Faculty
Resident Faculty
Dr. Frank Argote-Freyre
Professor of History; Latin America / fargotef@kean.edu
B.A.,RutgersStateUniversity
Ph.D.,RutgersStateUniversity
Dr. Janet N. Balakian
Professor of English; Armenia and world literature / jbalakia@kean.edu
B.A., Bucknell University
M.A.T., Brown University
Ph.D., Cornell University
Dr. Frank Esposito
Professor of History; Native Americans / fesposit@kean.edu
B.A.,RowanUniversity
M.A.,RowanUniversity
Ph.D.,RutgersUniversity
Dr. Ruth Griffith
Professor of English; Ukraine and East Europe / rgriffit@keakn.edu
B.A.,RutgersStateUniversity
M.A.,ColumbiaUniversity
Ed.D.,RutgersUniversity
Dr. Sue-Ellen Gronewold
Professor of History; world history, Asia / sgronewo@kean.edu
B.A.,UniversityofWisconsin
M.A.,ColumbiaUniversity
M.A.,UniversityofWisconsin
Ph.D.,ColumbiaUniversity
Dr. Gilbert Kahn
Professor of Political Science; Middle East, Antisemitism / gkahn@kean.edu
B.A.,ColumbiaUniversity
M.A.,HunterCollege
Ph.D.,NewYorkUniversity
Dr. Dennis Klein
Professor of History; Jewish studies , Holocaust, human rights / dklein@kean.edu
B.A.,HobartCollege
M.A.,UniversityofRochester
Ph.D.,UniversityofRochester
Dr. C. Brid Nicholson
Professor of History; Irish famine, research methods / cnichols@kean.edu
B.A.,UniversityCollegeDublin
M.A.,UniversityCollegeDublin
M.Phil.,DrewUniversity
Ph.D.,DrewUniversity
Dr. Abigail Perkiss
Professor of History; African and African-American / aperkiss@kean.edu
A.B.,BrynMawrCollege
J.D.,TempleUniversity
Ph.D.,TempleUniversity
Dr. Brian Regal
Professor of History; History of science / bregal@kean.edu
B.A.,KeanUniversity
M.Phil.,DrewUniversity
M.A.,DrewUniversity
Ph.D.,DrewUniversity
Dr. Davida Schuman
Professor of Special Education; education strategies/ dschuman@kean.edu
B.A., TheNewJerseyCityUniversity
M.A.,TheNewJerseyCityUniversity
M.S.,YeshivaUniversity,
Ph.D.FordhamUniversity
Dr. Melodie Toby
Professor of Sociology; Western religions, the churches and the Holocaust / mtoby@kean.edu
B.A.,PaceCollege
M.A.,DrewUniversity
M.B.A.,HarvardUniversity
Ph.D.,DrewUniversity
Emeriti
Dr. Henry Kaplowitz
B.A.,YeshivaUniversity
M.A.,YeshivaUniversity
Ph.D.,YeshivaUniversity
Dr. Joseph Preil
BA.,BrooklynCollege
M.A.ColumbiaUniversity
Ph.D.,NewYorkUniversity
Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros
A.B.,RutgersStateUniversity
A.M.,UniversityofPennsylvania
Ph.D.,UniversityofPennsylvania
Dr. Robert Sitelman
B.A.,HunterCollege
M.A.,ColumbiaUniversity
Ph.D.,ColumbiaUniversity
Dr. Jay Spaulding
B.A.,BethelCollege
M.A.,ColumbiaUniversity
Ph.D.,ColumbiaUniversity
Dr. Bernard Weinstein,
FoundingDirector,MAinHolocaustandGenocideStudies
B.A.,CityCollegeofNewYork
M.A.,NewYorkUniversity
Ph.D.,NewYorkUniversity
Resident Program Advisers
Dr. Lauretta A. Farrell
Director, Human Rights Institute / lafarrel@kean.edu
B.A., Colgate University
M.S., University of Richmond
M. Litt., Drew University
D. Litt., Drew University
Dr. Adara Ruth Goldberg
Director,HolocaustResourceCenter / agoldber@kean.edu
B.S.W., York University (Canada)
Ph.D., Clark University