Faculty by Field Specialty
Chairperson: Bruce Cumings
Africa | Ancient | Britain | Byzantine | Caribbean-Atlantic | East Asia
Early Modern Europe | Gender | International | Islam/Middle East
Latin America | Legal | Medieval Europe
Modern Europe | Modern Jewish | Russia
Science & Medicine | South Asia |
United States
Please note: Direct all non-specific inquiries about applications, admissions, program requirements, and courses to the Department staff.
African History
JEAN COMAROFF (Associate Faculty)
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of London, 1974
FIELDS:
History
of ideology; missionization and popular resistance in South Africa.
RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE
Assistant Professor of African History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: Central Africa; history of women, sexuality, and gender; urban history; customary and modern law; post-colonial social and
cultural history.
EMILY LYNN OSBORN
Assistant Professor of African History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000
FIELDS:
African History; Francophone Africa; Gender in Africa; Colonialism; Technology Transfer and Diffusion.
Ancient History
CLIFFORD ANDO (Associate Faculty)
Professor of Classics and the College
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996
FIELDS:
Roman imperial history; Law, administration and cultural change in the Roman empire; Religion and intellectual life in late antiquity; Religion in the Roman empire.
JONATHAN HALL
Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities;
Professor of Ancient Greek History and the College; Professor and Chair of Classics
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993
FIELDS:
Greek social and cultural History, especially ancient
Greek ethnicities; history and material culture; historical linguistics.
CAMERON HAWKINS
Assistant Professor of Ancient History and the College
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 2006
FIELDS:
Economic and social history of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire; war and society in ancient Greece and Rome.
British History
FREDRIK ALBRITTON JONSSON
Assistant Professor of British History and the College
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2005
FIELDS: British history; the British Empire; the Enlightenment; science and environmental history; political economy.
EDWARD COOK
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D. Johns
Hopkins
University, 1972
FIELDS: Colonial and Revolutionary America; Social History;
Eighteenth-Century Britain.
ADRIAN JOHNS
Professor of History of Science and the College; Professor and Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1992
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: History of early modern science and the history of the book.
ALISON WINTER
Associate Professor of History of Science
and the College
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
History of medicine and the history of human sciences
after 1750; nineteenth-century science; British history.
Byzantine History
WALTER KAEGI
Professor of Byzantine History
and the College; Voting member,
Oriental Institute
Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1965
FIELDS:
Byzantine
and Late Roman Political, Social, Military and Religious Structure;
Historiography; European Military History and Strategy;
Byzantino-Islamic History.
Caribbean-Atlantic History
LEORA AUSLANDER
Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D.
Brown
University, 1988
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
19th and 20th century European Social History with a focus on France
and Germany; Material Culture and Consumption; Gender History and
Theory; Jewish History; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe.
DAIN BORGES
Associate Professor of Latin American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Stanford
University, 1986
FIELDS:
Modern Brazilian history including social science,
literature, popular religion and state-formation.
PAUL CHENEY
Assistant Professor of French History and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia University,
2002
FIELDS:
The Enlightenment;
French Revolution; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought;
and the Origins of Capitalism in World-Systems Perspective.
THOMAS C. HOLT
James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale
University, 1973
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
African American,
Southern, and British Caribbean History.
EMILIO KOURÍ
Associate Professor of Latin American
History and the College
Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1996
FIELDS:
Rural Mexico since 1750, including social
relations and movements; agrarian, agricultural, business and legal
history, and the "Indian question"; the Spanish Caribbean; U.S. Latino
history.
JULIE SAVILLE
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1986
FIELDS:
African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative
Slavery and Emancipations.
East Asian History
GUY S. ALITTO
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and of
East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D.
Harvard
University, 1975
FIELDS: Modern Chinese
Intellectual and Social History; Chinese Labor History; The Chinese
Communist Movement.
MARK P. BRADLEY
Associate Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995
FIELDS:
Twentieth century U.S. international history; Postcolonial Southeast Asian history; Global human rights.
SUSAN BURNS
Associate Professor of Japanese History and the College
Ph.D.
University of
Chicago, 1994
FIELDS:
Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Cultural
History, History of Medicine; Gender and the Body.
BRUCE CUMINGS
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International
History and the College; Department Chairperson
Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1975
FIELDS:
Modern Korean History; East Asian Political
Economy; International History.
JAMES HEVIA (Associate Faculty)
Director, International Studies; Senior
Lecturer, Social Science Collegiate Division
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1986
FIELDS: Modern China, British Empire, Imperialism and Colonialism, Global Studies.
JAMES KETELAAR
Professor of Japanese History and of of
East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1987
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Nationalism and Religion; Pre-modern and
Modern Japanese History.
