Faculty

Faculty Program

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  Taner Akcam

  Senior Research Scholar, History

  TAkcam@clarku.edu

  Historian and sociologist Taner Akçam received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover, with a dissertation on The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922. Akçam […]

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  Nathan Braccio

  Assistant Professor, History

  NaBraccio@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Elizabeth Imber

  Associate Professor, History

  EImber@clarku.edu

  Elizabeth Imber is Assistant 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. […]

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  Nana Kesse

  Assistant Professor, History

  nkesse@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Willem Klooster

  Professor, History

  wklooster@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Thomas Kuehne

  Professor, History

  Director of the Strassler Family Center

  tkuehne@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Nina Kushner

  Associate Professor, History

  nkushner@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Doug Little

  Professor Emeritus, History

  dlittle@clarku.edu

  Dr. Little received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1972, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Cornell University. He has been at Clark since that time and is also affiliated with the program […]

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  Lex Lu

  Associate Professor, History

  LexLu@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Drew McCoy

  Professor Emeritus, History

  dmccoy@clarku.edu

  A specialist in American political and intellectual history, Professor McCoy teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in early American history, with emphasis on the period from the Revolution through the Civil War. Before coming to Clark he taught […]

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  Ousmane Power-Greene

  Professor, History

  opowergreene@clarku.edu

  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, […]

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  Elyse Semerdjian

  Professor, History

  ESemerdjian@clarku.edu

  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 […]

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  Frances Tanzer

  Associate Professor, History

  FTanzer@clarku.edu

  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 […]