Department Secretary
Patricia Lerner
224 Warner Hall
(203) 837-8484
email: lernerp@wcsu.edu

Full-time Faculty

Katherine Allocco (Associate Chair for the Spring 2026 semester only)
(Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2004)
Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Gender and Sexuality
215 Warner Hall
(203) 837-8482
alloccok@wcsu.edu

Jennifer Nugent Duffy
(Ph.D., New York University, 2008)
Modern U.S., Ethnicity, Urban and Suburban History, Irish-American History
202 Warner Hall
(203) 837-3283
duffyj@wcsu.edu

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox (Department Chair- except for the Spring 2026 semester)
(Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002)
Asia (especially Vietnam and China), Historiography, Intellectual History
221 Warner Hall
(203) 837-8565
wilcoxw@wcsu.edu

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1999; J.D. University of Texas School of Law, 1990)
American Revolution/Early Republic/Constitutional
222 Warner Hall
(203) 837-8455
gutzmank@wcsu.edu

Leslie Lindenauer
(Ph.D., NYU, 1997)
Early America, Women, History of the Body, Public History, History of Religion
218 Warner Hall
Phone: (203) 837-9046
lindenauerl@wcsu.edu

Michael E. Nolan
(Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2001)
Modern France and Germany
223 Warner Hall
Phone: (203) 837-8483
nolanm@wcsu.edu

Joshua M. Rosenthal
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001)
Latin America (especially Colombia)
216 Warner Hall
Phone: (203) 837-8449
rosenthalj@wcsu.edu

2024 Macricostas Endowed Teaching Fellow in Hellenic and Greek Studies

Simeon Ehrlich

ehrlichs@wcsu.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Faculty Emeriti can be reached by contacting the department office at (203) 837-8484.

David Detzer
(PhD, University of Connecticut, 1970)
United States

Martha (Marcy) May
(Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton, 1984)
Modern United States, Women and Gender
220 Warner Hall
Phone: (203) 837-8481
maym@wcsu.edu

Kenneth Young
(Ph.D., NYU, 1970)
Burma, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Diplomacy, US Foreign Relations

Part-time Faculty

All part-time faculty members can be reached at: (203) 837-8484.  See the Department Secretary for office locations.

Amy A. Campanaro
(MA, Albany, 2002)
United States
campanaroa@wcsu.edu

George Coleman
(MS, Teacher’s College, Columbia, 1977)
African-American
colemang@wcsu.edu

Stephen T. Flanagan
(MA, Western Connecticut, 1984; MA St. John’s NY, 1996)
United States
flanagans@wcsu.edu

Matthew Glassman
(Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, 2019)
glassmanm@wcsu.edu 

Danielle King
(Ed.D., CCSU 2025)
Afrikan American Studies, Literature, Art, and Culture from the Diaspora, Race, Gender, and Migration
kingd@wcsu.edu

Maryann Rossi
(PhD, St. Louis, 1983; Assistant Dean of Professional Studies)
Early US, material culture, historic preservation
rossim@wcsu.edu

Susann M. Walens
(PhD, Union Institute, 1994)
United States, criminology, oral history
walenss@wcsu.edu