Assistant Professor
Department of History
St. John Hall, Room 244D
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Tel (718) 990-7471
Fax (718) 990-2644
paks1@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., History, Cornell University, 2004
M.A., History, Cornell University, 1999
B.A. (cum laude), History with concentration in women’s studies,
Dartmouth College, 1994
Courses Taught
- The Gilded Age
- The Progressive Era
- The New Deal
- Asian American History
- Race in American Foreign Relations
- Modern Historical Methods
- U.S. History Survey Post-Civil War
Profile
SUSIE J. PAK specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and
identity politics in the United States during the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. In 2009, she was named a Fellow of the
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and
awarded the Einstein Fellowship. Pak is currently working on a
manuscript titled J.P. Morgan Beyond the Money Trust: A Social
History of An Economic Network, 1895-1940. The text places the
history of America’s most important investment bank in its social
context and challenges the belief that economic actors are
primarily motivated by economic self-interest and that their goals
and outcomes can be measured only in economic terms. Prior to
joining the faculty at St. John’s University in 2005, Pak taught at
Columbia University and the City College of the City University of
New York.