Faculty The History Faculty at Fordham University are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and University and professional service. Their dedication to good teaching and high standards of research are evident in their many teaching awards, major fellowships, and publications in the profession’s most respected journals and presses. Service within the University and the profession is especially valued.  Engaged and responsible members of the Fordham community, History faculty are also deeply involved in the creation, administration and content of many interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies, Irish Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Medieval Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, Women’s Studies, and more Contact info for faculty, adjuncts, and teaching fellows is available on the Staff Directory.   Interdisciplinary Programs Click here to visit Faculty R. Bentley Anderson, S.J. Loyola Professor of History, 2009/10. Ph.D., Boston College. Catholic responce to the race question in the 20th century.  Doron Ben-Atar (1996), Professor of History. Ph.D., Columbia. Revolutionary and early-national United States; early American foreign policy; psychohistory.  Edward Bristow (1986), Professor of History and Director of the B.F.A. Program. Ph.D., Yale. Modern Europe and Modern Britain. Paul A. Cimbala (1987), Professor of History. Ph.D., Emory. Civil War era; the American South. Saul Cornell (2009) Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History. Ph.D., Pennsylvania.  Legal/constitutional history, early American history, and American intellectual and cultural history. Elaine Forman Crane (1978), Professor of History. Ph.D., NYU. Colonial and revolutionary America; history of gender roles in America. Nancy J. Curtin (1988), Professor of History. Ph.D., Wisconsin. 18th-20th century Britain and Ireland; nationalism; gender and sexuality. Director of Graduate Studies Barry Goldberg (1975), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Columbia. Late 19th and 20th century social history; history of labor; race and ethnicity. Richard F. Gyug (1994), Professor of History. Ph.D., Toronto. Medieval liturgy, religion and society, codicology, Spain and Italy. David Hamlin (2004), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Brown. Modern Germany; cultural and economic history. Anne Hayes (2005), Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow. Ph.D., CUNY Latin America, Costa Rica, women. Robert F. Himmelberg (1961), Professor of History and Dean of Graduate Buisness School. Ph.D., Penn State. 20th century political and economic history. Robert F. Jones (1961), Professor Emeritus of History. Ph.D., Notre Dame. Early national period; the American presidency. Maryanne Kowaleski (1982), Joseph Fitzpatrick, S.J. Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies. Ph.D., Toronto. Medieval economic and social history; women and family; urban history; maritime history; England. Michael E. Latham (1996), Associate Professor of History and Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill. Ph.D., UCLA. History of American foreign relations; 20th-century America; intellectual history. Héctor Lindo-Fuentes (1991), Professor of History. Ph.D., Chicago. Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations. Christopher Maginn (2004), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Galway. Early modern Irish and British History; Gaelic Ireland; the Tudor state; British state formation. Anne M. Mannion (1959), Associate Professor of History, Director of the Honors Program at Lincoln Center and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. Ph.D., Fordham. Medieval monasticism and institutional history. Michael Marmé (1989), Assistant Professor of History, Director of International and Intercultural Studies, and Director of Honors Program (Lincoln Center). Ph.D., California-Berkeley. Socio-economic history of late Imperial China. Wolfgang P. Mueller (2000), Associate Professor of History . Ph.D., Syracuse University. Dr. Phil. Habil., Univ. Augsburg (Germany). Law and Institutions inMedieval Western Society. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Rose Hill David Myers (1990), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Yale. Intellectual and religious history of early modern Europe, particularly Germany; the Catholic Reformation. Mark Naison (1970), Professor of African and African American Studies, Chair of African and African-American Studies and Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program. Ph.D., Columbia. African-American history; 20th century social and labor history. Joseph F. O'Callaghan (1954), Professor Emeritus of Medieval History. Ph.D. Fordham Medieval Spain; Medieval Kingship and Parliaments. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. (1973), Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., U.C.L.A. Ecclesiastical and intellectual history; reform ideologies; universities; church and state. Silvana Patriarca (2001), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Modern Italy, Nationalism and National Identities, History of Social Quantification. Nicholas Paul (2006) Assistant Professor of History, Ph.D., M. Phil., Cambridge. Social and Cultural History of the Medieval Nobility; Historiography and Memory; Crusades; Angevin Empire, France, Catalonia, and the Low Countries. S. Elizabeth Penry (1997), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Miami. Colonial Latin America, Andean ethno history, cultural history. Brian Purnell (2007), Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Co-Research Director of the Bronx African-American History Project. Carina Ray (2007), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Cornell Modern Africa, African Diaspora, Comparative Colonialism, Comparative Nationalism, Race & Sexuality Studies, Social History of Africa. Thierry Rigogne (2005), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Princeton. 18th-century France, social and cultural history, early modern communication and consumption. Ivette Rivera-Giusti (2003), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Binghamton University. U.S. Latina/o History; Labor, Gender, Immigration and Ethnicity; Hispanic Caribbean History. Bernice Glatzner Rosenthal (1970), Professor of History. Ph.D., California-Berkeley. European intellectual history; Russian history; women's history. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1998), Professor of History. Ph.D., Michigan. History of Spain and Latin America; colonialism; Atlantic world. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, LC Asif Siddiqi (2005), Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Social and Cultural History of Science and Technology (20th century), Modern Russian History. Daniel Soyer (1997), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., NYU. American immigration and ethnicity; urban history (especially New York City); Jewish history. Department Chair Steven Stoll (2008), Visiting Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale University. American environmental history, agrarian society. Kirsten Swinth (1997), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Yale. Gilded Age and Progressive Era America; U.S. cultural and women's history; visual culture; history of the American West. Ebru Turan (2006), Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Chicago. Sixteenth-century political, cultural and intellectual Ottoman, Islamic and Mediterranean history, early modern state formation and empire building. Susan Wabuda (1993), Associate Professor of History. F.R.Hist.S., Ph.D., Cambridge. Tudor-Stuart England; the English Reformation. Rosemary Wakeman (2000), Associate Professor of History and Associate Chair of Urban Studies Program. Ph.D., California-Davis. Modern France; 20th century Europe; urban history. Irma Watkins-Owens (1988), Associate Professor of the African and African American Studies. Ph.D., Michigan. African-American history; ethnic history; women of color. Roger Wines (1959), Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., Columbia. Modern Germany; history and archaeology of New York City. Elya J. Zhang(2008), Assistant Professor. PhD University of California, San Diego. Modern East Asia, Chinese History, Network Studies, Political Economy.