Early Modern European History
PAUL CHENEY
Assistant Professor of French History and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia University,
2002
FIELDS:
The Enlightenment;
French Revolution; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought;
and the Origins of Capitalism in World-Systems Perspective.
CONSTANTIN FASOLT
Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College;
Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1981
FIELDS:
Early Modern Europe; Political, Social, and Legal Thought in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; History and Theory of Historical Writing; Reformation; Conciliar Movement.
History of Science and Medicine
JAN E. GOLDSTEIN
Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of
Modern European History
and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1978
FIELDS:
Modern European Intellectual History; Modern France;
History of Psychiatry; Conceptions of Selfhood and Identity.
ADRIAN JOHNS
Professor of History of Science and the College; Professor and Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1992
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: History of early modern science and the history of the book.
ROBERT J. RICHARDS
Morris Fishbein
Professor of Science and Medicine, Professor of History, Philosophy,
and Psychology and the College ; Director of the Fishbein
Center Ph.D. St. Louis
University, 1971; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978
FIELDS:
History of Biology and Psychology;
Philosophy of History; Germany Intellectual History.
NOEL SWERDLOW
Professor of the History of Science and
of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1968
Retiring after Spring 2008
FIELDS: History of the Exact
Sciences, Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century.
ALISON WINTER
Associate Professor of History of Science
and the College
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
History of medicine and the history of human sciences
after 1750; nineteenth-century science; British history.
Gender
LEORA AUSLANDER
Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D.
Brown
University, 1988
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
19th and 20th century European Social History with a focus on France
and Germany; Material Culture and Consumption; Gender History and
Theory; Jewish History; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe.
CATHERINE BREKUS (Associate Faculty)
Associate Professor of the History of
Christianity
Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
FIELDS:
American religion of the colonial, early national, and
antebellum periods; history of women and religion; revivalism, slave
religion, millennialism, and popular religious movements.
SUSAN BURNS
Associate Professor of Japanese History and the College
Ph.D.
University of
Chicago, 1994
FIELDS:
Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Cultural
History, History of Medicine; Gender and the Body.
RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE
Assistant Professor of African History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: Central Africa; history of women, sexuality, and gender; urban history; customary and modern law; post-colonial social and
cultural history.
ROCHONA MAJUMDAR (Associate Faculty)
Assistant
Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003
FIELDS:
Social and
cultural history of modern South Asia.
LUCY K. PICK (Associate Faculty)
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School
Ph.D. University of Toronto
FIELDS:
Medieval religious thought and practice, relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, the development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and the ways in which religion shapes lives through ritual.
AMY DRU STANLEY
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
On Leave: 2008-2009
Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1990
FIELDS: United States Gender, Legal, and Intellectual History.
CHRISTINE STANSELL
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1979
FIELDS: Women’s and gender history; Antebellum U.S. social and political history; American cultural history; Modern fiction.
ALISON WINTER
Associate Professor of History of Science
and the College
Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
History of medicine and the history of human sciences
after 1750; nineteenth-century science; British history.
TARA ZAHRA
Assistant Professor of East European History and the College
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005
FIELDS:
Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration.
International History
MARK P. BRADLEY
Associate Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995
FIELDS:
Twentieth century U.S. international history; Postcolonial Southeast Asian history; Global human rights.
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the
College
Ph.D.
Australian National University, 1984
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Modern South Asian history; subaltern, indigenous,
and minority histories; labor history; history of Bengal;
history in/and public life; empire, colonial rule, and
modernity; postcolonial theory and history.
BRUCE CUMINGS
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International
History and the College; Department Chairperson
Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1975
FIELDS:
Modern Korean History; East Asian Political
Economy; International History.
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of
Modern Russian History and the College
D.
Phil. Oxford University, 1969
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Soviet Social, Political, and Cultural History; Social Identity; Social Mobility; International Left; Australian History.
MICHAEL GEYER
Samuel N. Harper
Professor
of Modern European History and the College
Dr. phil.
Albert
Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, 1976
FIELDS:
Modern German and European History; Globalization & World History; Human Rights; European War & Genocide.
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
Harriet
& Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History
and the College
D.Phil.
Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001
On Leave: Autumn 2008
FIELDS:
Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and
diplomacy of twentieth century Europe
Islamic/Middle-Eastern History
FRED M. DONNER (Associate Faculty)
Professor of Near Eastern History.
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1975
FIELDS:
Near Eastern History, Islamic History (Rise of Islam),
Political History, Theory of History, Apocalyptic Thought.
CORNELL H. FLEISCHER
Kanunî
Süleyman Professor of Islamic and Ottoman
History,
and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D.
Princeton University, 1982
FIELDS:
Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History;
Social and Cultural History; Comparative Studies in Early Modern
Societies.
A. HOLLY SHISSLER (Associate Faculty)
Associate
Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History.
