Faculty

Faculty

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  Elizabeth Imber

  Associate Professor, History

  EImber@clarku.edu

  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. […]

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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

  tkuehne@clarku.edu

  Thomas Kühne is Professor of History and the Strassler Colin Flug Chair of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Affiliated with Women’s Studies Program and Race and Ethnic Relations […]

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  Nina Kushner

  Associate Professor, History

  Department Chair, 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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  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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  Melinda Marchand

  Visiting Assistant Professor, History

  MMarchand@clarku.edu

  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, […]

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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. Her scholarly work straddles Central and Eastern Europe, while also examining the region’s global interconnections—particularly those connections established through migration and forced displacement. Her […]

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  Ashley Valanzola

  Assistant Professor, History

  David P. Angel Endowed Professorship in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

  AValanzola@clarku.edu

  Ashley Valanzola is a historian of Holocaust Studies and modern France, whose research focuses on memory, women’s and gender history, and museums. She joined the Strassler Center in 2026 holding the David P. Angel Endowed Professorship in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism […]