Mohammad Ataie is a lecturer in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brandeis University in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director
Alice Nash is an Associate Professor of History. Her research interests range from the impact of colonization on family and gender relations in Wabanaki history before 1800 to current issues such as the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Professor Jon Olsen's first book, Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 was published in January 2015 with Berghahn Books.
Associate Professor of History and Public Policy & Director of Faculty Research, Institute for Social Science Research
Elizabeth Sharrow (they/she) is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of History (affiliated faculty in the Department of Political Science) and Director of Faculty Research at the UMass Institute for Social Science Research.
Professor Wolfe received his B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Professor Young’s research and teaching interests are in social movements, revolution, labor, political economy, and imperialism in modern Latin America and the United States.
