Tim Konhaus, Ph.D.
Dean
timothy.konhaus@sunysccc.edu
518-381-1393
Elston Hall, Room 309
Ph.D., West Virginia University
M.A., B.A., Slippery Rock University
A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Konhaus arrived at SUNY Schenectady with nearly a quarter of a century of experience in higher education. In that time, he has worn many hats and worked at many schools both two year and four year. Before coming to SUNY Schenectady, he was a faculty member at Glenville State University in West Virginia where he taught courses in History, Appalachian, and Hip-Hop Studies. Tim was previously on faculty at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, and Pennsylvania Highlands Community College in Pennsylvania, where he also served as a dual enrollment coordinator. He also served as Coordinator of Dual Enrollment and Early College Programs for Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Dr. Konhaus holds Bachelor (Geography) and Master of Arts (History) degrees from Slippery Rock University, and earned his Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University. His teaching and research interests are in 19th Century U.S. History, Black History, Appalachian Studies, and Hip-Hop Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies.
Professional Activities
Recent Papers, Panels, and Presentations
2024
“Uncovered Partridges: A Black Community in Flight from Bondage, 1818 – 1860,” 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference; Western Carolina University, Cullowee, NC.
2022
“Critical Race Theory: Red-Herrings vs. Realities,” Panel Moderator, 16th Annual Hip-Hop Conference, California University of Pennsylvania.
2017
“Race and Appalachia,” Invited Speaker, Appalachian Workgroup of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
2015
“Yeah, Black Lives Really Do Matter: Becoming a More Inclusive Church,” Keynote Speaker, Upper Susquehanna Lutheran Synod.
“White Privilege/White Church: Understanding the history of White Privilege and the Lutheran Church,” Keynote Speaker, Allegheny Lutheran Synod.
“‘You Simply Cannot Convict White People of Crimes of this Sort’: Lynching and the Law, a Historical Retrospective,” Invited Speaker, California University of Pennsylvania.
2014
“Pandenarium, the Long Road to Freedom: A Black Refugee Community in Northwest Pennsylvania, 1854 – 1870,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference; Philadelphia, PA.
2013
“Religion and Global Hip-Hop,” Panelist, 8th Annual Hip-Hop Conference, California University of Pennsylvania.
2010
“A Violent Mountain Past: Racial and Political Violence in Early 20th Century Appalachia,” Panelist, 33rd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference; North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, GA.
Selected Publications
2024
“Lynching in West Virginia,” in A Terrible Legacy: Encyclopedia of Lynching in America, ABC-CLIO, Michael Pfeifer, ed. Forthcoming in September 2024.
Review of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns (West Virginia University Press, 2021) in the Journal of Appalachian Studies, Spring 2024, Volume 30, Issue 1.
2021
“Blacks and West Virginia Statehood, (1863 – 1864),” West Virginia Humanities Council, 160th Anniversary of Statehood Exhibition: Born of Rebellion.
2007
"‘I Thought Things Would Be Different There’: Lynching and the Black Community in Southern West Virginia, 1894 – 1933,” in West Virginia History, Volume 1, No. 2 Fall 2007.
“Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842),” in The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Trans-Atlantic World, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2007).
“The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793,” in The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Trans-Atlantic World, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2007).
2005
“Martin R. Delany” in The World of Frederick Douglass, 1818 – 1895, Volume II in the African American History Reference Series, Paul Finkelman and Diane Barnes, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).