History Department Faculty and Staff, University at Albany, SUNY

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

Name Office/
Phone Email Address Office Hours
Fall 2009

Administrative Faculty and Staff

Richard Hamm
Department Chair SS 145C
442-5305 hamm@albany.edu Tue/Th 10:30-noon & by appointment

Irene M. Andrea
Assistant to the Chair SS 145B
442-5309 IAndrea@uamail.albany.edu

Patrick Nold
Graduate Director SS 060S
442-5350 pnold@albany.edu
Tue./Th 10:05-11:45;
Wed 3:00-6:00 & by appontment

Richard Fogarty
Undergraduate Director SS 060N
442-5344 rfogarty@albany.edu Mon. 1:30-3:30; Wed 2:30-3:30; Thu 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

Scott Rummler
Secretary
SS 145
442-5300 rummler@albany.edu

Faculty

Allen Ballard
African-American, local & regional, modern Russian politics SS 060K
442-4730
BA 115
442-5407
aballard@albany.edu Tue 4:15 – 5:30; Wed 3:00 – 4:15

G.J. Barker-Benfield
American social & cultural, gender in U.S. & Britain SS 145E
442-5313 benfield@albany.edu Tue 2:45-3:45; Thu 3:30–4:30; & by appointment

Iris Berger
Africa, comparative women's, labor and working-class SS 060H
442-5315 iberger@albany.edu Tue 2:45 – 4:30; Thu 2:45 – 3:30; & by appointment

Ron Berger
Early modern Britain, economic, gender SS 060D
442-5342 rberger@albany.edu Tue, Thu 1:30-2:40; Wed 3:30-4:40; & by appointment

Sheila Curran Bernard
Nonfiction media storytelling, historical media, American topics SS 060J
442-5364 sbernard@albany.edu Tue, Thu 12:30 – 2:00; & by appointment

Carl Bon Tempo
20th Century U.S., politics, public policy, foreign policy SS 109B
442-5368 cbontempo@albany.edu Tue 3:00 – 5:00; Thu 9:00 – 10:00; & by appointment

Richard Fogarty
Modern Europe, Modern France, European imperialism, war and society SS 060N
442-5344 rfogarty@albany.edu
Mon. 1:30-3:30; Wed 2:30-3:30; Thu 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

Susan Gauss
Latin America social and political, gender and labor, political economy SS 060F
442-5345 sgauss@albany.edu
Mon 1:30–3:30;; Wed 1:30-2:30 and 4:15-5:15

Richard Hamm
19th & 20th Century American legal, public policy, media SS 145C
442-5305 hamm@albany.edu Tue, Thu 10:30 – 12:00; & by appointment

David Hochfelder
19th Century U.S., public history, history of technology, business history SS 119C
442-5348 dhochfelder@albany.edu Mon, Wed, Fri 1:00-3:00; & by appointment

Loretta Kim
East Asia, political, social, and cultural, ethnic minorities in China SS 060L
442-5292 lkim@albany.edu
Tue 5:00 – 6:00; Wed 1:30 – 2:30; Fri 9:00 – 10:00; & by appointment

Sung Bok Kim
America to 1800, social, New York, revolutions SS 145H
442-5352 sbkim@albany.edu Mon, Wed, Fri 2:20 – 3:20; Tue 3:30 – 5:00; & by appointment

Nadieszda Kizenko
Russian history, cultural, religion in history SS 145F
442-5357 kizenko@albany.edu Wed 12:00 – 3:00; & by appointment

H. Peter Krosby
European diplomatic since 1871, World War II, Northern Europe SS 145G
442-5358 krosby@albany.edu Tue, 9:00-11:30 & 2:00-4:00; Thus9:00-11:30 & 2:00-2:30

John Monfasani
Early modern European intellectual & cultural, Byzantine SS 060G
442-5360 monf@albany.edu Mon 12:00-1:30 & Wed 4:30-6:00

Patrick Nold
Medieval Europe: intellectual and cultural, manuscript sources SS 060S
442-5350 pnold@albany.edu Tue./Th 10:05-11:45;
Wed 3:00-6:00 & by appontment

Warren Roberts
French Revolution, European cultural, literature, art, music SS 060M
442-5369 WER52@albany.edu Mon 11:30-12:30; Wed 8:00-9:00; Thu 1:00-2:00

Ray Sapirstein
U.S. interdisciplinary cultural & intellectual history, photography and 19th and 20th century visual culture SS 060E
442-5371 rsapirstein@albany.edu Thu 10:00-12:00 and 12:30-1:30; & by appointment

Kendra Smith-Howard
20th Century U.S., environmental history, agricultural/rural history SS 060Q
442-5375 ksmithhoward@albany.edu Tue 4:00-6:00; Thu 11:45-12:45; & by appointment

