Faculty
History Faculty
History Discipline Representative
Associate Professor of History
Office Hours: Fall 2007: Mon., Tues., & Wed. 11:30-12:30, Thurs. 2:30-3:00
Office: 1240 SSB
Phone: (313) 593-5284
Email: ppennock(at)umd.umich.edu
Regular Full Time Faculty:
Lecturers & Part Time Faculty:
Emeriti History Faculty:
Regular History Faculty
Camron Michael Amin (Ph.D. - The University of Chicago)
Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences and Letters (until June 2009)
Areas of Research: Iran, Modern Middle East
Courses Taught:
HIST 113 (Islamic Civilization to 1500)
HIST 114 (Islamic Civ: 1500 to Present)
HIST 262 (Western Culture II)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST 337 (Islamic Movements in Middle Eastern History)
HIST 338 (Women & Islam Mid East History)
HIST 339 (Ottoman Empire in 19th Century)
HIST 341 (Hist, Lit, & 20th Century Iran)
HIST 3632 (The United States in the Middle East)
Office Hours: Fall 2007 10:30 to 11:30 Tues
Office: 1270 SSB
Phone: (313) 436-9171
Email: camamin(at)umd.umich.edu
Sidney Bolkosky (Ph.D. - The State University of New York, Binghamton)
William E. Stirton Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of History
Campus Affiliations: Director, Honors Program; Director Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor
Oral History Archive, Social Sciences Department
Focus: Holocaust Studies; German History; European Intellectual History; History of Psychoanalysis
Courses Taught:
HIST 101 (Ancient World)
HIST 302 (Russian Intellectual History to 1914)
HIST 306 (Russian Intellectual History through Stalin)
HIST 340 (Freud's Vienna: 1866-1920)
HIST 343 (Germany Before Hitler)
HIST 378 (History of Consciousness)
HIST 379 (Language, Myth and Dreams)
HIST 381 (European Intellectual History)
HIST 365 (Honors Seminar: Great Trials)
HIST 387 (History of the Holocaust)
HIST 389 (The Third Reich)
Representations of the Holocaust
History through the Novel
The Hebrew Bible in History
Honors Hist/Humanities: Origins
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. afternoons
Office: 2120 SSB and 3018 CB
Phone: (313) 593-5183
Email: sbolkosk(at)umd.umich.edu
Elaine Clark (Ph.D. - The University of Michigan).
Professor of History
Areas of Research: Medieval Europe, Legal History, Jesuit History
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, MALS Program, Honors Program, Scholarship Committee, Honors Program Committee, Student Internships, MALS Advisory Committee
Courses Taught:
HIST 101 (Ancient World)
HIST 102 (Medieval World)
HIST 262 (Western Culture II - Honors Program)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST 303 (The Birth of Civilization)
HIST 315 (Modern Britain)
HIST 329 (Medieval Society)
HIST 331 (Reformation Society)
LIBS 561 (Self and Society - MALS seminar)
Office Hours :Tues. / Wed. / Thurs. 1:30-300 pm and by Appointment
Office: 2100 SSB.
Phone: (313) 593-5177.
Email: eclark(at)umd.umich.edu
Martin Hershock (Ph.D. - The University of Michigan)
Associate Professor of History and Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Campus Affiliations: Department of Social Sciences, American Studies, Distance Learning
Areas of Research: 19th Century United States Social and Political History
Courses Taught:
HIST 111 (American Past I)
HIST 112 (American Past II)
HIST 318 (Early American Republic)
HIST 319 (Civil War and Reconstruction)
HIST 358 (Emergence of Modern America)
HIST 383 (Labor in America)
HIST 3601 (Michigan History)
HIST 3605 (Automobile in American Life)
HIS 497 (History Seminar)
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Office: 2147 SSB
Phone: (313) 593-5096
Email: mhershoc(at)umd.umich.edu
Georgina Hickey (Ph.D. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Associate Professor of History
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, UM-D Civic Engagement Project Director, MALS Program, Women and Gender Studies Program
Areas of Research: 20th Century United States Social Movements & Cultural History, Women & Gender Studies, Urban Studies
Courses Taught:
Office Hours: on sabbatical leave Fall 2007
Office: 1220 SSB
Phone: (313) 583-6405
Email: ghickey(at)umd.umich.edu
Joe Lunn (Ph.D - The University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Associate Professor of History
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, African/African American Studies Program (AAAS), CASL Curriculum Committee, MALS Program, First Year Seminar Program
Areas of Research: Modern European and African history, specializing in European Intellectual and Cultural, France, West Africa and the First World War
Courses Taught:
HIST 103 (Modern World)
HIST 106 (The African Past)
LIBS 120 (FYS: War and Remembrance: The Second World War and the American Cinema)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST 335: (Europe 1890 to 1945)
HIST 345: (West Africa)
HIST 385 (Modern France)
HIST 390: (Global Diversity and the Fates of Human Societies)
HIST 497A (The African Diaspora in the Atlantic World)
HIST 497B (The First World War)
LIBS 570: (A History of Warfare)
Office Hours: Tues. / Thurs.: 11:00-11:30, 2:30-6:00, W: 2:30-3:00, or by appointment
Office: 1250 SSB
Phone: Office: 313/436-9184; Home 313/331-3300
Email: joelunn(at)umich.edu
Website: www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~joelunn
Gerald F. Moran (Ph.D. - Rutgers University)
Professor of History and Faculty Director of CASL Cooperative Education
Social Sciences Department and CASL Cooperative Education Program
Areas of Research: Colonial American and American Revolutionary History, the social and religious history of America, and the history of American education
Courses Taught:
HIST 355 (English Colonies in America)
HIST 356 (The American Revolution)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST 111 (The American Past I)
HIST 263 (Western Culture III - Honors Course)
CASL Cooperative Education Seminar
Office: 2075 SSB
Tel: (313) 593-5194
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 11:10-12:00 (Fall 2007)
Email: gfmoran(at)umd.umich.edu
Pam Pennock (Ph.D. - The Ohio State University)
Associate Professor of History
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, American Studies
Areas of Research: U.S. Hisotry, 20th Century, Political, Cultural, Social
Courses Taught:
HIST 112 (The American Past II)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST 360 (The U.S. Since 1946)
HIST 3602 (Comparative American Identities)
HIST 3635 (America in the 1960s)
HIST 490 (Selected Topics in History - American Consumer Culture)
Office Hours: M, T, & W 11:30-12:30, Th 2:30-3:00 (Fall 2007)
Office: 1240 SSB
Phone: (313) 593-5284
Email: ppennock(at)umd.umich.edu
Website: www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock
Ahmad Rahman (Ph.D. - The University of Michigan).
