Faculty

The Department of History consists presently of fourteen full-time 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. History serves not only to deepen the understanding of such issues, but to sharpen the student's skills appropriate to a variety of graduate programs and professional career-paths.

• Laurie Bernstein, Associate Professor of History: B.A., Sonoma State University, 1976; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1981, 1987.
  Areas of Special Interest: Russian history; European women's history.
  Director of Women's Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Camden.
  e-mail address: lbernste@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.2716
Office Number 202 in 429 Cooper
 
• Katherine Epstein, Assistant Professor of History: B.A., Yale, 2004; M.Phil. Cambridge 2005; Ph.D., Ohio State 2010
  Areas of Special Interest: military history, international relations, late 19th-early 20th century American history.
  e-mail address: kce17@camden.rutgers.edu 

Office Phone: 856.225.6064
Office Number 204 in 429 Cooper
 
• 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.
  Director African-American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Camden..
  e-mail address: glasker@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.6220
Office Number 201 in 429 Cooper
 
• Janet Golden, 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: jgolden@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.2813
Office Number 105 in 429 Cooper
 
• Andrew Lees, Professor II of History: B.A., Amherst, 1963; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard, 1964, 1969.
  Areas of Special Interest: modern European and American cultural history; urban history; modern Britain and modern Germany.
  e-mail address: alees@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.6071
Office Number 101 in 429 Cooper
 
• Kriste Lindenmeyer, Professor of History: B.A., University of Cincinnati 1985; M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1987; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati 1991.
  Areas of Special Interest: women and gender, childhood studies, U. S. social history.
  Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Camden.
  e-mail address: kl436@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.6097
 
• Margaret Marsh, University Professor: Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1974.
  Areas of Special Interest: women and gender, American culture, gender and medicine.
  e-mail address: mmarsh@camden.rutgers.edu
  Office Phone: 856.225.2845
   
• Charlene Mires, Associate Professor of History: B.S., Ball State University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Temple University.
  Areas of Special Interest: Local History-Philadelphia, Early American History, Memory.
  Director of MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities)
  e-mail address: cmires@camden.rutgers.edu
  Office Phone: 856.225.6069
  Office Number 102 in 429 Cooper
  
 
• Wendell Pritchett, Professor of History, Professor of Law: B.A., Brown 1986; J.D., Yale Law School 1991; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1997.
  Areas of Special Interest: urban history, modern American history.
  Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camden
  e-mail address: chancellor@camden.rutgers.edu
  Office Phone:856.225.6095
   
• Nancy G. Rosoff, Associate Member of the History Department: A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1978; M.A., West Chester University, 1991; Ph.D., Temple University, 2004.
  Areas of special interest: women's history, U.S. social and cultural history; history of sports.
  Associate Dean for University College and Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Camden.
  e-mail address: nrosoff@camden.rutgers.edu
  Office Phone: 856.225.6486
   
• 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: scranton@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.2713
Office Number 103 in 429 Cooper
 
• Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor of History: B.A., Northern Illinois University, 1992;  M.A., Ph.D., Princeton, 1994, 1997.
  Areas of Special Interest: colonial British North  America, revolutionary and early national U.S., early modern England.
  Graduate Program Director
  e-mail address: shankman@camden.rutgers.edu 

Office Phone: 856.225.6477
Office Number 209 in 429 Cooper
 
• Jacob Soll, Professor of History: B.A., University of Iowa, 1991; D.É.A., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1993; Ph.D., Cambridge, 1998.
  Areas of Special Interest: Early modern European history, medieval history, Renaissance and Reformation.
  e-mail address: soll@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.2712
Office Number 205 in 429 Cooper
  
• Lorrin Reed Thomas, 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: lthomas2@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.2656
Office Number 100 in 429 Cooper
 
• 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.
  Department Chair
  e-mail address: verbrugg@camden.rutgers.edu

Office Phone: 856.225.6075
Offfice Number 200 in 429 Cooper
 
• Allen L. Woll, Professor of History: B.A., Chicago, M.A., Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1971, 1975.
  Areas of Special Interest: documentary film; American popular culture; film history; Latin American history.
  Director, The Honors College, Rutgers University-Camden.
  e-mail address: awoll@camden.rutgers.edu
  Office Phone: 856.225.6671
  Office Number 206 in 429 Cooper

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WHAT AREAS OF HISTORY DO HISTORY DEPARTMENT PROFESSORS COVER?

1. U.S. - Epstein, Golden, Glasker, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Mires, Pritchett, Rosoff, Scranton, Shankman, Thomas, Woll.
2. Western Europe and Britain - Bernstein, Epstein, Lees, Shankman, Soll, Verbrugghe.
3. Central and Eastern Europe (Germany, Russia, etc.) - Bernstein, Lees, Verbrugghe.
4. Latin America - Thomas, Woll
5. World History - Bernstein, Glasker, Soll, Verbrugghe, Thomas, Woll.
6. Women's History - Bernstein, Golden, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Rosoff.
7. Local History (New Jersey history and the history of the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia) - Mires, Scranton.
8. Social, Intellectual, Cultural Diversity - Bernstein, Glasker, Golden, Lees, Lindenmeyer, Marsh, Mires, Pritchett, Rosoff, Verbrugghe.
9. Business, Economics - Epstein, Scranton.
10. Science, Technology - Golden, Marsh, Scranton

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