History Faculty

Eliyana Adler
Professor
Judaic Studies; History; Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)
Research Interests
- East European Jewish Studies
- Holocaust
- Memory
- Migration
- Gender

Research Interests
- Greek and Roman History
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Late Antiquity

Nancy P. Appelbaum
Professor; LACAS Courtesy Title
History; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program
Research Interests
- Modern Latin American history
- Colombian history
- History of race and gender
- Latin American migration
- U.S.-Latin American relations

Anne C. Bailey
Professor; Director
History; Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity (HTC)
Research Interests
- African-American History
- African Diaspora Studies
- History and Memory
- African History
- Oral History
- Civil Rights
- Public History

Research Interests
- Early Modern Europe
- France
- Politicized violence

Research Interests
- Modern France
- Immigration
- Gender History
- Sexual Labor

Elizabeth I. Casteen
Associate Professor of History; Director of CEMERS
History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval and Early Modern European history
- History of gender and sexuality
- History of religion and spirituality

Alex Chase-Levenson
Associate Professor
Public Health; History; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Modern Britain and its empire
- Europe in the long 19th century
- History of the modern Mediterranean
- History of public health
- History of disease

Research Interests
- Sephardi Jewry
- Modern Jewish History

Research Interests
- Russia and the Soviet Union
- Eurasian history

Research Interests
- Modern South Asia
- Environmental and labor history
- Literature and history
- Social theory
- British Empire

Sean F. Dunwoody
Associate Professor
History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Early Modern Europe, German lands/Holy Roman Empire
- Religious history
- History and social theory

Zeynep Otluoglu Dursun

Research Interests
- East Asia
- History of science
- Environmental history
- Nation and empire

Jonathan Karp
Associate Professor; Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Director of Judaic Studies
History; Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Jewish Economic and Cultural History
- Christian-Jewish Relations

Research Interests
- Late antiquity and medieval history
- History of medicine
- Gender and the body
- History of Christianity

Research Interests
- History of civil rights
- Reconstruction
- The U.S. Since the 1960s

Stephen R. Ortiz
Director; Executive Director-University Scholars; Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Enrichment and Executive Director; Associate Professor
External Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Center; Binghamton University Scholars Program; History
Research Interests
- Political, military, diplomatic and gender history of the twentieth-century United States

Research Interests
- Early America

Research Interests
- Modern America
- African American history
- LGBTQ+ history
- Social movements
- Oral history
- Public history
- History and memory

Kent F. Schull
Associate Professor; Director/CMENAS; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- Modern Middle East history
- Palestine-Israel
- Turkey
- Criminal justice in the Middle East
- Missiology
- Forced migration
- Middle East and North African diaspora communities

Research Interests
- Early modern Ottoman history
- Environmental history
- History of science and technology

Research Interests
- Colonial Latin America
- environmental history

Research Interests
- 19th-century U.S.
- The American South
- U.S. Women's History
- Civil War & Reconstruction
- History of Sexuality
- African-American History

Wendy L. Wall
Associate Professor; Director
History; The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century U.S.
- Cultural and political history
- The American West

Yi Wang
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Late Imperial China
- borderlands
- migration
- nationalism

Heather Welland
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor
History
Research Interests
- Early Modern Britain
- British Empire
- Atlantic World

Research Interests
- Modern U.S. women
- Sexuality
- Social movements
- Civil liberties
- Civil rights
- Life Stories

Farren Yero
Turovsky/Casey Family Fund Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American History
History
Research Interests
- Study of care practices and disease prevention
- Science, medicine and technology studies of the body
- Gender and critical race studies of labor, slavery and the family
Courtesy Titles

John Cheng
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
- popular culture; media; and technology
- the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
- historiography and critical theory

Sonja M. Kim
Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair
Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Korea and Comparative East Asia
- Medicine
- Health
- Gender
- Race and Class
- Education and Welfare

Adam Laats
Professor
CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- History of American education
- Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
- Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
- History of creation/evolution debates
- Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
- Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history

Cynthia Marasigan
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- U.S. empire
- Comparative and relational studies of race
- Philippine and Filipino American history
- Afro-Asian histories

Research Interests
- African history
- Modern Zanzibar
- Islam on the Swahili coast
- History & memory
- History of slavery

Shay Rabineau
Chair of Judaic Studies/ Associate Professor of Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Israel/Palestine, Middle East Walking and Pilgrimage Routes
- Israeli Environmental History
- Historical Geography of the Middle East