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Faculty and Staff

The Department of History at Hunter College features historians whose research and teaching engages with a wide range of geographical, temporal, and methodological specialties.

FACULTY

Richard Belsky
Associate Professor
Manu Bhagavan
Professor
Eduardo Contreras
Associate Professor
Noah Gelfand
Doctoral Lecturer
Donna Haverty-Stacke
Professor and Chair
D’Weston Haywood
Associate Professor
Benjamin Hett
Professor
Daniel Hurewitz
Associate Provost for Student Success & Associate Professor
Karen Kern
Associate Professor
Seth LeJacq
Assistant Professor
Vanessa May
Associate Professor
Elidor Mëhilli
Associate Professor
Mary Roldán
Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History
Jonathan Rosenberg
Professor
Jill Rosenthal
Associate Professor
Aaron Welt
Doctoral Lecturer

Retired Faculty

  • Angelo Angelis
  • Margaret Crahan
  • Dolores Greenberg
  • Dorothy Helly
  • Bernadette McCauley (Emerita)
  • Marta Petrusewicz (Emerita)
  • Laura Schor (Emerita)
  • Robert Seltzer (Emeritus)
  • Nancy Siraisi

In Memoriam

  • Naomi Cohen
  • LaWanda Cox
  • Donald J. Harvey
  • Thomas Head
  • Robert W. July
  • Pearl Kibre
  • Edith Link
  • Michael Luther
  • Joanne McNamara
  • Ruth Pike
  • Madeline Rice
  • Naomi C. Miller
  • Pierre Oberling
  • William Sinnigen
  • J. Michael Turner
  • Barbara Welter