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Full-Time Faculty<\/h1>\n

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JOEL ALLEN<\/h4>\n
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Ancient Rome<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352H
Phone: 718-997-5350
joel.allen@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Joel Allen is Professor of History at Queens College and of History and Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center.\u00a0 He teaches courses in ancient Greek and Roman History, including study abroad, and in Latin Literature.\u00a0 His publications include Rome and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar<\/em> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020); Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and numerous articles on various aspects of Roman imperial culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ANDREW AMSTUTZ<\/h4>\n
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Modern South Asia, Islam in India, public history<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-S
Andrew.Amstutz@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Amstutz is an assistant professor of history at Queens College. He earned his PhD in South Asian history from Cornell University. His first book project,\u00a0Finding a Home for Urdu<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>follows the journey of a leading Urdu library \u2013 its relocations across the changing borders of the Indian subcontinent as well as the library\u2019s divisions and technological transformations during\u00a0the final decades of British colonial rule and the transition to independence \u2013 as a window onto\u00a0larger questions of the end of empire, nationalism, and Muslim belonging in India. He is developing a second book project on the politics of the excavation and global exhibition of ancient Buddhist artifacts from Pakistan during the Cold War based on new research on the Italian Archaeological Mission to Pakistan. This\u00a0project draws on Urdu, Italian, and English sources. He has also published articles in\u00a0Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East<\/em>,\u00a0Philological Encounters<\/em>, and\u00a0South Asia<\/em>. He co-edited \u201cRethinking the Second World War in South Asia\u201d (2023, special issue of\u00a0Modern Asian Studies<\/em>, with Isabel Huacuja Alonso) and edited \u201cCountertype\u201d (2025, issue of\u00a0Amodern<\/em>\u00a0on alternative print technologies around the globe.) His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-Hays, and AIPS. Prior to joining Queens College, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UW\u2013Madison and an assistant professor at UA Little Rock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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KATHERINE PICKERING ANTONOVA<\/h4>\n
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Russia \/ USSR; 19th-century women, religion, conservatism; the history of textiles; historical methods and writing<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-ZZ
Phone: 718-997-5053
katherine.antonova@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
personal website<\/a><\/p>\n

