Joel Allen
Ancient Rome
(Currently serving as Executive Officer of the History Program at the CUNY Graduate Center)
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352
Phone: 718-997-5350
Fax: 718-997-5359
joel.allen@qc.cuny.edu
Joel Allen is Professor of History at Queens College and Professor of History and Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center, currently serving as Executive Officer of the CUNY Graduate Center History Program. He received his Ph.D. from the Program in Ancient History in the Classics Department at Yale University. He teaches courses in ancient Greek and Roman history, including study abroad, and has occasionally stepped in to teach advanced Latin at the college. His research interests include ethnicity and education in the Roman world; his book, Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press), examined Roman attitudes toward non-Roman diplomatic hostages in policy and culture. The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar is forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2018.
Isaac Alteras
US-Israeli relations, modern Jewish history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-L
Phone: 718-997-5373
Fax: 718-997-5359
isaac.alteras@qc.cuny.edu
In addition to research, reviews and publications in the fields of US-Israeli relations and modern Jewish history, Professor Alteras taught courses in Modern Jewish History, Zionism, Modern Israel and Twentieth Century European diplomatic history. He is the author of Eisenhower and Israel: US-Israel Relations, 1953-1960 (University Press of Florida, 1993). His current research deals with the US role in the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948 to the present.
Andrew Amstutz
History of Islam, South Asia
Powdermaker Hall, Room 392-S
Andrew.Amstutz@qc.cuny.edu
Andrew Amstutz is an assistant professor of history at Queens College. He earned his PhD in South Asian history from Cornell University. His research and teaching interests center on the history of Islam and South Asia as well as the history of science, public history, and museums. He is working on a book project tentatively titled “Finding a Home for Urdu: Language and Technoscience in Muslim South Asia,” which tells the story of an influential network of Indian Muslim educators and language activists who experimented with the print technologies of Urdu and debated the role of science education in different imperial and national projects in India. He is developing a new research project that explores the global circulation of ancient Buddhist art from Pakistan during the Cold War and its role in local public history debates. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-Hays, and AIPS. He has published articles in CSSAAME and South Asia. Prior to joining Queens College, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UW–Madison and taught at UA Little Rock.
Katherine Pickering Antonova
Russia / USSR; 19th-century women, religion, conservatism; the history of textiles; historical methods and writing
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-ZZ
Phone: 718-997-5053
Fax: 718-997-5359
katherine.antonova@qc.cuny.edu
personal website
Katherine Pickering Antonova is Professor of History specializing in Europe and Russia / the Soviet Union. She earned her B.A. at the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her first book was An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her second scholarly monograph, currently in progress, examines secret police prosecutions of religious sectarians and their followers from 1800-1830. Her work on proto-industrial textile production and regional economic development can be found in The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Регионы Российской империи: Идентичность, репрезентация, (на)значение (Regions of the Russian Empire: Identity, Representation, Meaning, NLO Press Historia Rossica, 2021). She also published The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays (Oxford University Press, 2022) and is co-writing a book on how to write reviews.
Elissa Bemporad
Russian and Eastern European Jewish history, gender, genocide studies
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
Phone: 718-997-5365
Fax: 718-997-5359
elissa.bemporad@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu
Professor Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in History from Stanford University, an MA in Modern Jewish Studies from the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a BA in Slavic Studies from Bologna University (Italy). She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. Her new book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor with Joyce Warren of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators (Indiana University Press, 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and in Spring, 2018 she was an ARC Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the Graduate Center. Dr. Bemporad's projects in progress include research for a biography of Ester Frumkin, the most prominent Jewish female political activist and public figure in late Imperial Russia and in the early Soviet Union.
Francesca Bregoli
Early modern Jewish history, Sephardi history, Italy
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-YY
Phone: 718-997-5410
Fax: 718-997-5359
francesca.bregoli@qc.cuny.edu
people@QC website
Francesca Bregoli holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies, and is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Jewish Art and Material Culture from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and her undergraduate degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Venice (Italy). Her research concentrates on eighteenth-century Italian and Sephardic Jewish history. Her current research looks at the creation and preservation of affective ties and bonds of obligation in trans-Mediterranean Jewish merchant families. She is the author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (Stanford University Press, 2014; finalist for the National Jewish Book Award). She co-edited Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective (2010, special issue of Jewish History; with Federica Francesconi); Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean (Palgrave, 2018; with Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz), and Connecting Histories: Jews and their Others in Early Modern Europe(Penn Press, 2019; with David B. Ruderman). Francesca serves as Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kristin Celello
US women's history, marriage, divorce, family, single motherhood
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352XX
Phone: 718-997-5358
Fax: 718-997-5359
kristin.celello@qc.cuny.edu
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Kristin Celello is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 2004. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and the co-editor of a volume titled Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her current book project is After Divorce: Parents, Children, and the Modern American Family.
Peter Conolly-Smith
US immigration history, film
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-V
Phone: 718-997-5380
Fax: 718-997-5359
peter.conollysmith@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Peter Conolly-Smith holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He is the author of Translating America: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1890-1918 (Smithsonian Press, 2004) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, history, literature, drama, and film.
