Faculty and Staff

Faculty Profiles

Faculty:

Name Office Phone (216) Email Research Interests
Thomas L. Bynum
Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Africana Studies
BH 137 687.3655 Email  
Mark Cole
Associate College Lecturer
RT 1306 687.3937 Germany, Nazism, The Holocaust, Consumption, and Nutrition
Gregory Conerly
Associate Professor
RT 1312 687.3928 African American History, Gender/Sexuality/LGBTQ Communities in the U.S.
Stephen Cory
Chair, Professor
RT 1327 687.6883 Early Modern Islamic World, Modern Middle East

Thomas J. Humphrey
Professor

RT 1320 687.3920 Colonial and Revolutionary America
Wenqing Kang
Associate Professor
RT 1305 875.9688 Gender and Sexuality in China
Andrew E. Kersten
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
BH 687.5580 Email Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, civil right, civil liberties, and the biographies of Clarence Darrow and of A. Philip Randolph
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Professor
RT 1308 687.3926 Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe, Gender History
Meshack Owino
Professor
RT 1357 523.7264 Africa
Shelley Rose
Professor and Undergraduate Director, Social Studies
RT 1323 687.3935 German history, Social Studies, gender history
Jose O. Sola
Associate Professor
Graduate Director
RT 1356 523.7189 Modern Latin America, Colonialism and Imperialism, Popular Culture
Karen Sotiropoulos
Professor
RT 1328 687.3940 African American History, American Cultural, Gender, and Feminist History
J. Mark Souther
Professor
RT 1310 687.3970 Public History, U.S. Urban History, Tourism, 20th Century United States History
Laura A. Wertheimer
Associate Professor,
Director of Undergraduate Studies
RT 1329 687.3930 Medieval European, Ancient Mediterranean
Kelly Wrenhaven
Associate Professor
RT 1325 687.3927 Ancient Greek and Roman History
Adjunct Professors:
Peter Manos || 216.687.7186 || P.MANOS@csuohio.edu
Donna M. Whyte || 216.875.9684 || D.WHYTE@csuohio.edu
Emeritus:
James A. Borchert, Professor
216.687.3920 || J.BORCHERT@csuohio.edu
David J. Goldberg, Professor
216.523.7187 || D.GOLDBERG@csuohio.edu
Thomas L. Hartshorne, Associate Professor
216.687.3920 || T.HARTSHORNE@csuohio.edu
Lee A. Makela, Associate Professor
216.687.3920 || L.MAKELA@csuohio.edu
Roger B. Manning, Professor
216.687.3920 || R.MANNING@csuohio.edu
Joyce M. Mastboom, Associate Professor
216.687.3920 || j.mastboom@csuohio.edu
Deborah D. Pearl, Professor
216.687.3920 || D.PEARL@csuohio.edu
Donald Ramos, Professor
216.687.3920 || D.RAMOS@csuohio.edu
Robert S. Shelton, Associate Professor
216.687.3920 || R.S.SHELTON@csuohio.edu
Robert A. Wheeler, Associate Professor
216.687.3920 || R.WHEELER@csuohio.edu
Department Staff:
Erin Bell, Project Coordinator, Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
216.687.2172 || e.j.bell93@csuohio.edu
Carolyn Kinkoph, Administrative Secretary
216.687.3920 || c.kinkoph@csuohio.edu

Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
History Department
2121 Euclid Ave., HIS
Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Campus Location
Rhodes Tower (RT)
1860 E. 22nd Street, Rm. 1319

Contact Us
Phone: 216.687.3920
history@csuohio.edu