NAME:
Mr. Michael G. Panzer : Teacher-in-Charge Social Studies Department
SCHOOL:
Roy C. Ketcham High School
CLASS:
AP World History I & II, Global History 10 Honors,African Studies,Latin American Studies
SCHOOL PHONE:
(845)298-5100 x148
Here is a brief Bio:
Graduated from SUNY Cortland - 1998 - B.A.in History/Secondary Social Studies
Graduated from Iona College - 2002 - M.A. in History - Honors
Enrolled at the University at Albany - Ph.D. in History (in progress)
Languages:
I can speak Portuguese. - Posso falar de Portugues
Favorite Countries (Other than the U.S.)
Mozambique, Angola, Ireland, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Islands, São Tomé and
Príncipe, France, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa
Favorite Non-Fiction Books - Africa:
1. To Dwell Secure - Meredith McKittrick
2. Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves - Walter Hawthorne
3. Slavery and Beyond - Allen Isaacman
4. Expectations of Modernity - James Ferguson
5. Threads of Solidarity - Iris Berger
6. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
7. African Workers and Colonial Racism - Jeanne Penvenne
8. States and Power in Africa - Jeffrey Herbst
9. Africa Since 1940 - Frederick Cooper
10. Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid - Belinda Bozzoli
Favorite Non-Fiction Books - Latin America:
1. The Tribute of Blood - Peter M. Beattie
2. Culture Wars in Brazil:The First Vargas Regime,1930-1945 - Daryle Williams
3. To Be a Slave in Brazil - Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso
4. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States,
1944-1954 - Piero Gleijeses
5. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 - Ada Ferrer
6. The CIA in Guatemala - Richard Immerman
7. Thread of Blood - Ana Maria Alonso
8. Plaza of Sacrifices - Elaine Carey
9. Conflicting Missions - Peiro Gleijeses
10. The Black Jacobins - C.L.R. James
Favorite Non-Fiction Books - Theory, Ideas, Philosophy
1. Power/Knowledge - Michel Foucault
2. Prison Notebooks - Antonio Gramsci
3. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History - Frederick Cooper
4. One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
5. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Favorite Fiction Books: "Black" Satire and Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
4. Dune - Frank Herbert
5. Any Book by Chuck Palahniuk
Favorite Movies:
1. Gandhi
2. Hotel Rwanda
3. The Matrix
4. I Heart Huckabees
5. The Usual Suspects
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Godfather, Part II
8. Tsotsi
9. The Departed
10. A Very Long Engagement
Favorite Hobbies:
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Playing the Guitar
4. Traveling
5. Research
To learn and have fun at the same time.
We are always focused on our mission: learn, read, have fun.
