Faculty


Niambi Walker Cacchioli, Assistant Professor (Rutgers)
African Diaspora.

Karen D. Caplan, Assistant Professor (Rutgers)
Latin America, Mexico.

Susan L. Carruthers, Associate Professor (Rutgers)
International history.

Kornel Chang, Assistant Professor (Rutgers)
Modern U.S. History, Migration and Border Controls, U.S. Empire and the Pacific world.

Jon Cowans, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director (Rutgers)
20th-century Europe; politics, culture, and communications; history of France.

Donna Irene Dennis, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Member of History Graduate Faculty (Rutgers)
Business Associations; American Legal History; Securities and Market Regulation.

Lesley Doig, Scholar Teacher (Rutgers)
United States History.

Gary D. Farney, Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Ancient and Medieval Civilizations (Rutgers)
Ancient Greek and Roman history; Roman Republican political history; Roman numismatics.

Ruth Feldstein, Associate Professor (Rutgers)
United States history, with focus on 20th-century culture and politics; women's and gender history; and African American history.

Eva Giloi, Assistant Professor (Rutgers)
19th and 20th century European history; modern Germany.

James Goodman, Professor (Rutgers)
Modern United States history; race relations and politics; history as literature; literature as history.

Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor (Rutgers)
Law; American legal history; Thomas Jefferson; slavery.

Jan Ellen Lewis, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, FAS-N (Rutgers)
United States history to the 1830s; history of the family; history of women.

Neil Maher, Associate Professor, NJIT Graduate History Coordinator and Chair (NJIT)
20th-century environmental, social, and political history; history of technology and medicine; and landscape studies.

Lisa Nocks, University Lecturer (NJIT)
History of Science & Technology, Victorian Britain, History of the Book.

Stephen Pemberton, Assistant Professor (NJIT)
20th-century history of medicine, biomedical sciences and technology; history of public health.

Allison J. Perlman, Assistant Professor (NJIT)
Media Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, History of Broadcasting, Film, U.S. Social Movements, U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, Law and Public Policy.

Clement A. Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (Rutgers)
African-American history; urban history; public history; history of New Jersey.

Gautham Rao, Assistant Professor (NJIT)
U.S. Political, legal, and economic history.

Frederick H. Russell, Associate Professor (Rutgers)
Medieval history; ancient and medieval political thought.

Said S. Samatar, Professor (Rutgers)
Modern African history, esp. eastern and southern Africa; African resistance movements to European imperialism; Middle East; history of Islam.

Beryl E. Satter, Associate Professor and Chair (Rutgers)
20th-century United States history; history of women; cultural history; urban history.

Amita Satyal , Assistant Professor (Rutgers)
South Asia up to 1750.

Karl Schweizer, Professor (NJIT)
Military History, International Relations, War and Technology, History of Science, Diplomatic Theory.

Kathleen Shea, Scholar Teacher (Rutgers)
The Greek and Roman City, Roman Monuments and Spectacles.

Richard B. Sher, Distinguished Professor (NJIT)
The Enlightenment; social history of technology; history of the book and print culture; intellectual and cultural history.

Marc S. Weiner, Professor of Law and Associate Member of History Graduate Faculty (Rutgers)
American cultural and intellectual history, constitutional law, legal anthropology, Medieval English legal history.

Odoric Y. K. Wou, Professor (Rutgers)
Modern Chinese social, economic and cultural history.


Adjunct Faculty

Elizabeth Aaron , Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
Teaching History.

Martha Brozyna, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Western Civilization.

Andrew Daily, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Western Civilization.

Pamela Epstein, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
Civil War and Reconstruction.

Matthew Friedman, Part-Time Lecturer (NJIT)
United States History.

Jose Gomez-Rivera, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Western Civilization.

Benjamin Hicks, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
Roman History.

Michael Hill, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Western Civilization.

Melanie Kiechle, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
United States History.

Andrew Lee, Part-Time Lecturer (NJIT)
20th Century World.

Rebecca Lubot-Conk, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
United States History.

Thomas McCabe, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Newark.

Abigail Mellen, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of Western Civilization.

Christopher Mitchell, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
United States History.

Joyce Mullan, Part-Time Lecturer (NJIT)
The Enlightenment and its historical reversals; History of Political Theory.

Raymond Ojserkis, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
The World Wars, United States History.

Michele Rotunda, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of the United States.

Sara Rzeszutek, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of the United States.

Steven Saltzman, Part-Time Lecturer (NJIT)
History of Western Civilization; 20th Century World.

Kara Schlichting, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
History of the United States.

Felicia Thomas, Part-Time Lecturer (Rutgers)
United States.


Emeriti Faculty

Norma Basch, Professor Emerita (Rutgers)
19th-century United States history; history of women; American legal history.

Norman Dain, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
American history, intellectual history and the history of mental health.

Taras Hunczak, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
Russian, Ukranian, and East European history.

Warren F. Kimball, Robert Treat Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
History of United States foreign policy and diplomacy; Franklin Roosevelt and the 2nd World War; United States history since 1945.

Jonathan Lurie, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
American legal history; late 19th-century American political history.

Irwin L. Merker, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
Ancient Greek and Roman history; ancient technology.

John E. O'Connor, Professor Emeritus (NJIT)
Film/television and history; colonial and early national America.

John W. Osborne, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
Modern Europe and nineteenth century Britian.

Elliot Rosen, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
American history, twentieth-century economic history, and the New Deal Era.

Doris Sher, Professor Emerita (NJIT)
19th and 20th century European intellectual history; 20th century global history.

Gabor P. Vermes, Professor Emeritus (Rutgers)
Eastern and Central European history; modern political movements and ideologies.

Olga J. Wagenheim, Professor Emerita (Rutgers)
Latin American history; Puerto Rican and Caribbean history.


Staff


Maureen O'Rourke, Administrative Coordinator (NJIT)

Christina R. Strasburger, Department Administrator (Rutgers)

Lisa Toniolo, Administrative Assistant (Rutgers)
Jessica Witte, Department Secretary (NJIT)