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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

Kevin B. Sheets

Kevin B. Sheets
607-753-2060 (Office Phone)
Email Kevin B. Sheets (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Chair
  • Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Additional Info:

  • Education: PhD and MA, University of Virginia BA, Gettysburg College
  • Email:: Kevin.sheets@cortland.edu

Karl Alexander

Karl Alexander

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

Girish N Bhat

Girish N Bhat
607-753-2059 (Office Phone)
Email Girish N Bhat (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Lynne R Cohen

Lynne R Cohen

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

Arleen Garcia De Vera

Arleen Garcia De Vera
607-753-2459 (Office Phone)
Email Arleen Garcia De Vera (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer (10 Month)

Department(s):

  • History Department

Robert Gambitta

Robert Gambitta

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

Laura L Gathagan

Laura L Gathagan
607-753-5622 (Office Phone)
Email Laura L Gathagan (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Additional Info:

Caitlin Goodwin

Caitlin Goodwin

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

Kevin A Kreiner

Kevin A Kreiner
607-753-5483 (Office Phone)
Email Kevin A Kreiner (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer (10 Month)

Department(s):

  • History Department

Tyson A Luneau

Tyson A Luneau
Email Tyson A Luneau (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Additional Info:

  • Bio: I am a historian of modern North Africa and France, studying the intersections among environment, colonialism, urbanism, and technology. My work examines environmental knowledge and spatial perceptions, analyzing how these abstract notions translate into attempts to remake built and natural environments. In addition to my work in French colonial history, I also have backgrounds in Russian and Central Asian history, as well as an interest in the environmental history of the American West. My current book project, expanding on my doctoral dissertation, examines French efforts to remake the urban and rural landscapes of its North African colonies through the implementation of large-scale development projects. For this project, have conducted archival and field work across France and the Maghreb. 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 history department’s social studies teacher preparation program. I also currently serve as the Deputy Editor of Environment and History, a journal published by The White Horse Press.
  • Email: tyson.luneau@cortland.edu
  • Areas of interest: environmental history, colonialism, urban history, 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
  • Website

Joseph M McAnanama

Joseph M McAnanama

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

James Miller

James Miller
607-753-2723 (Office Phone)
Email James Miller (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer (10 Month)

Department(s):

  • History Department
  • Advisement and Transition

Additional Info:

  • Bio info: I taught Social Studies in the Syracuse City Schools from 1972-2004 and have been working with Social Studies candidates at Cortland since.

Scott A Moranda

Scott A Moranda
607-753-2052 (Office Phone)
Email Scott A Moranda (Work Email)

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

Alena Pirok

Alena Pirok

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Philip Ruggiero

Philip Ruggiero

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • History Department

Anisha Saxena (She/her)

Anisha Saxena (She/her)

Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • History Department

Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him)

Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him)
607-753-5482 (Office Phone)
Email Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him) (Work Email)

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:

Thomas Wirth

Thomas Wirth
607-753-5483 (Office Phone)
Email Thomas Wirth (Work Email)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer (10 Month)

Department(s):

  • History Department

Susan A Wood

Susan A Wood
607-753-2723 (Office Phone)

Title(s):

  • Office Assistant 1

Department(s):

  • History Department

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