Sarah Covington
Early modern Britain and Ireland, martyrdom, memory, Reformation
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-C
Phone: 718-997-5393
Fax: 718-997-5359
sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu
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Sarah Covington is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, as well as director of both the QC Irish Studies Program and the MA Program in Biography and Memoir at the Graduate Center. Specializing in early modern England and Ireland, she has published two monographs: The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) and Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (Palgrave-McMillan, 2009). She has also co-edited Early Modern Ireland: New Perspectives and Approaches (Routledge) and the forthcoming Explorations in Protestant Aesthetics (Routledge). Her forthcoming book, Bitter Inheritance: the Afterlives of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and will explore the social memory of this most hated enemy in the Irish historical, literary and folkloric imagination over three centuries. Her other projects include a monograph on the theological and literary reinterpretations of problematic biblical characters and episodes (Judas, Gethsemane) in the wake of the sixteenth-century reformation; and, returning to Ireland, a book on John O’Donovan and his Ordnance Survey letters. She has written over thirty articles for journals and collections, including the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Albion, Book History, Reformation, the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, History, and Mortality, and received fellowships at Marsh’s Library in Dublin and the National University of Ireland Galway. At Queens, she has taught classes on the history of religious violence, crime and punishment in early modern Europe, the history of the devil, the history of the body, the history of Christianity, history and memory in Ireland, popular culture in early modern Europe, the British empire and national identity, the history of Scotland, and various topics in Tudor and Stuart England.
Evan M. Daniel
Labor history, social history, comparative politics, international political economy
evan.daniel@qc.cuny.edu
Evan Daniel, a PhD candidate at the New School for Social Science Research, specializes in intellectual and social history, immigrant radicalism, and 19th-century political thought. He is also affiliated with the SEEK Program at Queens College. In his work, Evan Daniel emphasizes the intersections of empirical and theoretical concerns, including immigration and transnationalism, American citizenship, ethnic identity, radical political movements and revolutions, labor and politics, and archives and public history. He is also interested in the historical development of anarchism, Marxism, syndicalism, and American conservatism. He previously taught American history at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and Latin American history, Caribbean history, and labor history at other colleges and universities in New York City. Prior to teaching, Daniel was an archivist at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.
Grace Davie
Modern Africa, South Africa, Postwar U.S., History of Science, Labor History, Social Movements
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-L
Phone: 718-997-5381
Fax: 718-997-5359
grace.davie@qc.cuny.edu
Grace Davie earned her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Michigan. Grace has received fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Her first book was Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has published essays in The Journal of Southern African Studies, OD Practitioner, and Politique Africaine. Her current book, Webs of Power: Labor Union Corporate Campaigns in the United States, 1960-2015 (forthcoming in 2023 from University of North Carolina Press, Justice Power Politics series), tells the story of civil rights activists, New Left radicals, and activist-researchers who used power mapping to develop strategies and tactics for struggling labor unions in a period of rapid transformation, financialization, and anti-union repression. Grace is developing a new research project on the transnational history of anti-apartheid activism. Along with courses on research and writing for MA students, Grace has taught courses on Africa, South Africa, the global anti-apartheid movement, truth commissions, and historical approaches to social memory. She has been an ARC faculty fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, also at the Grad Center.
Natanya Duncan
20th Century US History/ Nationalism and Social Movements in the Modern African Diaspora / Women, Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora / and Caribbean Migration/ African American Women's History
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352X
Fax: 718-997-5359
Natanya.Duncan@qc.cuny.edu
Natanya Duncan is the Director of Africana Studies at Queens College City University of New York and an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora. Her forthcoming University of Illinois Press book, An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, focuses on the distinct activist strategies in-acted by women in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which Duncan calls an efficient womanhood. Following the ways women in the UNIA scripted their own understanding of Pan Africanism, Black Nationalism and constructions of Diasporic Blackness, the work traces the blending of nationalist and gendered concerns amongst known and lesser known Garveyite women. Duncan’s publications include works that explore the leadership models of UNIA women and include “Now in Charge of the American Field”: Maymie De Mena and Charting the UNIA’s New Course” in Journal of Liberty Hall (Vol. 3 2017); "Henrietta Vinton Davis: The Lady of the Race" in Journal of New York History (Fall 2014 Vol 95 No. 4); “Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience” in The American South and the Atlantic World (University of Florida Press, 2013).
Most recently she co-edited a special volume of Caribbean Women and Gender Studies Journal “Gender and Anti-colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean” published December 2018.
Elena Frangakis-Syrett
Mediterranean and Ottoman Studies ,1670s-1920s; Economic history (commercial, financial, monetary); Regions: Ottoman Anatolia (Izmir); Greece (Peloponnese); the Aegean islands (Chios, Crete); Syria (Aleppo); historian of port-cities (Izmir, Alexandria).
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5351
Fax: 718-997-5359
elena.frangakis-syrett@qc.cuny.edu
People@QC website
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Elena Frangakis-Syrett is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Born in Alexandria of Greek parents (from Chios and Lemnos), she grew up in Athens and London. She studied in London and Paris and holds a PhD in Economic History from King’s College, University of London. A
Fellow of England's Royal Historical Society, she has also been Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Senior Fellow at Koç University, İstanbul, Visiting Professor at the İzmir University of Economics. In the Fall semester 2020 she served as virtual Visiting Professor at the İzmir University of Economics and in the spring Semester 2020 she was CUNY Distinguished Fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative on global port-cities. She currently serves as Chair of the History Panel, PSC-CUNY Research Awards Program, 2019-2025.
Publications and Research interests:
Professor Frangakis-Syrett’s research interests relate to the social and economic history (commercial, monetary and financial) of the Mediterranean at large, and of the Ottoman Empire in particular, (Western Turkey, Syria, Southern Greece, Aegean islands) from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries, with emphasis on the economic relations (trade, finance, investments) between the city of İzmir/Smyrna and the West. Her most recent book is The Port-City in the Ottoman Middle East at the Age of Imperialism (2017). She co-edited with T. Allain & S. Lupo, Au coeur des mutations du négoce en Méditerranée (2019) https://doi.org/10.4000/rives.6671. Her other books include Trade and Money: The Ottoman Economy in the 18th and early 19th centuries (2007) and Οι Χιώτες έμποροι στις διεθνείς συναλλαγές, 1750-1850 [Chiot Merchants in International Exchange] (1995). The Commerce of Smyrna, 1700-1820 (1992) was published in Turkish, 18. Yűzyılda İzmir’de Ticaret (2006) and in Greek, Το εμπόριο της Σμύρνης το 18o αιώνα (2010). She regularly gives lectures in the United States, Europe and Turkey and has published numerous articles in international journals.
