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Nathan Braccio
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 taught at Lesley University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Utah State University. His current…
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Elyse Semerdjian
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 Press, 2008) and Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University Press, 2023) as…
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Nana Kesse
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 of West Africa. His research covers the last three hundred years, focusing on the intricate…
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Elizabeth Imber
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. She is particularly interested in the history of Zionism and Jewish nationalism; investigating and theorizing…
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Frances Tanzer
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 the continent’s identities and cultures. Her research examines culture in the borderlands of East Central…
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Lex Lu
Professor Lu received a B.A. from East China Normal University in 2006, an M.A. from East China Normal University in 2010, and an M. Phil. and Ph.D. in 2013 and 2016 from Syracuse University. He has been at Clark since 2016. Professor Lu specializes in East Asian history and gender studies. His research focuses on the…
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Ousmane Power-Greene
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, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. A specialist in African American social and political movements, Professor…
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Taner Akcam
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 was born in the province of Ardahan, Turkey, in 1953. He became interested in…
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