Social Sciences 145
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY   12222
Phone: (518) 442-5300
Fax: (518) 442-5301
history@albany.edu

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Name Office/
Phone
Email Address Office Hours
SPRING 2012

Administrative Faculty and Staff

Richard Hamm
Department Chair
SS 145C
442-5305
hamm@albany.edu Tuesday/Thursday 1:00-2:00 PM
Irene M. Andrea
Assistant to the Chair
SS 145B
442-5309
IAndrea@uamail.albany.edu
Patrick Nold
Graduate Director
SS 145J
442-5300
pnold@albany.edu By appointment.
Richard Fogarty
Undergraduate Director
SS 060N
442-5344
rfogarty@albany.edu Tuesday 1:00-2:00/Wed 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

Marlene Bauman
Secretary

SS 145
442-5300
MBauman@albany.edu  

Faculty

A list of all faculty Spring 2012 office hours are available here.
Allen Ballard
African-American, local & regional, modern Russian politics
SS 060K
442-4730
BA 115
442-5407
aballard@albany.edu
G.J. Barker-Benfield
American social & cultural, gender in U.S. & Britain
SS 145E
442-5313
benfield@albany.edu
Iris Berger
Africa, comparative women's, labor and working-class
SS 060H
442-5315
iberger@albany.edu
Ron Berger
Early modern Britain, economic, gender
SS 060D
442-5342
rberger@albany.edu
Sheila Curran Bernard
Nonfiction media storytelling, historical media, American topics
SS 060J
442-5364
sbernard@albany.edu  
Carl Bon Tempo
20th Century U.S., politics, public policy, foreign policy
SS 109B
442-5368
cbontempo@albany.edu
Richard Fogarty
Modern Europe, Modern France, European imperialism, war and society
SS 060N
442-5344
rfogarty@albany.edu
 
Susan Gauss
Latin America social and political, gender and labor, political economy
SS 060F
442-5345
sgauss@albany.edu
Richard Hamm
19th & 20th Century American legal, public policy, media
SS 145C
442-5305
hamm@albany.edu  
David Hochfelder
19th Century U.S., public history, history of technology, business history
SS 119C
442-5348
dhochfelder@albany.edu
Sung Bok Kim
America to 1800, social, New York, revolutions
SS 145H
442-5352
sbkim@albany.edu
Nadieszda Kizenko
Russian history, cultural, religion in history
SS 145F
442-5357
kizenko@albany.edu  
H. Peter Krosby
European diplomatic since 1871, World War II, Northern Europe
SS 145G
442-5358
krosby@albany.edu
John Monfasani
Early modern European intellectual & cultural, Byzantine
SS 060G
442-5360
monf@albany.edu  
Patrick Nold
Medieval Europe: intellectual and cultural, manuscript sources
SS 060S
442-5350
pnold@albany.edu
Warren Roberts
French Revolution, European cultural, literature, art, music
SS 060M
442-5369
WER52@albany.edu  
Kendra Smith-Howard
20th Century U.S., environmental history, agricultural/rural history
SS 060Q
442-5375
ksmithhoward@albany.edu
Barry Trachtenberg
European Jewish Studies, Holocaust
HU 355
442-3078
btrachtenberg@albany.edu
Ivan Steen, O'Leary Professor; Director Public History Program; U.S. urban, oral history, public history SS 119B
442-5372
oralhis@albany.edu
Amy Murrell Taylor
19th century U.S., Civil War & the South, family, gender, media
SS 060C
442-5379
murrell@albany.edu  
Dan S. White
Modern Europe & Germany, state & society, cultural
SS 109C
442-5382
dwhite@albany.edu
Gerald Zahavi
U.S. business & labor, local & regional, oral history, quantitative,
media
SS 060R
442-5427
gz580@albany.edu



University in the High Schools Faculty

Lauren Kozakiewicz
United States, Women
SS 109A
442-5325
lk0550@albany.edu  


Affiliated Faculty

Anthony Deblasi
Med
ieval China
HU 265
442-5316
deblasi@cnsunix.albany.edu  
Philip B. Eppard
Information Science and Policy
Draper 113
442-5119
pbe40@albany.edu  
Stanley Isser
Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, Ancient History
HU 244
442-4131
sisser@albany.edu
Vivien Ng
Women's Studies, Modern Chinese Social History
LC 31
591-8516
vng@albany.edu  

Adjunct, Visiting, and Faculty with Cross-Listed Courses

Spring 2012 faculty office hours and contact information available here.

Faculty Emeritae/Emeriti

Donald Birn
International history, modern Europe, Britain, Holocaust

dbirn@albany.edu
Robert Dykstra
U.S. political, social, American West

Dykstra39@aol.com
DeWitt Ellinwood
Asia

de286@albany.edu
June Hahner
Latin America, women

hahner@csc.albany.edu
Richard Kendall
American diplomatic & constitutional, military; Vietnam, Civil War
 
Donald Liedel




Bruce B. Solnick
Caribbean & Latin America, early modern exploration & discovery

bsol@albany.edu
Clara Tucker
Modern Russia, architecture



Robert Wesser
20th-Century U.S. political, social


Ann Withington
Colonial America, 19th & 20th century American cultural & intellectual
  afw@albany.edu
Lawrence Wittner
U.S. foreign policy, U.S. since 1945, peace & disarmament movements
  wittner@albany.edu  
Joseph Zacek
Central and Eastern Europe



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