Katherine Pickering Antonova is Professor of History specializing in Europe and Russia \/ the Soviet Union. She earned her B.A. at the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her first book was An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her second scholarly monograph, currently in progress, examines secret police prosecutions of religious sectarians and their followers from 1800-1830. Her work on proto-industrial textile production and regional economic development can be found in The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Faberg\u00e9, 1600-Present <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2021) and \u0420\u0435\u0433\u0438\u043e\u043d\u044b \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0438\u043c\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0438: \u0418\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0438\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c, \u0440\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f, (\u043d\u0430)\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<\/em> (Regions of the Russian Empire: Identity, Representation, Meaning, NLO Press Historia Rossica, 2021). She also published The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2022) and is co-writing a book on how to write reviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ELISSA BEMPORAD<\/h4>\n
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Russian and Eastern European Jewish history, gender, genocide studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
Phone: 718-997-5365
elissa.bemporad@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
academia.edu<\/a>
<\/strong>
Professor Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in History from Stanford University, an MA in Modern Jewish Studies from the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a BA in Slavic Studies from Bologna University (Italy). She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk <\/em>(Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. Her new book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets<\/em> is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor with Joyce Warren of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and in Spring, 2018 she was an ARC Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the Graduate Center. Dr. Bemporad’s projects in progress include research for a biography of Ester Frumkin, the most prominent Jewish female political activist and public figure in late Imperial Russia and in the early Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FRANCESCA BREGOLI<\/h4>\n
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Early modern Jewish history, Sephardi history, Italy<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-YY
Phone: 718-997-5410
francesca.bregoli@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
Personal Website<\/a>
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Francesca Bregoli holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies, and is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Jewish Art and Material Culture from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and her undergraduate degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Venice (Italy).\u00a0Her research concentrates on eighteenth-century Italian and Sephardic Jewish history.\u00a0Her current research looks at the creation and preservation of affective ties and bonds of obligation in trans-Mediterranean Jewish merchant families.\u00a0She is the author of\u00a0Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform\u00a0<\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2014; finalist for the National Jewish Book Award). She co-edited\u00a0Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective<\/em>\u00a0(2010, special issue of Jewish History; with Federica Francesconi);\u00a0Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries:\u00a0Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean\u00a0<\/em>(Palgrave, 2018; with\u00a0Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz), and\u00a0Connecting Histories: Jews and their Others in Early Modern Europe<\/em>(Penn Press, 2019; with David B. Ruderman). Francesca serves as Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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KRISTIN CELELLO<\/h4>\n
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US women’s history, marriage, divorce, family, single motherhood<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352XX
Phone: 718-997-5358
kristin.celello@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
academia.edu<\/a>
<\/strong>
Kristin Celello is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 2004. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and the co-editor of a volume titled Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her current book project is After Divorce: Parents, Children, and the Modern American Family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PETER CONOLLY-SMITH<\/h4>\n
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US immigration history, film<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-V
Phone: 718-997-5380
peter.conollysmith@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Peter Conolly-Smith holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He is the author of\u00a0Translating America: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1890-1918\u00a0<\/em>(Smithsonian Press, 2004) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, history, literature, drama, and film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SARAH COVINGTON<\/h4>\n
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Early modern Britain and Ireland, martyrdom, memory, Reformation<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-C
Phone: 718-997-5393
sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
academia.edu<\/a>
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Covington is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, as well as director of two programs: the Irish Studies Program at Queens College and the MA Program in Biography and Memoir at the CUNY Graduate Center.<\/em>\u00a0She is also co-director of the Irish in New York Oral History Project, funded by the Irish Consulate of New York. Her research centers on early modern Europe, and particularly Britain and Ireland; her interests more generally include folklore, material culture, religion, violence and settler colonialism in Ireland, place and temporalities, intellectual and social history, and the history of memory and forgetting. In addition to over forty articles, she has published three monographs: The Devil from over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Olver Cromwell in Ireland<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2022); Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009); and The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England<\/em>\u00a0(University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). She has also co-edited two books: Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2020) and Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods and Perspectives <\/em>(Routledge, 2018). Her current monograph will explore folkloric understandings of the physical world in the early modern period, while another edited collection will focus on the radical potential of applying folklore and the field of folkloristics to the writing of history.<\/p>\n

At Queens, she has taught classes on folklore and Ireland,\u00a0 the history of religious violence, crime and punishment in early modern Europe, the history of the devil, the history of the body, the history of Christianity, history and memory in Ireland, popular culture in early modern Europe, the British empire and national identity, the history of Scotland, and various topics in Tudor and Stuart England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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EVAN M. DANIEL<\/h4>\n
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United States: 19th and 20th Century, Labor History, Social History, Intellectual History, Radical History<\/em><\/p>\n