Ivan Steen
U.S. urban, oral history, public history SS 119B
442-5372 oralhis@albany.edu Tue 3:00-4:00; Wed 2:00-3:30; Thu 11:00-12:00; & by appointment

Amy Murrell Taylor
19th century U.S., Civil War & the South, family, gender, media SS 060C
442-5379 murrell@albany.edu On Leave

Dan S. White
Modern Europe & Germany, state & society, cultural SS 109C
442-5382 dwhite@albany.edu Tue 2:00 – 3:00; Wed 8:30 – 9:30; Thu 10:00–11:00; & by appointment

Lawrence Wittner
U.S. foreign policy, U.S. since 1945, peace & disarmament movements SS 060P
442-5441 wittner@albany.edu Mon 2:45-4:45; Fri 2:45-3:45

Gerald Zahavi
U.S. business & labor, local & regional, oral history, quantitative,
media SS 060R
442-5427 gz580@albany.edu Mon 1:30-3:30; Tue 10:00 – 12:00; & by appointment

University in the High Schools Faculty

Lauren Kozakiewicz
United States, Women SS 109A
442-5325 lk0550@albany.edu Mon, Wed, Fri 11:00 – 12:00 and 2:00 – 3:00

Affiliated Faculty

Anthony Deblasi
Medieval China HU 265
442-5316 deblasi@cnsunix.albany.edu to be added

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 Tue, Thu 1:30 – 2:30; & by appointment

Vivien Ng
Women's Studies, Modern Chinese Social History LC 31
591-8516 vng@albany.edu

Barry Trachtenberg
European Jewish Studies, Holocaust HU 355
442-3078 btrachtenberg@albany.edu Mon 1:30-2:30; Thu 1:30-2:30

Adjunct, Visiting, and Faculty with Cross-Listed Courses

Gariba Al-Abdul Korah

BA118G
442-4730 abdulkog@strose.edu Tue, Thu 4:30-5:30

Tony Anadio

SS 053
442-5432 renman@nycap.rr.com Mon, Wed 6:45-8:15 AM

James Asare BA 118G
442-4730 ja8379@albany.edu
Mon 3:00-4:00 (tentative)

Karl Barbir
Middle East SS 145D
442- 5329/
783-2300 (Siena) Barbir@siena.edu Mon, Wed 2:00-2:30

David Bassano
SS 53 442-5432 db1437@albany.edu. Mon, Wed, Fri 10:20-11:20

Ian Beilin
SS 53 442-5432 ibeilin@yahoo.com. Tue, Thu 4:45-5:30

John Bonafide
NY Hist. Pres.
237-8643 john.bonafide@oprhp.state.ny.us. Before or after class (only by appointment)

Brenner, Arthur
HU 18
442-3275 abrenner@albany.edu Tue, Thu 10:15-11:30; & by appointment

Tom Donaldson
SS 053
486-5432 tcdonaldson@hotmail.com Mon, Fri 10:00-11:30; & by appointment

David Eason
HU 254D
442-5432 deason@albany.edu Mon, Wed, Fri 11:30-12:30

Alexander Gyamfi
BA115
442-4730 agyamfi@uamail.albany.edu Fri 5:30-6:30

Regina Hartmann-Hurwitz
SS 145D
442-5329 rhartman@skidmore.edu Immediately before and after class

Britt Haas
SS 53
442-5432
haasb@mail.strose.edu Fri 10:30-noon

Steven Leibo
Modern Asia SS 053
442-5432/
244-2330 (Sage) leibos@sage.edu Wed 4:00 – 5:00

Susan McCormick
History & Media, Documentary Studies SS 60X
442-5431 smccormick@albany.edu Mon 10:00-11:30; Tue 10:00-noon; & by appointment

John Palencsar

SS 145D palencsj@newpaltz.edu Immediately before and after class

David Palmquist
Public History
NYS Museum
473-3131 dpalmqui@mail.nysed.gov Immediately following class; Tue PM. – by appointment only

Kevin Shanley
U.S. Political, Social SS 060B
442-5430 kshanley@albany.edu Mon/Wed, 10:15-11:00

Stuart Smyth
Europe, World History SS 053
442-5432 smyths@taconic.net Mon/Wed, 1:00-2:00 & 3:00-4:00

Shoshana Stein SS 053
442-5432 ss5125@albany.edu Mon 3:15 – 4:15; Tue 7:45 – 8:45; Thu 8:00 – 8:45; & by appointment

Laura Wittern-Keller
U.S. public policy, legal and constitutional
SS 060T
442-5429 lwittern@albany.edu Tue 2:00-3:30; Wed 2:30-4:00; & also available by appointment

