Faculty and Staff
Department Staff
LouAnn Hurlbert
Department Secretary
Phone: (607) 753-2723
E-mail: hurlbertl@cortland.edu
Full-Time Professors:
Girish Bhat, Associate Professor and Chair
Modern Europe, Russia
Phone: (607) 753-2059
E-mail: bhat@cortland.edu
Marica Cassis, Assistant Professor
Middle East, Persia
Phone: (607) 753-5460
E-mail: cassism@cortland.edu
ON LEAVE, 2007-2008
Frank Czerwinski, Associate Professor
Ancient World, Medieval Europe
E-mail: czerwinskif@cortland.edu
Sanford Gutman, Professor
Modern Europe, France, Modern Jewish
E-mail: gutmans@cortland.edu
ON LEAVE, 2007-2008
Scott Moranda, Assistant Professor
Modern Europe, Germany, Environmental
E-mail: morandas@cortland.edu
Gigi Peterson, Assistant Professor
Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, Secondary
Social Studies
Email: petersong@cortland.edu
Rachel B. Reinhard, Assistant Professor
20th century United States, African-American, Secondary Social Studies
E-mail: reinhardr@cortland.edu
William Sharp, Professor
Latin America, U.S. West
E-mail: sharpw@cortland.edu
John Shedd, Associate Professor
Early Modern Europe, Britain, Secondary Social Studies
E-mail: sheddj@cortland.edu
Kevin B. Sheets, Associate Professor
19th century United States, Intellectual and Cultural, History
E-mail: sheetsk@cortland.edu
Randi Storch, Associate Professor
20th century United States, Labor, Women’s
E-mail: storchr@cortland.edu
Brett Troyan, Assistant Professor
Modern Latin America
E-mail: troyanb@cortland.edu
Judy VanBuskirk, Associate Professor
Colonial, Revolutionary, Early Republic, and Native American
E-mail: vanbuskirk@cortland.edu
Luo Xu, Associate Professor
China, East Asia
Phone: (607) 753-2058
E-mail: xu@cortland.edu
Visiting Professors:
Ibrahim Hamza , Visiting Assistant Professor
West Africa, Africa
Phone: (607) 753-2053
E-mail: hamzai@cortland.edu
Axel Corlu , Visiting Assistant Professor
Middle East
Phone: (607) 753-5460
E-mail: corlua@cortland.edu
Emeritus Professors:
Gordon Beadle
Frank Burdick
E-mail: fburdick@twcny.rr.com
Roger Sipher
Phone: (607) 753-2067
E-mail: sipherr@cortland.edu
Donald Wright
E-mail: wrightd@cortland.edu
Adjunct Lecturers:
Andrea DeKoter
Phone: (607) 753-5460
Barrett Esworthy
Phone: (607) 753-2933
Catherine (Katy) Kempf
Phone: (607) 753-2933
Kevin Kreiner
Phone: (607) 753-2933
Charles Maxfield
Phone: (607) 753-5483
James Miller
Phone: (607) 753-2061
Amy Schutt
Phone: (607) 753-5483
Gordon Valentine
Phone: (607) 753-2918
Charles Coon
Phone: (607) 753-2067
Linda Frank
Phone: (607) 753-2933