HISTORY DEPARTMENT HOMEPAGE

The History Department Faculty (with Representative Publications and Research Fields)

Frederick M. Binder, Professor Emeritus, Ed.D, Columbia University, 1962.

Publications: All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (with David M. Reimers). Columbia University Press, 1995.

Fields: Early National U.S., History of Education, U.S. Social and Intellectual.

Luther P. Carpenter, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. in History, Harvard University, 1967.

Publications: G. D. H. Cole: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Fields: 20th-Century History (European & American), Historical Method.

Sandi E. Cooper, Professor (cooper@mail.csi.cuny.edu), PhD in History, New York University, 1967.

Publications: Patriotic Pacifism: Waging War on War in Europe, 1815-1914. Oxford University Press, 1991. Also articles in Journal of Women's History, Peace and Change, Journal of International History, French Historical Studies, etc.

Fields: Modern Europe, International History, Peace and Women's Movements, World History.

Michael Foley, Associate Professor (msfoley@earthlink.net), PhD. in History, University of New Hampshire, 1999.

Publications: Ed., Dear Dr. Spock (New York: New York University Press, 2005); Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Fields: Post-1945 US: Vietnam War; Antiwar movement; civil rights.

Sandra Gambetti, Assistant Professor (gambetti@mail.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, The University of California-Berkeley, 2003.

Fields: Hellenistic History; Ancient Judaism; Alexandria, Egypt.

Michael Greenberg, Professor (greenberg@postbox.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, Rutgers University, 1972.

Publications: In progress, African-American Slavery and the World of the Virginia Planter Class: Aristocratic Ideals and Market Realities; "Private Bias and Public Responsibility: Anti-Semitism at Rutgers in the 1920s and 1930s" (with Seymour Zenchelsky), History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn 1993): 295-319; and "The Confrontation with Nazism at Rutgers: Academic Bureaucracy and Moral Failure" (with Seymour Zenchelsky), History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Autumn 1990): 325-49.

Fields: U.S. Colonial, Economic History, 20th-Century.

Samira Haj, Associate Professor, Ph.D. in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988.

Publications: The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology. State University of New York Press, 1997.

Fields: Middle East, Post-Colonialism, Women's History, Islamic Studies.

Calvin B. Holder, Professor and Director of the African American Studies Program (holder@postbox.csi.cuny.edu), Ph. D. in History, Harvard, 1976.

Publications: "West Indian immigration to the United States," in the Encyclopedia of New Americans (forthcoming 2006, Harvard University Press); In progress, a manuscript on West Indian immigration to New York City, 1900-1952; in progress, an edited collection (with Dr. Aubrey Bonnett), on the Black Diaspora.

Fields: Afro-American, 20th-Century U.S.

On Leave, Spring 2007.

Eric Ivison, Associate Professor (ivison@postbox.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham (UK), 1993.

Publications: "The Amorium Project: The 1998 Excavation Season," co-written with C.S. Lightfoot, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 (2001), 371-99.

Fields: Medieval Europe, Byzantium, Historical Archæology.

Catherine Lavender, Associate Professor and Acting Coordinator of the M.A. in History Program (lavender@mail.csi.cuny.edu), PhD in History, The University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997.

Publications: Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest. University of New Mexico Press, 2006; Editor (with Lillian Schlissel), The Western Women's Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 2000).

Fields: Women's History, Gender, U.S. West, Cultural History, American Studies, Historiography and Historical Methods.

Richard Lufrano, Associate Professor (lufrano@mail.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, Columbia University, 1987.

Publications: Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation and Commerce in Late Imperial China. University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Fields: Modern Chinese History, Social and Economic History, Asian History.

Emmanuel Mbah, Assistant Professor (mbah@mail.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.

Publications: Current research projects on: European Colonialism, Ethnicity, Economics, and Local Boundary Disputes in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, 1916-1996; and Migrations of the West African Fulani and the Fulani Problem of the Former British Cameroons, 1900-1960.

Fields: African History.

Millery Polyné, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, 2003.

Publications: "What Happens in Haiti Has Repercussions Which Far Transcend Haiti Itself: Walter White, Haiti and the Public Relations Campaign, 1947-1955," Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2005); and "'To Carry the Dance of the People Beyond': Jean Léon Destiné, Lavinia Williams and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne," Journal of Haitian Studies, 10:2 (Fall 2004).

Fields: Caribbean History, The Atlantic World, American Studies.

Richard G. Powers, Professor (rpgsi@cunyvm.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 1969.

Publications: Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI. Free Press, 2004.

Fields: American Studies, Popular Culture.

Phyllis Roberts, Professor Emerita, PhD in History, Columbia University, 1966.

Publications: Selected Sermons of Stephen Langton. Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1980.

Field: Medieval Europe.

Jonathan Sassi, Associate Professor (sassi@mail.csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1996.

Publications: A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy. Oxford University Press, 2001; "Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery," Journal of Early Modern History 10:1-2 (2006): 95-130.

Fields: Revolutionary America and the Early Republic, History of American Religion, American Studies.

Susan Smith-Peter, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign, 2002.

Publications: "Provincial Public Libraries and the Law in Nicholas I's Russia," Library History 21 (July 2005), 103-119; "Books Behind the Altar: Religion, Village Libraries, and the Moscow Agricultural Society," Russian History/Histoire Russe 31, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 213-233.

Fields: Russian history and Central European history, with a particular interest in cultural, intellectual and social history.

On Leave, Spring 2007.

Stephen J. Stearns, Associate Professor, PhD in History, University of California at Berkeley, 1967.

Publications: "Conscription and English Society in the 1620s," The Journal of British Studies, Vol 11, No. 2 (May 1972): 1-23; Articles in Military Affairs, Peace and Change, and Social Policy.

Fields: Early Modern Europe (especially England), War, U.S. Foreign Policy.

David Traboulay, Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, PhD in History, University of Notre Dame, 1970.

Publications: Columbus and Las Casas: The Conquest and Christianization of America. University Press of America, 1994.

Fields: Medieval History, Latin America, India.

On Leave, Spring 2007.

Howard Weiner, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, Ph.D. in History, New York University, 1972.

Publications: "Twice Upon an Island Revisited: Another Look at Staten Island's Role in the Landscapes and Planning of F. L. Olmsted," in Rosenfeld et al., eds, Community, Continuity, and Change: New Perspectives on Staten Island History. Pace University Press, 1999: 71-80.

Fields: Urban Studies, Italian History, Modern U.S., Ethnic History.