Faculty and Staff
Faculty
- Bridget Buxton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Ancient history and Mediterranean archaeology, and underwater archaeology
- Contact: babuxton@mail.uri.edu or (401) 874-4085
- Joel A. Cohen, Ph.D., Professor
- 17th and 18th century American history
- Contact: jacohen@uri.edu or (401) 874-5077
- Catherine DeCesare, Ph.D., Course Coordinator
- Course Coordinator for the Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence
- American women's history and Rhode Island history
- Contact: cdecesare@mail.uri.edu or (401) 277-5240
- E. Rae Ferguson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
- African-American history; affiliated with the African-American Studies Program and Women's Studies Program
- Contact: ferguson@uri.edu or (401) 874-4079
- Timothy George, Ph.D., Professor
- Japanese and Chinese history, East and Southeast Asian history, coordinates the Asian Studies Minor; affiliated with the Department of Marine Affairs and the Confucius Institute
- Contact: tgeorge@uri.edu or (401) 874-4091
- Michael W. Honhart, Ph.D., Professor
- German history and modern European history
- Contact: honhart@uri.edu or (401) 874-4075
- Maury Klein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
- American business and economic history, Civil War
- Contact: mauryk1@cox.net
- Erik Loomis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- U.S. environmental history, the Civil War, late 19th and early 20th century America, labor history, and the American West
Contact: eloomis@mail.uri.edu or (401) 874-4078 - Rod Mather, Ph.D., Professor
- Maritime history, 17th and 18th century Atlantic world, and underwater archaeology; coordinates the Underwater Archaeology minor and the Archaeology/Anthropology option within the History Masters Program
- Contact: roderick@uri.edu or (401) 874-4093
- Rosa Maria Pegueros, Ph.D. Associate Professor
- Latin American history; affiliated with the Women's Studies Program
- Contact: pegueros@uri.edu or (401) 874-4092
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair
- History of the late Middle Ages, history of the so-called Renaissance, and medieval women; affiliated with the Women's Studies Program
- Contact: joelle@uri.edu or (401) 874-4089
- Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D., Professor
- History of medicine, history of science, and early modern Europe; affiliated with the Women's Studies Program
- Contact: rusnock@uri.edu or (401) 874-9021
- Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor
- History of slavery, history of the United States in the antebellum era; affiliated with the African-American Studies Program
- Contact: schwartz@uri.edu or (401) 874-4090
- Miriam Reumann, Ph.D., Lecturer
- History of sexuality and modern U.S. history
- Contact: mreumann@mail.uri.edu or (401) 874-4073
- Evelyn Sterne, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
- Modern American history and history of immigration and religion in the United States
- Contact: sterne@mail.uri.edu or (401) 874-4074
- Sharon Hartman Strom, Ph.D., Professor Emerita
- U.S. women's history and U.S. social and cultural history 1800 to 1940; affiliated with the Women's Studies Program
- Contact: shstrom@uri.edu
- Gary J. Thurston, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
- Russian and Soviet history, and Europe in the long 19th century
- Contact: Thurston@uri.edu
- Robert G. Weisbord, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
- African-American history and the history of the Holocaust
- Contact: robweis@uri.edu or (401) 874-4086
- Robert Widell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Recent U.S. history, civil rights, and African-American history
- Contact: professorwidell@gmail.com or (401) 874-2112
Staff
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