President
| Stephen Molvarec, SJ | stephen.molvarec@bc.edu |  |
| Stephen Molvarec, S.J. is an Assistant Professor of Church History at Boston College’s School of Theology & Ministry. His research focuses on the social and institutional history of medieval orders of hermits, particularly the Carthusians. He also has interest in the history of sacramental theory in the late medieval and early modern period. | ||
Vice President
| Diana Moore | dmoore@jjay.cuny.edul |  |
| Diana Moore is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Her first book, Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Victorian Feminism, 1850-1890 (Palgrave, 2021), examines how a group of transnational women repurposed more traditionally feminine, religious, and conservative language and practices to achieve revolutionary nationalist and feminist ends. She has also published articles in various journals, including Women’s Writing, the European History Quarterly, the Catholic Historical Review, and Modern Italy. Her new book project analyzes the intersections of women’s emancipation and anticlericalism in the newly-founded Italian state and she is also a coeditor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Italian History. | ||
Immediate Past President
| Tanya Blakeley-Clark | tblakeleyclark@buffaloschools.org |  |
| Tanya Blakeley-Clark is a secondary social studies and special education teacher in Buffalo, New York. She is a former NYSAEH Blaszak Prize winner whose research focuses on both the intersections of sex, literature, and the law in early modern England and historical empathy as a pedagogical tool in the secondary classroom. | ||
Secretary
| Julie Gibert | gibert@canisius.edu |  |
| Julie Gibert is Associate Professor of History at Canisius University. Her research focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century British social history; she has published and presented papers on a variety of topics including women’s education, the changing role of domestic service in British home life, and the depiction of British society in film and television. | ||
Treasurer
| Lyn Blanchfield | lyn.blanchfield@oswego.edu |  |
| Lyn Blanchfield is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Oswego. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern women and gender issues, particularly the history of emotions. | ||
Bailey Prize Director
| Brian Newsome | brian.newsome@gcsu.edu |  |
| Brian Newsome is Professor of History and Dean of the John E. Sallstrom Honors College at Georgia College. He is the author of French Urban Planning, 1940-1968: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Authoritarian System (2009) and has translated Maxence van der Meersch’s war novel, Invasion 14. | ||
Communications and Outreach Director
| Tyson A. Luneau | Tyson.luneau@cortland.edu |  |
| Tyson Luneau is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Cortland, teaching courses in history and social studies teacher education. A scholar of modern France and North Africa, he examines the intersections among colonialism, environment, urbanism, and technology. His work analyzes how environmental knowledge and spatial perceptions influenced large-scale attempts to remake built and natural environments in the Maghreb. He also serves as the Deputy Editor of Environment and History, a journal published by The White Horse Press. | ||
Executive Board Members
| Jeffrey W. Baron | jbaron4@ur.rochester.edu |  |
| Jeffrey W. Baron is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Rochester. His dissertation explores the legal traditions and licensing policies governing the excavation of buried treasure in the medieval and early modern Hispanic world. He maintains a digital map and database of premodern excavation records (baron.digitalscholar.rochester.edu) and his article “Graverobbing as Philanthropy: How Tombs Became Taxable Treasure in Colonial Latin America” was recently published in Renaissance Quarterly. | ||
| Jeffrey Glodzik | glodzikj@dyc.edu |  |
| Jeffrey Glodzik is Associate Professor of History at D’Youville University in Buffalo, NY. He previously served as the President of the NYSAEH in 2016-17. His research engages with neo-Latin literature and the intellectual history of Renaissance-era Italy. | ||
| Jennifer Sovde | sovdej@canton.edul |  |
| Jennifer Sovde is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Canton. She is a social and cultural historian of Modern Europe with a research focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century France. She earned a Ph.D. in Modern European history from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and joined the faculty of SUNY Canton Fall 2015. | ||
| Andrew Tompkins | atompkins@drew.edu |  |
| Andrew Tompkins is an independent scholar who received his Ph.D. in history and culture from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. His current research focuses on modern European and American naval power, while the greater part of his previous scholarship examined the implications of technocratic political policymaking in twentieth-century France. He has written and presented on an array of topics, including utopian political philosophy and fin de siècle French industrial management practices. | ||
