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Marcus Adams
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Philosophy
Expert in the following:
History, philosophy, politics of 17th century England, the Scientific Revolution, ethics in medical triage, organ transplantation and informed consent.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4262
Campus email: [email protected]

Allen Ballard
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
African-American history; the Civil War; Soviet history
Campus phone: (518) 442-5407
Campus email: [email protected]

Sheila Curran Bernard
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Film storytelling; creative nonfiction; history and media; narrative; public history; documentary
Campus phone: 442-5300
Campus email: [email protected]

Carl Bon Tempo
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
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
Campus phone: (518) 442-5368
Campus email: [email protected]

Anthony DeBlasi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: East Asian Studies
Expert in the following:
China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Campus phone: (518) 442-5316
Campus email: [email protected]

Richard Fogarty
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Europe; France; imperialism; war; race and racism; national identity; World War I
Campus phone: (518) 442-5344
Campus email: [email protected]

Richard Hamm
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Temperance movement; crime and trials; civil liberties
Campus phone: (518) 442-5382
Campus email: [email protected]

David Hochfelder
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
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 phone: (518) 442-5348
Campus email: [email protected]

Ryan Irwin
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
American foreign relations; globalization; international organizations; decolonization
Campus phone: 442-5379
Campus email: [email protected]

Julia Jennings
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
human demography (fertility, mortality, and migration) and 19th century Europe (with an emphasis on Scotland); household ecology; historical population change
Campus phone: (518) 442-4703
Campus email: [email protected]

Brian Keough
University Libraries
Department Head
Department: M.E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives
Expert in the following:
Acquisition and access to archival collections; needs assessments and business process analysis for record management programs; digital preservation; regional political history
Campus phone: (518) 437-3931
Campus email: [email protected]

Nadieszda Kizenko
College of Arts and Sciences
Department Chair
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Russia; Ukraine; Orthodox Christianity; Russian Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; confession; religion in Russian culture
Campus phone: (518) 442-5357
Campus email: [email protected]

Marilyn Masson
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Archaeology, Mexico, Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization, Ancient Urban Life and Landscapes, Pre-Modern Political Economy, Household Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology, Stone Tool Analysis
Campus phone: (518) 442-4700
Campus email: [email protected]

Nancy Newman
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Music and Theatre
Expert in the following:
European and American music since 1800; music and popular culture; film music and feminist theory
Campus phone: (518) 442-4189
Campus email: [email protected]

Julie Novkov
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Professor
Department: Political Science
Expert in the following:
Supreme Court; U.S. political development; Public Law; law and race; law and gender
Campus phone: (518) 442-5256
Campus email: [email protected]

Christopher Pastore
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
European and Native American history; social and human dimensions of environmental change; colonial history
Campus phone: (518) 442-5311
Campus email: [email protected]

Sean Rafferty
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; Native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
Campus phone: (518) 442-4713
Campus email: [email protected]

Nancy Roberts
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Program in Jounalism
Expert in the following:
History of journalism and communication; literary journalism; media and society; war and the media.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4884
Campus email: [email protected]

John Schwaller
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Catholic Church; Colonial Latin America; Aztec culture; Aztec language (Nahauti)
Campus phone: (518) 442-5300
Campus email: [email protected]

Kendra Smith-Howard
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Environmental history; twentieth-century US history; history of consumer culture and politics; history of technology; history of public health; agriculture and rural life
Campus phone: (518) 442-5375
Campus email: [email protected]

Marcia E. Sutherland
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
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 phone: (518) 442-4730
Campus email: [email protected]

Oscar Williams
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
African American history and literature; American slavery; black nationalism; black conservatism; slavery in New York
Campus phone: (518) 442-4730
Campus email: [email protected]