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 (inter)nationalism, intellectual history, human rights

Research interests:
20th-century India; intellectual history; human rights; (inter)nationalism; constitutional history; postcolonial studies

Selected Publications:
The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (HarperCollins India, February 2012)

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

Editor. Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia. (Oxford University Press, 2010).

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

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Eduardo Contreras
Ph.D., The University of Chicago 2008

Teaching interests:
The United States since 1865; U.S. Latino Histories; U.S. Political History; History of Sexuality

Research interests:
Twentieth-century U.S. history; U.S. Latinos; urban politics; race and ethnicity; feminist/queer communities; liberalism and conservatism

Selected Publications:
Latinos in the Liberal City: Politics in San Francisco from the General
Strike to Briggs (Manuscript In Progress)

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Devin Fergus
Ph.D., Columbia University 2002

Teaching interests:
Twentieth-century U.S. history,with emphasis on politics and society; and race.

Research interests:
Twentieth-century U.S. history,with emphasis on politics and society; and race.

Selected Publications:
Land of the Fee: The Decline of the Middle Class and the Making of a
New Financial World, 1970-2010 (in progress)

"Black Power, Soft Power: Soul City and the Death of Moderate Black
Republicanism" Journal of Policy History (Win 2010).

Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics,1965-1980 (Univ of Georgia Press, 2009)

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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:
America's Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960. (New York University Press 2008).

Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009, co-editor with Daniel J. Walkowitz (The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010).

"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:
Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand (Oxford University Press, 2008).

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.

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

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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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Karen Kern
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1999

Teaching interests:
History of the Modern Middle East, including the Ottoman Empire; Middle East women’s history; comparative imperialism and nationalism.

Research interests:
Social history of the late Ottoman Empire; the history of Ottoman law; the courts and legal culture; comparative citizenship and national identity in the late 19th and early 20thc.

Selected publications:
“Provincial-State relations: the kaymakam, the notables and ‘milk marriage’ in late Ottoman Birecik” The Turkish Studies Association Journal, 29 (October 2011): 35-67.

Imperial Citizenship. Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq (Syracuse University Press, “Gender and Globalization,” series, 2011).

“ ‘They are unknown to us:’ the Ottomans, the Mormons and the Protestants in the late Ottoman Empire,” in American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters, Mehmet Ali Dogan and Heather Sharkey (eds.) (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, Fall 2010): 122-63.

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Dániel Margócsy
Ph.D., Harvard University 2009

Teaching interests:
Early modern Europe, history of science, early modern globalization

Research interests:
The scientific revolution, the Dutch Golden Age, material and visual culture

Selected publications:
"'Refer to folio and number:' Encyclopedias, the Exchange of Curiosities and Practices of Identification before Linnaeus." Journal of the History of Ideas (71/1). 2010. 63-89.

"Advertising Cadavers in the Republic of Letters: Anatomical Publications in Early Modern Netherlands." British Journal for the History of Science (42/2). 2009. 187-210.

"The Camel's Head: Representing Unseen Animals in Sixteenth-Century Europe." Netherlands Yearbook of Art History (61) 2011: 35-52.

Faculty Homepage:
http://sites.google.com/site/margocsy2

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Bernadette McCauley
Ph.D., Columbia University 1992

Teaching interests:
U.S. history survey; Immigration; Healthcare and Social Welfare; Social reform

Research interests:
The history of Women Religious, American Catholicism, Education, Healthcare and Social Welfare in the United States.

Selected publications:
“Apart and Among: Sisters in the Lives of Catholic New Yorkers,” in Terry Golway Ed., Catholics in New York: Society, Culture and Politics, 1808-1946, (Fordham University Press, 2008): 95-108.

Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisterhoods and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

“’Their Lives are Little Known’: Nuns and American Reform," Prospects 29 (Winter 2004): 219-229.

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Mary Roldán
Ph.D., Harvard University 1992

Teaching interests:
Latin America, social, political and cultural history, narcotics trafficking, contemporary violence, 20th century art and politics, urban history and media.

Research interests:
Media, society and politics in Colombia; violence and state formation; peace initiatives; comparative urban social and cultural history

Selected publications:
Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953 (Duke University Press, 2002). Spanish edition: A Sangre y Fuego (Bogotá: ICANH and Fondo para la Promoción de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 2003)

“Cambio de Armas”: Negotiating Alternatives to Violence in the Oriente Antioqueño” in Virginia Bouvier, ed., Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War (United States Peace Institute, 2009)

“End of Discussion: Violence, Participatory Democracy, and the Limits of Dissent in Colombia” in Desmond Arias and Daniel Goldstein, eds., Violent Pluralisms in Latin America (Duke University Press, spring 2010)

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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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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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Retired Faculty and Professors Emeriti

Naomi Cohen

Margaret Crahan

Dolores Greenberg

Dorothy Helly

Michael Luther

Pierre Oberling

Marta Petrusewicz

Nancy Siraisi

J. Michael Turner