Faculty
Dr. Michael Durfee
Associate Professor
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8082
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall, Room 132
Focus of TeachingU.S. History I and II America in the Contemporary World Origins of the Urban Crisis The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration The Crack Era in Context Rise of Black America The Long Civil Rights Movement Introduction to Research World Civilizations I and II *Current Research and Presentations * Michael...
Dr. Carrie Glenn
Assistant Professor
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8091
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall 130
- Office Hours:
- Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Focus of Teaching I am a historian of the early modern Atlantic World and early United States, with thematic foci in slavery and race, capitalism, gender, and revolutions. I teach classes on vast early America, the Age of Revolutions, the early Republic, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Caribbean, Atlantic, and early...
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Professor; Director, M.A. - Interdisciplinary Studies
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8195
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall, Room 131
Focus of Teaching Middle East, Central Asia, Soviet Union Current Research Dr. Gökçek's research focuses on the discourses of nationalism and Islamism at the turn of the 20th century in the Ottoman Empire. He is especially interested in the intellectual interaction between Russian and Ottoman Empires and looks into the role of the...
Dr. Robert G. Kane
Professor, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8085
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall, Room 134
Current Research My main research interests are in the interplay of ideas of race, democracy, and national security in U.S.-Japan relations in the early twentieth century. Using U.S. and Japanese sources, I explain how contests for political power and rhetorical authority within each country drove policymaking and perceptions. Japanese and Americans...
Dr. Shannon M. Risk
Associate Professor and Department Chair of History; Director, Public History Minor; Director, Women's Studies Minor; Fulbright Campus Program Advisor
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8084
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall, Room 127
- Office Hours:
- Mondays/Thursdays 11-3
Dr. Shannon Risk is an associate professor of history at Niagara University where she teaches courses in progressive era U.S. history, Canadian studies, and public history, and manages the women's studies and public history minors. She holds her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maine, where she also...
Dr. John Stranges
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8471
- Office Location:
- Room 11, Marian House
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 1-5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 4:00-5:00 p.m.
John B. Stranges is University Professor at Niagara University. He began his career at Niagara in 1968, and served consecutively as a faculty member, department chair, Academic Vice President, and as the institution's first University Professor. During his long tenure as chief academic officer, the university underwent a major expansion...
Dr. Stefanie Wichhart
Professor
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8090
- Office Location:
- Timon Hall, Room 129
Current Research My research focuses on British intervention in the Middle East during World War II, particularly in Egypt and Iraq. I look at the war as a period of revived imperial interest in this region, as Britain reasserted its authority over formerly decolonized territories. Within this framework I am particularly...