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
Sanford Gutman, Professor
Modern Europe, France, Modern Jewish
Phone: (607) 753-2065
E-mail: gutmans@cortland.edu
Scott Moranda, Assistant Professor
Modern Europe, Germany, Environmental
Phone: (607) 753-2052
E-mail: morandas@cortland.edu
Gigi Peterson, Assistant Professor
Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, Secondary
Social Studies
Phone: (607) 753-2061
Email: petersong@cortland.edu
William Sharp, Professor
Latin America, U.S. West
Phone: (607) 753-5482
E-mail: sharpw@cortland.edu
John Shedd, Associate Professor
Early Modern Europe, Britain, Secondary Social Studies
Phone: (607) 753-2035
E-mail: sheddj@cortland.edu
Kevin B. Sheets, Associate Professor
19th century United States, Intellectual and Cultural, History
Phone: (607) 753-2060
E-mail: sheetsk@cortland.edu
Randi Storch, Associate Professor
20th century United States, Labor, Women’s
Phone: (607) 753-2054
E-mail: storchr@cortland.edu
Jennifer Tappan, Assistant Professor
Africa, East Africa
Phone: (607) 753-2051
Email: jennifer.tappan@cortland.edu
Brett Troyan, Assistant Professor
Modern Latin America
Phone: (607) 753-2062
E-mail: troyanb@cortland.edu
Judy VanBuskirk, Associate Professor
Colonial, Revolutionary, Early Republic, and Native American
Phone: (607) 753-2057
E-mail: vanbuskirk@cortland.edu
Luo Xu, Associate Professor
China, East Asia
Phone: (607) 753-2058
E-mail: xu@cortland.edu
Visiting Professors:
Axel Corlu , Visiting Assistant Professor
Middle East
Phone: (607) 753-5460
E-mail: corlua@cortland.edu
Amy Schutt, Visiting Assistant Professor
Native American, Secondary Social Studies
Phone: (607) 753-2054
Email: schutta@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:
Thomas Anderson, (607) 753- 5483
Andrea DeKoter, (607) 753- 2933
Robert Edwards, (607) 753- 5483
Barrett Esworthy, (607) 753- 2933
Catherine Kempf, (607) 753- 2933
Kevin Kreiner, (607) 753- 2933
James Miller, (607) 753- 2061
Ute Ritz-Deutch, (607) 753- 2053
Guy Ruoff, (607) 753- 2933
Gordon Valentine, (607) 753- 2918