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Faculty

Ordinary Faculty


ABI-MERSHED, Osama W. (PhD, Georgetown, 2003; assoc. prof. and Director of Center for Contemporary Arab Studies)
Middle East and North Africa

ÁGOSTON, Gábor (PhD, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1994; assoc. prof.)
Ottoman Empire, Turkey, early modern military
 
AKSAKAL, Mustafa (PhD, Princeton, 2003; assoc. prof.)
Modern Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Middle East
 
ASTARITA, Tommaso (PhD, Johns Hopkins 1988; prof. and Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean

BENEDICT, Carol Ann
(PhD, Stanford 1992; prof. )
China, Chinese medicine, Japan

BENTON-COHEN, Katherine (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2002; assoc. prof.)
19th and 20th century U.S., Gender, American West
 
CHATELAIN, Marcia (PhD, Brown,2008; asst. prof.)
American civilization, African American, women/food/culture/community

COLLINS, David, S.J. (PhD, Northwestern 2004; assoc. prof.)
Medieval Germany

COLLINS, James B.
(PhD, Columbia 1978; prof.)
16th- through 18th-century Europe
 
DAVID-FOX, Michael (PhD, Yale, 1993; assoc. prof.)
modern Russia, Soviet/Russia/Eurasia

DUNKLEY, Peter
(PhD, Stanford 1976; assoc. prof., History, and assoc. dean, School of Foreign Service)
Britain (esp. 19th century)

EVTUHOV, Catherine
(PhD, California, Berkeley 1991; prof.)
Imperial Russia, ideas, culture, religion, local history

GAMES, Alison F. (PhD, Pennsylvania 1992; prof. and Director, Georgetown Institute for Global History)
Colonial America, Atlantic, migration

GOLDFRANK, David M.
(PhD, Washington 1970; prof.)
Medieval and early modern Russia, Russian intellectual and foreign policy, eastern Europe

HADDAD, Yvonne (PhD, Hartford Sem. 1979; prof. and faculty, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding)
Middle East, 20th-century Islamic, social and intellectual

HORVATH-PETERSON, Sandra
(PhD, Catholic 1971; assoc. prof.)
Modern France (esp. social and religious)

JACKSON, Maurice (PhD, Georgetown 2001; assoc. prof.)
Atlantic, African-American, Radicalism

KAMINSKI, Andrzej
(PhD, Jagellonian, Poland, 1966; prof.)
Early Modern East Central Europe, Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

KAZIN, Michael (PhD, Stanford 1983; prof.)
U.S. social movements and politics, Reconstruction to present

KIM, Christine (PhD, Harvard 2004; asst. prof.)
Modern Korea, colonial modernity, empire studies

LANGER, Erick (PhD, Stanford 1984; prof. and Director, Center for Latin American Studies)
Latin America and Andes, social and economic, frontiers

LEONARD, Amy (PhD, Berkeley 1999; assoc. prof.)
Early modern Germany, gender, Protestant Reformation

MANNING, Chandra (PhD, Harvard 2002; assoc. prof.)
19th-century U.S., sectionalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, baseball

MCCANN, Bryan (PhD, Yale 1999; assoc. prof. and Director of Master's Programs)
Latin America, modern Brazil, popular culture

MCCARTIN, Joseph
(PhD, SUNY-Binghamton 1990; assoc. prof. and Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor)
20th-century U.S. labor, social, political

MCKITTRICK, Meredith
(PhD, Stanford 1995; assoc. prof.)
African colonial, gender

MCNEILL, John (PhD, Duke 1981; University Professor)
Environmental, Mediterranean, Atlantic

MILLWARD, James
(PhD, Stanford 1993; prof.)
Intersocietal history, late Imperial China, Central and Inner Asia, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, frontiers, ethnicity

MORAN CRUZ, Jo Ann Hoeppner
(PhD, Brandeis 1976; assoc. prof.)
medieval and early modern, education and literacy, England
 
MUSCOLINO, Micah (PhD, Harvard, 2006; assoc. prof.)
Environmental history, China

OLESKO, Kathryn (PhD, Cornell 1980; assoc. prof., History, and faculty, Center for German and European Studies)
17th- to 20th-century European science and technology; gender and science
 
PAINTER, David (PhD, North Carolina 1982; assoc. prof.)
U.S. diplomatic

ROSHWALD, Aviel
(PhD, Harvard 1987; prof. and chair)
19th- and 20th-century European diplomatic, ethnic politics and nationalism

ROTHMAN, Adam (PhD, Columbia, 2000; assoc. prof. and Director of Doctoral Studies)
early national U.S., slavery, Atlantic

SAND, Jordan (PhD, Columbia 1996; assoc. prof., History, and chair, East Asian Languages & Cultures)
Modern Japan, social reform, domesticity

SHEDEL, James P. (PhD, Rochester 1978; assoc. prof.)
Habsburg Austria, Germany, central Europe

SPENDELOW, Howard
(PhD, Harvard 1982; assoc. prof.)
China, East Asia 

TUCKER, Judith (PhD, Harvard 1981; prof.)
Middle East and Egypt, women, Ottoman

TUCKER, Nancy Bernkopf
(PhD, Columbia 1980; prof.)
U.S. diplomatic, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asia

TUTINO, John (PhD, Texas, Austin 1976; prof.)
Latin America, Mexico, social/cultural/political  and Director of Americas Initiative Program)
 
