Experts by Expertise: History

Jenifer Barclay

Assistant 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

Michael Boucai

Professor of Law

Expertise: LGBT rights and queer history; gender and sexuality law; family, criminal and constitutional law

Phone: 716-645-1743

Email: mboucai@buffalo.edu

Susan K. Cahn

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

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

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

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

Carole Emberton

Associate 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

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

Donald A. Grinde Jr.

Professor 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

Erin Hatton

Associate 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

David Herzberg

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: opioid epidemic; history of prescription drugs, street drugs and other psychoactive substances; drug wars; drugs and popular culture

Phone: 716-645-8416

Email: herzberg@buffalo.edu

Jeehyun Lim

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Asian American literature; migration and diaspora; bilingualism; social and cultural dimensions of the Korean War and Vietnam War

Phone: 716-645-0703

Email: jeehyunl@buffalo.edu

Yan Liu

Assistant 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

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

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

Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies; Haudenosaunee history; public history; settler colonialism, including colonial residential/boarding schools; land tenure; Indigenous inclusion in education; emotional labor

Phone: 716-645-0833

Email: alyssamt@buffalo.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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