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Associate Professor and Department Chair
azampognakrug@brookdalecc.edu
Areas of Interest/Specialization:
Immigration and Ethnicity, World History, Italy, American History
Professor
jlevine@brookdalecc.edu
Professor Le Vine is a full professor at Brookdale with a long teaching career here. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. from The University of California, Santa Barbara.
He is very involved in campus activities, including Governance, a multitude of committees and is an advisor to the History and Political Science Club. The Jacob W. Needle Annual Lecture in History is organized by him. He has been actively involved with the Monmouth County Historical Association and the N.J. Vietnam Memorial.
Professor Le Vine has taken students on study abroad courses to Mexico (Maya), Italy (Etruscans, Romans, Renaissance, Sicily) and Cuba. He teaches all courses in American Civilization, The American Revolution, Recent America, World Civilization including Honors, Vietnam, New Jersey History and the History of Rock and Roll.
Instructor
eeittreim@brookdalecc.edu
Professor Eittreim teaches US (HIST 136) and World History (HIST 105) at Brookdale. Prior to joining Brookdale’s History department, she taught US and Women’s and Gender history courses at Rutgers University-Newark as well as Women’s Studies at Georgian Court University. Professor Eittreim completed her doctorate in history at Rutgers-New Brunswick in 2015 and turned her dissertation into her first book, Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879-1918, published with the University Press of Kansas in 2019. She holds a Masters in Human Rights from Columbia University (2007), a Masters of Teaching from Quinnipiac University (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Virginia (2000). Earlier in her career, she taught middle school in Connecticut, Washington, DC, and New Jersey.
Professor
lhartzell@brookdalecc.edu
Areas of Interest/Specialization:
Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American History, 1920’s
Professor
greklaitis@brookdalecc.edu
Dr. George Reklaitis started as a full-time professor at Brookdale in 2004. He developed a passion for history at an early age, learning from his grandparents about their families’ hardships in Lithuania during the Soviet and Nazi occupations during World War II, and their eventual arrival in the United States at the end of the conflict. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in history from Purdue University, a Master’s degree at Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University.
He specializes in the history of World War II, the history of the Cold War, and the history of Eastern Europe and Russia. He also teaches World and American Civilizations survey courses. His publications include Communities of Hate: Antagonistic Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Markus Weiner Press) and Cold War Lithuania: National Armed Resistance and Soviet Counterinsurgency (Carl Beck Papers).
Professor
jscimeca@brookdalecc.edu
Jane Scimeca is a distinguished Professor of History at Brookdale Community College, where she specializes in teaching World History and Women’s History. She has earned a Master of Arts degree in History and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Rutgers University. Professor Scimeca is also the host of New Books in Women’s History, a podcast on the New Books Network where she discusses new scholarship in women’s history with writers and historians. Professor Scimeca is currently working on a biography of Geraldine L. Thompson titled, Mrs. Thompson Saves the Day: The Life of Geraldine L. Thompson.
Because she epitomizes the quality of excellence in education, Professor Scimeca was awarded the 2023 Barringer Award.
Professor
dbassano@brookdalecc.edu
David Bassano holds a PhD from SUNY Albany in International, Global, and Comparative History, specializing in the history of human rights. His related specializations include Latin American History and Imperialism. His first academic title, Fight and Flight: The Central America Human Rights Movement in the United States in the 1980s, is based on his doctoral dissertation. In 2023, he published World History Since 1945, a fifteen-chapter college undergraduate OER textbook on global history from 1945 to the present.
Some Brookdale History classes are taught by part-time adjunct faculty. These highly-qualified and experienced instructors come from a variety of educational backgrounds from New Jersey and far beyond.