Other publications and professional activities:
While resident in Turkey, in 2011-2012, she hosted faculty seminars on the development of banking in the 19th- and early 20th-century Middle East, one of her research projects, at Koç University, in İzmir University of Economics and at Istanbul’s Institut Français des Études Anatoliennes and on which she published “The Ottoman Monetary System and Early Banking in the Ottoman Empire”, in History From Below: Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert, eds., S. Karahasanoğlu et al (2016). Her other current research interests relate to business networks in the Mediterranean on which she published “Capital Accumulation and Family Business Networks in Late Ottoman Izmir”, International Journal of Turkish Studies (2015) and “Le rôle des réseaux dans l’organisation commerciale. Les Britanniques à Smyrne, 1860s-1920s” in Au coeur des mutations du négoce en Méditerranée (2019). She returned to İzmir University of Economics as Visiting Professor in Fall 2019 where she lectured on Izmir’s Levantine community and on the production and trade of Anatolian cotton, 1700-1914, which was published in Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia, eds., E. Boyar & K. Fleet (2021). Her latest article “Transnational Trajectories: From Chios to London Through Alexandria, a Family Story”, has been published in Mediterranean Port Cities, eds., E. Özveren, et al (2023). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-32326-3
Special emphasis in her work has been given on the port-cities of Izmir and Patras, and more recently on Alexandria, as well as on the Aegean islands of Chios and Crete. On the latter island’s economy, she published “Évolution du commerce maritime en Méditerranée orientale au XVIIIe siècle”, La Maritmisation du Monde, GIS d’histoire maritime, CNRS (2016). As part of her current research project on the commodities trade of the Middle East and the global markets, she published “XVII. Yüzyıl Başlından XX. Yüzyıl Başlarına kadar Krala Gemiyle İzmirden Giden Sultaniye Kuru Üzüm İhracatı”, in Üzümün Akdeniz’deki Yolculuğu, eds., E. Akpınar & E. Tükenmez (2017).
More recently, continuing her research on the global markets, as CUNY ARC Distinguished Fellow she presented, on 7 March 2020 at the CUNY, Graduate Center, NYC, “Genoa and Izmir in the Early Modern Global Economy, 1500s-1700s”. During the pandemic, on December 23, 2020, as virtual Visiting Professor in the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, she lectured on zoom, on The Plague in the Ottoman Middle East: Izmir’s Response, 1700s-early 1800s and again on zoom she presented “Networking in Izmir’s Corporate Commercial World in the Late Ottoman Period”, at the Izmir Kâtip Çelebi Űniversitesi International Conference, on March 24, 2022.
Arnold Franklin
Medieval Cairo, Geniza, Jewish history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352W
Phone: 718-997-5497
Fax: 718-997-5359
arnold.franklin@qc.cuny.edu
Associate Professor Arnold Franklin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has taught at New York University, University of California, Davis, and Hunter College. Dr. Franklin’s research focuses on medieval Jewish history in the Arabic-speaking world. His first book, This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Islamic East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), explores the profound concern with lineage that developed among Jews living in Muslim lands during the Middle Ages. He also co-edited Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Brill, 2014).
Joshua B. Freeman
US labor history, New York City
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Y
Phone: 718-997-5047
Fax: 718-997-5359
jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu
Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is associated with its Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. Professor Freeman received a BA from Harvard University and MA and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He previously taught at Columbia University and the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He has written extensively about the history of labor, modern America, and New York City. His books include American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 (Viking, 2012), Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (New Press, 2000) and In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 (Oxford University Press, 1989; reprinted with Temple University Press, 2001). With Steve Fraser he co-edited Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Renewal of America (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), and he co-authored with a team of scholars Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society, volume 2 (Pantheon Books, 1992). He has written articles and book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and The Nation and served as co-editor of the journal International Labor and Working-Class History. Professor Freeman has appeared in a number of television documentaries, including Ric Burns's New York: A Documentary Film.
Aaron Freundschuh
Modern France, crime, urban history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-J
Phone: 718-997-5227
Fax: 718-997-5359
aaron.freundschuh@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Aaron Freundschuh is the History Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. He earned a PhD in History at University of California, Berkeley, and has taught modern European and U.S. history at universities in France and the United States. He was the recipient of a 2015-16 Queens College teaching award. His research deals with urban history, criminality and policing, with an emphasis on contemporary Paris. His book The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris appeared with Stanford University Press in 2017.