evan.daniel@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel has been an instructor (CCE) affiliated with the Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program and the Department of History since 2010. His primary research interests are the social and intellectual history of working people in the United States. He is currently writing a historical monograph on cotton mill workers in Southern Appalachia from the 1830s to 1930s. In Fall 2023 he was appointed Faculty Director of the First Year Experience Program. Prior to teaching, Dr. Daniel was an archivist with the Tamiment Library\/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University and a researcher at the Emma Goldman History Papers Project at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GRACE DAVIE<\/h4>\n
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Modern Africa, South Africa, History of Science, Labor History, Social Movements<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-L
Phone: 718-997-5381
grace.davie@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally from Washington DC, Grace Davie earned her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Michigan. Grace has received fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Her first book was Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has published essays in The Journal of Southern African Studies, OD Practitioner, and Politique Africaine, as well as The Value of Work Since the 18th<\/sup> Century (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her current book, Webs of Power: Labor Union Corporate Campaigns in the United States (under contract with University of North Carolina Press, Justice Power Politics series), tells the story of civil rights activists in the US South who became strategic advisors to striking workers and struggling labor unions, resulting in a series of innovative efforts to win reforms from multinationals and anti-union industries. Grace\u2019s research interests include the boycott and divestment campaigns of the international movement that helped to end apartheid in South Africa, c.1950s-1990s. Professor Davie also has a long-standing interest in the intersection of history, anthropology, and psychoanalytic theory. Along with courses on research and writing for MA and MLS\/MA students, Grace has taught courses on Africa since 1800, South Africa, truth commissions, historical approaches to social memory, and postcolonial African history through film. In recent years, Grace has run \u201ccollaborative online international learning\u201d courses linking Queens College and the University of Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NATANYA DUNCAN<\/h4>\n
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20th Century US History\/ Nationalism and Social Movements in the Modern African Diaspora \/ Women, Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora \/ and Caribbean Migration\/ African American Women’s History <\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352X
Natanya.Duncan@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Natanya Duncan is the Director of Africana Studies at Queens College City University of New York and an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora, she focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan\u2019s research interests include constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora. Her book, An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2025), focuses on the activist strategies enacted by women in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which Duncan calls “efficient womanhood.” Following the ways women in the UNIA scripted their own understanding of Pan Africanism, Black Nationalism and constructions of Diasporic Blackness, the work traces the blending of nationalist and gendered concerns amongst known and lesser-known Garveyite women. Duncan\u2019s other publications include \u201cNow in Charge of the American Field\u201d: Maymie De Mena and Charting the UNIA\u2019s New Course\u201d in Journal of Liberty Hall<\/em> (Vol. 3 2017); \u201cHenrietta Vinton Davis: The Lady of the Race\u201d in Journal of New York History<\/em> (Fall 2014 Vol 95 No. 4); \u201cLaura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience\u201d in The American South and the Atlantic World<\/em> (University of Florida Press, 2013). She also co-edited a special volume of Caribbean Women and Gender Studies Journal <\/em>\u201cGender and Anti-colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean\u201d in December 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ELENA FRANGAKIS-SYRETT<\/h4>\n
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Mediterranean and Ottoman Studies ,1670s-1920s; Economic history (commercial, financial, monetary); Regions: Ottoman Anatolia (Izmir); Greece (Peloponnese); the Aegean islands (Chios, Crete); Syria (Aleppo); historian of port-cities (Izmir, Alexandria).<\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5351
elena.frangakis-syrett@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Elena Frangakis-Syrett is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Born in Alexandria of Greek parents (from Chios and Lemnos), she grew up in Athens and London. She studied in London and Paris and holds a PhD in Economic History from King\u2019s College, University of London. A Fellow of England’s Royal Historical Society, she has also been Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Senior Fellow at Ko\u00e7 University, \u0130stanbul, Visiting Professor at the \u0130zmir University of Economics. In 2018-2023 she served as Chair of the History Panel, PSC-CUNY-wide Research Awards Program. In the Fall Semester 2020, she was virtual Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of the Izmir University of Economics, in Izmir Turkey. In the Spring Semester 2020, she was CUNY ARC Distinguished Fellow at the Graduate Center and in March 2020 she gave a seminar, \u201cGenoa and Izmir in the Early Modern Global Economy, 1500s-1700s\u201d. In December 2020, she lectured on zoom, hosted by the Department of Economics and open to the University-wide community, on \u201cThe Plague in the Ottoman Middle East: Izmir\u2019s Response, 1700s-early 1800s\u201d.<\/p>\n

Professor Frangakis-Syrett\u2019s research interests relate to the social and economic history (commercial, monetary and financial) of the Mediterranean at large, and of the Ottoman Empire in particular, (Western Turkey, Syria, Southern Greece, Aegean islands) in the 18th to the early 20th centuries, with emphasis on the economic relations (trade, finance, investments) between the city of \u0130zmir\/Smyrna and the West. Her most recent book is The Port-City in the Ottoman Middle East at the Age of Imperialism <\/em>(2017) and she co-edited with T. Allain & S. Lupo, Au coeur des mutations du n\u00e9goce en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e<\/em> (2019) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/rives.6671. Her other books include The Commerce of Smyrna, 1700-1820<\/em> (1992); with enlarged editions in Turkish, 18. Y\u0171zy\u0131lda \u0130zmir\u2019de Ticaret<\/em> (2006) and in Greek, \u03a4\u03bf \u03b5\u03bc\u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03a3\u03bc\u03cd\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf 18o \u03b1\u03b9\u03ce\u03bd\u03b1<\/em> (2010); \u039f\u03b9 \u03a7\u03b9\u03ce\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ad\u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b5\u03b8\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03ad\u03c2, 1750-1850<\/em> [Chiot Merchants in International Exchange] (1995); Trade and Money: The Ottoman Economy in the 18th and early 19th centuries<\/em> (2007). Additionally, she has served on the editorial boards of Drassena: Journal of the Maritime Museum, the Journal of Modern Hellenism and she currently serves on editorial boards of \u00a0\u00a0Rivista Di Studi Storici del Mediterraneao<\/em>; Meltem: \u0130zmir Akademisi Dergisi and is a Member of the Board of the Izmir Mediterranean Academy. She regularly gives lectures in the United States, Europe and Turkey and has published numerous articles in international journals; she evaluates research applications for the National Foundation of Research, Brussels, Belgium and article submissions for the Osmanl\u0131 Ara\u015ft\u0131rmalar\u0131 Dergisi.<\/p>\n

