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History
 


        Marcus Adams

Marcus Adams
College of Arts and Sciences
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nancy Roberts
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor


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

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

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

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

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]