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
FIELDS:
Ottoman History,
History of the Early Turkish Republic, Modern Middle East History,
Nationalism, Intellectual History
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
Harriet
& Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History
and the College
D.Phil.
Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001
On Leave: Autumn 2008
FIELDS:
Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and
diplomacy of twentieth century Europe
JOHN E. WOODS
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D.
Princeton
University, 1974
FIELDS: State
Formation and Economic History in the Premodern Islamic Middle East and
Central Asia.
Latin American History
DAIN BORGES
Associate Professor of Latin American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Stanford
University, 1986
FIELDS:
Modern Brazilian history including social science,
literature, popular religion and state-formation.
EMILIO KOURÍ
Associate Professor of Latin American
History and the College
Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1996
FIELDS:
Rural Mexico since 1750, including social
relations and movements; agrarian, agricultural, business and legal
history, and the "Indian question"; the Spanish Caribbean; U.S. Latino
history.
MAURICIO TENORIO
Professor of Latin American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Stanford University, 1993
FIELDS:
Modern. Cultural history, urban history, international history, Americas; Latin America, Spain, U.S., Mexico.
Legal History
CONSTANTIN FASOLT
Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College;
Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1981
FIELDS:
Early Modern Europe; Political, Social, and Legal Thought in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; History and Theory of Historical Writing; Reformation; Conciliar Movement.
DENNIS J. HUTCHINSON (Associate Faculty)
William Rainey Harper
Professor in the College, Sr. Lecturer at the Law School, and Master of
the New Collegiate Division
LL.M. University of Texas, Austin, 1974
FIELDS:
Judicial behavior; constitutional history;
development of legal thought.
WILLIAM NOVAK
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D.
Brandeis University,
1991
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: United
States and Comparative Legal History; Political Thought; Regulation and
the State.
AMY DRU STANLEY
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
On Leave: 2008-2009
Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1990
FIELDS: United States Gender, Legal, and Intellectual History.
Medieval Europe
MICHAEL ALLEN (Associate Faculty)
Associate Professor of Classics
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1994
FIELDS:
Early medieval cultures, literatures, and societies; medieval historical writing; books, script, and learning in Medieval Europe; role of women in medieval education; Latin paleography.
RACHEL FULTON
Associate Professor of Medieval History
and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1994
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
History of Christianity; Medieval European Cultural,
Social, and Religious History; Medieval Liturgy; the Cult of the Virgin
Mary; Scriptural Exegesis and Hermeneutics.
JONATHAN LYON
Assistant Professor of Medieval History
and the College
Ph.D. University
of Notre Dame, 2005
On Leave: Autumn 2008
FIELDS:
Social, economic, political, legal and institutional
history of Europe 800 to 1400; medieval noble families.
DAVID NIRENBERG
Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations.
LUCY K. PICK (Associate Faculty)
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School
Ph.D. University of Toronto
FIELDS:
Medieval religious thought and practice, relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, the development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and the ways in which religion shapes lives through ritual.
Modern Europe, 1300-Present
LEORA AUSLANDER
Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D.
Brown
University, 1988
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
19th and 20th century European Social History with a focus on France
and Germany; Material Culture and Consumption; Gender History and
Theory; Jewish History; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe.
JOHN W. BOYER
Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of
History and the College; Dean of the College
Ph.D.
University of
Chicago, 1975
FIELDS:
Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century European Political and Cultural History,
particularily in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; Religion and Politics
in Modern European History
PAUL CHENEY
Assistant Professor of French History and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia University,
2002
FIELDS:
The Enlightenment;
French Revolution; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought;
and the Origins of Capitalism in World-Systems Perspective.
JOHN E. CRAIG (Associate Faculty)
Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Division
Ph.D. Stanford
University, 1973
FIELDS:
Economic and social history of modern Europe; historical demography;
comparative education.
MICHAEL GEYER
Samuel N. Harper
Professor
of Modern European History and the College
Dr. phil.
Albert
Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, 1976
FIELDS:
Modern German and European History; Globalization & World History; Human Rights; European War & Genocide.
JAN E. GOLDSTEIN
Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of
Modern European History
and the College
Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1978
FIELDS:
Modern European Intellectual History; Modern France;
History of Psychiatry; Conceptions of Selfhood and Identity.
MOISHE POSTONE
Professor of Modern
European
History and the College
D. Phil.
J. W.
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 1983
FIELDS:
Modern European Intellectual History; Social
Theory, especially Critial Theories of Modernity; Twentieth-Century
Germany; Anti-Semitism; Contemporary Global Transformations.
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
Harriet
& Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History
and the College
D.Phil.
Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001
On Leave: Autumn 2008
FIELDS:
Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and
diplomacy of twentieth century Europe.
TARA ZAHRA
Assistant Professor of East European History and the College
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005
FIELDS:
Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration.
