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Dr. Jacques Szaluta

Professor Emeritus, Department HumanitiesYear Started

1965

EducationPh.D. Columbia UniversityM.A. Columbia UniversityTeaching InterestsWestern European HistoryPsychohistorical Approach to HistoryNational Leaders in Modern TimesResearch InterestSigmund FreudMarshal PétainSteven Spielberg and...

Dr. Gregory F. Sullivan

Assistant Professor, Department: HumanitiesYear Started

2006

EducationPh.D. History Yale UniversityM.A. East Asian Studies Yale UniversityB.A. Philosophy University of California, BerkeleyTeaching InterestsModern JapanModern ChinaPre-modern JapanEast Asian HistoryModern World HistoryResearch...

Dr. Joshua M. Smith

Associate Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

2003

EducationPh.D. US and Canadian History University of MaineMA Maritime History & Underwater Archaeology East Carolina UniversityAS Maine Maritime AcademyMA History University of St. AndrewsTeaching InterestsMaritime HistoryNaval...

Dr. Melanie H. Ross

Associate Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

2004

EducationPh.D. English Literature NYUMA English Literature NYUAB English and French Literature Princeton UniversityTeaching InterestsLiterature (Generalist) and CompositionResearch InterestsHenry JamesPsychoanalytic TheoryMaritime...

Dr. Laury Magnus

Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

1981

Education  Ph.D. Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Chaucer The Graduate Center of CUNYM. Phil Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Chaucer The Graduate Center of CUNYB.A. Cum Laude English Literature Brooklyn CollegeTeaching InterestsShakespeareText and...

Dr. Robert P. Gardella

Professor Emeritus, HumanitiesYear Started

1977

EducationPh.D. University of Washington (Seattle)M.A. University of Washington (Seattle)B.A. Rice University (Houston, Texas)Publications

R. Gardella. Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. University of California...

Dr. Arthur Donovan

Professor Emeritus, Department of HumanitiesYear Started

1988

EducationPh.D. PrincetonM.S. WisconsinB.A. HarvardPublicationsThe Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping - An Illustrated History with Joseph BonneyThe Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime...

Dr. Jane Pacht Brickman

Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

1983

EducationPh.D. American History, City University of NY, Graduate CenterMA History Queens College, City University of NYBA History Queens CollegeTeaching InterestsModern American HistoryHistory of PhilosophyEthical StudiesResearch InterestsMedical...

Dr. Charles F. Weber

Professor Emeritus, Math and ScienceYear Started1972EducationPhD Mathematics NYUMS Mathematics NYUBS Mathematics Manhattan CollegeTeaching InterestsCalculusDifferential EquationsComplex VariablesResearch InterestsPartial differential equationsHydrodynamicsWater wavesNumerical analysis 

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