Recent publications and professional activities:<\/em><\/p>\n

While resident in Turkey, in 2011-2012, she gave faculty seminars on the development of banking in the 19th- and early 20th-century Middle East, one of her research projects, at Ko\u03c2 University; in \u0130zmir University of Economics and at Istanbul\u2019s Institut Fran\u00e7ais des \u00c9tudes Anatoliennes and on which she published \u201cThe Ottoman Monetary System and Early Banking in the Ottoman Empire\u201d, in History From Below: Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert<\/em>, eds., S. Karahasano\u011flu et al (2016). She returned to \u0130zmir University of Economics as Resident Scholar in Fall 2019 where she lectured on the Levantine community of Ottoman Izmir and on the production and trade of Anatolian cotton. Her other current research interest relates to business networks in the Mediterranean on which she published \u201cCapital Accumulation and Family Business Networks in Late Ottoman Izmir\u201d, International Journal of Turkish Studies<\/em> (2015) and \u201cLe r\u00f4le des r\u00e9seaux dans l\u2019organisation commerciale. Les Britanniques \u00e0 Smyrne, 1860s-1920s\u201d in Au coeur des mutations du n\u00e9goce en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e<\/em> (Aix-en-Provence, 2019).<\/p>\n

Special emphasis in her work has been given on the port-cities of Izmir and Patras, and more recently on Alexandria, as well as on the Aegean islands of Chios and Crete. On the economy of Crete, she published \u201c\u00c9volution du commerce maritime en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e orientale au XVIIIe si\u00e8cle\u201d, La Maritmisation du Monde, GIS d\u2019histoire maritime<\/em> [Paris, 2016].<\/p>\n

As part of her research project on the commodities trade of the Middle East from 18th to 20th centuries, there were the following publications, \u201cXVII. Y\u00fczy\u0131l Ba\u015fl\u0131ndan XX. Y\u00fczy\u0131l Ba\u015flar\u0131na kadar Krala Gemiyle \u0130zmirden Giden Sultaniye Kuru \u00dcz\u00fcm \u0130hracat\u0131\u201d, in \u00dcz\u00fcm\u00fcn Akdeniz\u2019deki Yolculu\u011fu<\/em> [Izmir, 2017]; \u201cProduction and Trade of Cotton in Ottoman Western Anatolia, c. 1700-1914\u201d in Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia <\/em>[Leiden, 2021]; \u201cMarket Forces and Patterns of Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1720s-1820s\u201d, in Rivista Di Studi Storici del Mediterraneao<\/em> [Naples, 2024].<\/p>\n

