Ancient Rome

(Currently serving as Executive Officer of the History Program at the CUNY Graduate Center)

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352
Phone: 718-997-5350
Fax: 718-997-5359
joel.allen@qc.cuny.edu

Joel Allen is Professor of History at Queens College and Professor of History and Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center, currently serving as Executive Officer of the CUNY Graduate Center History Program. He received his Ph.D. from the Program in Ancient History in the Classics Department at Yale University. He teaches courses in ancient Greek and Roman history, including study abroad, and has occasionally stepped in to teach advanced Latin at the college. His research interests include ethnicity and education in the Roman world; his book, Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press), examined Roman attitudes toward non-Roman diplomatic hostages in policy and culture. The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar is forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2018.

History of Islam, South Asia

Powdermaker Hall, Room 392-S
Andrew.Amstutz@qc.cuny.edu

Andrew Amstutz is an assistant professor of history at Queens College. He earned his PhD in South Asian history from Cornell University. His research and teaching interests center on the history of Islam and South Asia as well as the history of science, public history, and museums. He is working on a book project tentatively titled “Finding a Home for Urdu: Language and Technoscience in Muslim South Asia,” which tells the story of an influential network of Indian Muslim educators and language activists who experimented with the print technologies of Urdu and debated the role of science education in different imperial and national projects in India. He is developing a new research project that explores the global circulation of ancient Buddhist art from Pakistan during the Cold War and its role in local public history debates. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-Hays, and AIPS. He has published articles in CSSAAME and South Asia. Prior to joining Queens College, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UW–Madison and taught at UA Little Rock.

Russia / USSR; 19th-century women, religion, conservatism; the history of textiles; historical methods and writing

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-ZZ
Phone: 718-997-5053
Fax: 718-997-5359
katherine.antonova@qc.cuny.edu
personal website

Katherine Pickering Antonova is Professor of History specializing in Europe and Russia / the Soviet Union. She earned her B.A. at the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her first book was An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her second scholarly monograph, currently in progress, examines secret police prosecutions of religious sectarians and their followers from 1800-1830. Her work on proto-industrial textile production and regional economic development can be found in The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Регионы Российской империи: Идентичность, репрезентация, (на)значение (Regions of the Russian Empire: Identity, Representation, Meaning, NLO Press Historia Rossica, 2021). She also published The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays (Oxford University Press, 2022) and is co-writing a book on how to write reviews.

Russian and Eastern European Jewish history, gender, genocide studies

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
Phone: 718-997-5365
Fax: 718-997-5359
elissa.bemporad@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Professor Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in History from Stanford University, an MA in Modern Jewish Studies from the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a BA in Slavic Studies from Bologna University (Italy). She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. The Russian edition was published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. Her new book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Elissa is the co-editor with Joyce Warren of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators (Indiana University Press, 2018), a collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century. She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and in Spring, 2018 she was an ARC Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the Graduate Center. Dr. Bemporad’s projects in progress include research for a biography of Ester Frumkin, the most prominent Jewish female political activist and public figure in late Imperial Russia and in the early Soviet Union.

Early modern Jewish history, Sephardi history, Italy

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-YY
Phone: 718-997-5410
Fax: 718-997-5359
francesca.bregoli@qc.cuny.edu
Personal Website

Francesca Bregoli holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies, and is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Jewish Art and Material Culture from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and her undergraduate degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Venice (Italy). Her research concentrates on eighteenth-century Italian and Sephardic Jewish history. Her current research looks at the creation and preservation of affective ties and bonds of obligation in trans-Mediterranean Jewish merchant families. She is the author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (Stanford University Press, 2014; finalist for the National Jewish Book Award). She co-edited Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective (2010, special issue of Jewish History; with Federica Francesconi); Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean (Palgrave, 2018; with Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti and Guri Schwarz), and Connecting Histories: Jews and their Others in Early Modern Europe(Penn Press, 2019; with David B. Ruderman). Francesca serves as Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

US women’s history, marriage, divorce, family, single motherhood

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352XX
Phone: 718-997-5358
Fax: 718-997-5359
kristin.celello@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Kristin Celello is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 2004. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and the co-editor of a volume titled Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her current book project is After Divorce: Parents, Children, and the Modern American Family.

