The Department of History’s faculty members are teacher-scholars who are equally committed to education and to research. Thematically, we deal not only with politics and ideas, but also with society, popular culture, minorities, military affairs, and business. The courses we teach are designed to deepen our students’ understanding of such issues and sharpen their skills appropriate to a variety of graduate programs and professional career-paths.
- Laurie Bernstein
Department Chair
Associate Professor of History: B.A., Sonoma State University, 1976; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981, 1987.
Areas of Special Interest: Russian and Soviet history; European women’s history; Jewish history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@etsnrebl
Office Phone: (856) 225-2716
Office: #202 in 429 Cooper - Richard Demirjian, Jr.
Instructor of History: B.A., Rutgers University – Camden, 1997; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1999, 2013.
Areas of Special Interest: U.S. political and economic history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@jrimedr
Office Phone: (856) 225-6744 - Katherine Epstein
Assistant Professor of History: B.A., Yale University, 2004; M.Phil., Cambridge University 2005; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2011.
Areas of Special Interest: military history, international relations, late 19th-early 20th century American history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@71eck
Office Phone: (856) 225-2721 - Wayne Glasker
Associate Professor of History: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1980, 1981, 1994.
Areas of Special Interest: African-American history; 20th Century U.S. history; Africa.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@reksalg
Office Phone: (856) 225-6220 - Janet Golden
Acting Graduate Program Director
Professor of History: B.A., Boston University, Sociology, cum laude, 1973; M.U.A., Boston University, Urban Affairs Program, 1974; Ph.D., Boston University, American Studies Program, 1984.
Areas of Special Interest: medical history; women’s history; U.S. social history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@nedlogj
Office Phone: (856) 225-2813 - Andrew Lees
Professor II of History: B.A., Amherst, 1963; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964, 1969.
Areas of Special Interest: modern European and American cultural history; urban history; modern Britain and modern Germany.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@seela
Office Phone: (856) 225-6071 - Kriste Lindenmeyer
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Camden
Professor of History: B.A., University of Cincinnati, 1985; M.A., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1987, 1991.
Areas of Special Interest: women and gender, childhood studies, U.S. social history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@634lk
Office Phone: (856) 225-2809 - Margaret Marsh
University Professor: B.A., Rutgers University – Camden, 1967; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University – New Brunswick, 1969, 1974.
Areas of Special Interest: women and gender; American culture; gender and medicine.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@hsramm
Office Phone: (856) 225-2845 - Charlene Mires
Director of MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities)
Associate Professor of History: B.S., Ball State University, 1979; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1992; Ph.D., Temple University, 1997.
Areas of Special Interest: public history; material culture; urban history (Philadelphia); 19th and 20th-century U.S. history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@serimc
Office Phone: (856) 225-6069
Office: #102 in 429 Cooper - Susan Mokhberi (joining our department in Fall 2013)
Assistant Professor of History: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2001, 2006, 2010.
Areas of Special Interest: early modern European diplomatic and cultural history; encounters between East and West.
e-mail address: ude.alcunull@abehs - Wendell Pritchett
Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden
Professor of History, Professor of Law: B.A., Brown University, 1986; J.D., Yale Law School, 1991; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
Areas of Special Interest: urban history; modern American history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@rollecnahc
Office Phone: (856) 225-6095 - Philip B. Scranton
Board of Governors Professor of History: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968, 1971, 1975.
Areas of Special Interest: American social and economic history, with emphasis on business and labor.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@notnarcs
Office Phone: (856) 225-2713 - Andrew Shankman (on leave Spring 2013)
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor of History: B.A., Northern Illinois University, 1992; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994, 1997.
Areas of Special Interest: colonial British North America; revolutionary and early national U.S.; early modern England.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@namknahs
Office Phone: (856) 225-6477 - Lorrin Reed Thomas (on leave Spring 2013)
Co-director, Latin American and Latino Studies
Associate Professor of History: B.A., Columbia College, 1993; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Areas of Special Interest: Latin American history; U.S. immigration and urban history; world history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@2samohtl
Office Phone: (856) 225-2656 - Wicky Tse
Visiting Assistant Instructor: B.A., M.Phil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999, 2001; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
e-mail address: ude.sregturnull@est.ykciw
Office Phone: (856) 225-6064 - Gerald Verbrugghe
Associate Professor of History: B.A., Loyola, 1967; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969, 1971.
Areas of Special Interest: ancient history; archaeology.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@ggurbrev
Office Phone: (856) 225-6075 - Allen L. Woll
Associate Dean of the Graduate College
Professor of History: B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1971, 1975.
Areas of Special Interest: documentary film; American popular culture; film history; Latin American history.
e-mail address: ude.sregtur.nedmacnull@llowa
Office Phone: (856) 225-6671 - Wendy Woloson (joining our department in Fall 2013)
Assistant Professor of History: B.F.A., Iowa State University, 1986; M.F.A., Montana State University, 1990; M.A., Bowling Green State University, 1993; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, American Studies, 1999.
Areas of Special Interest: American popular culture; public history; U.S. economic history.
e-mail address: moc.liamgnull@99owew
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What areas of history do history department professors cover?
- U.S. – Demirjian, Epstein, Golden, Glasker, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Mires, Pritchett, Scranton, Shankman, Thomas, Woll, Woloson.
- Western Europe and Britain – Bernstein, Epstein, Lees, Mokhberi, Shankman, Verbrugghe.
- Central and Eastern Europe – Bernstein, Lees, Verbrugghe.
- Latin America – Thomas, Woll.
- World history – Glasker, Mokhberi, Thomas, Verbrugghe, Woll.
- Gender and women’s history – Bernstein, Golden, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Mokhberi.
- Local history (New Jersey history and the history of the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia) – Mires, Scranton.
- Social, intellectual, cultural diversity – Bernstein, Glasker, Golden, Lees, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Mires, Mokhberi, Pritchett, Verbrugghe.
- Business and economics – Epstein, Scranton, Woloson.
- Science and technology – Golden, Marsh, Scranton.
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