History Faculty

History Faculty

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Nancy P. Appelbaum

Professor; 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; Co-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; Fellow, CEMERS

History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
LT 702

Research Interests

  • Medieval and Early Modern European history
  • History of gender and sexuality
  • History of religion and spirituality
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John William Chaffee

Director; Distinguished Service Professor; Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Institute for Asia and Asian Diaspora; TRIP Courtesy Title

Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; History; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • East Asia
  • Chinese social history
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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

Undergraduate Director; Assistant Professor

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; History
LN 1122

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

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

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; TRIP Courtesy Title

History; 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
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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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Courtesy Titles

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John Cheng

Associate Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
LS G666

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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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 G623

Research Interests

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

Director, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Vice President for Academics, Binghamton Chapter, United University Professions (UUP); Professor

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; United University Professions (UUP); Sociology
LN 2408B

Research Interests

  • Feminist Intersectional Studies
  • Social Protest in the Postwar United States
  • The Politics of Health Activism
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