VAIDIK, Aparna (PhD, Nehru University, New Delhi 2005; asst. prof. )
South Asia

VOLL, John (PhD, Harvard 1969; prof., History, and faculty, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding)
World history; Middle East, modern Islamic
 
VON DER GOLTZ, Anna (D.Phil., Modern History, Merton College, Oxford, 2007; asst. prof.)
political and cultural history of Germany in the twentieth century, on myth, memory, and commemoration
 

Visiting Faculty


O'BRIEN, Patricia (PhD, Sydney 1999; visiting asst. prof., History and School of Foreign Service)
Australia, race, gender, sexuality, colonial politics, film

PINKARD, Susan (PhD, Chicago 1982; visiting assoc. prof.)
Europe, history of ideas, history of material culture

SODHY, Pamela (PhD, Cornell 1982; visiting assoc. prof.)
Southeast Asia, U.S.

SHANKAR, Shobana (PhD, UCLA 2003; visiting asst. prof.)
Africa, Western Africa
medieval and modern languages and literature, Asian languages
 
UCERLER, M. Antoni J., S.J. (D.Phil., University of Oxford, UK 1999; visiting assoc. prof.)
medieval and modern languages and literature, Asian language and culture 

ZIMMERS, Stefan (PhD, Georgetown 2007; visiting asst. prof.)
Medieval Europe

 

Visiting Researchers


MOUHOT, Jean-Francois (PhD, European University
Institute of Florence 2006; visiting researcher) environmental history, Saint-Domingue/Haïti; Climate Change and Energy

 

Adjunct Faculty


APEL, Tomas (PhD cand., Davis Lecturer)
US

CORCORAN, John (PhD cand., Davis Lecturer)
Russia
 
FERNANDEZ, Rodolfo (PhD cand., Davis Lecturer)
Latin America
 
FRANCIS-FALLON, Benjamin (PhD cand., Prof. Lecturer)
US
 
HOWER, Joseph (PhD cand., Davis Lecturer)
Transatlantic
 
KAPLAN, Lawrence S. (PhD, Yale 1951; adj. prof.)
U.S. military, diplomatic society
 
KATZ, Kimberly (PhD, NYU 2001; adj. prof.)
Social and cultural history of Middle East and North Africa, with current emphasis on Jordan, Palestine, and urban history in Tunisia, focused on city of Qayrawan
 
KERN, Darcy (PhD cand., Prof. Lecturer)
late modern Europe
 
KRACHE-MORRIS, Evelyn (PhD cand., Davis Lecturer)
US Diplomatic
 
KUISEL, Richard (PhD, Berkeley 1963; adj. prof., History, and faculty, German and European Studies)
20th-century France, contemporary Europe, Americanization
 
LUFF, Jennifer (PhD, William and Mary, 2005; Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor)
 
MURPHY, Curtis (PhD cand., Prof. Lecturer)
eastern Europe and Russia
 
PAXTON, Jennifer (PhD, Harvard 1999; adj. prof.)
Medieval Europe
 
WALL, Michael (PhD, Georgetown 2002; adj. prof.)
Sino-U.S. Relations, motion picture imagery and censorship
WIEMERS, Alice (PhD cand., Hopkins, adj. prof)
Africa

Related Faculty


BALZER, Harley (PhD, Pennsylvania 1980; assoc. prof. of government)
Russian politics, social history, science and technology, education
 
ERNST, Daniel (JD, Chicago 1983, LLM, Wisconsin 1988, PhD, Princeton 1989; prof. of law)
U.S. legal

Emeritus Faculty


BROWN, Dorothy M. (PhD, Georgetown 1962; prof. emerita)
20th-century America, interwar America, Progressive Era

CHICKERING, Roger (PhD, Stanford 1968; prof. emeritus)
Modern Germany 
 
CURRAN, R. Emmett (PhD, Yale 1974; prof. emeritus)
American intellectual and religious, American immigration, U.S. South
 
DUNCAN, Richard (PhD, Ohio State 1963; prof. emeritus)
U.S. political, Civil War and Reconstruction, Middle Period U.S.

JOHNSON, Ronald M. (PhD, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1970; prof. emeritus)
American urban, African-American, U.S. social
 
RUEDY, John D. (PhD, California, Berkeley 1965; prof. emeritus)
Islamic civilization, Middle East, Maghrib
 

 


 

 revised March 2012

All faculty A to Z

Associate Professor; History-Middle East and North Africa. Director; Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS)
Associate Professor
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Associate Professor; Jesuit Father
Professor
Associate Professor
Professor; Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History; Acting Director of Doctoral Studies
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Professor Emeritus
Professor
Professorial Lecturer
Professor
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Professor
Professor and Director, CLAS
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor; Director of MAGIC, Main Campus Non-Ordinary -- Adjunct; Director, Master's in Global, International and Comparative History (MAGIC)
Associate Professor; Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
Associate Professor
Professor; University Professor
Professor
Associate Professor; Director, Medieval Studies
Associate Professor; Director, Master of Arts in German & European Studies Program
Associate Professor
Professorial Lecturer, Main Campus Non-Ordinary -- Adjunct
Visiting Associate Professor
Professor and Chair
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Chair, Associate Professor of Japanese History
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Professor of History; Professor of History, Director, Master of Arts in Arab Studies Program
Professor
Professor
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