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Tracey.Billado@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Tracey Billado-Lotson earned her A.B. in history from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in European history from Emory University. Her teaching interests range widely within the fields of pre-modern European and Mediterranean history, including conflict, law, violence, persecution, noble culture, unfreedoms, crusading, art and material culture, historiography, Saga Iceland, and classical reception and medievalism. Her research focuses on dispute-processing and violence in France during the central Middle Ages and has received support from the Newberry Library, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also has an interest in paleography, codicology, and archival studies which she developed as a graduate exchange student at the \u00c9cole Nationale des Chartes (Sorbonne) in Paris. Her current project examines political, social, and legal relationships among lay lords, ecclesiastical lords, and peasants in eleventh-century western France. Two pieces of this research are forthcoming in 2024: a study of feuds waged by monks and nuns against their enemies, and a study of peasants who fought against claims that they were serfs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” border_color_all=”#E71939″ border_width_bottom=”1px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/10\/Irit-Bloch-photo.jpg” title_text=”Irit Bloch photo” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Modern European and Jewish History<\/em><\/p>\n Irit.Bloch@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Irit is an interdisciplinary historian working on German and Jewish social and legal history with a focus on judicial prejudices, antisemitism and racism in the twentieth century. She earned her M.A. and PhD in History from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She also holds an L.L.B (JD equivalent) from Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Israel. Irit\u2019s dissertation examines the relationship between democracy and the judiciary in the Weimar Republic (Germany 1919-1933) and how biased judicial decisions harmed the rule of law and contributed to the breakdown of democracy. Irit\u2019s teaching specializations are modern European history, the Holocaust, Women and Gender studies, and comparative law. In addition to teaching, Irit is a research fellow at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at The Graduate Center, CUNY.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” header_4_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Medieval and Early Modern English History, radical political and religious ideas in the 17th century, women history <\/em><\/p>\n mbostwick@jjay.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/photo.jpg” title_text=”photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” header_4_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n schomsky@gradcenter.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Samantha (Sammie) Chomsky is a PhD student in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the intersection of labor and civil rights organizing in the U.S. South in the 1960s and 1970s. Broader research interests include twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American labor history, histories of U.S. empire, workers\u2019 education and the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/09\/Cumming-Profile-Pic-scaled.jpeg” title_text=”Cumming, Daniel” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Postdoctoral Fellow<\/em><\/p>\n Daniel is a historian of the twentieth-century U.S.\u00a0His scholarship explores the intersections of urban history, environmental justice, and racial capitalism. As part of the Melting Metropolis team, he is researching how histories of heat reshape our understanding of postwar inequality in New York City.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/09\/BE.jpeg” title_text=”BE” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Visiting Researcher<\/em><\/p>\n Bryony Ella (nee Benge-Abbott) is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in public engagement with science. She has also spent 10 years curating social history exhibitions. She is a co-collaborator with Kara Schlichting on the Wellcome-Discovery Award -Funded project Melting Metropolis: Everyday Histories of Heat and Health in London, New York, and Paris Since 1945. She is the team’s Research Artist. Melting Metropolis is an environmental history project exploring how Londoners, New Yorkers and Parisians have thought and felt about heat and its impact on their health. With a focus on sensory, community, and cultural experiences, the project investigates how city dwellers have experienced heat and sought to mitigate its impact on their health and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n I am a historian interested in the built environment, nature, and infrastructure in order to tell narratives of urban residents in Egypt and the Modern Middle East from below. Using a variety of archival material from colonial and state institutions I examine the development of cities over the last two hundred years. At the core, I am a social and environmental historian of the Modern Middle East. I am finishing work on a monograph that looks at the cities along the Suez Canal in the 19th and early 20th century.\u00a0<\/p>\n I earned my PhD in Urban Systems-History from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers-Newark. I also have a MA from the American University in Cairo in Middle East Studies.