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Allen Ballard  

Allen B. Ballard
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana Studies

 
Areas of expertise:
African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
 
Campus e-mail:   aballard@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-5407
 
 
Richard S. Fogarty   Richard S. Fogarty
Assistant Professor
Department of History
 
Areas of expertise:
Europe; France; imperialism; war; race and racism; national identity; World War I
 
Campus e-mail:   rfogarty@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-7833
 
 
Richard F. Hamm   Richard F. Hamm
Professor and Chairman
Department of History
 
Areas of expertise:
Temperance movement; crime and trials; civil liberties
 
Campus e-mail:   hamm@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4888
 
 
David Hochfelder   David Hochfelder
Assistant Professor
School of Social Welfare
 
Areas of expertise:
History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
 
Campus e-mail:   dhochfelder@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4806
 
 
Brian Keough   Brian Keough
Head of Special Collections and Archives
Department of Special Collections and Archives
 
Areas of expertise:
Acquisition and access to archival collections; needs assessments and business process analysis for record management programs; digital preservation; regional political history
 
Campus e-mail:   bkeough@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 437-3931
 
 
Steven A. Leibo   Steven A. Leibo
Lecturer
Department of History
 
Areas of expertise:
Modern China and globalization; U.S. China relations; Asian-Western relations; Vietnam; Southeast Asia; international politics; modern world history
 
Campus e-mail:    
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4800
 
 
Sean M. Rafferty   Sean M. Rafferty
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
 
Areas of expertise:
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
 
Campus e-mail:   rafferty@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4713
 
 
Marcia Sutherland  

Marcia E. Sutherland
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

 
Areas of expertise:
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
 
Campus e-mail:   ms781@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4727
 
 
Amy Murrell Taylor   Amy Murrell Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of History
 
Areas of expertise:
The Civil War era; women in the Civil War; 19th Century south; American social and political history; Abraham Lincoln; emancipation proclamation; the Confederacy
 
Campus e-mail:  

murrell@albany.edu

Campus phone:   (518) 442-4846
 
 
Maurice Thornton   Maurice Thornton
Lecturer
Department of Africana Studies
 
Areas of expertise:
Affirmative action programs; African and African American history; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; black history; the African and African American family
 
Campus e-mail:   mediarelations@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4730
 
 
Barry Trachtenberg   Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
 
Areas of expertise:
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
 
Campus e-mail:   btrachtenberg@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-3078
     
 
   


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