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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.