<\/p>\n One of my recent articles, \u201cLooking at Suez Canal Infrastructures: Water, Plants, and the Urban Drainage, Sewage and Bathroom Systems,\u201d was published in the\u00a0International Journal of Middle East Studies<\/em>. I have been published in such\u00a0venues, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Planning Perspectives, Jadaliyya, The Metropole, and elsewhere. I am currently an adjunct professor,\u00a0teaching in the history department at Rutgers University, Newark and Queens College-CUNY. I also teach at the Spitzer School of Architecture and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/02\/StephenHaller.jpg” title_text=”StephenHaller” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n American history<\/em><\/p>\n sfhaller@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Haller earned his M.A. and PhD from St John’s University. His research area focuses on the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment ideas in Early American Education. He wrote his dissertation on Rev. Charles Nisbet of Dickinson College and the role these ideas factored into his lectures and writings.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/Harding-Christopher-e1753362789769.jpg” title_text=”Harding, Christopher” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Modern Middle East and contemporary Palestine<\/em><\/p>\n charding4@gradcenter.cuny.edu<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n Chris is a historian of the modern Middle East and contemporary Palestine. His research focusses on the question of mobility of capital and labour during the British Mandate (1922-1948). He engages with Marxist theories particularly from the Third World\/Global South. He is also a researcher\/curator at Dar Jacir, Bethlehem. In 2024 his work featured in the Biennale De Venezia, as part of the South West Bank, Landworks, Collective Action, and Sound exhibition.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/02\/Idan-Liav.jpeg” title_text=”Idan Liav” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n idan.liav@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Idan Liav is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Queens College and is a PhD Student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He earned his second M.A. in History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and his M.A in Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, and B.A. in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Idan’s research is focused on the history of memory and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More specifically, he examines the intersection of Holocaust memory and the memory of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/02\/MylesMcDonnell.jpg” title_text=”Myles+McDonnell” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Ancient Greek and Roman History<\/em><\/p>\n Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-X Myles McDonnell received a B.A. in History from Queens College, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia.\u00a0 He has published on various aspects of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan cultures and history, and is the author of Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic<\/em> (CUP 2006, pbk 2010). He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1998), and from 2004-7 was Director of the American Academy’s Classical Summer School in Ancient Roman Topography. He has taught at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, the University of Washington, as well as at Brooklyn and Baruch Colleges. In 2020-21 he was Professor-in-Charge of The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/02\/Sophia-McGee.png” title_text=”Sophia McGee” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”202.8px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n International Affairs, the Middle East, and Conflict Studies<\/em><\/p>\n Powdermaker Hall, Room Sophia McGee was one of the founders of the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU) at Queens College.\u00a0\u00a0 She teaches a series of courses about the Israeli\/Palestinian Conflict that are part of the \u201cAmerica and the Middle East: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of Minds\u201d series. Sophia holds a Master\u2019s Degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University. Her concentration was Conflict and Security, and her regional area of specialization was the Middle East with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. In addition, Sophia is an SIIS Fellow at Brandeis University. Ms. McGee was a participant in the inaugural CUNY TEDx, where her TED talk was entitled \u201cLearning to Take the Leap of Faith.\u201d She has also spoken about her work on the Brian Lehrer show, as well as at numerous conferences and gatherings at Columbia University, The New School, Queens College, for the International Society of Political Psychology, and most recently at the Urban Clinic at Hebrew University.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-M [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/02\/LoucasTsilas.jpg” title_text=”Loucas+Tsilas” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”271px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” header_3_font=”|||||on|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\nIrit Bloch<\/h3>\n
Margret M. Bostwick<\/h3>\n
Samantha (Sammie) Chomsky<\/h3>\n
Daniel Cumming<\/h3>\n
Bryony Ella<\/h3>\n
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin<\/h3>\n
Stephen F. Haller<\/h3>\n
Christopher Harding<\/h3>\n
Idan Liav<\/h3>\n
Myles McDonnell<\/h3>\n
Phone: 718-997-5372
catulussr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\nSophia McGee<\/h3>\n
Phone: 718-997-53<\/p>\nThomas Tilitz<\/h3>\n
Phone: 718-997-5364
Fax: 718-997-5359
thomas.tilitz@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\nLoucas Tsilas<\/h3>\n