Faculty
Lori Gemeiner Bihler, Ph.D., Lecturer
Specializes in Modern European history, immigration history, and history of the Holocaust.
Bridget Buxton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Specializes in ancient history and Mediterranean archaeology, underwater archaeology, and is a deputy director of URI's Institute for Archaeological Oceanography, as well as chief archaeologist for IAO's Mediterranean and Black Sea field programs.
Joel A. Cohen, Ph.D., Professor
Specialties include 17th and 18th century American history.
Catherine DeCesare, Ph.D., Course Coordinator for the Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence
Specializes in American's women's history and Rhode Island history.
E. Rae Ferguson, PhD., Associate Professor
Specializes in African-American history and is affiliated with the African-American Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program.
Timothy George, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Specializes in Japanese and Chinese history, coordinates the Asian Studies Mionr, and is affiliated with the Confucius Institute.
Michael W. Honhart, Ph.D., Professor
Specialties include German history and modern European history.
Rod Mather, Ph.D., Professor
Specialties include maritime history, 17th and 18th century Atlantic world, and underwater archaeology; he coordinates the underwater archaeology minor and the archaeology/anthropology option within the History Masters Program.
Rosa Maria Pegueros, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Specializes in Latin American history and is affiliated with the Women's Studies Program.
Miriam Reumann, Ph.D., Lecturer
Specializes in the history of sexuality and modern U.S. history.
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Ph.D., Professor
Specializes in the history of the late Middle Ages, history of the so-called Renaissance, and medieval women; she is affiliated with the Women's Studies Program.
Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Specializes in the history of medicine, history of science, and early modern Europe and is affiliated with the Women's Studies Program.
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair
Specializes in the history of slavery, and the history of the United States in the antebellum era; she is affiliated with the African-American Studies Program.
Evelyn Sterne, PhD., Associate Professor
Specializes in modern American history and history of immigration and religion in the United States.
Sharon Hartman Strom, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specializes in U.S. women's history and U.S. social and cultural history 1800 to 1940; she is affiliated with the Women's Studies Program.
Gary J. Thurston, Ph.D., Professor
Specializes in Russian and Soviet history, and Europe in the long 19th century.
Robert G. Weisbord, Ph.D., Professor
Specializes in African-American history and the history of the Holocaust.
Robert Widell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Specializing in recent U.S. history, civil rights, and African-American history.
