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 J Storch (she/her/hers)

607-753-2054 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

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Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department(s):

History Department

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Girish N Bhat

607-753-2059 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

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Professor

Department(s):

History Department

Robert Gambitta

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Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

History Department

Laura L Gathagan

607-753-5622 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

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Associate Professor

Department(s):

History Department

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Corrina A Harvey

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

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Administrative Assistant 1

Department(s):

History Department

Tyson A Luneau

Email (Work Email)

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, 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 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, 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
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Website

Scott A Moranda

607-753-2052 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

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Professor

Department(s):

History Department

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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

Gigi A. Peterson

History Dept. Main Office 607-753-2729 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

Title(s):

Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

Latino and Latin American Studies
History Department

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More Info URL about Gigi A. Peterson

Alena Pirok

Title(s):

Assistant Professor

Department(s):

History Department

Anisha Saxena (She/her)

Title(s):

Assistant Professor

Department(s):

History Department

Kevin B. Sheets

607-753-2060 (Office Phone)
Email (Work Email)

Title(s):

Chair
Professor

Department(s):

History Department

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

Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him)

607-753-5482 (Office Phone)
Email (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

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Twitter: @bekeh

Thomas Wirth

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

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Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

History Department

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Full-time Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

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Randi J Storch (she/her/hers)

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Girish N Bhat

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Robert Gambitta

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Laura L Gathagan

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Corrina A Harvey

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Tyson A Luneau

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Scott A Moranda

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Gigi A. Peterson

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Alena Pirok

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Anisha Saxena (She/her)

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Kevin B. Sheets

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Prof. Bekeh Ukelina (He, him)

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Thomas Wirth

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