US immigration history, film

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-V
Phone: 718-997-5380
Fax: 718-997-5359
peter.conollysmith@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Peter Conolly-Smith holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He is the author of Translating America: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1890-1918 (Smithsonian Press, 2004) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, history, literature, drama, and film.

Early modern Britain and Ireland, martyrdom, memory, Reformation

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-C
Phone: 718-997-5393
Fax: 718-997-5359
sarah.covington@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Sarah Covington is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, as well as director of both the QC Irish Studies Program and the MA Program in Biography and Memoir at the Graduate Center. Specializing in early modern England and Ireland, she has published two monographs: The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) and Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (Palgrave-McMillan, 2009). She has also co-edited Early Modern Ireland: New Perspectives and Approaches (Routledge) and the forthcoming Explorations in Protestant Aesthetics (Routledge). Her forthcoming book, Bitter Inheritance: the Afterlives of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and will explore the social memory of this most hated enemy in the Irish historical, literary and folkloric imagination over three centuries. Her other projects include a monograph on the theological and literary reinterpretations of problematic biblical characters and episodes (Judas, Gethsemane) in the wake of the sixteenth-century reformation; and, returning to Ireland, a book on John O’Donovan and his Ordnance Survey letters. She has written over thirty articles for journals and collections, including the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Albion, Book History, Reformation, the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, History, and Mortality, and received fellowships at Marsh’s Library in Dublin and the National University of Ireland Galway. At Queens, she has taught classes on the history of religious violence, crime and punishment in early modern Europe, the history of the devil, the history of the body, the history of Christianity, history and memory in Ireland, popular culture in early modern Europe, the British empire and national identity, the history of Scotland, and various topics in Tudor and Stuart England.

Labor history, social history, comparative politics, international political economy

evan.daniel@qc.cuny.edu

Evan Daniel, a PhD candidate at the New School for Social Science Research, specializes in intellectual and social history, immigrant radicalism, and 19th-century political thought. He is also affiliated with the SEEK Program at Queens College. In his work, Evan Daniel emphasizes the intersections of empirical and theoretical concerns, including immigration and transnationalism, American citizenship, ethnic identity, radical political movements and revolutions, labor and politics, and archives and public history. He is also interested in the historical development of anarchism, Marxism, syndicalism, and American conservatism. He previously taught American history at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and Latin American history, Caribbean history, and labor history at other colleges and universities in New York City. Prior to teaching, Daniel was an archivist at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

Modern Africa, South Africa, Postwar U.S., History of Science, Labor History, Social Movements

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-L
Phone: 718-997-5381
Fax: 718-997-5359
grace.davie@qc.cuny.edu

Grace Davie earned her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Michigan. Grace has received fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. Her first book was Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has published essays in The Journal of Southern African Studies, OD Practitioner, and Politique Africaine. Her current book, Webs of Power: Labor Union Corporate Campaigns in the United States, 1960-2015 (under contract with University of North Carolina Press, Justice Power Politics series), tells the story of civil rights activists, New Left radicals, and activist-researchers who used power mapping to develop strategies and tactics for struggling labor unions in a period of rapid transformation, financialization, and anti-union repression. Grace is developing a new research project on the transnational history of anti-apartheid activism. Along with courses on research and writing for MA students, Grace has taught courses on Africa, South Africa, the global anti-apartheid movement, truth commissions, and historical approaches to social memory. She has been an ARC faculty fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, also at the Grad Center.

