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 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, Brandeis University. MA, PhD, Harvard University. Special interest in the religious, social, and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on art and architecture; lecturer and essayist; author, The Mystery of the Bayeux Tapestry; recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. SLC, 1969–

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. M.Phil, University of Oxford. MA, PhD, Princeton University. Specializes in the social and intellectual history of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on the relationship between place, ideology, and identity in Egypt and the late-Ottoman Empire. His dissertation "Between Empire and Nation: The Emergence of Egypt's Libyan Borderland, 1841-1911" examines broader questions concerning the nature of Middle Eastern state-building projects; borders and nation-state space; and sovereignty and political authority. Has published articles in History Compass and the Dictionary of African Biography. Dissertation research was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Center in Egypt. Also previously a 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, University of Rochester. MFA, MA, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in US women’s history, history of women in film, history of women’s activism in the 19th and 20th centuries, US and European social history; has worked in television and documentary development. SLC, 2011—

BA, The College of New Jersey. MA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in U.S. 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, Yale University. MS, Oxford University; PhD, University of California-Berkeley; JD, Columbia University. Served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transnational Law and received the Berger Prize for International Law at Columbia; assistant dean for Graduate Programs & International Affairs, Pace Law School; directed the Worldwide Security Program at the EastWest Institute; practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton until 2003; member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; chairs the Committee on International Human Rights; serves on the Council on International Affairs and the Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. Taught the laws of war and war crimes tribunals at Columbia Law School and military history at Yale, the Air War College, and at Columbia (SIPA); has published widely in the fields of history, law, and international affairs. Books include: The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994), Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power (1995), An Admiral’s Yarn (1999), and The Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11 (2007). Articles have appeared in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Fordham Law Review, Houston Journal of International Law, Journal of Military History, and Intelligence and National Security. SLC, 2009–

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, 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. Previously taught at Columbia University, Hunter College, Lafayette College, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 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. 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 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 interest 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); Comandante Carlos: La vida de Carlos Fonseca Amador (Caracas, 2008). Director, Sarah Lawrence College Study Abroad program in Havana, Cuba. SLC, 2002–