History Faculty

History Faculty

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Nancy P. Appelbaum

Professor; LACAS Courtesy Title

History; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program

Research Interests

  • Modern Latin American history
  • Colombian history
  • History of race and gender
  • Latin American migration
  • U.S.-Latin American relations
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Anne C. Bailey

Professor; Director

History; Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity (HTC)

Research Interests

  • African-American History
  • African Diaspora Studies
  • History and Memory
  • African History
  • Oral History
  • Civil Rights
  • Public History
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Elizabeth I. Casteen

Associate Professor of History; Director of CEMERS

History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
LT 817

Research Interests

  • Medieval and Early Modern European history
  • History of gender and sexuality
  • History of religion and spirituality
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Alex Chase-Levenson

Associate Professor

Public Health; History

Research Interests

  • Modern Britain and its empire
  • Europe in the long 19th century
  • History of the modern Mediterranean
  • History of public health
  • History of disease
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Sean F. Dunwoody

Associate Professor

History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Early Modern Europe, German lands/Holy Roman Empire
  • Religious history
  • History and social theory
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Jonathan Karp

Associate Professor; Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Director of Judaic Studies

History; Judaic Studies
LT 1309

Research Interests

  • Jewish Economic and Cultural History
  • Christian-Jewish Relations
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Stephen R. Ortiz

Director; Executive Director-University Scholars; Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Enrichment and Executive Director; Associate Professor

External Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Center; Binghamton University Scholars Program; History
RC G01

Research Interests

  • Political, military, diplomatic and gender history of the twentieth-century United States
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Kent F. Schull

Associate Professor; Director/CMENAS; TRIP Courtesy Title

History; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • History of the Ottoman Empire
  • Modern Middle East history
  • Palestine-Israel
  • Turkey
  • Criminal justice in the Middle East
  • Missiology
  • Forced migration
  • Middle East and North African diaspora communities
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Wendy L. Wall

Associate Professor; Director

History; The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
LT 716

Research Interests

  • Twentieth-century U.S.
  • Cultural and political history
  • The American West
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Yi Wang

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

History; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Late Imperial China
  • borderlands
  • migration
  • nationalism
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Farren Yero

Turovsky/Casey Family Fund Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American History

History
LT 702

Research Interests

  • Study of care practices and disease prevention
  • Science, medicine and technology studies of the body
  • Gender and critical race studies of labor, slavery and the family
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Courtesy Titles

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John Cheng

Associate Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G668

Research Interests

  • comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
  • popular culture; media; and technology
  • the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
  • historiography and critical theory
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Sonja M. Kim

Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair

Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G661

Research Interests

  • Korea and Comparative East Asia
  • Medicine
  • Health
  • Gender
  • Race and Class
  • Education and Welfare
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Adam Laats

Professor

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
AB 231

Research Interests

  • History of American education
  • Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
  • Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
  • History of creation/evolution debates
  • Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
  • Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history
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Cynthia Marasigan

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G671

Research Interests

  • U.S. Empire and comparative race relations
  • Afro-Asian histories
  • Philippine and Filipino American history
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Nathaniel Mathews

Undergraduate Director, Assistant Professor

Africana Studies
LN 1202B

Research Interests

  • African history
  • Modern Zanzibar
  • Islam on the Swahili coast
  • History & memory
  • History of slavery
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Shay Rabineau

Associate Professor of Israel Studies/ Associate Director of the Center for Israel Studies

Judaic Studies
LT 1317

Research Interests

  • Israel/Palestine, Middle East Walking and Pilgrimage Routes
  • Israeli Environmental History
  • Historical Geography of the Middle East
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