Faculty Research

Professor Akçam’s field of expertise is late-Ottoman-Turkish history and Genocide studies. He has lectured and published extensively on the Armenian genocide, Turkish nationalism, and the history of the modern Middle East. His research uncovered the “smoking gun” that points to the Ottoman government’s central role in planning the elimination of its Armenian population, and he established the Krikor Guerguerian Archive, one of the most important online archives on the Armenian Genocide.

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Professor Greenwood teaches a variety of courses in U.S. history including Race and Ethnicity in American History, Reconstruction, The Gilded Age, Public History, and History of the American South. Her research has examined the migration of former slaves and U.S. history in a global context.

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Professor Imber specializes in modern Jewish history and British imperial history. Her research focuses on modern Jewish politics; the history of Zionism and Mandate Palestine; socialism and nationalism; and gender and imperialism. Her current book project explores the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of national and transnational anti-colonial political movements between 1917 and 1948. She offers classes in Jewish history, British imperial history, and the history of Israel/Palestine.

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Professor Klooster teaches various courses on Atlantic history including Pirates and Smugglers in the Atlantic World; Comparative Colonialism: The Americas; and The Age of Atlantic Revolutions. He also regularly teaches courses on European history such as The Reformation.

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Professor Kühne teaches the Holocaust and modern European and German history. His research explores the relation of war, genocide, and society to long-term traditions of the political culture of Central Europe, especially the problem of locating the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in the social and cultural history of the twentieth century. His recent work focuses on comradeship and its impact on the actions and experiences of German WWII soldiers and Holocaust perpetrators. He is especially interested in synthesizing new approaches to the history of mass violence.

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Professor Kushner specializes in early modern and 18th-century European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on France, women, and sexuality. Her teaching repertoire includes courses on the history of early modern Europe, the national histories of France and England, the histories of women and gender, and the history of sexuality. Her current book project is a study of marriage, cheating, and the construction of social identity in Old Regime France. She also is co-editing a volume that examines how the history of sexuality challenges, nuances, and expands our view of the past.

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Professor Little specializes in U.S. diplomatic history with special emphasis on the Middle East, and he also offers courses on 20th-century America, global history, and he takes his turn at teaching Writing History.

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Professor Lu specializes in East Asian history and gender studies. His research focuses on the changing conceptualization of political masculinity and male beauty standards. His current research explores the role that physical appearance has played in Chinese political culture. He teaches classes on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and global histories, and on the history of beauty and fashion.

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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. His current project is biographical, focusing on the early life of Abraham Lincoln in relation to the transformative developments of the early 19th century.

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A specialist in African American history, Professor Power-Greene’s research focuses on African American social and political movements. He also is interested in exploring African American agitation for human rights within the Atlantic World.

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Professor Richter specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American and cultural history, with an emphasis on women’s and urban history. Her teaching repertoire includes the history of American
women, U.S. urban history from the colonial era to the 21st century, gender and the American city, and American consumer culture. Her current research looks at marriage and the consumer marketplace at the turn of the 20th century.

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