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

Joseph Zacek
Central and Eastern Europe

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Name	Office/ Phone	Email Address	Office Hours Fall 2009
Administrative Faculty and Staff
Richard Hamm Department Chair	SS 145C 442-5305	hamm@albany.edu	Tue/Th 10:30-noon & by appointment
Irene M. Andrea Assistant to the Chair	SS 145B 442-5309	IAndrea@uamail.albany.edu
Patrick Nold Graduate Director	SS 060S 442-5350	pnold@albany.edu	Tue./Th 10:05-11:45; Wed 3:00-6:00 & by appontment
Richard Fogarty Undergraduate Director	SS 060N 442-5344	rfogarty@albany.edu	Mon. 1:30-3:30; Wed 2:30-3:30; Thu 1:00-3:00 & by appointment
Scott Rummler Secretary	SS 145 442-5300	rummler@albany.edu
Faculty
Allen Ballard African-American, local & regional, modern Russian politics	SS 060K 442-4730 BA 115 442-5407	aballard@albany.edu	Tue 4:15 – 5:30; Wed 3:00 – 4:15
G.J. Barker-Benfield American social & cultural, gender in U.S. & Britain	SS 145E 442-5313	benfield@albany.edu	Tue 2:45-3:45; Thu 3:30–4:30; & by appointment
Iris Berger Africa, comparative women's, labor and working-class	SS 060H 442-5315	iberger@albany.edu	Tue 2:45 – 4:30; Thu 2:45 – 3:30; & by appointment
Ron Berger Early modern Britain, economic, gender	SS 060D 442-5342	rberger@albany.edu	Tue, Thu 1:30-2:40; Wed 3:30-4:40; & by appointment
Sheila Curran Bernard Nonfiction media storytelling, historical media, American topics	SS 060J 442-5364	sbernard@albany.edu	Tue, Thu 12:30 – 2:00; & by appointment
Carl Bon Tempo 20th Century U.S., politics, public policy, foreign policy	SS 109B 442-5368	cbontempo@albany.edu	Tue 3:00 – 5:00; Thu 9:00 – 10:00; & by appointment
Richard Fogarty Modern Europe, Modern France, European imperialism, war and society	SS 060N 442-5344	rfogarty@albany.edu	Mon. 1:30-3:30; Wed 2:30-3:30; Thu 1:00-3:00 & by appointment
Susan Gauss Latin America social and political, gender and labor, political economy	SS 060F 442-5345	sgauss@albany.edu	Mon 1:30–3:30;; Wed 1:30-2:30 and 4:15-5:15
Richard Hamm 19th & 20th Century American legal, public policy, media	SS 145C 442-5305	hamm@albany.edu	Tue, Thu 10:30 – 12:00; & by appointment
David Hochfelder 19th Century U.S., public history, history of technology, business history	SS 119C 442-5348	dhochfelder@albany.edu	Mon, Wed, Fri 1:00-3:00; & by appointment
Loretta Kim East Asia, political, social, and cultural, ethnic minorities in China	SS 060L 442-5292	lkim@albany.edu	Tue 5:00 – 6:00; Wed 1:30 – 2:30; Fri 9:00 – 10:00; & by appointment
Sung Bok Kim America to 1800, social, New York, revolutions	SS 145H 442-5352	sbkim@albany.edu	Mon, Wed, Fri 2:20 – 3:20; Tue 3:30 – 5:00; & by appointment
Nadieszda Kizenko Russian history, cultural, religion in history	SS 145F 442-5357	kizenko@albany.edu	Wed 12:00 – 3:00; & by appointment
H. Peter Krosby European diplomatic since 1871, World War II, Northern Europe	SS 145G 442-5358	krosby@albany.edu	Tue, 9:00-11:30 & 2:00-4:00; Thus9:00-11:30 & 2:00-2:30
John Monfasani Early modern European intellectual & cultural, Byzantine	SS 060G 442-5360	monf@albany.edu	Mon 12:00-1:30 & Wed 4:30-6:00
Patrick Nold Medieval Europe: intellectual and cultural, manuscript sources	SS 060S 442-5350	pnold@albany.edu	Tue./Th 10:05-11:45; Wed 3:00-6:00 & by appontment
Warren Roberts French Revolution, European cultural, literature, art, music	SS 060M 442-5369	WER52@albany.edu	Mon 11:30-12:30; Wed 8:00-9:00; Thu 1:00-2:00
Ray Sapirstein U.S. interdisciplinary cultural & intellectual history, photography and 19th and 20th century visual culture	SS 060E 442-5371	rsapirstein@albany.edu	Thu 10:00-12:00 and 12:30-1:30; & by appointment
