History Faculty

BA, Stanford University. PhD, Harvard University. Special interest in European political, diplomatic, and cultural history, with emphasis on modern Germany; visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; author of Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond and Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence; editor and translator of Beyond the Wall: Memoirs of an East and West German Spy; senior editor, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; member, American Council on Germany. SLC 1971–

BA, Bryn Mawr College. MA, Brown University. PhD, Tufts University. Special interest in modern social and women’s history, with particular emphasis on British and French history. SLC, 1977–

BA, Harvard University. MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. Special interest in early American history, with an emphasis on the American Revolution and the early American republic; European and American intellectual history; and historiography. Author of The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860; author of articles and book reviews for History and Theory, Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, and Journal of the Early Republic. SLC, 1999–

BA, Stanford University. MA, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles. Special interests include history of West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria; history of intelligence testing and external examinations in Africa; history of science in Africa; and gender and education. Recipient of a Spencer fellowship and Major Cultures fellowship at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities. SLC, 2001–

BA, Williams College. MPhil, University of Oxford. MA, PhD, Princeton University. Specializes in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modern Middle East. Research addresses the relationship between nationalism, territoriality, and political identity in Egypt and the late Ottoman Empire. His book manuscript, provisionally titled Desert Borderland: Bedouins, Territoriality, and the Making of Modern Egypt and Libya, examines the impact of various state-making projects on local experiences of place and belonging in the desert region linking Egypt and Libya during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Broader intellectual and teaching interests include: the politics and culture of nationalism; modernity and identity formation in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Arab world; cities and imagined urbanism; nostalgia and the politics of collective memory; popular culture; the historiography of borderlands; comparative British and French empire; and the history of geography and cartography. Articles published in History Compass and The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (Edinburgh UP, 2014). Dissertation research was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Center in Egypt. Recipient of a Fulbright-IIE grant to Egypt. Member of the American Historical Association and the Middle East Studies Association of North America. SLC, 2012–

BA magna cum laude, Duke University. JD, Columbia University School of Law. A litigator at Sullivan & Worcester, a law firm representing international clients in US courts, he has also practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton and Wilmer Hale. Practice included general commercial litigation and white collar investigations but focused specifically on transborder issues such as the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, extraterritoriality, foreign affairs preemption and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Previously a faculty member at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, director of transnational programs and adjunct professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New York, and visiting professor at Seton Hall and Hofstra Law Schools in New Jersey and New York, respectively. Taught civil procedure, international litigation in US courts, international business transactions, international criminal law, transnational law, and administrative law. At Columbia, served as an articles editor on the Journal of Transnational Law and was a Michael Sovern and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Studied at Oxford University and l’Universitá degli Studi di Bologna and served as a Peace Corps volunteer on the island of Santo Antão,Republic of Cape Verde, where he coached the high school’s basketball team to its first national championship. He has published articles on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, as well as the application of international law in US courts. SLC, 2013–

BA (cum laude), University of Rochester. Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, New York University in Paris. MFA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Specializes in gender, race, sexuality, and class in film and media; women’s and gender history; social and cultural history of the United States and Europe; cinema and media studies. Worked in television, film, and media development at The Polone Company and Hearst Entertainment. Contributor to the Bancroftania, University of California-Berkeley. Advisor to Women Film Pioneers Project, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University. Advisor to MoMA’s To Save and Project film series. Member: Women Writing Women’s Lives, CUNY; advisory board, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC), American Museum of Natural History; advisory council, Columbia University School of the Arts. SLC, 2011–

BA, The College of New Jersey. MA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in US women’s, urban, 19-century social history, with particular emphasis on New York City, crime and capitalism, and growth of the bourgeois narrative. Contributor to Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of Women in American History. Awarded Gerda Lerner Prize. SLC, 2007–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, Yale University. Special interest in US labor, women’s, and social history; author, The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls’ Clubs; co-author, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States; contributor to various encyclopedias and anthologies and to educational projects sponsored by labor and community organizations; reviewer for Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, International Labor and Working Class History, and other historical journals; contributor and editorial associate, Radical History Review; recipient of Hewlett-Mellon grants. SLC, 1988–

BA, University of Arizona. MA, PhD, University of Texas-El Paso. Specializes in women, gender, and the family and the Chinese diaspora in modern Latin America and the US-Mexico borderlands. Author of Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 (North Carolina, 2012); “Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s-1960s,” winner of the Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award from the Pacific Historical Review and reprinted in Race and Immigration in the United States: New Histories (Routledge, 2012); chapter in Orientalism and Identity in Latin America: Fashioning Self and Other from the (Post)Colonial Margin (Arizona, 2013); entry in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race (North Carolina, 2013); reviews in the American Historical Review, the Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of Asian Studies, the International Migration Review, and others. Currently serves on the editorial board of the Pacific Historical Review. Research has been supported by a fellowship at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, the Gaius Charles Bolin dissertation fellowship at Williams College, a grant from the Macau Foundation, the George E. Pozzetta dissertation award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society of the Organization of American Historians, a transnationalism research fellowship from the Mexico-North Research Network, and university grants. Currently working on “Chinese Latinos: Forging the Transpacific Family, Diasporic Community, and Memory,” a scholarly book project, and “Pacific Dreams,” a work of historical fiction. Previously taught at the University of Texas-El Paso. SLC, 2014–

BA, Yale University. MA, PhD, Brown University. Special interests include the political work of literature, especially around questions of gender and race; US cultural and intellectual history of the 19th and early 20th centuries; and the social and cultural history of the US Civil War. Authored The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the American Civil War, 1850-1872, which won the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources, edited with Jim Cullen, was published in 2005; book chapters are included in Love, Sex, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History; Divided Houses: Gender and the American Civil War; and A Search for Equity. SLC, 1994–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Central interest in European history and culture, with special emphasis on military history and literature. Writes regularly for First of the Month and Dissent; occasional contributor to The Nation, The Observer (London); former editor, Audacity; contributing editor, American Heritage Magazine; SLC, 1987–

BA, Wesleyan University. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in the religious and intellectual history of early modern Europe and in the history of Eastern Europe, particularly Russia and Poland. Author of articles on early 20th-century Russian philosophy and religious thought; served on the executive committee of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference. Previously taught at Columbia University, Hunter College, Lafayette College, University of Wisconsin-Madison. SLC, 2004–

BA, Dickinson College. MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Special interests in African American history, politics, and culture, emphasizing the Black Freedom Movement, women in the Black Revolt, US urban and ethnic history, public policy and persistent poverty, oral history, and the experience of anti-colonial movements. Author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics and reviews, chapters, and essays in journals, anthologies, and encyclopedia. Editor, The Black Power Movement, Part I: Amiri Baraka, From Black Arts to Black Radicalism; Freedom North; Groundwork; Want to Start a Revolution?: Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies; adviser to the Algebra Project and the PBS documentaries, Eyes on the Prize II and America’s War on Poverty; board of directors, Urban History Association. SLC, 1989–

BA, Radcliffe College. MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison. PhD, University of Pittsburgh. Special interests in the Nicaraguan and Cuban revolutions, Che Guevara’s life and writings, labor and social movements, Atlantic history and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America, history of Latinos/as in the United States, environmental history. Author: Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution (Duke, 2000), Carlos Fonseca y la revolución nicaragüense (Managua, 2003), Bajo las banderas de Che y de Sandino (Havana, 2004), A Revolução Nicaragüense (São Paulo, 2005), and Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador (Caracas, 2008). Director, Sarah Lawrence College Study Abroad in Cuba program. SLC, 2002–