Modern Jewish History
LEORA AUSLANDER
Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D.
Brown
University, 1988
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
19th and 20th century European Social History with a focus on France
and Germany; Material Culture and Consumption; Gender History and
Theory; Jewish History; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe.
MICHAEL GEYER
Samuel N. Harper
Professor
of Modern European History and the College
Dr. phil.
Albert
Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, 1976
FIELDS:
Modern German and European History; Globalization & World History; Human Rights; European War & Genocide.
PAUL MENDES-FLOHR (Associate Faculty)
Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the
Divinity School, the Department of History, and the Committee on Jewish
Studies
Ph.D. Brandeis University
FIELDS:
Modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy
and religious thought, German intellectual history, and the history and
sociology of intellectuals.
MOISHE POSTONE
Professor of Modern
European
History and the College
D. Phil.
J. W.
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 1983
FIELDS:
Modern European Intellectual History; Social
Theory, especially Critial Theories of Modernity; Twentieth-Century
Germany; Anti-Semitism; Contemporary Global Transformations.
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
Harriet
& Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History
and the College
D.Phil.
Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001
On Leave: Autumn 2008
FIELDS:
Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and
diplomacy of twentieth century Europe.
Russian History
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of
Modern Russian History and the College
D.
Phil. Oxford University, 1969
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Soviet Social, Political, and Cultural History; Social Identity; Social Mobility; International Left; Australian History.
RICHARD HELLIE
Thomas E. Donelly Professor of Russian
History and the College
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1965
FIELDS:
Russian History; Muscovite Social, Economic,
and Legal History.
South Asian History
MUZAFFAR ALAM (Associate Faculty)
Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D.Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
1976
FIELDS:
Urdu and Indian Persian literature, history of late medieval and early
modern northern India.
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the
College
Ph.D.
Australian National University, 1984
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
Modern South Asian history; subaltern, indigenous,
and minority histories; labor history; history of Bengal;
history in/and public life; empire, colonial rule, and
modernity; postcolonial theory and history.
ROCHONA MAJUMDAR (Associate Faculty)
Assistant
Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003
FIELDS:
Social and
cultural history of modern South Asia.
United States History
MARK P. BRADLEY
Associate Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995
FIELDS:
Twentieth century U.S. international history; Postcolonial Southeast Asian history; Global human rights.
CATHERINE BREKUS (Associate Faculty)
Associate Professor of the History of
Christianity
Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
FIELDS:
American religion of the colonial, early national, and
antebellum periods; history of women and religion; revivalism, slave
religion, millennialism, and popular religious movements.
KATHLEEN NEILS CONZEN
Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972
FIELDS: American Urban History; Immigration and Ethnicity;
Rural History; Western Settlement; Nineteenth-Century Social History.
EDWARD COOK
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D. Johns
Hopkins
University, 1972
FIELDS: Colonial and Revolutionary America; Social History;
Eighteenth-Century Britain.
BRUCE CUMINGS
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International
History and the College; Department Chairperson
Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1975
FIELDS:
Modern Korean History; East Asian Political
Economy; International History.
JANE DAILEY
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995
FIELDS:
Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, and legal history.
ROBERT W. FOGEL (Associate Faculty)
Charles R. Walgreen Professor
of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business and
Economics
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1963
FIELDS:
The escape from hunger and high mortality in Europe,
America, and the Third World since 1750; aging during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries; business ethics; the political realignment of
the 1850s.
ADAM GREEN
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1998
FIELDS:
Modern U.S. History; African American History; Urban History; Comparative Racial Politics; Cultural Economy.
RAMÓN A. GUTIÉRREZ
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980
FIELDS:
Chicano History; Race and Ethnicity in American Life; Chicano/Latino Studies; Indian-White Relations in the Americas; Social and Economic History of the Southwest; Colonial Latin America; Mexican Immigration.
THOMAS C. HOLT
James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale
University, 1973
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS:
African American,
Southern, and British Caribbean History.
WILLIAM NOVAK
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D.
Brandeis University,
1991
On Leave: 2008-2009
FIELDS: United
States and Comparative Legal History; Political Thought; Regulation and
the State.
JULIE SAVILLE
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1986
FIELDS:
African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative
Slavery and Emancipations.
JAMES T. SPARROW
Assistant Professor of American History
and the College
Ph.D.
Brown
University, 2002
FIELDS:
Modern United States political and social history; war and society; social science and the state; technology;
history and new media.
AMY DRU STANLEY
Associate Professor of American History
and the College
On Leave: 2008-2009
Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1990
FIELDS: United States Gender, Legal, and Intellectual History.
CHRISTINE STANSELL
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1979
FIELDS: Women’s and gender history; Antebellum U.S. social and political history; American cultural history; Modern fiction.