Kendra Smith-Howard 20th Century U.S., environmental history, agricultural/rural history	SS 060Q 442-5375	ksmithhoward@albany.edu	Tue 4:00-6:00; Thu 11:45-12:45; & by appointment
Ivan Steen U.S. urban, oral history, public history	SS 119B 442-5372	oralhis@albany.edu	Tue 3:00-4:00; Wed 2:00-3:30; Thu 11:00-12:00; & by appointment
Amy Murrell Taylor 19th century U.S., Civil War & the South, family, gender, media	SS 060C 442-5379	murrell@albany.edu	On Leave
Dan S. White Modern Europe & Germany, state & society, cultural	SS 109C 442-5382	dwhite@albany.edu	Tue 2:00 – 3:00; Wed 8:30 – 9:30; Thu 10:00–11:00; & by appointment
Lawrence Wittner U.S. foreign policy, U.S. since 1945, peace & disarmament movements	SS 060P 442-5441	wittner@albany.edu	Mon 2:45-4:45; Fri 2:45-3:45
Gerald Zahavi U.S. business & labor, local & regional, oral history, quantitative, media	SS 060R 442-5427	gz580@albany.edu	Mon 1:30-3:30; Tue 10:00 – 12:00; & by appointment
University in the High Schools Faculty
Lauren Kozakiewicz United States, Women	SS 109A 442-5325	lk0550@albany.edu	Mon, Wed, Fri 11:00 – 12:00 and 2:00 – 3:00
Affiliated Faculty
Anthony Deblasi Medieval China	HU 265 442-5316	deblasi@cnsunix.albany.edu	to be added
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	Tue, Thu 1:30 – 2:30; & by appointment
Vivien Ng Women's Studies, Modern Chinese Social History	LC 31 591-8516	vng@albany.edu
Barry Trachtenberg European Jewish Studies, Holocaust	HU 355 442-3078	btrachtenberg@albany.edu	Mon 1:30-2:30; Thu 1:30-2:30
Adjunct, Visiting, and Faculty with Cross-Listed Courses
Gariba Al-Abdul Korah	BA118G 442-4730	abdulkog@strose.edu	Tue, Thu 4:30-5:30
Tony Anadio	SS 053 442-5432	renman@nycap.rr.com	Mon, Wed 6:45-8:15 AM
James Asare	BA 118G 442-4730	ja8379@albany.edu	Mon 3:00-4:00 (tentative)
Karl Barbir Middle East	SS 145D 442- 5329/ 783-2300 (Siena)	Barbir@siena.edu	Mon, Wed 2:00-2:30
David Bassano	SS 53 442-5432	db1437@albany.edu.	Mon, Wed, Fri 10:20-11:20
Ian Beilin	SS 53 442-5432	ibeilin@yahoo.com.	Tue, Thu 4:45-5:30
John Bonafide	NY Hist. Pres. 237-8643	john.bonafide@oprhp.state.ny.us.	Before or after class (only by appointment)
Brenner, Arthur	HU 18 442-3275	abrenner@albany.edu	Tue, Thu 10:15-11:30; & by appointment
Tom Donaldson	SS 053 486-5432	tcdonaldson@hotmail.com	Mon, Fri 10:00-11:30; & by appointment
David Eason	HU 254D 442-5432	deason@albany.edu	Mon, Wed, Fri 11:30-12:30
Alexander Gyamfi	BA115 442-4730	agyamfi@uamail.albany.edu	Fri 5:30-6:30
Regina Hartmann-Hurwitz	SS 145D 442-5329	rhartman@skidmore.edu	Immediately before and after class
Britt Haas	SS 53 442-5432	haasb@mail.strose.edu	Fri 10:30-noon
Steven Leibo Modern Asia	SS 053 442-5432/ 244-2330 (Sage)	leibos@sage.edu	Wed 4:00 – 5:00
Susan McCormick History & Media, Documentary Studies	SS 60X 442-5431	smccormick@albany.edu	Mon 10:00-11:30; Tue 10:00-noon; & by appointment
John Palencsar	SS 145D	palencsj@newpaltz.edu	Immediately before and after class
David Palmquist Public History	NYS Museum 473-3131	dpalmqui@mail.nysed.gov	Immediately following class; Tue PM. – by appointment only
Kevin Shanley U.S. Political, Social	SS 060B 442-5430	kshanley@albany.edu	Mon/Wed, 10:15-11:00
Stuart Smyth Europe, World History	SS 053 442-5432	smyths@taconic.net	Mon/Wed, 1:00-2:00 & 3:00-4:00
Shoshana Stein	SS 053 442-5432	ss5125@albany.edu	Mon 3:15 – 4:15; Tue 7:45 – 8:45; Thu 8:00 – 8:45; & by appointment
Laura Wittern-Keller U.S. public policy, legal and constitutional	SS 060T 442-5429	lwittern@albany.edu	Tue 2:00-3:30; Wed 2:30-4:00; & also available by appointment
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
Joseph Zacek Central and Eastern Europe