Faculty

Angelo T. Angelis
Ph.D., Graduate Center-CUNY 2002

Teaching interests:
Undergraduate and master's level courses in U.S. History, with a focus on the colonial era, American Revolution and Constitution.

Research interests:
American Revolution; constitutional history; political
culture; crowds and popular politics in the transatlantic world; the colonial city.

Selected Publications:
"By Consent of the People: Riot and Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Virginia" in Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault, eds., Colonial Chesapeake:
New Perspectives (Lexington Books, scheduled for 2005).

"For God and Country: Crafting Memory and Meaning from War and Independence" Reviews in American History 31 (2003): 356-62.

"Pregnant with Future Consequences: Confederation and Constitution in Massachusetts, 1780-1787." PhD diss., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2002.

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Richard Belsky
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997

Teaching interests:
History of East Asia; modern China; and modern Japan.

Research interests:
Social and political history of late imperial and modern China; urban history.

Selected Publications:
Localities at the Center: Native-place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing (Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005)

"Placing the Hundred Days: Native-place Ties and Urban Space" in Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Zarrow, eds., Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period : Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China (Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002)

"The 'Urban Ecology' of Late-Imperial Beijing Reconsidered: The Transformation of Social Space in China's Late Imperial Capital City," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 27 No. 1, (Nov. 2000).

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Manu Bhagavan
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin 1999

Teaching interests:
Modern South Asia, comparative colonialism and nationalism, intellectual history

Research interests:
Diversity and pluralism, Indian princely states, comparative modernity, resistance politics, globalization, and intellectual history

Selected Publications:
Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education and Empire in Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Editor. The Dynamics of Diversity: Nationalism and the Politics of Identity in South Asia. Forthcoming.

Co-editor with Anne Feldhaus. Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in South Asia. Forthcoming.

Faculty Homepage:
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbhagava

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Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Ph.D., Cornell University 2003

Teaching interests:
My teaching interests include labor, urban, and cultural history, with a particular focus on late-nineteenth and twentieth-century America.

Research interests:
My research interests include radical and working-class political culture and the history of commemoration and collective memory in America.

Selected Publications:
"'Boys are the Backbone of Our Nation': The Cultural Politics of Youth Parades in Urban America" Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies Vol. 29 (December 2004), 563-594.

"May Day in Urban America" in Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days, ed. Len Travers (Greenwood Press, 2006), 177 - 190.

"Creative Opposition to Radical America: 1920s Anti-May Day Demonstrations," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas Volume 4: Issue 3 (Fall 2007): 59 - 80.

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Thomas Head
Ph.D., Harvard University 1986

Teaching interests:
Medieval Europe, history of Christianity.

Research interests:
The religious and social history of medieval western Europe; use of art and material culture in doing religious history; pre-modern France.

Selected Publications:
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints. The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200. Cambridge, 1990.

Editor. Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Co-editor with Richard Landes. The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992)

Faculty Homepage:
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~thead/

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Benjamin Hett
Ph.D., Harvard University 2001

Teaching interests:
Modern European history, especially 20th century Germany, history of law, history of cities, cultural and intellectual history

Research interests:
Criminal law in modern Germany, history of popular
culture, history of Berlin

Selected publications:
Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004)

"The 'Captain of Koepenick' and the Transformation of German Criminal Justice, 1891-1914", Central European History 36 (1), 2003.

"'Goak Here': A.J.P. Taylor and the Origins of the Second World War," Canadian Journal of History 31, August 1996

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Daniel Hurewitz
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles 2001

Teaching interests:
20th-century US history; queer history; politics of sexuality; urban history

Research interests:
Cultural roots of identity politics; emergence of a gay rights movement; politics of homophobia; history of Los Angeles and New York

Selected Publications:
Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics (University of California Press, 2007)

“Goody-Goodies, Sissies, and Long-Hairs: The Dangerous Figures in 1930s Los Angeles Political Culture,” Journal of Urban History 33 (2006) 26-50.

“Sexuality Scholarship as a Foundation for Change: Lawrence v. Texas and the Impact of the Historians’ Brief,” Health and Human Rights 7 (2004).

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Marta Petrusewicz
Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy 1973

Teaching interests:
Modern European History, 19th century comparative European history, history and literature, economic and social history, comparative peripheries; history and representation

Research interests:
Comparative history of the European peripheries in the 19th century, alternative ideas and practices of progress, romantic agrarianism, representations of the Souths

Selected publications:
Latifundium: Moral economy and material life in an European periphery (University of Michigan Press, 1996)

Come il Meridione divenne Questione: rappresentazioni del Sud prima e dopo il Quarantotto (Rubbettino 1999)

"The Modernization of the European Periphery; Ireland, Poland and the Two Sicilies, 1820-1870: Parallel and Connected, Distinct and Comparable" in Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective ed. by Deborah Cohen and Maura O'Connor (Routledge 2004)

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Jonathan Rosenberg
Ph.D., Harvard University 1997

Teaching interests:
In addition to teaching History 152, Professor Rosenberg has taught upper-division classes on post-1945 U.S. history and on the Vietnam War. His courses devote considerable attention to the civil rights movement and to the implications (domestic and international) of American engagement with the world.

Research interests:
Civil rights history; the interconnection between civil rights and international affairs; how American engagement with the world has informed social, cultural, and political life in the United States.

Selected Publications:
"How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam" (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Co-editor with Zachary Karabell. Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes (W.W. Norton, 2003).

Co-editor with John Lewis Gaddis, Ernest May, and Philip Gordon. Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 (OxfordUniversity Press, 1999).

Faculty Homepage:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/history/pages/profs/Rosenberg.html

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Helena Rosenblatt
Ph.D., Columbia University 1994

Teaching interests:
Early modern Europe, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, European intellectual and cultural history, history of France

Research interests:
(European intellectual history): Benjamin Constant, liberalism, Christian thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Enlightenment.

Selected publications:
Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762, (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

"Re-evaluating Benjamin Constant's Liberalism: Industrialism, Saint-Simonianism and the Restoration Years," in History of European Ideas 30, 1 (2004), special issue on French Liberalism and the Question of Society, guest editor H.Rosenblatt.

"The Christian Enlightenment," in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol VII: Enlightenment, Revolution and Reawakening (1660-1815), eds. Timothy Tackett and Stewart Brown, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Faculty Homepage:
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~rosenblatt

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Laura Schor
Ph.D., University of Rochester 1974

Teaching interests:
History of modern France; modern European Jewish history; European women's history; biography and history.

Research interests:
Palestine during the British Mandate; Women in Modern France.

Selected Publications :
Women and the Making of the Working Class ( Montreal: Eden Press, 1976).

The Odyssey of Flora Tristan (NY: Peter Lang, 1989).

The Life and Legacy of Betty de Rothschild (NY: Peter Lang, 2006).

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Robert M. Seltzer
Ph.D., Columbia University 1970

Teaching interests:
European intellectual history since the Enlightenment, World History, intellectual history.

Research interests:
Modern Jewish intellectual history, Jewish historiography, the philosophy of history and historical methodologies.

Selected Publications :
Co-editor with Norman Cohen. The Americanization of the Jews (New York: New York University Press, 1995).

Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1980. Portuguese trans., 2 vols. Rio de Janiero, 1990; Chinese trans., Shanghai, 1992. (2nd edition in progress).

Co-editor with Emanuel G. Goldsmith and Mel Scult. The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan (New York: New York University Press, 1990).

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