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
Med
ieval 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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