In a different line of research, she published \u201cThe Politics of Identity and Religion. Izmir in 1797\u201d in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Global Muslim Societies<\/em> [Ithaca, New York, 2023]; and \u201cTransnational Trajectories: From Chios to London Through Alexandria, a Family Story\u201d, in Mediterranean Port-Cities, Connectivity in Modern Times<\/em> [Cham, Switzerland, 2023].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ARNOLD FRANKLIN<\/h4>\n
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Medieval Cairo, Geniza, Jewish history<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352W
Phone: 718-997-5497
arnold.franklin@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Associate Professor Arnold Franklin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has taught at New York University, University of California, Davis, and Hunter College. Dr. Franklin\u2019s research focuses on medieval Jewish history in the Arabic-speaking world. His first book,\u00a0This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Islamic East\u00a0<\/em>(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), explores the profound concern with lineage that developed among Jews living in Muslim lands during the Middle Ages. He also co-edited\u00a0Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times\u00a0<\/em>(Brill, 2014).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AARON FREUNDSCHUH<\/h4>\n
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Modern France, crime, urban history<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-J
Phone: 718-997-5227
aaron.freundschuh@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Aaron Freundschuh is the History Department\u2019s Director of Undergraduate Studies. He earned a PhD in History at University of California, Berkeley, and has taught modern European and U.S. history at universities in France and the United States. He was the recipient of a 2015-16 Queens College teaching award. His research deals with urban history, criminality and policing, with an emphasis on contemporary Paris. His book The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris <\/em>appeared with Stanford University Press in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CAROL GIARDINA<\/h4>\n
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US women’s liberation movement\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-D
Phone: 718-997-5384
carol.giardina@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Carol Giardina is Associate Professor of History, specializing in contemporary U.S. history and women\u2019s history. She earned her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of Freedom For Women: Forging the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970<\/em> (University Press of Florida, 2010) as well as other articles on the Second Wave of Feminism in the U.S.\u00a0 She is presently working on a biography of Second Wave founder Judith Brown and a history of the feminist movement in Florida. She teaches Women\u2019s Studies, Contemporary U.S. History, and U.S. Labor History.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THOMAS ORT<\/h4>\n
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East-Central Europe, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, modernism, the avant-garde, memory<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-N
Phone: 718-997-5363
thomas.ort@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Ort is Associate Professor of modern European history. He received his PhD from New York University and his BA from Brown University. The main focus of his research has been on modernist and avant-garde movements in early twentieth-century Czechoslovakia, but his most recent work concerns the politics of memory in postwar Eastern Europe. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel \u010capek and his Generation, 1911-1938<\/em> was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. It was subsequently translated into Czech under the title Um\u011bn\u00ed a \u017eivot v modernistick\u00e9 Praze: Karel \u010capek a jeho generace, 1911-1938<\/em> and published in Prague in 2016. His new book project, Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich<\/em>, challenges conventional understandings of “memory” through an examination of the ever-evolving interpretations of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, the SS general and architect of the Final Solution who was assassinated in Prague in 1942.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MORRIS ROSSABI<\/h4>\n
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Mongolia, China, East Asia<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-I
Phone: 718-997-5382
morris.rossabi@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n


<\/strong>Morris Rossabi (Ph.D. Columbia University), born in Alexandria, Egypt, is Distinguished Professor of History. He is the author or editor of 29 books, including Khubilai Khan, Modern Mongolia,<\/em> Voyager from Xanadu, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia, China among Equals, Governing China\u2019s Multiethnic Frontiers, <\/em>and A History of China<\/em>. He has also written over 100 articles and book chapters, including several for the Cambridge History of China<\/em>, Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire,<\/em> Cambridge History of the World, <\/em>and Cambridge History of War<\/em>. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and German, and he conducts research in Chinese, Japanese, and Middle Eastern and European languages. He has collaborated on catalogs for exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (When Silk Was Gold<\/em>; The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353<\/em>), the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He has also lectured on thirty tours in the Middle East, China, the Central Asian Silk Road, and Mongolia for organizations such as the Asia Society. Universities, museums, and governmental offices all over the world have invited him to give lectures. The Gulbenkian Museum, NYU Shanghai, Cambridge University, the Planck Institute in Berlin, and the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka have offered him appointments as Visiting Lecturer. The National Mongolian University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2009 and the Mongolia\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs awarded him a Certificate of Merit in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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KARA SCHLICHTING<\/h4>\n
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19th- and 20th-Century America, New York City, Environmental History, History of City Planning<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-O
Phone: 718-997-5367
kara.schlichting@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
https:\/\/www.karaschlichting.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Kara Murphy Schlichting earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her work in late-19th and 20th-century American History sits at the intersection of urban and environmental history, with a particular focus on New York City. Schlichting is the lead editor of the H-Environment Roundtables editorial collective. Schlichting’s 2019 book New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore <\/i>is part of the University of Chicago Press’s History of Urban America<\/i>\u00a0series. She has published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Urban History,<\/i>\u00a0Environmental History<\/i>, the Journal of Planning History<\/i>, and The<\/i>\u00a0Pacific Historical Review<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schlichting’s research explores climatological aspects of environmental history. Her research on tideland property development investigates how legal theory, coastal resiliency planning, and land politics shape American waterfronts, with case studies focused on Malibu, California, and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. She is also a co-investigator on the Wellcome Discovery Award project \u201cMelting Metropolis: Everyday Histories of Health and Heat in London, New York, and Paris since 1945,\u201d which explores the impact of climate change and rising temperatures on urban life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MIRYAM SEGAL<\/h4>\n
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Law and legal history, Hebrew literature and literary history, biblical and Jewish law<\/em><\/p>\n

