Faculty/Staff
Here at the top of the page, you will find a simple listing of our full-time faculty members, with their teaching/research interests, followed by a list of our emeritus faculty. More information on full-time and adjunct faculty and staff, with photographs, contact details and links to websites, can be found further below.
Full-time Faculty
Girish Bhat, Professor (Russia, legal history, Soviet Union)
Laura Gathagan, Associate Professor (Medieval Europe, gender, and Anglo-Norman history)
Tyson A. Luneau, Assistant Professor (Social Studies teacher education, France, North Africa, environmental history)
Scott Moranda, Professor (Germany, central Europe, environmental history)
Anisha Saxena, Assistant Professor (South Asia, East Asia, religion, contested sacred geographies)
Kevin B. Sheets, Professor and Chair (American cultural history, 19th century U.S.)
Randi Storch, Distinguished Teaching Professor (American labor history, 20th century U.S.)
Bekeh Ukelina, Associate Professor (modern Africa, world history)
Emeritus Faculty
Sanford Gutman
Gigi A. Peterson
Amy Schutt
John Shedd
Judith Van Buskirk
Donald Wright
Luo Xu
*Check out a collection of oral history interviews with some of our emeritus faculty members.
Faculty/Staff
Randi Storch (she/her/hers)
Title(s):
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
Girish Bhat
Title(s):
- Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Danielle Candelora
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Dr. Evan Faulkenbury
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
- Website
- Email: evan.faulkenbury@cortland.edu
Laura Gathagan
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
Corrina Harvey
Title(s):
- Administrative Assistant 1
Department(s):
- History Department
Tyson A Luneau
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
- Bio: I am a historian of modern North Africa and Europe, focusing on the intersections among environment, colonialism, and technology. My current book project, expanding on my doctoral dissertation, examines French efforts to remake the urban and rural environments of its North African colonies through the implementation of large-scale development projects. As a historian with many years of secondary teaching experience in both public and private school settings, I teach courses and oversee candidates in the department's social studies teacher preparation program. I'm also happy to work with students on projects related to environmental history, colonialism, or the Mediterranean World.
- Email: tyson.luneau@cortland.edu
- Areas of interest: environmental history, colonialism, North Africa, Europe, social studies teacher education, secondary curriculum
- Education: PhD, University at Albany; MA, University at Albany; BA & BS, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Jared McBrady
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Scott Moranda
Title(s):
- Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
- CV
- Scholarship: I am a historian of Germany and the German-speaking world, focusing on environmental history, the history of tourism, and ethnic/national identity formation. My current book project explores that transatlantic migration of conservation ideas among German-speakers. Subjects under investigation include German-American agricultural journalists and foresters whose promotion of land ethics contributed to the construction of a common German ethnic identity and offered opportunities to challenge Anglo-American cultural hegemony. In addition, travelers and scientific experts from Germany traveled to North America where they often collaborated with the aforementioned German-Americans. Together, their critiques of "Yankee plunder" also linked land ethics to nation building and imperialism in Germany. Even as these cultural exchanges proliferated, German-speaking conservationists, agronomists and foresters contributed to the intentional and unintentional exchange of plants, animals, fungi, and viruses that often disrupted their political and cultural projects.
- Email: scott.moranda@cortland.edu
- Areas of interest: environmental history, Germany, transatlantic migrations, Central Europe (19th and 20th centuries), history of nationalism, Modern Europe
- Teaching: I teach courses such as World Environmental History, German History, The Holocaust, the history of tourism, 19th Century Central and Eastern Europe, and 20th Century Europe
Anisha Saxena (She/her)
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Amy Schutt
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
Kevin B. Sheets
Title(s):
- Chair
- Professor
Department(s):
- History Department
Additional Info:
Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him)
Title(s):
- Director, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies
- Professor
Department(s):
- Africana Studies Department
- Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS)
- History Department
Additional Info:
- More Info
- Twitter: @bekeh
Thomas Wirth
Title(s):
- Lecturer (10 Month)
Department(s):
- History Department