Carol Giardina
US women's liberation movement
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-D
Phone: 718-997-5384
Fax: 718-997-5359
carol.giardina@qc.cuny.edu
Carol Giardina is Associate Professor of History, specializing in contemporary U.S. history and women’s history. She earned her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of Freedom For Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 (University Press of Florida, 2010) as well as other articles on the Second Wave of Feminism in the U.S. She is presently working on a biography of Second Wave founder Judith Brown and a history of the feminist movement in Florida. She teaches Women’s Studies, Contemporary U.S. History, and U.S. Labor History.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
Gender, Puerto Rico
Kiely Hall, Room 413
Phone: 718-997-5550
Fax: 718-997-
qcpres@qc.cuny.edu
Felix Matos Rodriguez is the Chancellor of the City University of New York, as well as a full professor in the QC History Department. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and his BA from Yale University. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of six volumes, including Women and Urban Life in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868 (University Press of Florida, 1999). He has held multiple administrative posts both in academia and government, notably as past Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Family Services in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as past President of Hostos Community College, and as past Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
Thomas Ort
East-Central Europe, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, modernism, the avant-garde, memory
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-N
Phone: 718-997-5363
Fax: 718-997-5359
thomas.ort@qc.cuny.edu
Thomas Ort is Associate Professor of modern European history and Director of the Honors in the Social Sciences program at Queens College. He received his PhD from New York University and his BA from Brown University. The main focus of his research has been on modernist and avant-garde movements in early twentieth-century Czechoslovakia, but his most recent work concerns the politics of memory in postwar Eastern Europe. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. It was subsequently translated into Czech under the title Umění a život v modernistické Praze: Karel Čapek a jeho generace, 1911-1938 and published in Prague in 2016. His new book project, Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, challenges conventional understandings of "memory" through an examination of the ever-evolving interpretations of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, the SS general and architect of the Final Solution who was assassinated in Prague in 1942.
Kristina L. Richardson
Medieval Islamic history, Romani and other traveling peoples, print culture, Basra
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-S
Phone: 718-997-5048
Fax: 718-997-5359
kristina.richardson@qc.cuny.edu
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Kristina Richardson (PhD, University of Michigan; AB, Princeton University) is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture and Migration (I. B. Tauris, 2021). She co-produced with Boris Liebrenz (Leipzig) a study and Arabic edition of The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver (Orient-Institut Beirut, 2021). She is currently preparing a history of Basra, Iraq, from the 7th to 10th centuries, centered on the lives of African and Indian enslaved and free residents.
She held a European Commission-funded Marie Curie fellowship at Universität Münster from 2012 to 2014 and a research fellowship at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg for Mamluk Studies at Universität Bonn in 2014-2015. In Fall 2017, she was a Visiting Researcher at Universität München. In summer 2019 and for all of 2020, she held two NEH research awards.
Professor Richardson is a member of several press editorial boards and serves as an editor of Der Islam journal.
Morris Rossabi
Mongolia, China, East Asia
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-I
Phone: 718-997-5382
Fax: 718-997-5359
morris.rossabi@qc.cuny.edu
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Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Morris Rossabi (Ph.D. Columbia University) is the author or editor of 26 books, including Khubilai Khan, China and Inner Asia, Modern Mongolia, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia, A History of China, and Voyager from Xanadu and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. He has conducted research in East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. Collaborating on art exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, he has written four chapters for the authoritative Cambridge History of China. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia, and in 2018, he will be giving lectures at Bonn University and Harvard's I Tatti Center in Florence and will be giving the keynote address at Conference on "Eurasian Connections" at Shanghai, New York University.
Kara Schlichting
19th- and 20th-Century America, New York City, Environmental History, History of City Planning
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-O
Phone: 718-997-5367
Fax: 718-997-5359
kara.schlichting@qc.cuny.edu
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Kara Schlichting is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University in 2014. Her work in late-19th and 20th-century American History sits at the intersection of urban, environmental, and political history, with a particular focus on property regimes and regional planning in greater New York City. Schlichting is a co-editor of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews. Schlichting's 2019 book New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore is part of the University of Chicago Press's History of Urban America series. Her teaching interests range from the history of 1960s America, the city in American history, the history of New York City, and environmental history. Her new research on tideland property development investigates how legal theory, coastal resiliency planning, and land politics shape American waterfronts.
Miryam Segal
Law and legal history, Hebrew literature and literary history, biblical and Jewish law
Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, 2022-2023
Associate Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Miryam Segal is associate professor of History at Queens College, and of Middle Eastern Studies and Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. In 2022-23 she is also Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law School. Her first monograph, A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics Accent, was about the fraught transition from one set of pronunciations and dialects to “new accent” Hebrew through literary and pedagogic institutions in Palestine in the early 20th century. She has also co-edited a volume on “the embarrassment of Scriptures” (Vixens Disturbing Vineyards), and is editor of a forthcoming collected volume on Jewish family law that aims to reframe that sub-field (2023), and is completing "Working Writers,” a manuscript on the intertwined gender politics of Labor Zionism and of Hebrew poetry in early twentieth century Jewish Palestine. Her new research is on vows in Jewish law, and oaths in Anglo-American law.
She earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard College, her doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from Yale Law School. Before coming to CUNY, she was assistant professor in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.
Julia Sneeringer
Modern Germany, pop culture
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5350
Fax: 718-997-5359
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu
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Julia Sneeringer is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in German from Temple University. A historian of 20th century Germany, she also offers courses on modern Europe, including Fascism and Nazism, Europe Since 1945, politics and culture in Weimar Germany, the history of youth, and the history of women and gender in modern Europe. She is the author of Winning Women’s Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). More recently, she has published numerous articles on tourism in Hamburg’s red-light district, Beatlemania in West and East Germany, and youth culture in 1960s Hamburg. Her book A Social History of Early Rock’n’Roll in Germany: Hamburg From Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Fidel J. Tavárez
Latin American, Spanish, Atlantic, and Global History
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
ftavarez@qc.cuny.edu
http://www.fideltavarez.com/
Fidel J. Tavárez is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College and a scholar of the early modern Spanish Atlantic. Broadly speaking, his research explores how the Hispanic world—including Spain and Latin America—governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The Imperial Machine: Assembling the Spanish Commercial Empire in the Age of Enlightenment. Committed to cultivating wide-ranging curiosity, Dr. Tavárez offers courses on Latin American, Atlantic, and global history. Before joining Queens College's History Department, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Global History of the Freie Universität Berlin and a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University, a B.A. in history at The City College of New York, and an A.A. in Social Sciences and Humanities at LaGuardia Community College.
