Faculty Experts
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History
Allen B. Ballard
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana Studies
African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
Sheila Curran Bernard
Lecturer
Department of History
Documentary film; media; nonfiction media storytelling; archival filmmaking; historical filmmaking; independent filmmaking; screenwriting
Carl Bon Tempo
Assistant Professor
Department of History
20th century U.S. history; 20th century politics and public policy in the U.S.; history of refugees and immigrants in the U.S.; history of the U.S. and human rights; history of American foreign policy
Anthony DeBlasi
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Richard S. Fogarty
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Europe; France; imperialism; war; race and racism; national identity; World War I
Richard F. Hamm
Professor and Chairman
Department of History
Temperance movement; crime and trials; civil liberties
David Hochfelder
Assistant Professor
Department of History
History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
Brian Keough
Head of Special Collections and Archives
Department of Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition and access to archival collections; needs assessments and business process analysis for record management programs; digital preservation; regional political history
Nadieszda Kizenko
Associate Professor
Department of History
Russia; Ukraine; Orthodox Christianity; Russian Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; confession; religion in Russian culture
Steven A. Leibo
Lecturer
Department of History
Modern China and globalization; U.S. China relations; Asian-Western relations; Vietnam; Southeast Asia; international politics; modern world history
Sean M. Rafferty
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
Kendra Smith-Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of History
History of dairy farming; history of food; history of public health; history of pesticides/antibiotics in agriculture
Marcia E. Sutherland
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Social and psychological development of black children, inclusiveness of education, transracial adoption, HIV/AIDS and people of African descent, enslavement and colonial experiences of people of African descent, black studies, mock jury trials, nonverbal behavior of people of African descent
Stuart Swiny
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Director
Institute of Cypriot Studies
History of Ancient Greece; Islamic art and architecture; art and architecture of the ancient world up to the Etruscans; eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus
Amy Murrell Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of History
The Civil War era; women in the Civil War; 19th Century south; American social and political history; Abraham Lincoln; emancipation proclamation; the Confederacy
Maurice Thornton
Lecturer
Department of Africana Studies
Affirmative action programs; African and African American history; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; black history; the African and African American family
Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
