Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Sucharita Adluri, Professor
RT 1349 | 216-523-7154
Research Interests: Religious Studies, Religious Traditions of Asia

Thomas L. Bynum, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Africana Studies
BH 137 | 216-687-3655 | t.l.bynum@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Civil Rights, Student/Youth Activism, Black Power, Black Freedom Movement, Social Justice

Mark Cole, Associate College Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Studies
RT 1306 | 216-687-3937 | m.b.cole@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Germany, Nazism, The Holocaust, Consumption, and Nutrition

Gregory Conerly, Associate Professor
RT 1312 | 216-687-3928 | g.conerly@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: African American History, Gender/Sexuality/LGBTQ Communities in the U.S.

Stephen Cory, Chair, Professor
RT 1327 | 216-687-6883 | s.cory@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Early Modern Islamic World, Modern Middle East

Thomas J. Humphrey, Professor
RT 1320 | 216-687-3920 | tom.humphrey@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Colonial and Revolutionary America

Matt Jackson-McCabe, Professor
RT 1336 | 216-687-2171
Research Interests: Judaism & Christianity in the Greco-Roman world, Bible, Religious Studies

Wenqing Kang, Associate Professor
RT 1305 | 216-875-9688 | w.kang@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality in China

Andrew E. Kersten, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
BH 218 | 216-687-5580 | a.e.kersten@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, civil rights, civil liberties, and the biographies of Clarence Darrow and of A. Philip Randolph

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Professor
RT 1308 | 216-687-3926 | e.lehfeldt@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe, Gender History

Meshack Owino, Professor
RT 1357 | 216-523-7264 | m.owino@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Africa

Shelley E. Rose, Professor & Director of Social Studies
RT 1323 | 216-687-3935 | shelley.rose@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Social Studies, Gender History, Geography, Transnational & World History

Jose O. Sola, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
RT 1356 | 216-523-7189 | j.sola@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Modern Latin America, Colonialism and Imperialism, Popular Culture

Karen Sotiropoulos, Professor
RT 1328 | 216-687-3940 | k.sotiropoulos@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: African American History, American Cultural, Gender, and Feminist History

J. Mark Souther, Professor
RT 1310 | 216-687-3970 | m.souther@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: Public History, U.S. Urban History, Tourism, 20th Century United States History

Kelly Wrenhaven, Professor & Director of Classical Studies and Medieval Studies
RT 1325 | 216-687-3927 | k.wrenhaven@csuohio.edu
Research Interests: 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

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

Laura A. Wertheimer, Associate Professor
216-687-3930 | l.wertheimer@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