Associate Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY<\/p>\n

Miryam.Segal@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Miryam Segal is associate professor of History at Queens College, and of Middle Eastern Studies and Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. In 2022-23 she is also Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law School. Her first monograph, A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics Accent<\/em>, was about the fraught transition from one set of pronunciations and dialects to \u201cnew accent\u201d Hebrew through literary and pedagogic institutions in Palestine in the early 20th century. She has also co-edited a volume on \u201cthe embarrassment of Scriptures\u201d (Vixens Disturbing Vineyards<\/em>), and is editor of a collected volume on Jewish family law that aims to reframe that sub-field (2023), and is completing “Working Writers,\u201d a manuscript on the intertwined gender politics of Labor Zionism and of Hebrew poetry in early twentieth century Jewish Palestine. Her new research is on vows in Jewish law, and oaths in Anglo-American law. She was recently elected chair of the Executive Board of the Jewish Law Association.<\/p>\n

She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree at Harvard College, her doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u2019s degree from Yale Law School. Before coming to CUNY, she was assistant professor in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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JULIA SNEERINGER<\/h4>\n
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Modern Germany, pop culture <\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5350
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
Bloomsbury<\/a><\/p>\n

Julia Sneeringer is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in German from Temple University. A historian of 20th century Germany, she also offers courses on modern Europe, including Fascism and Nazism, Europe Since 1945, politics and culture in Weimar Germany, the history of youth, and the history of women and gender in modern Europe. She is the author of Winning Women\u2019s Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). More recently, she has published numerous articles on tourism in Hamburg\u2019s red-light district, Beatlemania in West and East Germany, and youth culture in 1960s Hamburg. Her book A Social History of Early Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll in Germany: Hamburg From Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69<\/em> was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic Press. As part of the series German History in Focus<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>she recently published West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-1989 <\/em>(Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024). To hear her talk about West Germany: A Society in Motion<\/em>, check out this New Books Network podcast:\u00a0https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/west-germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FIDEL J. TAV\u00c1REZ<\/h4>\n
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Latin American, Spanish, Atlantic, and Global History<\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
ftavarez@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
http:\/\/www.fideltavarez.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Fidel J. Tav\u00e1rez is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College and a scholar of the early modern Spanish Atlantic. Broadly speaking, his research explores how the Hispanic world\u2014including Spain and Latin America\u2014governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The Imperial Machine: Assembling the Spanish Commercial Empire in the Age of Enlightenment. Committed to cultivating wide-ranging curiosity, Dr. Tav\u00e1rez offers courses on Latin American, Atlantic, and global history. Before joining Queens College’s History Department, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Global History of the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University, a B.A. in history at The City College of New York, and an A.A. in Social Sciences and Humanities at LaGuardia Community College.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PETER G. VELLON<\/h4>\n
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Modern United States, Italian-American history<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Q
Phone: 718-997-5299
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter G. Vellon is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. He earned his PhD in History from the Graduate Center\/CUNY in 2003 and is the author of\u00a0A Great Conspiracy Against our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century<\/em>\u00a0(New York University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of\u00a0What is Italian America? Selected Essays from the Italian American Studies Association\u00a0<\/em>(Bordighera Press, 2015). His articles have appeared in\u00a0The Ethnic Studies Review<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Italian American Review<\/em>, the\u00a0Journal of Urban History<\/em>, and he has published several book chapters. At Queens College he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in late 19th and early 20th century immigration, Italian American history, the United States and the Vietnam War, America in the 1970s, and special seminars in the Macaulay Honors College, such as the\u00a0People of NYC<\/em>. His research interests include the intersection of race, whiteness, and identity, as well as the interchange between white ethnics and African Americans during the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BOBBY A. WINTERMUTE<\/h4>\n
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US military history, gender, race<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Z
Phone: 718-997-5120
bobby.wintermute@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
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Professor Bobby Wintermute received his BA from Montclair State University in 1991, his MA from East Stroudsburg University in 1997, and his PhD from Temple University in 2006. His research focus is on topics related to War and Society studies, a sub-field within the broader discipline of Military History, and the US Army from 1890 through the Progressive Era and World War II. This is reflected in his published work, where he has written on military medicine and public health (Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of The Army Medical Department, 1818-1917<\/em> – Routledge, 2010), race and gender studies (Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare<\/em><\/a> \u2013 DeGruyter, 2019; 2nd edition 2026), and religion and war (Great War, Religious Dimensions<\/em> \u2013 Cambridge University Press, 2020). His teaching covers a broad range of social and cultural topics related to war, military culture, and American military history, as well as the history of American foreign policy. He has also taught oral history practices and methods on the undergraduate and graduate level, having received his training at the University of California-Berkeley Bancroft Library\u2019s Regional Oral History Office.<\/p>\n

