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Dr. Adelman teaches courses on the business and economic history of the Atlantic world. His first book, Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize from the Bibliographical Society of America. Dr. Adelman has published essays in Enterprise & Society, Early American Studies, the Washington Post, 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. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

Dr. Richard B. Allen is an internationally-known scholar and teacher who works on the social and economic history of Mauritius, slavery and indentured labor in the colonial plantation world, and slavery, slave trading, and abolition in the Indian Ocean and Asia. He is the recipient of two Fulbright research awards and prestigious research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include two monographs (Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius [Cambridge University Press, 1999], European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 [Ohio University Press, 2014]), an edited collection (Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900 [Brill, forthcoming]), more than 55 articles, essays, and chapters in academic journals, books, encyclopedias, and research bibliographies published in Australia, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, India, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United States, and more than 35 review essays and book reviews in prominent academic journals including African Studies Review, American Historical Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Historian, Journal of African History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Slavery and Abolition. He currently serves on the editorial boards of French Colonial History and the Journal of Global Slavery. He is preparing a book-length manuscript on free(d) men and women of color in Mauritius and the colonial plantation world during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and has been commissioned by Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in London to write a book-length manuscript on Global Slaveries: A History since 1500. He has presented papers to conferences in Australia, Belgium, Britain, France, Ghana, Italy, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Suriname, Sweden, Trinidad, and Zanzibar as well as major universities in the United States. Recent honors include invitations to present keynote addresses to an international conference on women and humanitarianism at Örebro University in Sweden in October 2021 and the Svenska Historikermötet [Swedish Historians Conference] at Linnaeus University in May 2019, and to deliver the inaugural Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture at the University of Bonn’s Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies in October 2019. He co-authored the successful applications to designate the Aapravasi Ghat and the Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius as UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS), the successful application to inscribe the indentured immigration records of Mauritius on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register (MWR), and the application to inscribe the slavery records of Mauritius on the MWR, and continues to serve as research consultant to the Aapravasi Ghat WHS. Between 2009-11, he was special consultant to the Truth and Justice Commission of Mauritius which investigated the legacy of slavery and indentured labor in the country. He co-organized the international conference on “Slavery and Forced Labor in Asia, c. 1250-c. 1900: Continuities and Transformation in Comparative Perspective” at Leiden University in The Netherlands in June 2017. He is editor of Ohio University Press’s Indian Ocean Studies series, and evaluates major research grant proposals for the Social Science Research Council of Canada and the American Council of Learned Societies. In addition to offering courses in African, Indian, Middle Eastern, and world history, he has advised graduate students at Harvard University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Virginia, the University of Kent, the University of Sheffield, the University of Mauritius, the Université de Paris – Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Dr. Bihler teaches modern U.S. and European history, as well as secondary history education. Her historical research focuses on refugees from Nazi Germany and she is the author of Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945  (SUNY Press, 2018). She has received research fellowships from the British Council, the DAAD, and the Leo Baeck Institute and is currently writing a book on history education. Prior to pursing 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 religion and law in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. 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 Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul (2019).

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 edited the New Journal of History from 2005-2009 and served on the board of directors of the New England History Teachers Association. He is currently serving as Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, Scholarship and Service at FSU. He is also working on a biography of Massachusetts Senator David Walsh.

Dr. Mulhall 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. Mulhall 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.