Peter G. Vellon
Modern United States, Italian-American history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Q
Phone: 718-997-5299
Fax: 718-997-5359
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu
Peter G. Vellon is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. He earned his PhD in History from the Graduate Center/CUNY in 2003 and is the author of A Great Conspiracy Against our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century (New York University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of What is Italian America? Selected Essays from the Italian American Studies Association (Bordighera Press, 2015). His articles have appeared in The Ethnic Studies Review, the Italian American Review, the Journal of Urban History, and he has published several book chapters. At Queens College he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in late 19th and early 20th century immigration, Italian American history, the United States and the Vietnam War, America in the 1970s, and special seminars in the Macaulay Honors College, such as the People of NYC. His research interests include the intersection of race, whiteness, and identity, as well as the interchange between white ethnics and African Americans during the 20th century.
Bobby A. Wintermute
US military history, gender, race
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Z
Phone: 718-997-5120
Fax: 718-997-5359
bobby.wintermute@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Bobby Wintermute received his BA from Montclair State University in 1991, his MA from East Stroudsburg University in 1997, and his PhD from Temple University in 2006. His research focus is on topics related to War and Society studies, a sub-field within the broader discipline of Military History, and the US Army from 1890 through the Progressive Era and World War II. This is reflected in his published work, where he has written on military medicine and public health (Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of The Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 - Routledge, 2010), race and gender studies (Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare – DeGruyter, 2019), and religion and war (Great War, Religious Dimensions – Cambridge University Press, 2020). His teaching covers a broad range of social and cultural topics related to war, military culture, and American military history, as well as the history of American foreign policy. He has also taught oral history practices and methods on the undergraduate and graduate level, having received his training at the University of California-Berkeley Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office.
Professor Wintermute is currently preparing a second edition of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare. He is also working on a study of prisons, crime, and military service in the United States during the First World War, focusing on Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. He has received grants from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, where he was scholar-in-residence in 2004. Dr. Wintermute directed the Queens College Veteran Alumni project, a student-based oral history outreach initiative aimed at preserving the memory of veterans from the borough of Queens, from 2007 until 2018. He was also a founding co-host of the New Books in Military History podcast. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department at Queens College.
Hobbies and pastimes include global and American travel, cooking, hosting friends and family for parties and dinners, music (live and recorded), film (cheesy and serious), gaming (tabletop rpgs, computer games, and board games), and exploring abandoned locations.
Michael Wolfe
Early modern France, Urban and military history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 335
Phone: 718-997-5211
Fax: 718-997-
michael.wolfe@qc.cuny.edu
Michael Wolfe is professor of history at Queens College. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from Boston University. A specialist of early modern European history, his studies include works on the intersection between politics and religious belief, technology and craft practices, cities and siege warfare, and landscapes and cartography. He has published extensively on these topics, including some thirty articles and essays as well as eight books. Among his most recent titles are Recovering 9/11 in New York (2014), Natalie Zemon Davis and the Passion of History (2009), Walled Towns and the Shaping of France (2009), and Senses of Place: Inventing Landscapes in Medieval Western Europe (2002). In addition, he is involved in a number of editing ventures, serving as chief review editor for H-France and series editor for Early Modern Studies & Translations published by Truman State University Press.
Warren T. Woodfin
Art and archaeology of Byzantium
Klapper Hall, Room 164
Phone: 718-997-4816
Fax: 718-997-4835
warren.woodfin@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu
Warren Woodfin is Kallinikeion Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Queens College, and holds joint appointments in the Departments of History and Art History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002. Woodfin’s research focuses on the art and archaeology of Byzantium and its cultural sphere in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. He has a particular interest in textiles and dress, and is the author of The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the co-editor, with Mateusz Kapustka, of Clothing the Sacred: Medieval Textiles as Fabric, Form and Metaphor (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2016). For the past several years, he has been collaborating with a research team of U.S. and Ukraine based scholars to study a medieval burial complex, the Chungul Kurgan, in the Black Sea steppe. His preliminary article on the project (co-authored with Renata Holod and Yuriy Rassamakin) appeared in Ars Orientalis 38 (2010). He has also published articles in the journals Art Bulletin, Cahiers Archéologiques, Gesta, and Dumbarton Oaks Papers, and has contributed essays to various edited volumes, including Experiencing Byzantium (Ashgate, 2013). Prior to joining the faculty at Queens College, Woodfin held teaching and research posts at Duke, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Metropolitan Museum, and the University of Zurich. In spring 2016, he was a resident Fellow at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.
Frank H. Wu
Frank H. Wu joined the history department when he was named President of Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), in 2020; he is on leave while serving as President. Prior to then, he served as Chancellor & Dean, and then William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Before joining UC Hastings, he was a member of the faculty at Howard University, the nation’s leading historically black college/university (HBCU), for a decade. He served as Dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of Detroit, and he has been a visiting professor at University of Michigan; an adjunct professor at Columbia University; and a Thomas C. Grey Teaching Fellow at Stanford University. He taught at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in its inaugural year and again a decade later, and at Johns Hopkins University twice.
Professor Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in its hardcover edition, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, which received the single greatest grant from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. He received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. with honors from the University of Michigan.
Edgar J. McManus
US constitutional history, slavery, New York, Bill of Rights
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-F
Phone: 718-997-5363
Fax: 718-997-5359
edgar.mcmanus@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Edgar McManus earned a PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of A History of Negro Slavery in New York (Syracuse University Press, 1966), Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse University Press, 1973) and Law and Liberty in Early New England: Criminal Justice and Due Process, 1620-92 (University of Massachusetts, 1993). He also co-authored Liberty and Union: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 1 (Routledge).
