The faculty and staff of the Department of History are committed to providing a solid foundation for continued learning through the program's courses and research requirements and unique opportunities for interdisciplinary study.
Full-Time Faculty
Vicki Howard, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. howardv@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: American Social and Business History; Women in American History; American Business and Labor History; Material Culture and Consumerism; Marriage and the Family.
Sean Kelley, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. kelleys@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Early American and 19th Century U.S.; Colonial and Revolutionary America; Jacksonian America; The American South; Slavery and Abolition in the United States; Civil War and Reconstruction; and Baseball in American History.
Cherilyn Lacy, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago. lacyc@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Modern European History; Modern French History; History of Western Medicine Since 1500; European Imperialism from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Centuries; Women in Modern European History; The Indian Ocean World, 1300-1800; Ancient Greece.
Mieko Nishida, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. nishidam@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Colonial and Modern Latin American History; Slavery, Revolutions, and Gender and Power in Latin America; History of Brazil and Mexico.
Edythe Ann Quinn (Department Chair), Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville. quinne@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Modern American History; Environmental History; Race and Ethnicity; African-Americans in the North; U.S. Civil Rights Movement; The 1960s; Vietnam; The U.S. After the Bomb; U.S. Foreign Policy; World War II on the Home Front; Women in American Health Care.
Jonathan Roberts, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto. robertsj@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Modern African History; Urban African History; History and Memory in Indigenous Culture; Religion and Medicine in African History; Modern Islamic History.
Peter G. Wallace, Professor, Ph.D., University of Oregon. wallacep@hartwick.edu
Teaching Areas: Reformation Europe 1450-1600; Medieval Europe; Early Modern Europe; The Renaissance; History of Republican and Imperial Rome; Enlightenment and Revolution; Modern East Asia.
Related Faculty and Staff
Harry Bradshaw Matthews, Associate Dean and Director, U.S. Pluralism Programs and President, USCT Institute for Local History and Family Research, M.A., Northern Michigan University. matthewsh@hartwick.edu
Areas of specialization: African-Americans of the Civil War through World War II, Family History Research, Anti-slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad.
