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THE HISTORY FACULTY

 

The following is a listing of the department's full time faculty members and their research and teaching interests. (The date in parentheses after the name of the faculty member indicates the year of initial appointment at Fordham.)

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Robert F. Himmelberg (1961), Professor of History and Dean of Faculty. 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. 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. 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 in Medieval Western Society.

 

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 and  Director of the Urban Studies Program. Ph.D., Columbia. 

African-American history; 20th century social and labor history.

 

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 and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies. Ph.D., Miami. Colonial Latin America, Andean ethno history, cultural history.

 

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 Glatzer Rosenthal (1970), Professor of History. Ph.D., California-Berkeley. 

European intellectual history; Russian history; women's history.

 

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1998), Associate Professor of History. Ph.D., Michigan.

History of Spain and Latin America; colonialism; Atlantic world.

 

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.

 

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. Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., 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 and Chair of the African and African American Studies Department. 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.

 

Modified, April 21, 2008 10:35 AM , Any questions about the History webpage can be sent to aacosta@fordham.edu.