20th Century US History/ Nationalism and Social Movements in the Modern African Diaspora / Women, Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora / and Caribbean Migration/ African American Women’s History

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352X
Fax: 718-997-5359
Natanya.Duncan@qc.cuny.edu

Natanya Duncan is the Director of Africana Studies at Queens College City University of New York and an Associate Professor of History. A historian of the African Diaspora, her research and teaching focuses on global freedom movements of the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan’s research interest includes constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in Diasporic communities; and the engagements of intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora. Her forthcoming University of Illinois Press book, An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, focuses on the distinct activist strategies in-acted by women in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which Duncan calls an efficient womanhood. Following the ways women in the UNIA scripted their own understanding of Pan Africanism, Black Nationalism and constructions of Diasporic Blackness, the work traces the blending of nationalist and gendered concerns amongst known and lesser known Garveyite women. Duncan’s publications include works that explore the leadership models of UNIA women and include “Now in Charge of the American Field”: Maymie De Mena and Charting the UNIA’s New Course” in Journal of Liberty Hall (Vol. 3 2017); “Henrietta Vinton Davis: The Lady of the Race” in Journal of New York History (Fall 2014 Vol 95 No. 4); “Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience” in The American South and the Atlantic World (University of Florida Press, 2013).

Most recently she co-edited a special volume of Caribbean Women and Gender Studies Journal “Gender and Anti-colonialism in the Interwar Caribbean” published December 2018.

Mediterranean and Ottoman Studies ,1670s-1920s; Economic history (commercial, financial, monetary); Regions: Ottoman Anatolia (Izmir); Greece (Peloponnese); the Aegean islands (Chios, Crete); Syria (Aleppo); historian of port-cities (Izmir, Alexandria).

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5351
Fax: 718-997-5359
elena.frangakis-syrett@qc.cuny.edu

Elena Frangakis-Syrett is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Born in Alexandria of Greek parents (from Chios and Lemnos), she grew up in Athens and London. She studied in London and Paris and holds a PhD in Economic History from King’s College, University of London. A

Fellow of England’s Royal Historical Society, she has also been Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Senior Fellow at Koç University, İstanbul, Visiting Professor at the İzmir University of Economics. In the Fall semester 2020 she served as virtual Visiting Professor at the İzmir University of Economics and in the spring Semester 2020 she was CUNY Distinguished Fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative on global port-cities. She currently serves as Chair of the History Panel, PSC-CUNY Research Awards Program, 2019-2025.

Publications and Research interests:

Professor Frangakis-Syrett’s research interests relate to the social and economic history (commercial, monetary and financial) of the Mediterranean at large, and of the Ottoman Empire in particular, (Western Turkey, Syria, Southern Greece, Aegean islands) from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries, with emphasis on the economic relations (trade, finance, investments) between the city of İzmir/Smyrna and the West. Her most recent book is The Port-City in the Ottoman Middle East at the Age of Imperialism (2017). She co-edited with T. Allain & S. Lupo, Au coeur des mutations du négoce en Méditerranée (2019) https://doi.org/10.4000/rives.6671. Her other books include Trade and Money: The Ottoman Economy in the 18th and early 19th centuries (2007) and Οι Χιώτες έμποροι στις διεθνείς συναλλαγές, 1750-1850 [Chiot Merchants in International Exchange] (1995). The Commerce of Smyrna, 1700-1820 (1992) was published in Turkish, 18. Yűzyılda İzmir’de Ticaret (2006) and in Greek, Το εμπόριο της Σμύρνης το 18o αιώνα (2010). She regularly gives lectures in the United States, Europe and Turkey and has published numerous articles in international journals.

Other publications and professional activities:

While resident in Turkey, in 2011-2012, she hosted faculty seminars on the development of banking in the 19th- and early 20th-century Middle East, one of her research projects, at Koç University, in İzmir University of Economics and at Istanbul’s Institut Français des Études Anatoliennes and on which she published “The Ottoman Monetary System and Early Banking in the Ottoman Empire”, in History From Below: Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert, eds., S. Karahasanoğlu et al (2016). Her other current research interests relate to business networks in the Mediterranean on which she published “Capital Accumulation and Family Business Networks in Late Ottoman Izmir”, International Journal of Turkish Studies (2015) and “Le rôle des réseaux dans l’organisation commerciale. Les Britanniques à Smyrne, 1860s-1920s” in Au coeur des mutations du négoce en Méditerranée (2019). She returned to İzmir University of Economics as Visiting Professor in Fall 2019 where she lectured on Izmir’s Levantine community and on the production and trade of Anatolian cotton, 1700-1914, which was published in Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia, eds., E. Boyar & K. Fleet (2021). Her latest article “Transnational Trajectories: From Chios to London Through Alexandria, a Family Story”, has been published in Mediterranean Port Cities, eds., E. Özveren, et al (2023). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-32326-3