John M. O'Brien
Medieval Europe, Alexander the Great
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-H
Phone: 718-997-5362
Fax: 718-997-5359
john.obrien@qc.cuny.edu
Professor John O'Brien received his PhD from the University of Southern California. He teaches courses in ancient and medieval European history. He is the author of Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy (Routledge, 1994) and numerous articles in scholarly journals on social and religious history. He has published on Jews and heretics in medieval Europe and has written for the Encyclopedia Judaica. Professor O'Brien has been the recipient of three Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching at Queens College and has received an award from the National Conference on Christians and Jews for his lectures on Antisemitism.
Mark W. Rosenblum
Modern Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, conflict resolution
mark.rosenblum@qc.cuny.edu
Mark W. Rosenblum is Associate Professor Emeritus of History. He served as Director of the Michael Harrington Center and was also Director of the Center for Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Understanding. The author of numerous scholarly and popular articles on his field of expertise, the Middle East, Professor Rosenblum has appeared as a Middle East analyst on CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. He has met with virtually all the major players in the region, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, King Abdullah II, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. His project, The Middle East and America: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of Minds, seeks modes of reconciliation for all interested in the Middle East, and recently won a major Ford Foundation grant. He was also one of two winners of an award in the field of Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation by the Clinton Global Initiative. In 1999 the Forward newspaper named Professor Rosenblum as one of the 50 most influential American Jews, and in 2003 he received the Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Donald M. Scott
18th- and 19th-century United States
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352
Phone: 718-997-
Fax: 718-997-5359
donald.scott@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Donald Scott earned his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin. Among his books are The Myth-Making Frame of Mind: Essays in American Culture (Wadsworth, 1992), edited with James Gilbert, Amy Gilmore & Joan W. Scott; In Pursuit of Liberty (Random House, 1983) with R.J. Wilson, James Gilbert, and Steven Nissenbaum, and Karen Kuperman; and America's Families: A Documentary History (Harper & Row, 1981) with Bernard W. Wishy.
Frank A. Warren
Modern United States, 20th-century liberalism
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-O
Phone: 718-997-5378
Fax: 718-997-5359
frank.warren@qc.cuny.edu
Frank A. Warren is Professor Emeritus of History. He earned his PhD in history from Brown University. His books include Liberals and Communism: The Red Decade Revisited (Indiana University Press, 1966), An Alternative Vision: The Socialist Party in the 1930s (Indiana University Press, 1974) and Noble Abstractions: American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II (Ohio State University Press, 1999). He also co-edited The New Deal: An Anthology with Michael Wreszin (Crowell, 1968).
Margaret Bostwick
17th-century England, Quakers, radical religious sects and politics
Kiely Hall, Room 137
Phone: 718-997-4848
Fax: 718-997-4849
emhist@aol.com
Margaret Bostwick received her BA in social science/anthropology from New York University, her MA in history from Queens College, and her MPhil in early modern European history from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently a Graduate Center doctoral student completing a dissertation on 17th-century Quakers.
Harriet Davis-Kram
US women's history, US labor history, immigration, New York City
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-M
Phone: 718-997-5368
Fax: 718-997-5359
harriet.daviskram@qc.cuny.edu
Dr. Harriet Davis-Kram earned an MA in history at Hunter College, writing a thesis about Jewish women in 19th-century Russian revolutionary movements. She also holds a PhD in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she submitted a dissertation titled "No More a Stranger and Alone: Trade Union, Socialist and Feminist Action: A Route to Becoming an American." Dr. Davis-Kram has been teaching at Queens College for over twenty years and also works as a guide on New York City social history walking tours. She gives lectures all over New York State for the New York Council for the Humanities and has been repeatedly named one of the best lecturers for the Council program. She also worked as a guider for the United States Information Bureau. Her job was to meet groups of foreign visitors with special interests in American cities. She would take them to different sections of the city, lecturing and answering questions for three hours or more.
Andrew Alger
Islamic Civilization, Legal History, History of Forced Migration
Powdermaker 352-T
asalger87@gmail.com
Andrew received a BA and MA in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Chicago and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation examines urban development and public space in twentieth-century Baghdad. His other research interests include modern Arabic literature, the social history of medicine and disease, and history of the emotions. Andrew has been the recipient of numerous research and travel grants, including a year-long fellowship to study advanced Arabic at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo and a five-year Graduate Teaching Fellowship at the Graduate Center.
Margaret M. Bostwick
Medieval and Early Modern English History, radical political and religious ideas in the 17th century, women history
mbostwick@jjay.cuny.edu
Alexander Gailing
Alexander.Gailing@qc.cuny.edu
Lisa V. Betty
Lecturer
Department of History and Africana program
Lisa V. Betty (she/her) teaches on themes of land, labor, migration, and diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa. In addition to university teaching, Lisa has worked in the field of nonprofit advocacy serving in organizations and university-based institutions and programs that advocate for learners, children, families, immigrants, and incarcerated people. Lisa is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in History at Fordham University where her dissertation focuses on the segmented diaspora and migration stories of Cuban-Jamaican families in eastern Cuba and The Bronx. She is a Community Researcher for the Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University and The Bronx County Historical Society supporting community-based oral history initiatives. Lisa received a Bachelor of Arts in History from George Washington University, a Master of Arts in History from Howard University, and a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Sociocultural History from New York University.
