Faculty

Professor Klooster received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Groningen in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 1995. He has been at Clark since 2003. Dr. Klooster specializes in the history of […]

Professor Kushner is a specialist in early modern and eighteenth-century European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on France, women, gender, and the history of sexuality. Her book Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cornell, 2013) used police and judicial records alongside […]

Nathan Braccio’s teaching and research focus on Indigenous history, colonial American history, and environmental history, specifically the cultural negotiations among Northeastern Indigenous peoples and the New England colonists in the 1600s and early 1700s. Prior to coming to Clark, he […]

Elizabeth Imber is Associate Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History. Her scholarship examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. […]

Nana Kesse is an African historian and a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He specializes in the histories of water and the environment, slavery and the slave trade, as well as the social and cultural history […]

Professor Klooster received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Groningen in 1983 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 1995. He has been at Clark since 2003. Dr. Klooster specializes in the history of […]

Thomas Kühne is Professor of History and the Strassler Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Currently he serves also as Director of Holocaust and […]

Professor Kushner is a specialist in early modern and eighteenth-century European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on France, women, gender, and the history of sexuality. Her book Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Cornell, 2013) used police and judicial records alongside […]

Professor Lu teaches classes on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Asian American histories. His first scholarly monograph, Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cornell University Press, November 2024), explores the role that physical appearance has played in […]

Melinda Marchand’s teaching and research focus on 19th and 20th century U.S. history, with particular emphases on women’s history, public history and New England history.  Her current book project is a cultural biography of Caroline Dall, a nineteenth century writer, […]

Dr. Power-Greene completed his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Before arriving at Clark in 2007, he taught courses at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, Hampshire College, […]

Elyse Semerdjian is a social historian of the Ottoman Empire whose research focuses on the experiences of women and the empire's Armenian subjects. She has authored “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University […]

Frances Tanzer is a historian of modern Central and East Central Europe, Jewish culture, and the Holocaust. She is interested in writing histories of modern Europe that focus on the paradoxical but crucial roles of refugees and minorities in shaping […]