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Department: History

(Division of Humanities and the Arts)

Professor Anne Kornhauser , Chair • Department Office: NA 5/144 • Tel: 212-650-7137

General Information

The City College offers the following master’s degree in History:

M.A.

We offer a dual track Master's program. We provide a non-thesis track for secondary school teachers looking to broaden their horizons and maintain their state certification, and a thesis track for students interested in applying to competitive doctoral programs.

Advisement

All students accepted into the program should consult with the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Barbara Naddeo.

Secondary School Teaching

Students wishing to teach History in secondary schools must be certified in the area of Social Studies. Certification requirements are listed under the Secondary Education department listings in this bulletin. Please consult Professor Shira Epstein, Department of Secondary Education. History M.A. candidates must consult with the History departmental advisor about their programs.

Faculty

Beth Baron, Distinguished Professor

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Univ. of London; Ph.D., Univ. of California (Los Angeles)

John Blanton, Assistant Professor

B.A., SUNY (Albany); M.Phil.,  CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D.

Lale Can, Associate Professor

B.A., M.A., New York. Univ., Ph.D

Craig Daigle, Associate Professor

B.A., Univ. of Maryland; M.A., James Madison Univ.; Ph.D., George Washington Univ.

John Gilloolly, Lecturer

B.A., Univ. of California (Los Angeles); M.A., Columbia Univ.; Ph.D.

Ravi Kalia, Professor

B.A., Univ. of Delhi, M.A.; M.B.A, Univ. of California (Los Angeles), Ph.D.

Andreas Killen, Professor 

B.A., Reed College (English); M.A., New York Univ., Ph.D.

Anne M. Kornhauser, Associate Professor and Chair  

B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

James Lewis, Lecturer

B.A., American Univ.; M.A., Washington Univ. in St. Louis, Ph.D.

Barbara Naddeo, Associate Professor

B.A., Princeton Univ.; M.A., Univ. of Chicago Ph.D.

Clifford Rosenberg, Associate Professor

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Princeton Univ., Ph.D.

Yaari Felber-Seligman, Assistant Professor

B.A. Univ. of Pennsylvania; M.A. Northwestern Univ., Ph.D.

Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor

B.A. Yale Univ;  M.A., Princeton Univ., Ph.D.

Darren Staloff, Professor

B.A., Columbia College; M.A., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

Barbara Syrrakos, Lecturer

B.A. Univ. of Wisconsin, M.A.; M.A., New School for Social Research , Ph.D

Matthew Vaz, Assistant Professor

B.S., Cornell Univ.; M.S. Brooklyn College; M.A., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

Laurie Woodard, Assistant Professor

B.A. Columbia Univ.; M.A, Yale University, Ph.D.

Professors Emeriti

Harriet Alonso

Bernard Bellush

Susan K. Besse

David Johnson

Fred L. Israel

Lawrence Kaplan

Thomas H.C. Lee

Radmila Milentijevic

Dante A. Puzzo

George Schwab

Conrad M. Schirokauer

Richard Skolnik

Herbert A. Strauss

Walter Struve

Arthur Tiedemann

Robert Twombly

Martin Waldman

Joel Weiner

Irwin Yellowitz

Oscar Zeichner