Special emphasis in her work has been given on the port-cities of Izmir and Patras, and more recently on Alexandria, as well as on the Aegean islands of Chios and Crete. On the latter island’s economy, she published “Évolution du commerce maritime en Méditerranée orientale au XVIIIe siècle”, La Maritmisation du Monde, GIS d’histoire maritime, CNRS (2016). As part of her current research project on the commodities trade of the Middle East and the global markets, she published “XVII. Yüzyıl Başlından XX. Yüzyıl Başlarına kadar Krala Gemiyle İzmirden Giden Sultaniye Kuru Üzüm İhracatı”, in Üzümün Akdeniz’deki Yolculuğu, eds., E. Akpınar & E. Tükenmez (2017).

More recently, continuing her research on the global markets, as CUNY ARC Distinguished Fellow she presented, on 7 March 2020 at the CUNY, Graduate Center, NYC, “Genoa and Izmir in the Early Modern Global Economy, 1500s-1700s”. During the pandemic, on December 23, 2020, as virtual Visiting Professor in the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, she lectured on zoom, on The Plague in the Ottoman Middle East: Izmir’s Response, 1700s-early 1800s and again on zoom she presented “Networking in Izmir’s Corporate Commercial World in the Late Ottoman Period”, at the Izmir Kâtip Çelebi Űniversitesi International Conference, on March 24, 2022.

Medieval Cairo, Geniza, Jewish history

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352W
Phone: 718-997-5497
Fax: 718-997-5359
arnold.franklin@qc.cuny.edu

Associate Professor Arnold Franklin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has taught at New York University, University of California, Davis, and Hunter College. Dr. Franklin’s research focuses on medieval Jewish history in the Arabic-speaking world. His first book, This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Islamic East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), explores the profound concern with lineage that developed among Jews living in Muslim lands during the Middle Ages. He also co-edited Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Brill, 2014).

Modern France, crime, urban history

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-J
Phone: 718-997-5227
Fax: 718-997-5359
aaron.freundschuh@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Aaron Freundschuh is the History Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. He earned a PhD in History at University of California, Berkeley, and has taught modern European and U.S. history at universities in France and the United States. He was the recipient of a 2015-16 Queens College teaching award. His research deals with urban history, criminality and policing, with an emphasis on contemporary Paris. His book The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris appeared with Stanford University Press in 2017.

US women’s liberation movement 

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-D
Phone: 718-997-5384
Fax: 718-997-5359
carol.giardina@qc.cuny.edu

Carol Giardina is Associate Professor of History, specializing in contemporary U.S. history and women’s history. She earned her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of Freedom For Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 (University Press of Florida, 2010) as well as other articles on the Second Wave of Feminism in the U.S.  She is presently working on a biography of Second Wave founder Judith Brown and a history of the feminist movement in Florida. She teaches Women’s Studies, Contemporary U.S. History, and U.S. Labor History.

East-Central Europe, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, modernism, the avant-garde, memory

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-N
Phone: 718-997-5363
Fax: 718-997-5359
thomas.ort@qc.cuny.edu

Thomas Ort is Associate Professor of modern European history and Director of the Honors in the Social Sciences program at Queens College. He received his PhD from New York University and his BA from Brown University. The main focus of his research has been on modernist and avant-garde movements in early twentieth-century Czechoslovakia, but his most recent work concerns the politics of memory in postwar Eastern Europe. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. It was subsequently translated into Czech under the title Umění a život v modernistické Praze: Karel Čapek a jeho generace, 1911-1938 and published in Prague in 2016. His new book project, Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, challenges conventional understandings of “memory” through an examination of the ever-evolving interpretations of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, the SS general and architect of the Final Solution who was assassinated in Prague in 1942.

