Lois Moore

Secretary

Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh, PhD

Department Chairperson, Professor of History and Women's Studies

Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh is a Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. She regularly teaches Introduction to Women’s Studies, Introduction to the Liberal Arts, and Women in Society I, II, and III.

Research director for eight documentary films, she has also written about such topics as municipal recreation, public parks, women’s activism, and race relations. Her current projects include a include a guide to Cincinnati’s rich history of nonconformists -- among them anarchists, abolitionists, free lovers and pacifists -- who made Cincinnati home over the past 200 years.

Professor Kornbluh earned her doctorate in American History at the University of Cincinnati, as well as a master’s degree, and a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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John E. Douglass, PhD

Associate Professor of History

John E. Douglass, Ph. D., Associate Professor of American History. His primary area of study is seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British North America. Dr. Douglass’ field of research is early American Legal history. He is currently engaged in a project that has as its goal the production of a compendium of the Federalist Papers.

Timothy Forest, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Timothy S. Forest is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He currently teaches the World History and Modern European survey sequence courses.

Dr. Forest earned his MA and his PhD from the University of Texas – Austin, specializing in modern Britain and Empire with minor concentrations in French and Latin American history and the history of mass media. He earned his undergraduate degree in history and political science from McGill University, where he specialized in the history and the processes behind deepening European integration.

Dr. Forest is interested in issues of race and identity in the British and French Empires, particularly regarding intra-imperial migration schemes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His dissertation, entitled Kith but NOT Kin: Highland Scots and Empire Settlement in Canada and Australia, 1919-1928, looks at doomed British attempts to export poor Scots presently in a state of open rebellion to the Pacific Rim, and how the experiences of the migrants reflect the broader insecurities the Empire faced in the interwar period.  Chapters of his dissertation have or will soon appear in peer-edited journals, notably the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Dr. Forest has also published several book reviews, and presented papers at various conferences, including various regional conferences on British, Australian, and Latin American history.

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Robert Gioielli, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Robert Gioielli currently teaches courses in American, environmental and urban history. He is a historian of modern America, with specific interests in cities, the environment, politics and social movements. His manuscript "Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis" will be published by Temple University Press in the Urban Life and Landscape series. He has also been published in the Journal of Urban History and the Radical History Review. He received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. In 2010-11, he was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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Margo Lambert, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Margo Lambert earned her PhD from Georgetown University, with a major emphasis Early American history, and minor emphases on early modern Europe and Atlantic World history. Her interests include German settlement of early America, Native American history, and the history of slavery in the Atlantic world. Her current project, A Pastorius Reader, collecting the writings of one of the first German-speaking immigrants to early America, will be published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2012.

Joseph McClusky, PhD

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Joseph McClusky is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He teaches courses in moral philosophy, the philosophy of gender, epistemology and metaphysics.

His current research is in moral epistemology and critical reasoning. He has taught at UCBA since 1987 and has served a number of times on the college’s Executive Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and RPT Committee.

Professor McClusky earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Miami in 1986.

John T. McNay, PhD

Professor of History

John T. McNay is a Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He teaches courses on the Cold War, World War II, Vietnam, the History of U.S. Foreign Relations, and World History. 

A Cold War specialist, Dr. McNay’s first book, Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy (Missouri, 2001) was a critical view of Truman’s Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson’s foreign policy approach to the former colonial world. More recently, he has published The Memoirs of Henry F. Grady: From the Great War to the Cold War (Missouri, 2009), a work he edited and for which he wrote an introduction. Among other scholarly contributions are an essay about Montana journalism, a co-authored essay about the Vietnam expert Bernard Fall, and numerous book reviews in professional journals.

Dr. McNay’s current work focuses on explaining the Cold War impact and context on the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Among other projects, Dr. McNay is also editing the memoirs of George V. Allen, who served in important Cold War trouble spots of Iran and Yugoslavia in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. 

A Montana native, Dr. McNay received his B.A. in Journalism at the University of Montana and worked at newspapers in Montana and Idaho for ten years. Returning to the University of Montana for graduate school, he earned a M.A. in History. After two-years in the University of Hawaii’s doctoral program, Dr. McNay transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia where he finished his PhD in 1997.

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Matthew Norman, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Dr. Norman began his academic career as a History major at Knox College. As a specialist in nineteenth-century United States history, he received his MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Norman's research focuses on the American Civil War Era, with a particular emphasis on race, the anti-slavery movement, the politics of historical memory, and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. He is currently writing a book on Lincoln and the issue of race and co-editing an anthology of African-American speeches and writings on Lincoln. His works include published articles and reviews on Lincoln, the Civil War and local history. He has also worked extensively with the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress and was involved in a project that made the papers available online.

Ionas Rus, PhD

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Ionas A. Rus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He currently teaches American Government I, II and III, Comparative Politics, International Relations and American Foreign Policy (American Issues and Problems I).

He has articles in five peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and has presented seven papers at conferences such as the Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention on Romania, Moldova, Italy, Austria, Ukraine, nation-building and nationalism, fascism, civic culture and elections. His most recent publications include the book The Electoral Patterns of the Romanian Far Right during the Interwar Years (1919-1937)(Saarbrucken, 2009) and the articles “The Rise of Moldovan-Romanian Nationalism in Bessarabia (1900-1917)”, in Interstitio. East European Review of Historical Anthropology, December 2008, vol. 1, no. 2; "The Roots and Early Development of Moldovan-Romanian Nationalism in Bessarabia (1900-1917)", in Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations, June 2009, vol. 6, no. 2, and “The Dynamics of Civic Culture in Ex-Habsburg Italy and Elsewhere: Testing Putnam’s Theoretical Model”, the keynote article in Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations, vol. 8, no. 1.