Tracey Billado
Tracey Billado-Lotson earned her A.B. in history from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in European history from Emory University. Her teaching interests range widely within the fields of pre-modern European and Mediterranean history, including conflict, law, violence, persecution, noble culture, unfreedoms, crusading, art and material culture, historiography, Saga Iceland, and classical reception and medievalism. Her research focuses on dispute-processing and violence in France during the central Middle Ages and has received support from the Newberry Library, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also has an interest in paleography, codicology, and archival studies which she developed as a graduate exchange student at the École Nationale des Chartes (Sorbonne) in Paris. Her current project examines political, social, and legal relationships among lay lords, ecclesiastical lords, and peasants in eleventh-century western France. Two pieces of this research are forthcoming in 2024: a study of feuds waged by monks and nuns against their enemies, and a study of peasants who fought against claims that they were serfs.
Stephen F. Haller
American history
Dr. Haller earned his M.A. and PhD from St John's University. His research area focuses on the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment ideas in Early American Education. He wrote his dissertation on Rev. Charles Nisbet of Dickinson College and the role these ideas factored into his lectures and writings.
Riley Kellogg
American History, Religious History, US Legal History
Powdermaker 352-F
Riley.Kellogg@qc.cuny.edu
Riley Kellogg is a PhD student in American History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on the intersection of religious and legal histories in the US. She received her BA in Religion from Hunter College, and her MA in Religion from Columbia University. She has taught at Bloomfield College in New Jersey as well as Hunter and Queens Colleges. Riley was a long-time participant in the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she presented research in progress under the title “Strange Bedfellows: Religion, Law, and Politics in the American Healthcare Arena” in 2018.
Andrew Lang
Andrew.Lang@qc.cuny.edu
Sean Griffin
U.S. History, History of Labor
Powdermaker 352-T
sgriffin@qc.cuny.edu
Sean Griffin received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. His current book project, Labor, Land, and Freedom: Labor Reformers and the Rise of Antislavery Politics, examines the contributions of the pre-Civil War labor reform movement to the ideological underpinnings and popular appeal of political antislavery. His broader research interests include transnational histories of slavery and antislavery, nineteenth-century political and economic history, and African-American history, and his work has recently appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era. He currently teaches the U.S. survey course as well as courses in Labor History and Constitutional History.
Idan Liav
idan.liav@qc.cuny.edu
Idan Liav is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Queens College and is a PhD Student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He earned his second M.A. in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and his M.A in Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, and B.A. in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Idan's research is focused on the history of memory and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More specifically, he examines the intersection of Holocaust memory and the memory of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948.
Miriam Liebman
Early American History, Women's and Gender History, Age of Revolutions, Diplomatic and Political History
Miriam Liebman is a History PhD Candidate in early American history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also the Gardiner Archival Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her dissertation, "A Tale of Two Cities: American Women in London and Paris, 1780-1800," argues that elite American women acted in diplomatic capacities abroad in the Age of Revolutions. Her dissertation research has received support from the PhD Program in History at the Graduate Center, the Early Research Initiative in American Studies, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, the Colonial Dames of America, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Myles McDonnell
Ancient Greek and Roman History
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-X
Phone: 718-997-5372
Fax: 718-997-
catulussr@gmail.com
Myles McDonnell received a B.A. in History from Queens College, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia. He has published on various aspects of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan cultures and history, and is the author of Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic (CUP 2006, pbk 2010). He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1998), and from 2004-7 was Director of the American Academy's Classical Summer School in Ancient Roman Topography. He has taught at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, the University of Washington, as well as at Brooklyn and Baruch Colleges. In 2020-21 he was Professor-in-Charge of The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.
Sophia McGee
International Affairs, the Middle East, and conflict studies
Powdermaker Hall, Room
Phone: 718-997-53
Fax: 718-997-5359
Professor McGee is the Director of the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU) at Queens College, where she is also an adjunct lecturer in the History Department. She teaches a series of courses about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict that are part of the “America and the Middle East: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of Minds” series. Sophia holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University. Her concentration was Conflict and Security, and her regional area of specialization was the Middle East with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. In addition, Sophia is an SIIS Fellow at Brandeis University. Ms. McGee was a participant in the inaugural CUNY TEDx, where her TED talk was entitled “Learning to Take the Leap of Faith.” She has also spoken about her work on the Brian Lehrer show, as well as at numerous conferences and gatherings at Columbia University, The New School, Queens College, for the International Society of Political Psychology, and most recently at the Urban Clinic at Hebrew University.
Patrick McGough
Ireland
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-F
Phone: 718-997-5393
Fax: 718-997-5359
patrick.mcgough@qc.cuny.edu
Originally from county Louth, Patrick did his graduate work at SUNY Stony Brook, under the direction of Prof. Karl Bottigheimer, one of America's leading Irish historians. Since 1994, he has lectured on Irish and Irish-American History at Queens College, and has also conducted tutorials and directed readings for students undertaking specialized study in these areas. From an initial concentration on early modern Ireland, his more recent work has included an emphasis on 20th-century Ireland and 19th-century Irish-America.
Laura J. Ping
American History, Women’s History, Cultural History, Visual Culture, Fashion History
Powdermaker 352-T
pinglaura17@gmail.com
Laura J. Ping received her Ph.D in American History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2018. Ping’s current book manuscript, Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Dress in Nineteenth-Century America analyzes the cultural and political impact of the dress reform movement on the nineteenth-century woman’s movement in the United States. Ping has been awarded a 2020-2021 David Jaffe Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture from the American Antiquarian Society. Her past research fellowships include: the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of New York, the E.P. Thompson Dissertation Award, and the Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies. Her article entitled “‘He May Sneer at the Course We are Pursuing to Gain Justice': Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck, The Sibyl and Corresponding about Women's Suffrage” was published in the Summer/Fall 2017 issue of New York History Journal. Ping is also the co-author of Catharine Beecher: The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America, which is forthcoming from Routledge Press.
