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William Lipkin Lecturer – Adjunct Adjunct, History Email: WLipkin@caldwell.edu Phone: B.A. Rutgers University M.A. Rutgers University
William Barnhart Professor Faculty, History Email: Wbarnhart@caldwell.edu Phone: 973-618-3422 B.A. ,History, Siena College M.A. ,History, Old Doninion University Ph.D. ,History, State University of New York, Stony Brook Dr. William Barnhart has been teaching at Caldwell since 2000. His teaching duties focus on the areas of early American history, specifically in the areas of colonial and revolutionary America, Native American history, and American religious history. He also regularly teaches the department’s survey courses: Roots of the West, Shaping of the West and Growth of the American Nation I. His research focuses on religion, politics and the creation of national identities in the early modern Atlantic world. He has published several articles on this subject, and presented many papers at regional and national conferences.
Ronald Roemer Adjunct Professor Adjunct, Faculty, History Email: rroemer@caldwell.edu Phone:
Marie Mullaney Professor Faculty, History Email: mmullane@caldwell.edu Phone: 973-618-3391 Dr. Marie Marmo Mullaney has been teaching history at Caldwell University since 1980, and served as chair of the department from 1982 to 2003. She teaches a wide range of courses in European history, American history, African-American history, the history of New Jersey, and women’s history. Her main research interests are in the history of women, and she has published widely on the lives of a large number of activist women. Her book on women socialist revolutionaries, Revolutionary Women: Gender and the Socialist Revolutionary Role, is a collective biography of five European socialists active in European revolutionary movements in the period 1870-1920. Her articles on the lives of other pioneering female activists have appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; New Jersey History; Notable American Women; and numerous other publications including Past and Promise: Lives of Women in New Jersey History and The New Jersey Encyclopedia. Her latest publication appears in the History of Education Quarterly and is a study of American educator Katharine Gibbs and the chain of secretarial schools she created in the early 20^th century. She has also authored hundreds of book reviews in the areas of European history, American history, and women’s history. In recent years, Dr. Mullaney has developed an expertise in the history of American Catholics, and she teaches courses in the enriched core on the History of Catholics in America and the History of the Catholic Church. For three years, she has worked with Caldwell students as campus coordinator for the Sister Story oral history project, a national project which aims to create an online archive of the experiences of American Catholic religious sisters. Dr. Mullaney has been a National Merit Scholar, holder of a Danforth Foundation Fellowship, and winner of a Sears-Roebuck Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award. She has also been a recipient of the Caldwell Cup for service to Caldwell University.
Edward Owen Adjunct Adjunct Email: eowen@caldwell.edu
Domenic Maffei Professor and Chair, Political Science, Chair, Modern Languages Faculty, History, Modern Language, Political Science Email: dmaffei@caldwell.edu Phone: 973-618-3512 B.A. William Paterson University M.A. Rutgers University Ph.D. New York University Dr. Maffei is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages. He has worked to develop new programs in Applied Language and American Sign Language. He has attended numerous conferences on language pedagogy and instructional design.
David Petriello Lecturer – Adjunct Adjunct, History Email: DPetriello@caldwell.edu Phone:
Buffie Whitfield Instructor Adjunct, History, Political Science Phone: Buffie Whitfield, Ph.D. BA, John Jay University MA, Adelphi University Ph.D., Trident UNiversity
Benjamin Lammers Professor Faculty, History Email: blammers@caldwell.edu Phone: 973-618-3514 Dr. Benjamin Lammers has been teaching history at Caldwell University since 1999. Dr. Lammers teaches a wide variety of courses in European history (including The First World War and the Holocaust) and African history. Dr. Lammers regularly teaches courses on apartheid in South Africa and the Holocaust in film in the Caldwell Honors Program, and has also led a number of study abroad trips to Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. Dr. Lammers also serves as Caldwell University’s Director of Academic Assessment and is the President of the Faculty Council.