HISTORY DEPARTMENT HOMEPAGE

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

Zara Anishanslin, Assistant Professor, PhD in the History of American Civilization, University of Delaware, 2009.

Fields: Early American, Transatlantic History, American Studies.

Sandi E. Cooper, Professor (sandi.cooper@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.

Marcela Echeverri, Assistant Professor (marcela.echeverri@csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, New York University, 2008.

Publications: "Antropólogas pioneras y nacionalismo liberal en Colombia, 1941-1949," Revista Colombiana de Antropología 43 (2007): 61-90; "Conflicto y hegemonía en el suroccidente de la Nueva Granada, 1780-1800," Fronteras de la Historia 11 (2006): 343-376; "Nacionalismo y arqueología: la construcción del pasado indígena en Colombia (1939-1948)," Arqueología al Desnudo. Reflexiones sobre la práctica disciplinaria, eds. Cristóbal Gnecco and Emilio Piazzini (Popayán: Editorial Universidad del Cauca, 2003): 133-152; "Ciencia política, teoría política y la construcción de la idea de Democracia en Colombia, 1989-2001," Colombia, Ciencia y Tecnología 19:4 (2001): 9-23; "El Museo Arqueológico y Etnográfico de Colombia (1939-1948): Representando la nacionalidad a través de la construcción del pasado indígena," Revista de Estudios Sociales 3 (1999): 103-109; "La fundación del Instituto Etnológico Nacional y la construcción genérica del rol de antropólogo," Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 25 (1998): 216-247; "El proceso de profesionalización de la Antropología en Colombia. Un estudio de caso en torno a la difusión de las ciencias y su institucionalización," Historia Crítica 15 (1997): 67-79.

Fields: Latin American and Caribbean History, The Atlantic World, Anthropology and Political Theory.

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

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

Samira Haj, Professor and Coordinator of the M.A. in History Program (samira.haj@csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988.

Publications: Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2008); 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 (calvin.holder@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.

Eric Ivison, Associate Professor and Director of the SLS Program (eric.ivison@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 Director of the American Studies Program (catherine.lavender@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 and Gender History, U.S. West & Borderlands, Cultural History, American Studies, Historiography and Historical Methods.

Mark A. Lewis, Assistant Professor, PhD in History, University of California, Los Angeles.

Publications: “The World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs at Nuremberg: Ideas, Strategies, and Political Goals, 1942-1946.” Yad Vashem Studies 36 (2008): 181-210; Lewis, Mark and Jacob Frank. Himmler’s Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Fields: Modern Europe, German History, International Organizations and Human Rights.

Richard Lufrano, Associate Professor and Director of the Modern China Studies Program (richard.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 (emmanuel.mbah@csi.cuny.edu), Ph.D. in History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.

Publications: Land/Boundary Conflict in Africa: The Case of Former British Colonial Bamenda, Present-Day North-West Province of the Republic of Cameroon, 1916-1996 (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

Fields: African History.

Ben Mercer, Assistant Professor, PhD in History, University of Pennsylvania.

Fields: Modern Europe.

Richard G. Powers, Professor (richard.powers@csi.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.

Jonathan Sassi, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department (jonathan.sassi@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, Associate Professor (susan.smithpeter@csi.cuny.edu), 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.

David Traboulay, Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program (david.traboulay@csi.cuny.edu), 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.

Howard Weiner, Associate Professor (howard.weiner@csi.cuny.edu), 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.

John Wing, Assistant Professor, PhD in History, University of Minnesota, 2009.

Fields: Environmental History, Early Modern Spain.

PROFESSORS EMERITI

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.

Michael Greenberg, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. in History, Rutgers University, 1972.

Publications: "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.

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.