Moshe Shur
Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah
Jefferson Hall, Room 308
Phone: 718-570-0369
Fax: 718-997-4532
moshe.shur@qc.cuny.edu
Rabbi Shur is director of the Queens College Hillel Foundation and Adjunct Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the College. He is an honors graduate in History from Columbia University and in Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He holds a Juris Doctor (cum laude) from Wayne State University Law School, and an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan and Rabbinic Smicha from Jerusalem.
Mark Simon
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-X
Phone: 718-997-5364
Fax: 718-997-5359
mark.simon@qc.cuny.edu
Chandni Tariq
ctariq@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Thomas Tilitz
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-M
Phone: 718-997-5364
Fax: 718-997-5359
thomas.tilitz@qc.cuny.edu
Loucas Tsilas
International diplomatic history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-X
Phone: 718-997-5353
Fax: 718-997-5359
loucas.tsilas@qc.cuny.edu
Ambassador Loucas Tsilas earned bachelor's degrees in law and economics from the University of Athens, and a master's degree in international relations at the State University of Louisiana. During his 35 years with the Greek Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Tsilas served as Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece, Ambassador to South Africa, Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and Permanent Representative to the European Union, Brussels. Subsequently, for 15 years, he was the Executive Director of the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) and a member of its board.
Evan Turiano
Antebellum United States History, History of Slavery and Antislavery
Powdermaker 352-T
Evan Turiano is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Queens College and is a PhD Student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He earned his M.A. in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and his B.A. in American Studies from Trinity College, CT. His research examines the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, the secession crisis, and antebellum legal culture. He has received fellowships from the City University of New York, the Colonial Dames of America, and the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, and his writing has appeared in Muster: The Blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era as well as the Activist History Review. He is also Co-Chair of the CUNY Early American Republic Seminar.
Erin Wuebker
American history, women & gender, sexuality, public health, popular culture
Powdermaker 352-M
ewuebker@qc.cuny.edu
Erin Wuebker received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches in the Women & Gender Studies Program as well as the History Department, offering courses in the history of sexuality, women & gender, public health, family, comic books, and American history. Her research looks at the culture and politics of public health and venereal disease in 20th-century America.
Her writing has appeared on Notches and Nursing Clio and in the volume Poverty in American Popular Culture. In addition to teaching, she is also interested in public history. As part of her dissertation research, she created the Venereal Disease Visual History Archive with the support of the CUNY New Media Lab. She was also the Assistant Curator for Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Health at the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
Deirdre Cooper Owens
African-American history, slavery, gender, medicine
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-P
Phone: 718-997-5768
Fax: 718-997-5359
Deirdre.CooperOwens@qc.cuny.edu
Website
Deirdre Cooper Owens is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY in Queens, New York and an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. Cooper Owens earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in History and wrote an award-winning dissertation while there. She has published essays, book chapters, recorded podcasts on how to teach slavery and the history of medicine, and written popular blog pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences. She is a popular public speaker and travels widely to lecture on 19th century U.S. history, slavery, and the history of medicine. Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history. Professor Cooper Owens is also the new Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. She teaches courses on African American history, slavery, and medicine.
Amy Chazkel
Latin America, Brazil, urban history, crime and punishment, law and society, slavery and abolition
(on sabbatical, Fall 2018)
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-N
Phone: 718-997-5371
Fax: 718-997-5359
amy.chazkel@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu
Amy Chazkel is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Prof. Chazkel earned her Ph.D. at Yale University. She is the author of Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2011), winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, co-winner of the J. Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association, and recipient of Honorable Mention for the Best Book Prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association. A Brazilian edition of Laws of Chance, entitled Leis da sorte was published with the Editora da Unicamp in 2014. She is also co-editor of The Rio Reader: History, Culture, Politics, an anthology of primary sources on the history of Rio de Janeiro (Duke University Press, 2016). Other publications include articles on the history of penal institutions, criminal law, illicit gambling, and the urban nighttime in modern Brazil and co-edited issues of the Radical History Review that explore the privatization of common property in global perspective and Haitian history. She has held faculty fellowships and visiting scholar positions at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the Institute for Latin American Studies/ Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia, and the Center for the Humanities and the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center. She received a fellowship from the Brazilian agency Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES) as Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil, where she taught in the doctoral program in history in 2013. She serves on the Radical History Review Editorial Collective, and for the 2016-17 academic year was a Futures Initiative Fellow at the Graduate Center. Her projects in progress include research for a book that explores the social, cultural, and legal history of nighttime in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.
Deidre B. Flowers
African American History, African American Women in Education, Women’s Education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Student Protest and Activism, Higher Education Leadership
deidre.flowers@qc.cuny.edu
Deidre B. Flowers is Substitute Assistant Professor of History and Interim Director of the African Studies program. She earned her PhD in History from Columbia University. Her work centers on twentieth century women in education with a focus on African American women’s higher education experience, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students’ engagement in activism and protest, and women’s leadership of education institutions. Dr. Flowers’ work has been accepted for presentation at conferences of the History of Education Society (HES), the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and the Southern Historical Association (SHA). She recently contributed “Searching for Mildred Louise Johnson: Harlem’s First Private School Proprietor and Advocate for Progressive Education” to the Association of Black women Historians’ Black Women and the Archives essay project; and “A School for Modern Times: Mildred Louise Johnson and the Modern School of Harlem,” is scheduled for publication in the forthcoming Fall 2020 issue of JAAH. As a member of Columbia University’s eighth cohort (2020 – 2023) of A’Lelia Bundles Scholars, she is collecting data for a book length manuscript on Mildred L. Johnson and The Modern School.