Question: The university where Peter Charanis was the Voorhees Professor of History is in what state?
Context: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ( ), commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey. William Breit (1933–2011) American economist, mystery novelist, and professional comedian.  Brit was born in New Orleans.  He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Texas and his Ph.D from Michigan State University in 1961.  He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University (1961-1965) On the recommendation of Milton Friedman he was interviewed and hired at the University of Virginia where he was Associate Professor and Professor of Economics (1965-1983).  He returned to his San Antonio as the E.M. Stevens Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in 1983 and retired as the Vernon F. Taylor Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2002.  He is considered an expert in the history of economic thought and anti-trust economics.  He established the Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Trinity University and is most notable as a mystery novelist (with Kenneth Elzinga) where their murder mysteries are solved by applying basic economic principles. George C. Peden is an emeritus professor of history at Stirling University, Scotland.  He has written about the British Treasury; Keynesian economics; economic aspects of defence and foreign policy; the welfare state, and some recent Scottish economic history.  He was born in Dundee in 1943 and educated at Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry.  He worked for eight years as a sub-editor of the Dundee Evening Telegraph before becoming a mature student at Dundee University, graduating MA with first class honours in modern history in 1972.  He was a postgraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford, and a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and graduated D.Phil from Oxford in 1976, having completed his thesis under the supervision of Professor N.H. Gibbs.  He was a temporary lecturer in history, Leeds University, 1976-7; lecturer in economic and social history, and then reader in economic history, Bristol University, 1977–90; and professor of history, Stirling University, 1990-2008.  He was a British Academy research reader, 1987-9, and visiting fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1988-9, and St Catherine's College, Oxford, 2002.  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  According to the first version of this article, probably written by a student, Peden had a reputation for insisting on high standards of grammar in essays, perhaps reflecting his earlier career as a sub-editor.  He lives in Callander, on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, and divides his time between hillwalking and research and writing. Howard Brett Melendy (May 30, 1924 – April 19, 2008) was a prominent American historian, writer, researcher, publisher, autobiographer, dean, history professor, and filipinologist.  Melendy was a professor and administrator at the San José State University in California and the University of Hawai'i.  As a professor, he taught about the history of California and United States history.  He was the first chairman of the history department of San José State University.  He was a life member of the American Historical Association. Dr Robert Parkes is a writer, scholar and educator.  He currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Theory, History Education, and Media Literacy; and convenes the HERMES History Education Research Group, at the University of Newcastle, Australia.  Robert was Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) in the School of Education, from February 2008 to December 2011, providing leadership in the most wide-ranging and substantial undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum renewal projects within the School of Education for over a decade.  He has worked as a full-time martial arts instructor, shiatsu practitioner, and lecturer in oriental medicine at a natural therapies college in Brisbane; and a History, ESL, Learning and Technology Support Teacher in a suburban High School in Sydney.  During his undergraduate education at the University of Sydney, Robert was named a Dean's List Scholar, received the Newcombe Hodge Essay Prize, and graduated from the University of Sydney with a Class I Honours Degree and the University Medal in Education.  From 2003-2006 he lectured at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst), where he was a founding member of the Subjectivities in Teacher Education (SITE) community of scholars led by Professor Bill Green and Professor Jo-Anne Reid.  He completed doctoral studies on Valentine's Day 2006 under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Gore.  His PhD work drawing upon the historical, philosophical, and literary methods of Poststructural Curriculum Inquiry re-examined the nature of the alleged ‘threat’ to ‘history’ posed by postmodernism, and the implications of postmodern social theory for History as curriculum.  Robert is the author of two books, both with Peter Lang.  In addition to exploring the cultural politics of education, his research work has focused on: Michael Adas (born 4 February 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University.  He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history. Joseph G. Rayback (1914-1983) was a professor of history in the United States.  He served in the United States Navy and earned a Ph.D. in American history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  For many years, he was a professor of history and chair of the department at Pennsylvania State University.  He was faculty advisor to Phi Alpha Theta, the honorary in history and with Donald B. Hoffmann helped to organize the society on a national basis.  He served on the editorial board of the journal, "The Historian", published by Phi Alpha Theta.  Following service at Penn State, Rayback taught American history at the University of Saskatchewan in western Canada.  In 1966, he was appointed professor of history at Temple University.  Among the courses he taught at the undergraduate level at Temple were American social and political history.  At the graduate level he held seminars in Slavery and Antislavery and the Antebellum period. Donald Kuspit (born March 26, 1935) is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts.  Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics.  He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991–1997).  He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association).  In 1983 he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Davidson College, in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2007 from the New York Academy of Art.  In 1997 the National Schools of Art and Design presented him with a citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts.  In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  In 2000 he delivered the Getty Lectures at the University of Southern California.  In 2005 he was the Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow.  In 2008 he received the Tenth Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.  In 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought.  He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among other organizations.  He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt)and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University.  He has also completed the course of study at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center. Ann Sutherland Harris (born 1937) is an art historian specializing in Baroque art, Modern art, and in the history of women's art.  She is and educator, having held her first position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York (1971–1973).  Harris was then hired as Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Albany.  Following that she held the Arthur Kittridge Watson Chair for Academic Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977–1981.  Harris received a Senior Research Fellowship in 1981-82 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in 1982, was named the Amon Carter Distinguished visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington before accepting the position of Mellon Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh.  She is now Professor emerita of Italian Baroque art at that institution. Peter Charanis (1908 – 23 March 1985), born Panagiotis Charanis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Χαρανής ), was a Greece-born American scholar of Byzantium and the Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University.  Dr. Charanis was long associated with the Dumbarton Oaks research library.
Answer: New Jersey