Mongolia, China, East Asia

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-I
Phone: 718-997-5382
Fax: 718-997-5359
morris.rossabi@qc.cuny.edu

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Morris Rossabi (Ph.D. Columbia University) is the author or editor of 26 books, including Khubilai Khan, China and Inner Asia, Modern Mongolia, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia, A History of China, and Voyager from Xanadu and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles. He has conducted research in East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S.  Collaborating on art exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, he has written four chapters for the authoritative Cambridge History of China.  In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia, and in 2018, he will be giving lectures at Bonn University and Harvard’s I Tatti Center in Florence and will be giving the keynote address at Conference on “Eurasian Connections” at Shanghai, New York University.

19th- and 20th-Century America, New York City, Environmental History, History of City Planning

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-O
Phone: 718-997-5367
Fax: 718-997-5359
kara.schlichting@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Kara Schlichting is an Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University in 2014. Her work in late-19th and 20th-century American History sits at the intersection of urban, environmental, and political history, with a particular focus on property regimes and regional planning in greater New York City.  Schlichting is a co-editor of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews.  Schlichting’s 2019 book New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore is part of  the University of Chicago Press’s History of Urban America series. Her teaching interests range from the history of 1960s America, the city in American history, the history of New York City, and environmental history.  Her new research on tideland property development investigates how legal theory, coastal resiliency planning, and land politics shape American waterfronts. 

Law and legal history, Hebrew literature and literary history, biblical and Jewish law

Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, 2022-2023

Associate Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Miryam.Segal@qc.cuny.edu

Miryam Segal is associate professor of History at Queens College, and of Middle Eastern Studies and Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. In 2022-23 she is also Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law School. Her first monograph, A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics Accent, was about the fraught transition from one set of pronunciations and dialects to “new accent” Hebrew through literary and pedagogic institutions in Palestine in the early 20th century. She has also co-edited a volume on “the embarrassment of Scriptures” (Vixens Disturbing Vineyards), and is editor of a forthcoming collected volume on Jewish family law that aims to reframe that sub-field (2023), and is completing “Working Writers,” a manuscript on the intertwined gender politics of Labor Zionism and of Hebrew poetry in early twentieth century Jewish Palestine. Her new research is on vows in Jewish law, and oaths in Anglo-American law.

She earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard College, her doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from Yale Law School. Before coming to CUNY, she was assistant professor in Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.

Modern Germany, pop culture

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-A
Phone: 718-997-5350
Fax: 718-997-5359
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu
academia.edu

Julia Sneeringer is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in German from Temple University. A historian of 20th century Germany, she also offers courses on modern Europe, including Fascism and Nazism, Europe Since 1945, politics and culture in Weimar Germany, the history of youth, and the history of women and gender in modern Europe. She is the author of Winning Women’s Votes: Politics and Propaganda in Weimar Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). More recently, she has published numerous articles on tourism in Hamburg’s red-light district, Beatlemania in West and East Germany, and youth culture in 1960s Hamburg. Her book A Social History of Early Rock’n’Roll in Germany: Hamburg From Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69 was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic Press.

Latin American, Spanish, Atlantic, and Global History

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-G
ftavarez@qc.cuny.edu
http://www.fideltavarez.com/

Fidel J. Tavárez is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College and a scholar of the early modern Spanish Atlantic. Broadly speaking, his research explores how the Hispanic world—including Spain and Latin America—governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The Imperial Machine: Assembling the Spanish Commercial Empire in the Age of Enlightenment. Committed to cultivating wide-ranging curiosity, Dr. Tavárez offers courses on Latin American, Atlantic, and global history. Before joining Queens College’s History Department, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Global History of the Freie Universität Berlin and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University, a B.A. in history at The City College of New York, and an A.A. in Social Sciences and Humanities at LaGuardia Community College.

