Faculty The History faculty have earned degrees from a variety of distinguished universities.  Many have solid administrative and publishing records.  All are committed to the priority of teaching. We encourage you to contact the faculty member with expertise in your primary area of interest to discuss a possible course of study at Salem State College.

Detail from a Chronicle of Salem, by Robert Larter

Christopher E. Mauriello, Chair
Alice P. Bianchi, Administrative Assistant

• Brad Austin (PhD, Ohio State U., 2001; asst. professor) modern U.S. social and cultural, secondary education
• Emerson W. Baker (PhD, William & Mary 1986; professor) museum studies, U.S. colonial, archaeology
• Michael Bonislawski (PhD, Boston College, 2002; visiting asst. professor), modern U.S. history, labor history
• Chapman-Adisho, Annette (PhD, Illinois, Chicago, 2006; asst. professor), modern Europe, French Revolution
  
• Aviva Chomsky (PhD, California, Berkeley 1990; professor) Latin America
  
• Andrew Darien  (PhD, New York University, 2000, asst. professor) modern U.S. history, police history
  
• Gayle V. Fischer (Ph.D, Indiana 1995 assoc. professor), gender, U.S. social and cultural
• James Hoover, (Ph.D. U Wisconsin, Madison, 2000 asst. professor), South Asia
  
• Alexandros K. Kyrou (PhD, Indiana 1993; assoc. professor) Eastern Europe and Russia, Byzantium, Ottoman Empire
  
• Robert LaSota (MA, Arizona State 1962; asst. professor) family, health care
• Lester Lee (ABD, Harvard; visiting asst. professor) Africa, African-American history
  
• Li Li (PhD, North Carolina 1997; assoc. professor) East Asia
• Paul D. Marsella (PhD, New Hampshire 1982; professor) U.S. Constitutional/Legal, Civil War
• Christopher E. Mauriello  (PhD, Brown University 1994; assoc. professor) Modern Europe 
• Dane A. Morrison (PhD, Tufts 1983;  professor) colonial America, U.S. economic 
• Kenneth Okeny (PhD, California, Santa Barbara 1992; assoc. professor) Africa, modern Europe
• Alexander Tedeschi (ABD, Columbia University; visiting asst. professor) Ancient Greece & Rome, social & cultural history
  
• Donna A. Vinson (PhD, Brandeis 1991; asst. professor) medieval, Renaissance, early modern Europe
• Wilson, Jamie J. (PhD, New York University, 2005; asst. professor), African-American, Modern U.S.
  
• Michael Weber (PhD, Boston University, 1996; asst. professor) Ancient, Medieval, Religion (on leave 2007-8)
  

Part-time Faculty

• Charles F. Ames Jr  (PhD, Boston U. 1974; professor) U.S., North American social & economic
• Elizabeth P. Bates (ABD, Boston U., vis. instructor) Modern Europe
• Brian D. Carroll  (ABD, Connecticut, vis. instructor) colonial America
  
• William S. Collins (PhD, LaSalle 1997; vis. instructor) U.S.
• David D. Crane (MA, Toronto, 1999; vis. instructor) Medieval
• Lawrence H. Davis (PhD, Connecticut, 2002; vis. asst. professor) Modern Europe
• K. David Goss (MA, Tufts 1977; vis. instructor) museum studies
• Anthony T. Guerriero (MA, Massachusetts; vis. instructor) American Studies
• Hope Harmeling-Benne (MA, Duke 1971; vis instructor), East and Southest Asia
  
• Thomas Page (MA Salem State College; vis. instructor), World History
• Maria L. Pride (MA Salem State College, vis. instructor), Medieval Europe