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Ethnohistory Faculty

Dr. Amos Beyan (Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1985)

  • Department of History & Africana Studies Program
  • African & African-American History, Colonization, Slave Trade

Dr. José António Brandão (Ph.D., York University, 1994)

  • Department of History
  • North American Indian, New France, Comparative Colonial, Iroquois

Dr. Michael Chiarappa (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992)

  • Department of History
  • Folklife Studies, Oral History, Maritime, Great Lakes, Pacific Islands

Dr. Nora Faires (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1981)

  • Department of History
  • 19th and 20th-Century America, Gender, Migration, Race and Ethnicity

Dr. Bruce Haight (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1970)

  • Department of History
  • West Africa, Islam, Artistic Traditions

Dr. Jon Holtzman (Ph.D,. University of Michigan, 1996)

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Food, Commodities and Consumption, History and Memory

Dr. Catherine Julien (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978)

  • Department of History
  • Inca, Colonial Latin America, Historical Archaeology

Dr. Mitch Kachun (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997)

  • Department of History
  • African-American, Historical Memory, Public Commemorations

Dr. Mustafa Mirzeler (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1999)

  • Africana Studies Program
  • Africa, oral history

Dr. Michael Nassaney (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 1992)

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Culture Contact, Historical Archaeology, Material Analysis, Eastern United States

Dr. James R. Palmitessa (Ph.D., New York University, 1995)

  • Department of History
  • Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Everyday Life, Society & Religion, Urban History/Culture, Material Culture

Dr. John Saillant (Ph.D., Brown University, 1989)

  • Department of English & Department of History
  • American Studies, early American Literature, Colonialism, Slavery, African-American diaspora

Dr. Bilinda Straight (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997)

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Oral History, Ethnography, Material Culture, African

Dr. Robert Ulin (Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1979)

  • Department of Anthropology, Chair
  • Europe and France, History and Anthropology, Theory

Dr. Allen Zagarell (Ph.D., Freie Universität, 1977)

  • Department of Anthropology
  • Tribal Groups in South Asia, Tribalism, Pastoralism
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