History Faculty

Nathanael J. Andrade, Professor

BA, Wesleyan University; PhD, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Philosophy, Politics, and Law Program (PPL)

Specialty: Roman Near East; Greek and Roman history; ancient Mediterranean; late antiquity

Nancy P. Appelbaum, Professor

BA, Vassar College; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004-2005

Affiliated: Comparative Literature; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies (LACAS); Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Modern Latin American history; Colombian history; history of race and gender; Latin American immigration

Anne C. Bailey, Professor

BA, Harvard University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender (CHSWG); Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity; Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)

Specialty: African American history, African Diaspora Studies, African History

Herbert P. Bix, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Harvard University

 

Howard G. Brown, Professor

BA, University of Saskatchewan; MA, York University; PhD, Balliol College, Oxford

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2014-2015; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2003-2004

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Early Modern Europe; France; politicized violence

Elisa A. Camiscioli, Associate Professor

BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007-2008

Affiliated: Center for Korean Studies (CKS); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, Human Rights Institute (HRI); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Modern France; race and gender history/theory; colonial culture

Elizabeth I. Casteen, Associate Professor

BA, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, Northwestern University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2021-2022; Provost's Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2016-2017

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls

Specialty: Gender, culture, and religion in high-and late-medieval Europe

John W. Chaffee, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

BA, Swarthmore College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

University Award for Excellence in International Education, 2003-2004

Affiliated: Center for Korean Studies (CKS); Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas (IAAD); Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: East Asia; Chinese social history

Alexander Chase-Levenson, Associate Professor

MPhil, Cambridge University; PhD, Princeton University

 

Richard M. Dalfiume, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Missouri

 

Heather D. DeHaan, Associate Professor

BA, Redeemer University College; MA, PhD, University of Toronto

University Award for Excellence in International Education, 2017-2018; Council/Foundation Award, 2017; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2011-2012

Affiliated: Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Russian and East European Program (REEP)

Specialty: Russia and the Soviet Union; East Central Europe; urban history

Arnab Dey, Associate Professor

BA, MA, MPhil, University of Delhi; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Affiliated: Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)

Specialty: Modern South Asia (India); environment; plantation labor; literature and history; British Empire

Thomas L. Dublin, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, Columbia University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2005-2006; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999-2000

Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Rochester

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995-1996

Sean F. Dunwoody, Associate Professor

MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Early modern Europe

Fa-ti Fan, Professor

MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Affiliated: Asian and Asian American Studies; Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

Specialty: East Asia; history of science; environmental history; nation and empire

Gerald E. Kadish, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

Council/Foundation Award, 2013; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1975-1976

Gerald J. Kutcher, Professor

BS, PhD, The City University of New York (CUNY); PhD, University of Cambridge

Specialty: History of medicine; 20th-century American medical research; biomedical ethics

Meg Leja, Associate Professor

BA, University of British Columbia; MA, PhD, Princeton University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, Religious Studies

Specialty: Late antiquity and the early medieval world; high Middle Ages; history of medicine and the body

Adalberto Lopez, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, Harvard University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1972-1973

Richard S. Mackenney, Professor Emeritus

BA, MA, PhD, University of Cambridge

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Italian renaissance, early modern Venice, Shakespeare

Donald G. Nieman, Professor

BA, Drake University; PhD, Rice University

 

Robin S. Oggins, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

 

Stephen R. Ortiz, Associate Professor

BA, MA, PhD, University of Florida

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014-2015

Affiliated: Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Philosophy, Politics, and Law Program (PPL)

Specialty: Political, military, diplomatic, and gender history of the twentieth-century United States

Robert Parkinson, Associate Professor

BA, MA, The University of Tennessee; PhD, University of Virginia

Specialty: Early America

Kent. F Schull, Associate Professor

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2017-2018

Affiliated: Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity; Human Rights Institute (HRI); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Religious Studies

Specialty: Ottoman history; modern Middle East history; crime and punishment; Islamic criminal law; Muslims in North America and Europe; forced migration studies in the Middle East and North Africa; Palestinian history

Aleksandar Shopov, Assistant Professor

MA, Sabanci University; PhD, Harvard University

 

Kathryn K. Sklar, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita

PhD, University of Michigan

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2001-2002; Chancellor’s and University Awards for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-2002; University Award for Excellence in Research, 1997-1998

Bradley Skopyk, Associate Professor

BA, MA, University of Saskatchewan; PhD, York University

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Colonial Latin America; environmental history; historical GIS

Diane Miller Sommerville, Professor

BA, Muhlenberg College; MA, University of North Carolina; PhD, Rutgers University

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Early America; American south; civil war and reconstruction; women's history

Wendy L. Wall, Associate Professor

BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Stanford University

Affiliated: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

Specialty: Twentieth-century U.S.; cultural and political history; the American West

Yi Wang, Associate Professor

MA, Sun Yat-Sen University; MA, University of Illinois; PhD, University of Chicago

Affiliated: Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Late Imperial China; borderlands; migration; nationalism

Heather Welland, Assistant Professor

BA, MA, University of Toronto; PhD, University of Chicago

Specialty: Early Modern Britain; British Empire; Atlantic World

Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor

BA, Kansas State University; PhD, University of Minnesota

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: U.S. women; sexuality; social movements; life stories; civil liberties and civil rights