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Ancient Rome, Hellenistic Mediterranean, urbanism
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5351
Fax: 718-997-5359
joel.allen@qc.cuny.edu
Joel Allen is Associate Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as Chair of the History Department. He earned his PhD in Classics from Yale University in 1999 and is the author of *Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire* (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His current research projects relate to the topos of fear in Cicero's letters and to representations of Memnon the Ethiopian in classical sources.
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| | Irit Bloch
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-T
Phone: 718-997-5361
Fax: 718-997-5359
IBloch@gc.cuny.edu
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| | Margaret Bostwick
17th-century England, Quakers, radical religious sects and politics
Kiely Hall, Room 137
Phone: 718-997-4848
Fax: 718-997-4849
emhist@aol.com
Margaret Bostwick received her BA in social science/anthropology from New York University, her MA in history from Queens College, and her MPhil in early modern European history from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently a Graduate Center doctoral student completing a dissertation on 17th-century Quakers. | | |
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| | Harriet Davis-Kram
US women's history, US labor history, immigration, New York City
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-M
Phone: 718-997-5368
Fax: 718-997-5359
harriet.daviskram@qc.cuny.edu
Dr. Harriet Davis-Kram earned an MA in history at Hunter College, writing a thesis about Jewish women in 19th-century Russian revolutionary movements. She also holds a PhD in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she submitted a dissertation titled "No More a Stranger and Alone: Trade Union, Socialist and Feminist Action: A Route to Becoming an American." Dr. Davis-Kram has been teaching at Queens College for over twenty years and also works as a guide on New York City social history walking tours. She gives lectures all over New York State for the New York Council for the Humanities and has been repeatedly named one of the best lecturers for the Council program. She also worked as a guider for the United States Information Bureau. Her job was to meet groups of foreign visitors with special interests in American cities. She would take them to different sections of the city, lecturing and answering questions for three hours or more. | | |
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| | Mary Gallagher
American revolution, 18th-century American politicians, colonial Latin America
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-M
Phone: 718-997-5367
Fax: 718-997-5359
mary.gallagher@qc.cuny.edu
Mary A. Y. Gallagher is an adjunct professor of history. She received her MA from the University of Notre Dame and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in Colonial Latin American History and the History of the American Revolution. She was co-editor of The Papers of Robert Morris, a nine-volume documentary edition project located at Queens College, and is currently senior associate editor of The Selected Papers of John Jay at Columbia University. She is also the author of The American Revolution: A Short History. | | |
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| | David Houpt
Early American Republic, Jeffersonian Era, political parties, political culture
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-T
Phone: 718-997-5364
Fax: 718-997-5359
david.houpt@gmail.com
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David Houpt received his BA from the George Washington University in 2005 and his MA from George Mason University in 2009. He is currently a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and is working on a dissertation that explores political mobilization and party formation in Federalist Pennsylvania. | | |
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| | Joshua Kinlaw
Ancient and European history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-T
Phone: 718-997-5361
Fax: 718-997-5359
jkinlaw@gc.cuny.edu
Joshua Kinlaw is a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has earned degrees from St. Andrews University and the University of Oxford. | | |
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| | Patrick McGough
Ireland
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-XX
Phone: 718-997-5393
Fax: 718-997-5359
patrick.mcgough@qc.cuny.edu
Originally from county Louth, Patrick did his graduate work at SUNY Stony Brook, under the direction of Prof. Karl Bottigheimer, one of America's leading Irish historians. Since 1994, he has lectured on Irish and Irish-American History at Queens College, and has also conducted tutorials and directed readings for students undertaking specialized study in these areas. From an initial concentration on early modern Ireland, his more recent work has included an emphasis on 20th-century Ireland and 19th-century Irish-America. | | |
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| | Adam Mintz
American Judaism, modern Orthodox Judaism
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Fax: --
adam@mintzny.com
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Rabbi Mintz completed his rabbinical ordination at Yeshiva University and received a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University in 2011. His dissertation was titled “Halakhah in America: The History of City Eruvin, 1894-1962.” He is also the author of several books, including _The Relationship of Orthodox Jews with Jews of Other Religious Ideologies and Non-Believing Jews_ and _Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law_. In addition to teaching at Queens College, he delivers weekly lectures on Jewish history at a venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side. | | |
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| | Martin L. Pine
Italian Renaissance
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-X
Phone: 718-997-5372
Fax: 718-997-5359
martin.pine@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Martin Pine is a retired member of the Queens College History faculty, who has returned as an adjunct instructor in the department. He is a specialist in the Italian Renaissance, who has published the book Pietro Pomponazzi: Radical Philosopher of the Renaissance, as well as many articles on Medieval and Renaissance intellectual history. Professor Pine has taught at Queens for 35 years, during which time his varied teaching experience has included The Honors Program in the Western Tradition, The SEEK Program, The ACE Program, The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies as well as standard courses in the Department of History. He was awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1991. | | |
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| | Cambridge Ridley Lynch
US history
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-T
Phone: 718-997-5364
Fax: 718-997-5359
cambridge.lynch@qc.cuny.edu
Cambridge Ridley Lynch received her A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 2006 and is a PhD candidate in American History at CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently working on a cultural history of early American weather. | | |
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| | Imanuel Rybakov
Bukharian Jewish history
Jefferson Hall, Room 311
Phone: 718-896-2623
Fax: --
imonuel@yahoo.com
Imanuel Rybakov is an Adjunct Lecturer of Jewish Studies at Queens College, with a specialty in the history and culture of the Bukharian Jews. He is the President of the Association of Bukharian Jewish Youth of the USA “Achdut-Unity”.
In past years, he has published more than 100 columns and articles about Bukharian Jews in Russian, Hebrew, and English languages in the following publications:
• The Bukharian Times newspaper. Publisher: The Bukharian Jewish Community Center, New York.
• Menorah newspaper. Publisher: World Congress of the Bukharian Jews, Israel.
• Haiton HaBukhari newspaper. Publisher: Brit Yotzey Bukhara, Israel.
• International Literary-Publicistic magazine Shalom. Publisher: World Congress of the Bukharian Jews, Israel.
Imanuel Rybakov is the author of study guide “Easy Bukharian. Language of the Bukharian Jews” (New York, 2011) and a co-author of: The History of the Bukharian Jews in two volumes, New York, 2005. Publishers: World Congress of the Bukharian Jews & Club “Roshnoyi-Light” and Kekokhavim Leolam Vaed, Israel, 2010. Publisher: World Congress of the Bukharian Jews with the support of Makhon Ben Zvi. He also rendered assistance in preparing The Bukharian Jews, Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York, 2009. Publisher: Club “Roshnoyi-Light”. | | |
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| | Moshe Shur
Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah
Jefferson Hall, Room 308
Phone: 718-570-0369
Fax: 718-997-4532
moshe.shur@qc.cuny.edu
Rabbi Shur is director of the Queens College Hillel Foundation and Adjunct Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the College. He is an honors graduate in History from Columbia University and in Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He holds a Juris Doctor (cum laude) from Wayne State University Law School, and an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from the University of Michigan and Rabbinic Smicha from Jerusalem. | | |
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