Dr. Rus earned a Ph.D. in Political Science with primary specializations in Comparative Politics and International Relations in 2008, and an M.A. in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Russian, Central and East European Studies in 2002, as well as a B.A. in History and Political Science, with a minor in Economics, in 1995 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. He also obtained an M.A. in Modern European History from Columbia University, New York City, NY, in 1997.

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Krista Sigler, PhD

Assistant Professor of History

Krista Sigler is an Assistant Professor of History. She currently teaches the World History survey sequence and is developing courses in European and Russian history.

Dr. Sigler earned her PhD and MA from the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Modern European History, with minor fields in Early Modern Europe and Victorian Literature. She earned her undergraduate degree from Xavier University (Cincinnati), triple-majoring in Honors (a degree comparable to Classics), History, and English.

Dr. Sigler’s research interests are focused on cultural history in the late imperial Russian era. Her dissertation, “Kshesinskaia’s Mansion: High Culture and the Politics of Modernity in Revolutionary Russia,” used a house in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a stage to understand the meanings of modernity in the years surrounding the 1917 Revolution. She has published a number of articles and book reviews, and has presented at conferences including the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

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Elise Goodman, PhD

Professor of Art History

Elise Goodman has taught art history at UC Blue Ash from 1979 to 2011. She is the author of books on Rubens (1992), Madame de Pompadour (2000), Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture (2001), and Portraits of Cultivated Women in Seventeenth-Century France (2008). Further, she has published eighteen articles in highly regarded journals in Europe and the United States and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (three), the American Philosophical Society, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (two), She is also the General Editor of the volumes, Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, University of Delaware Press, and a member of the editorial boards of Mediterranean Studies and Cahiers du dix-septieme: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Ellis Anderson, PhD

Adjunct Instructor of Musical Arts

Ellis Anderson teaches music history courses for UC Blue Ash. A graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music, Dr. Anderson’s research interests include 18th and 19th century composition and reception. Dr. Anderson is an active scholar in the field, presenting papers such as “The Earliest Biographies of Haydn and Their Lasting Impact on His Reception,” at the joint meeting of the Society for Eighteenth Century Music and the Haydn Society of North America.

Kathleen Bayes, PhD

Adjunct Instructor of History

Kathleen Bayes currently teaches sections of American History Survey at UC Blue Ash, including American History from 1820 to 1920 and American History from 1920 to the present. As well, she is teaching History 300 Introduction to Historical Thinking at UC’s Clifton campus. Dr. Bayes has also taught African American History in the nineteenth century and the History of American Women from the 17th century to the present at UC Clifton, Northern Kentucky University and Miami University Hamilton.

Dr. Bayes has a Master's degree in Women's Studies as well as a doctorate in American History from the University of Cincinnati focusing on the comparative history of women in the United States, Great Britain and India in the nineteenth century.

She is currently working on publication of her dissertation "Making Marriage Modern in Kentucky, 1840 to 1900."

Cherifa Belhabib, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Cherifa Belhabib teaches the American History survey sequence for UC Blue Ash. After graduating with degrees from the University of Algiers, Algeria, and Northern Kentucky University, Dr. Belhabib received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her doctoral work focused on the history of the United Nations Trusteeship System 1945-1961, showing the roots of the Trusteeship under the League of Nations and the Trusteeship’s role in ending colonialism.

Tara Maddock, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geography

Tara Maddock teaches World Regional Geography courses for UC Blue Ash. She received her PhD from the Ohio State University and her Master’s from the University of Georgia. Her work has been published, including her chapter in Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management (edited by Randall J.F. Bruins, Matthew T. Heberling).

Dr. Maddock has worked for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, is a member of the Hamilton County Environmental Action Commission and has been Executive Director of the Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities, which helps the 450,000 residents living nearby the Creek to protect its resources.

Tom Minter, MA

Adjunct Associate Professor in History and Political Science, Intake Services Director

Tom Minter teaches the American History survey at UC Blue Ash and for Arts and Sciences at the Clifton campus. He has also taught the United States 20th Century History, the Civil War, and the European History survey. In addition, he teaches the American Issues and Problems sequence, which was created in Clifton by Dr. Ernest G. Muntz, later UC Blue Ash’ longest-serving dean.

Mr. Minter’s research interests include the 19th and 20th century United States, focusing on social and political history.

Mr. Minter has a BA, BS, and MA from the University of Cincinnati.

Brad Nestheide, MA

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science

Brad Nestheide teaches the American Government sequence for UC Blue Ash. Mr. Nestheide received his Master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati. During the course of his studies there, he received academic fellowships, including a grant from the Charles Phelps Taft foundation for humanities research.

Judith Spraul-Schmidt, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of History

Judith Spraul-Schmidt teaches courses in American history at UC Blue Ash.

Her research focuses on urban history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Spraul-Schmidt’s current co-authored book project focuses on Henry M. Flagler and the Urbanization of Florida, 1880-1920. She holds the Urban Historian position on the City of Cincinnati’s Historic Conservation Board, and is a member of the History Advisory Board of the Cincinnati Museum Center, which includes the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.

Dr. Spraul-Schmidt earned her BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Cincinnati.

Lauren Cordes Tate

Annual Adjunct Instructor of Art History

Julie Turner

Adjunct Assistant Professor of History