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Dr. Adelman teaches courses on the business and economic history of the Atlantic world. A scholar of early American media, communication, and politics, he is currently completing a book manuscript on the business of printing and the circulation of political news between 1763 and 1789. Dr. Adelman has published essays in Enterprise & Society, Early American Studies, and TheAtlantic.com, and blogs at The Junto. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, and a number of archives and institutions. His essay, “‘A Constitutional Conveyance of Intelligence, Public and Private,’” won the 2011 Rita Lloyd Moroney Junior Prize for Scholarship in Postal History from the U.S. Postal Service.

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Dr. Bihler teaches modern European and U.S. history and secondary history education. She currently supervises FSU’s history education student teachers. Her research looks at refugees from Nazi Germany. Publications include  Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945, reviews in scholarly journals, and a book chapter. She has received research fellowships from the British Council, the DAAD, and the Leo Baeck Institute. She is also writing an article on the use of original archival material in the high school history classroom. Prior to pursuing her doctorate in German-Jewish history, Dr. Bihler was a middle and high school social studies teacher in Connecticut.

Dr. Bollettino teaches early American and Caribbean history as well as courses on the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 and on the history of race, slavery, and abolition in the Atlantic world. She is currently writing a book on the nexus of slavery, race, and imperial warfare in the mid-eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. She has presented her work in several forums, among them Harvard University’s International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World and conferences sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She previously taught Social Studies at a public high school in New Orleans as part of Teach for America, and she remains committed to providing all students with access to an excellent education.

Dr. Halfond teaches ancient and medieval European history. His research examines law and religion in the Later Roman Empire and Early Medieval Europe. His publications include The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768 (2010), The Medieval Way of War: Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach (2015), and many articles and reviews in scholarly journals. He has presented his research at various conferences, including the International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, and the American Historical Association Annual Meeting.

Dr. Huibregtse teaches American and East Asian history classes. His area of expertise is American labor history. His publications include a book entitled, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal (Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2010), several articles and many book reviews. He has presented his research at numerous conferences, including the North American Labor History Conference, the Southwest Labor History Association, and the Northern Great Plains History Conference. He edited the New Journal of History from 2005-2009 and served on the board of directors of the New England History Teachers Association. He was named the 2010 Hicks-Kennedy Award winner for service to that organization. He is currently working on a biography of Massachusetts Senator David Walsh.

Dr. Adelman teaches American history, including classes on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women’s history, and family history. She is currently working on a book manuscript that uses a study of nineteenth-century orphan asylums to uncover family survival strategies of the working poor and study the ways perceptions of children and childhood were contingent on the class, racial, ethnic, and gender identities of the children in question. Dr. Adelman’s publications include an article in The Journal of Women’s History entitled “Empowerment and Submission: The Political Culture of Catholic Women’s Religious Communities in Nineteenth-Century America”, which won the American Society of Church History's Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize for 2012, as well as a chapter in Separate and Unequal: Historical Perspectives on American Education (Lexington Books, 2009). She has received research fellowships from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History, the New-York Historical Society, and the Maryland Historical Society and has presented her work at various academic and policy conferences.

Stefan Papaioannou teaches modern European history, world history, and Middle Eastern history. His specific expertise lies in the history of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, political violence, and ethnic conflict. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the experiences of civilian populations living in the region of Macedonia as the area was contested by Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and in the First World War. The doctoral dissertation on which the manuscript is based, entitled “Balkan Wars between the Lines: Violence and Civilians in Macedonia, 1912-1918,” has been awarded the John O. Iatrides Dissertation Prize for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek subject by the Modern Greek Studies Association (2013), as well as the Richard T. Farrell Prize for the best dissertation in the History Department at the University of Maryland (2012-2013.) Dr. Papaioannou has presented his work on the history of irregular violence, on urban social history, and on Western images of the Balkans at conferences in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Sheridan teaches early modern and modern European history. Her expertise is in gender history, the History of Science, history of sexuality, and early modern France. She has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals, and is currently writing a book, The Worth of Women: The Battle Over Midwifery in Pre-Revolutionary France. She has presented her research at several conferences and seminars, including the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference, and the Harvard Humanities Seminar on Women in the Early Modern World. She is co-advisor to the History Club and co-founder of the Gender Interest Group at Framingham State University.