Faculty Profiles
Michael G. Baylor
Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor Baylor is a historian of early modern Europe and specializes in the social and cultural history of Germany at the time of the Reformation. He has written a monograph, Action and Person, on conscience in the thought of the late scholastics and the young Luther. More recently he has edited The Radical Reformation, a collection of political texts written at the time of the German Peasants' War, and Revelation and Revolution: Basic Writings of Thomas Müntzer. He is currently investigating the relationship of religion and popular rebellion in the period 1400-1650.
Email: mgb2@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3359
Kimberley Carrell-Smith
Professor of Practice
Ph.D. Delaware
Professor Carrell-Smith’s interests include the social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, women’s history, material culture and community history. She has experienced public history through museum work at the Hagley Museum and Library, the Winterthur Museum and Gardens, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. She has also served as a consultant on some local Lehigh Valley museum projects. She is currently working with Touchstone Theater Company in Bethlehem on a multimedia production, "The Southside Experience," that explores the lives of residents of South Bethlehem from the twenties through today.
Email: kwc2@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3361
Gail Cooper
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Cooper is interested in the history of technology, both in the United States and Japan. She is author of Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900 to 1960. An interest in women’s history has led her to study women workers in various industries including confectionery and aircraft production. Currently she is researching a book on manufacturers’ concern with quality in both the defense and consumer industries in the United States and Japan.
Email: gc05@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.4703
Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Professor of History & Science, Technology and Society & Chair
Ph.D. Lehigh University
Professor Cutcliffe is Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program and specializes in both the history of technology and contemporary technology-society relationships. He has published numerous essays and co-authored seven books including In Context: History and the History of Technology--Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg; Technology and American History; and Ideas, Machines, and Values: An Introduction to Science, Technology and Society Studies. Since 1979 he has edited the Science, Technology, and Society Curriculum Development Newsletter.
Email: shc0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3349
Ian P.H. Duffy
Professor of History
D. Phil. Oxford University
Professor Duffy is interested in the economic and legal history of nineteenth-century Britain. His publications have dealt with financial policy, economic crises, and the development of the laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency. He is currently studying imprisonment for debt during Victoria's reign.
Email: ipd0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3362
Steven L. Goldman
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Ph.D. Boston University
With a joint appointment in the Departments of Philosophy and History, Professor Goldman teaches courses in the history and philosophy of science and technology and in technology and society. His research interests are in the social and historical relations of science and technology. He is currently working on projects in the philosophy of engineering and in the Renaissance roots of modern science.
Email: slg2@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3773
Michelle LeMaster
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. the Johns Hopkins University
Professor LeMaster is a historian of colonial British America and specializes in Native-white relations in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century Southeast. Her current project investigates the role of ideas about gender in Indian-British contact in South Carolina and Georgia before the Revolution.
Email: mil206@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3358
Monica Najar
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor Najar is a historian of the American revolutionary and Early National eras. She specializes in the histories of gender, religion, and the South. Her book, Evangelizing the South: a Social History of Church and State in Early America, focuses on the transformation of the South to an evangelical society and the effects of that shift on political and social relations.
Email: mon2@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.4424
John Pettegrew
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor Pettegrew is a historian of late 19th and 20th-century America, with a special interest in intellectual and cultural history, gender studies, legal-constitutional history, and historical theory. He is co-editor of a three- volume work, Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, editor of A Pragmatist’s Progress: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History. His book, Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920, continues his interest in gender.
Email: jcp5@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3355
C. Robert Phillips, III
Professor of Classics and Ancient History
Ph.D. Brown University
Professor Phillips, trained in both ancient history and literature, specializes in the history of the Roman Empire, Greco-Roman religion, and the history of classical scholarship. He has strong interests in the sociology of knowledge and literature. Widely published on Roman religion, early Christianity, and magic, he is finishing a book on Roman religion for Johns Hopkins University Press, and starting a commentary on the Roman religion passages of Festus for Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press).
Email: crp0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3357
James S. Saeger
Professor of History
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Professor Saeger is a Latin American historian and currently an ethnohistorian who studies native peoples in South America. He is the author of scholarly articles on rebellion, Latin America conflicts between church and state, and life in Catholic missions, and author of The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience. His latest book is Francisco Solano Lopez and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism.
Email: jss0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3366
John Savage
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. New York University
Professor Savage is a historian of Modern Europe who is especially interested in the way legal systems shape political culture and social relations. He is currently working on a study of the impact of the Napoleonic Code on slavery in the French Caribbean as part of a broader cultural history of the 19th century Civil law.
Email: savage@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3363
William R. Scott
Professor of History
Ph.D. Princeton University
Professor Scott is the director of the Africana Studies Program and specializes in African-American history. His main interests are Black American thought and African-U.S. interactions. He is the author of Sons of Sheba’s Race: African-Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War and co-editor of Upon These Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience. He is also a member of the national council of the Institute for International Education's South African Education Program.
Email: wrs4@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.6335
Roger D. Simon
Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor Simon is an urban and social historian, focusing on the impact of industrialization and the urbanization process. He is particularly interested in organized labor and in Philadelphia and New York. He is the author of a monograph on ethnicity and neighborhood-formation in Milwaukee, The City-Building Process, and co-author of a study of the urban adjustment of Italians, Poles, and African-Americans in Pittsburgh, Lives of Their Own. His most recent book is Philadelphia: a Brief History.
Email: rds2@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3368
John Kenly Smith, Jr.
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Professor Smith, trained both as an engineer and a historian, specializes in the history of technology and business history. His research interests focus on the history of industrial research and development and the chemical industry. He is co-author of Science and Corporate Strategy: DuPont R&D, 1902-1980, and he has published articles in Technology and Culture, and Science.
Email: jks0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.3365
Jean R. Soderlund
Deputy Provost/Professor of History
Ph.D. Temple University
Professor Soderlund is a historian of 17th and 18th century British America, with special interest in questions of ethnicity, gender, religion, and class. She has authored Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit, co-authored Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath, and published articles on women in colonial British America. She is currently writing a history of the Lenape Indians within colonial Mid-Atlantic society.
Email: jrsa@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.5915
Sandra Aguilar Rodríguez
Research Fellow
Ph.D. (c) University of Manchester
M.Phil. University of Oxford, St Antony's College
Professor Aguilar is a research fellow in the Latin American Studies Program and the History Department. Her academic interests concentrate on modernity, class, and gender in Latin America, particularly Mexico. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes modernity and women's daily life in twentieth-century Mexico from the perspective of food and nutritional welfare programs. She has published articles in The Americas and Revista de Estudios Sociales.
Email: saa408@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.758.6065
Faculty Emeritus
Joseph Dowling
Email: joe_sr_dowling@yahoo.com
William Shade
Email: wgs0@lehigh.edu
Phone: 610.866.6189