fordham
Medieval ritual and liturgy; Italian urban; church and canon law
Jan Ellen Lewis, SAS-N; Ph.D., Michigan
American colonial history; early national period; history of gender
Neil M. Maher, NJIT; Ph.D., New York
American environmental history; 20th-century United States; political and social history
Beryl E. Satter, SAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century United States;
history of women; cultural history
Associate Professors:
Karen D. Caplan, SAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Latin American and
Caribbean history; history of Mexico
Kornel Chang, SAS-N; Ph.D., ChicagoModern United States; race, ethnicity, and immigration; Pacific world
Jon Cowans, SAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Modern Europe; France; political culture
Gary D. Farney, SAS-N; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Roman republican history; Roman historiography; Roman archaeology
Eva Giloi, SAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton
Nineteenth- and 20th-century European history; modern Germany; cultural history
Mark Krasovic, SAS-N; Ph.D., Yale
Modern United States; cultural; urban; public humanities
Brian Phillips Murphy, SAS-N; Ph.D., Virginia
Early Republic US; political economy; corruption and corporations
Stephen Pemberton, NJIT; Ph.D., North Carolina
Twentieth-century
history of medicine, biomedical sciences, and technology; history of
public health
Timothy Stewart-Winter, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern United States; sexuality/gender; urban
Whitney Strub, SAS-N; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Modern United States; sexuality; law; film; culture; politics
Nukhet Varlik, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Ottoman Empire; early modern Mediterranean; history of
medicine
Assistant Professors:
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, SAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
East Asian history; history of science; urban history
Daniel Asen, SAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
East Asian history; history of science; urban history
Melissa L. Cooper, SAS-N; Ph.D., Rutgers
African American cultural and intellectual; African diaspora
Mayte Green-Mercado, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Islamic; early modern Spain; Mediterranean
Alison L. Lefkovitz, NJIT; Ph.D., Chicago
Legal history; history of gender and sexuality; political history
Lyra D. Monteiro, SAS-N; Ph.D., Brown
United States; African American history; race and ethnicity; public history and public memory; intersections of public humanities and public art; inclusive museum practices
Mary Rizzo, SAS-N; Ph.D., Minnesota
Public; urban studies
Habtamu Tegegne, SAS-N; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Africa; Middle East; premodern agrarian societies
Audrey Truschke, SAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
India; South Asia
Programs, Faculty, and Courses 
