Faculty

Sharon Braslaw Sundue (Ph.D. Harvard University) is an Associate Professor of History and chair of the History Department. Her areas of specialization include early American history, American women's history, American social history, the history of childhood, and the origins of inequality. She is about to publish Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720—1810 (University of Virginia Press).

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Frances Bernstein is associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She received her doctorate in Russian history from Columbia University in 1998. She teaches courses in Russian and European history, with a special focus on the history of sexuality, history of disease, history of medicine and the body. In 2007 she published The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). She is currently editing a collected volume on the history of Soviet medicine, which will include her article "'Behind the Closed Door': The Politics of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality in Early Soviet Medicine." Her current research focuses on the culture and politics of disability in the Soviet context. Projects include: Empire of Broken Men: Disability and Medicine at the End of World War Two; "The 1937 Trial of the Deaf-Mutes: Purging Disability During the Great Terror"; and "All the Ward's a Stage: Disabled Veterans and their Doctors in World War Two Health Plays."

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Luis Campos (Ph.D. Harvard University) is a historian of science specializing in the history of the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics. He is currently engaged in a study of the newly emerging field of contemporary biological engineering known as synthetic biology, viewing it as the most recent iteration of a century-long quest to control and understand life by attempting to recreate it in the laboratory. Integrating archival research with fieldwork among contemporary communities of synthetic biologists, Campos seeks to relate the claims of this newest of fields to its institutional and disciplinary forebears, its varied local and transatlantic contexts, and to larger ongoing intellectual and cultural themes in the history of the quest to engineer life. In earlier work integrating science and literature, Campos explored the "prehistory" of radiation genetics as he unpacked the metaphors surrounding the study of radioactivity and life in the early twentieth century ("Radium and the Secret of Life"). Prof. Campos has served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

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James M. Carter (Ph.D. University of Houston) specializes in American foreign relations, the Vietnam War, the United States and East Asia, the Cold War, modernization theory, political economy, and nation building. His book Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. He has also written articles on war profiteering in Vietnam and Iraq and the US advisory effort in Vietnam, and he has published reviews and essays in The Journal of Military History, Peace & Change, Education About Asia, Itinerario, History News Network, The Asia Times, and the BBC. Currently he is pursuing two research projects: the first focuses on US-China relations during the Boxer Rebellion, the second examines the relationship between the government and private corporations in the realm of foreign policy from World War II through the 1960s.

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Lillie Edwards (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of History and Director of the Pan-African Studies and American Studies programs. She specializes in African- American history, American studies, and African history. She is currently working on two manuscripts, "Civilizing Missions: African-Americans, Christianity, and Colonialism," and an edited book of essays, "The Fire and the Faith: The Oppugnant Tradition in African-American Religious Life." She has published articles in A Historical Dictionary of Civil Rights in the United States, The Dictionary of Christianity in America, Black Women in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. She has also served as Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the New Jersey Amistad Commission.

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Wyatt Evans returned to academics following stints as a Peace Corps volunteer and U.S. Army civil affairs officer. Trained as an intellectual and cultural historian, his main areas of interest included collective memory and the interaction of the modern state and the individual. His first book, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth (Kansas, 2004), won the Organization of American Historians’ Avery O. Craven Award in 2005 and Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Prize in 2007. He is currently at work on a study of Civil War domestic security for Oxford University Press as well as a longer-range project on the “memory of the good” in American history. He is a distinguished lecturer from the OAH speaker series.

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Richard Greenwald is Dean of the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, the Director of the Business, Society & Culture Program and Associate Professor of History at Drew University in Madison, NJ. He is the author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era NY (2005), co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective ( 2003) and editor of Exploring America's Past: essays in Social and Cultural History (1996). He is finishing a book entitled The World in a Box: Containerization, the Port of New York and the Postwar Global Economy, under contract for The University of Pennsylvania Press. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal, Enterprise and Society, the International Journal of Business History, is a member of the editorial board for the journal Working USA and is series editor of the book series “Work in the Americas” Published by University Press of Florida.

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Christine Kinealy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where she completed a PhD on the introduction of the Poor Law to Ireland. She has published extensively on the impact of the Great Irish Famine and has lectured on the relationship between poverty, famine, and emigration in Ireland, India, Spain, Canada, France, Finland, the United States, and New Zealand. In 1997 she was invited to speak on the Irish Famine in both the United States Congress and the British Parliament. Her other areas of specialization are nineteenth-century Ireland, the 1848 revolutions, Daniel O’Connell, Young Ireland, Irish-American nationalism, and memory and commemoration in Irish history. Her book This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (2nd ed. 2006) was named the Irish Post book of year in 1995. Her other publications include Lives of Victorian Politicians: Daniel O’Connell (Pickering and Chatto, 2008); A New History of Ireland (2nd ed. 2004); 1848: The Year the World Turned?, ed. with Kay Boardman (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007); Teaching and Learning History (with Geoff Timmins and Keith Vernon; Sage Publications, 2005); The Great Famine in Ireland: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (Palgrave, 2002); Ireland: A Photohistory 1840-1940 (with Sean Sexton; Thames and Hudson, 2002); Memory, Silence and Commemoration: Ireland’s Great Hunger (ed. with David Valone; University Press of America, 2002); The Forgotten Famine: Hunger and Poverty in Belfast 1840-50 (with Gerard MacAtasney; Pluto Press, 2000); A Disunited Kingdom: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1800-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (Pluto Press, 1997). Her latest book, Repeal and Revolution: The 1848 Uprising in Ireland, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. Currently she is exploring the role played by the Irish nationalist Daniel O’Connell in the antislavery movement in Europe and North America.

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Jonathan Rose (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history, and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, and the British Council Prize. He has also published A Companion to the History of the Book (2007), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), The Revised Orwell (1992), British Literary Publishing Houses 1820-1965 (1991), and The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (1986). He is coeditor of the journal Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, and he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph (London). Currently he is writing a study of Winston Churchill’s literary career.

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Jeremy Varon (Ph.D. Cornell University) is an Associate Professor of History, whose fields of study are modern European intellectual and cultural history, German history, the Holocaust, the 1960s, and social movements and political violence. In 2004 he published Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (University of California Press). He co-edits The Sixties, a new academic journal that features interdisciplinary and international research on the “long Sixties” (1954-1975). He has written articles and given numerous talks on the social movements of the 1960s and the politics and ethics of violence. His work in intellectual history concerns the relationships between modernity, knowledge, representation, and power. He is currently working on a book about Holocaust survivors who studied in German universities in the American Zone of occupied Germany just after World War Two. He is involved in various social justice causes, which inform his scholarship and teaching.

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John Lenz (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Chair of the Department of Classics. He teaches ancient Greek history, literature, language, philosophy, archaeology, myth, and religion. He is interested in the history of ideas and the legacy of Classical thought in succeeding centuries, the “Classical tradition.” He has presented numerous papers on intellectuals and society in ancient Greece, the transition from paganism to Christianity, and the use of Classics at the time of the founding of the modern Greek state. His interest in the history of ideas led him to utopianism, or the study of how ideas may or may not change history. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Greece and as president of the Bertrand Russell Society. His published articles include “Bertrand Russell and the Greeks,” "Deification of the Philosopher in Ancient Greece," and contributions to The Dictionary of Art (now Grove Art Online).

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