Experts by Expertise: History

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4/7/23
Jenifer Barclay

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: disability history; disability, race, gender, class and sexuality; intersectionality; ableism; African American history; history of slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War
Phone: 716-645-8409
Email: barclay7@buffalo.edu
12/12/22
Michael Boucai
Professor of Law
Expertise: Law and policy on sex, sexuality, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation; reproductive rights; constitutional, criminal, and family law; LGBTQ history
Phone: 716-645-1743
Email: mboucai@buffalo.edu
8/9/22
Carrie Tirado Bramen

Director of the Gender Institute

Expertise: U.S. cultural and intellectual history; feminist and gender studies; critical race studies; 19th-century American literature; U.S.-Latinx literature; history of astrology
Phone: 716-645-5200
Email: bramen@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Susan K. Cahn

Emerita Professor of History

Expertise: gender and sexuality in sports, homophobia in sports, women’s history, feminist theory, history of chronic illness, history of mental illness
Phone: 716-645-8418
Email: cahn@buffalo.edu
11/4/21
James Campbell
UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Expertise: U.S. politics, political parties, political polarization, campaigns, public opinion, political participation, congressional elections, election forecasting, elections and the economy, presidential approval, electoral systems (including redistricting and ranked choice voting)
Phone: 716-645-8452
Email: jcampbel@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
David Castillo
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Expertise: early modern culture, Baroque literature, horror and fantasy, new media and culture
Phone: 716-645-0869
Email: dc63@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yige Dong

Assistant Professor of Sociology, and of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: labor, work, gender and political economy, especially in China; labor and feminist movements in China and in a global context
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Carole Emberton

Professor of History

Expertise: Civil War era, Confederate flag and monuments, history of race, slavery, Southern history, racial violence

Phone: 716-645-8405
Email: emberton@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Cecil Foster

Professor of Transnational Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Canadian studies; multiculturalism, politics, race, ethnicity and immigration in Canada
Phone: 716-645-0786
Email: cecilfos@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Donald A. Grinde Jr.

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies, Native American thought, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history, U.S. Indian Policy since 1871, American Indian activism
Phone: 716-645-0828
Email: dgrinde@buffalo.edu
2/15/23
Erin Hatton

Professor of Sociology

Expertise: labor movements, gig economy, job security, coerced labor, pay for college athletes, minimum wage, workfare
Phone: 716-645-8476
Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu
3/3/23
David Herzberg
Professor of History

Expertise: opioid epidemic; history of prescription drugs, street drugs and other psychoactive substances; drug policy and drug wars; drugs and popular culture; addiction; drugs and social inequalities of race and gender
Phone: 716-645-8416

Email: herzberg@buffalo.edu
7/27/22
LaGarrett J. King

Director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education

Expertise: Black history education, social studies, history of education, teacher education, racism and anti-Blackness
Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: lagarret@buffalo.edu
4/13/23
Yan Liu

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: history of Chinese medicine, food and spices; history of epidemics; history of the senses; comparative historical perspectives in medicine
Phone: 716-645-8404
Email: yliu253@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Elizabeth Mazzolini

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Mountaineering deaths, climbing technology, consumerism, material culture, garbage, culture of waste

Phone: 716-645-0691
Email: mazz@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Ndubueze L. Mbah

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: African history; the Atlantic World; colonialism; gender in West Africa; history of slavery and emancipation; Boko Haram
Phone: 716-645-8415
Email: ndubueze@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Elizabeth Otto
Professor of Art History
Expertise: the Bauhaus, history of photography, European and American Art, visual culture, theories of montage, gender issues, art and religion

Phone: 716-645-5334
Email: eotto@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Michael Rembis

Director of the Center for Disability Studies

Expertise: disability history; disability studies; history of madness and mental illness; mental health in the context of prisons/mass incarceration; history of eugenics

Phone: Michael Rembis can be reached most quickly via email. He can also be reached through Charlotte Hsu in University Communications at 716-645-4655 or chsu22@buffalo.edu.
Email: marembis@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Adam Rome

Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: environmental movement in the U.S., environmental history, Earth Day, sustainable business, suburban sprawl
Phone: 716-645-8665
Email: adamrome@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
David Schmid
Associate Professor of English
Expertise: popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city
Phone: 716-645-0679
Email: schmid@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Kristin Stapleton
Professor of History

Expertise: modern China; U.S.-China relations; Chinese cities; history of the family, socialism and humor in China
Phone: 716-645-5645
Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu
4/12/23
Despina Stratigakos

Professor of Architecture

Expertise: diversity in architecture; gender and modernity in European cities; German architecture; Nazi propaganda and architecture

Phone: 716-829-3486
Email: dms58@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Barbara Wejnert
Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: spread of democracy since 1800, democratic transitions and sustainability, Eastern European politics and political movements, democracy and inequality in a globalized world
Phone: 716-645-0787
Email: bwejnert@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lillian S. Williams

Associate Professor of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: U.S. social and urban history; African American history in the U.S. and Western New York; women’s history
Phone: 716-645-0798
Email: lsw4@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Kari J. Winter
Professor of American Studies
Expertise: gender, feminism, race, class, slavery, politics of food, literature
Phone: 716-645-0827
Email: kwinter2@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Victoria Wolcott

Professor of History

Expertise: civil rights, African American history, race and cities, urban history, gender, sexuality
Phone: 716-645-8411
Email: vwwolcot@buffalo.edu