Modern United States, Italian-American history

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Q
Phone: 718-997-5299
Fax: 718-997-5359
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu

Peter G. Vellon is Associate Professor of History at Queens College. He earned his PhD in History from the Graduate Center/CUNY in 2003 and is the author of A Great Conspiracy Against our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century (New York University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of What is Italian America? Selected Essays from the Italian American Studies Association (Bordighera Press, 2015). His articles have appeared in The Ethnic Studies Review, the Italian American Review, the Journal of Urban History, and he has published several book chapters. At Queens College he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in late 19th and early 20th century immigration, Italian American history, the United States and the Vietnam War, America in the 1970s, and special seminars in the Macaulay Honors College, such as the People of NYC. His research interests include the intersection of race, whiteness, and identity, as well as the interchange between white ethnics and African Americans during the 20th century.

US military history, gender, race

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Z
Phone: 718-997-5120
Fax: 718-997-5359
bobby.wintermute@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Bobby Wintermute received his BA from Montclair State University in 1991, his MA from East Stroudsburg University in 1997, and his PhD from Temple University in 2006. His research focus is on topics related to War and Society studies, a sub-field within the broader discipline of Military History, and the US Army from 1890 through the Progressive Era and World War II. This is reflected in his published work, where he has written on military medicine and public health (Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of The Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 – Routledge, 2010), race and gender studies (Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare – DeGruyter, 2019), and religion and war (Great War, Religious Dimensions – Cambridge University Press, 2020). His teaching covers a broad range of social and cultural topics related to war, military culture, and American military history, as well as the history of American foreign policy. He has also taught oral history practices and methods on the undergraduate and graduate level, having received his training at the University of California-Berkeley Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office.

Professor Wintermute is currently preparing a second edition of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare. He is also working on a study of prisons, crime, and military service in the United States during the First World War, focusing on Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. He has received grants from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, where he was scholar-in-residence in 2004. Dr. Wintermute directed the Queens College Veteran Alumni project, a student-based oral history outreach initiative aimed at preserving the memory of veterans from the borough of Queens, from 2007 until 2018. He was also a founding co-host of the New Books in Military History podcast. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department at Queens College.

Hobbies and pastimes include global and American travel, cooking, hosting friends and family for parties and dinners, music (live and recorded), film (cheesy and serious), gaming (tabletop rpgs, computer games, and board games), and exploring abandoned locations.

Early modern France, Urban and military history

Powdermaker Hall, Room 335
Phone: 718-997-5211
Fax: 718-997-
michael.wolfe@qc.cuny.edu

Michael Wolfe is professor of history at Queens College.  He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from Boston University.  A specialist of early modern European history, his studies include works on the intersection between politics and religious belief, technology and craft practices, cities and siege warfare, and landscapes and cartography.  He has published extensively on these topics, including some thirty articles and essays as well as eight books.  Among his most recent titles are Recovering 9/11 in New York (2014), Natalie Zemon Davis and the Passion of History (2009), Walled Towns and the Shaping of France (2009), and Senses of Place: Inventing Landscapes in Medieval Western Europe (2002). In addition, he is involved in a number of editing ventures, serving as chief review editor for H-France and series editor for Early Modern Studies & Translations published by Truman State University Press.

Art and archaeology of Byzantium

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warren.woodfin@qc.cuny.edu
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Warren Woodfin is Kallinikeion Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Queens College, and holds joint appointments in the Departments of History and Art History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002. Woodfin’s research focuses on the art and archaeology of Byzantium and its cultural sphere in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. He has a particular interest in textiles and dress, and is the author of The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the co-editor, with Mateusz Kapustka, of Clothing the Sacred: Medieval Textiles as Fabric, Form and Metaphor (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2016). For the past several years, he has been collaborating with a research team of U.S. and Ukraine based scholars to study a medieval burial complex, the Chungul Kurgan, in the Black Sea steppe. His preliminary article on the project (co-authored with Renata Holod and Yuriy Rassamakin) appeared in Ars Orientalis 38 (2010). He has also published articles in the journals Art Bulletin, Cahiers Archéologiques, Gesta, and Dumbarton Oaks Papers, and has contributed essays to various edited volumes, including Experiencing Byzantium (Ashgate, 2013). Prior to joining the faculty at Queens College, Woodfin held teaching and research posts at Duke, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Metropolitan Museum, and the University of Zurich. In spring 2016, he was a resident Fellow at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.