Professor Wintermute is currently preparing a second edition of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare<\/em>. He is also working on a study of prisons, crime, and military service in the United States during the First World War, focusing on Philadelphia\u2019s Eastern State Penitentiary. He has received grants from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, where he was scholar-in-residence in 2004. Dr. Wintermute directed the Queens College Veteran Alumni project, a student-based oral history outreach initiative aimed at preserving the memory of veterans from the borough of Queens, from 2007 until 2018. He was also a founding co-host of the New Books in Military History<\/a> podcast. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department at Queens College.<\/p>\n

Hobbies and pastimes include global and American travel, cooking, hosting friends and family for parties and dinners, music (live and recorded), film (cheesy and serious), gaming (tabletop rpgs, computer games, and board games), and exploring abandoned locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MICHAEL WOLFE<\/h4>\n
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Early modern France, Urban and military history<\/em><\/p>\n

Powdermaker Hall, Room 335
Phone: 718-997-5211
michael.wolfe@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Wolfe is professor of history at Queens College.\u00a0 He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from Boston University.\u00a0 A specialist of early modern European history, his studies include works on the intersection between politics and religious belief, technology and craft practices, cities and siege warfare, and landscapes and cartography.\u00a0 He has published extensively on these topics, including some thirty articles and essays as well as eight books.\u00a0 Among his most recent titles are Recovering 9\/11 in New York<\/em> (2014), Natalie Zemon Davis and the Passion of History<\/em> (2009), Walled Towns and the Shaping of France<\/em> (2009), and Senses of Place: Inventing Landscapes in Medieval Western Europe<\/em> (2002). In addition, he is involved in a number of editing ventures, serving as chief review editor for H-France and series editor for Early Modern Studies & Translations published by Truman State University Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WARREN T. WOODFIN<\/h4>\n
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Art and archaeology of Byzantium<\/em><\/p>\n

Klapper Hall, Room 164
Phone: 718-997-4816
Fax: 718-997-4835
warren.woodfin@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>
academia.edu<\/a>
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Warren Woodfin is Kallinikeion Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Queens College, and holds joint appointments in the Departments of History and Art History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002. Woodfin\u2019s research focuses on the art and archaeology of Byzantium and its cultural sphere in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. He has a particular interest in textiles and dress, and is the author of The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the co-editor, with Mateusz Kapustka, of Clothing the Sacred: Medieval Textiles as Fabric, Form and Metaphor <\/em>(Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2016). For the past several years, he has been collaborating with a research team of U.S. and Ukraine based scholars to study a medieval burial complex, the Chungul Kurgan, in the Black Sea steppe. His preliminary article on the project (co-authored with Renata Holod and Yuriy Rassamakin) appeared in Ars Orientalis<\/em> 38 (2010). He has also published articles in the journals Art Bulletin, Cahiers Arch\u00e9ologiques, Gesta<\/em>, and Dumbarton Oaks Papers<\/em>, and has contributed essays to various edited volumes, including Experiencing Byzantium <\/em>(Ashgate, 2013). Prior to joining the faculty at Queens College, Woodfin held teaching and research posts at Duke, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Metropolitan Museum, and the University of Zurich. In spring 2016, he was a resident Fellow at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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