Assistant Professor of History.
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, Center for African and African American Studies (AAAS)
Areas of Research: Africa, Black America, U.S. Since 1865.
Office Hours: TBA
Office: 1260 SSB
Phone: (313) 593-5017
Email: ahmadr(at)umd.umich.edu
Ara Sanjian (Ph.D. - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), The University of London)
Associate Professor of Armenian and Middle Eastern History
Director, Armenian Research Center
Campus Affiliations: Social Science Department, Armenian Research Center
Areas of Research: Post-World War I Transcaucasia, Turkey and the Arab countries of Western Asia
Courses Taught:
HIST 300 (Study of History)
HIST 301 (Armenia in World History)
HIST 339 (The Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century)
HIST 3131 (Armenia in the Soviet Period, 1920-1991)
HIST 3520 (Lebanon in Modern Middle Eastern History 1920-1990)
Office Hours: Available in the Armenian Research Center on most weekdays
Office: 110 ASC
Phone: (313) 583-6531
Email: arasan(at)umd.umich.edu
Lowell Skar (Ph.D. - The University of Pennsylvania)
Assistant Professor of History
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, First Year Seminar Program, Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Science and Technology in Society Program, Honors Program
Research Focus: Premodern China; History of Chinese Science, Technology and Medicine; History of Chinese Religions
Courses Taught:
HIST 104 (Chinese Civilization)
HIST 105 (Japanese Society and Culture)
LIBS 121 (East Meets West)
HIST 321 (Late Imperial China)
HIST 322 (Traditional China)
HIST 323 (Modern China)
HIST 325 (Traditional Japan)
HIST 300 (The Study of History)
HIST / STS 374 (History of Industrial Technology)
HIST 465 (History of the Family)
HIST 497 (History Seminar)
LIBS 575 (History of Science in a Global Perspective)
Office 1300 SSB
Phone: (313) 436 9181
Email: lskar(at)umich.edu
Website: www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~lskar
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Lecturers
Hani Bawardi (Ph.D. Candidate - Wayne State University)
Lecturer/Researcher Immigration and Ethnic History, Center for Arab American Studies (CASL)
Areas of Research: Arab American Studies and History of the Middle East (7th century-present)
Courses Taught:
HIST 490E/590E (Arab American History, Michigan and Beyond)
Arab & Arab American History: Issues of Identity Development (Winter)
HIST 114: Islamic Civilizations: 1500 to Present
Office Hours: Mondays 4-6 and by appointment
Office: 2200 SSB
Phone: (313) 583-6334
Email: bawardi(at)umd.umich.edu
Mary Kay Carter ( Ph.D. Candidate in European History - The University of Rochester)
Lecturer II
Campus Affiliations: Department of Social Sciences; Honors Program
Areas of Focus: Modern European History, focusing on Germany through 1947; Ancient Near East History; Ancient Greek History; Women's History
Courses Taught:
HIST 101 -- The Ancient World
HIST 343 -- Germany Before Hitler
HIST 389 -- Nazi Germany
HIST 365 -- First Year Honors Seminar: Four Trials
HIST/HUM 261 -- Western Culture I: Origins
HIST 390 -- Practical Politics in Weimar Germany
HIST 390 -- Women in Ancient Greece
Office Hours: Mon. 1:30 - 3:00; Tues. 3:00 - 4:30; Thurs. 3:00 - 4:30, and by appointment.
Office: 2120 SSB
Phone: (313) 593-5135
Email: mkcarter(at)umd.umich.edu
Kae Halonen, Kae (M.A. - Wayne State University)
Lecturer I
Campus Affiliations: Social Sciences Department, Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage
Areas of Research: U.S. History 1865-present
Courses Taught: TBA
Office Hours: 11:30am-12:30pm
Office: SSB TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: halonen(at)umich.edu
Thaddeus C. Radzilowski
Office Hours: TBA
Office: 2112 CA apt. #27
Phone: (313) 583-6406
Cara Shelly (M.A. - University of Michigan)
Lecturer II
Areas of Research: U.S. History
Courses:
HIST 111 (The American Past I)
HIST 112 (The American Past II)
Office hours: TBA
Office: 1230 SSB
Phone: (313) 583-6541
Email: clshelly(at)umd.umich.edu
Emeriti Professors
Peter Amann
Noriko Kamachi - Email: nkamachi(at)umd.umich.edu
Dennis Papazian - Email: papazian(at)umd.umich.edu
Donald Proctor