Boaz Atzili
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on territorial conflicts and the politics of borders, and the international aspects of state weakne... [More]
Richard Breitman
,Professor
Richard Breitman teaches courses in modern European history and German history. He is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles in German history, U. S. history, and the Holocaust. His most recent books are editions of the diaries of Ja... [More]
Max Paul Friedman
,Associate Professor
Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His book, Nazis and Good Neighbors... [More]
Randall Geller
,Professorial Lecturer
Randall Geller specializes in the history of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict within its Middle Eastern context, and teaches a wide range of courses dealing with multiple aspects of Jewish History. He recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation at ... [More]
Gershon Greenberg
,Professor
Gershon Greenberg is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and religious responses through the Holocaust. He has s... [More]
Gregg Ivers
,Professor
Gregg Ivers is professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he teaches constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, equal protection and numerous other courses that meet at the intersection of law, politics and society. ... [More]
Alan Kraut
,University Professor
Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History and an affiliate faculty member in the School of International Service. He is a Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the... [More]
Lisa Leff
,Associate Professor
Lisa Leff is a historian of Europe since 1789 whose research focuses on Jews in France. Her first book, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity (Stanford UP, 2006), examines the rise of Jewish international aid in 19th century France; her current research examine... [More]
Eric Lohr
,Director of Initiative for Russian Culture and Associate Professor
Eric Lohr is a historian of Russia and East Europe with an affiliate appointment in the School of International Service. He directs the AU Initiative for Russian Culture. He received his M.A. in Russian Studies and Ph.D. in History from Harvard Unive... [More]
Gail Mardirosian
,Associate Professor
Gail Mardirosian spent the 2008-09 AY as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Prague, CZ, at the Academy of Performing Arts and writing book entitled Exceptional Teaching, Exceptional Learning: Using the Arts as a Pathway to Success in Learning, K-16.Curren... [More]
Pamela Nadell
,Chair, Department of History
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety ... [More]
Rita Simon
,University Professor
Professor Simon's research interests and primary areas of concentration in academic work are law and society; the jury system; immigration policies and public opinion; trans-racial adoption; women and the criminal justice system; women's issues; and ... [More]
Michael Wenthe
,Assistant Professor
Michael Wenthe was trained in medieval literature at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. His primary research interest involves the staging of othering and difference as expressed in the polyglot, international literature of King Arthur, and his current... [More]
Russell Stone
,Professor Emeritus
Russell A. Stone has research and teaching interests that include development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology. He has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East, and ... [More]



