Faculty

Please find a list of the History Faculty below. For more detailed information on a specific faculty member, such as their research, courses, and contact information, please click on the appropriate link in the alphabetical list to the left.

Department chair: Professor Laura L. Frader

Professors of History

Ballard C. Campbell Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; American and Comparative history, government, politics and public policy.

William M. Fowler, Jr. Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; American colonial, maritime, and Revolutionary history.

Laura L. Frader Ph.D. University of Rochester; European, French, womens', gender, and labor history. (Chair of the Department)

Harvey Green Ph.D. Rutgers University; (Director of Public History Programs) American cultural history, public history, material culture, literary history, western U.S. history, history of sport.

Tom Havens Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Japanese Cultural History.

Clay McShane Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; Urban history, recent U.S. history, and Social History.

Harlow Robinson Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; Russian/Soviet and East European cultural history, history of music (Joint appointment in Modern Languages).

Raymond Robinson Ph.D. Harvard University; U.S. history, history of media, and U.S. elites.

Associate Professors of History

Jeffrey Burds Ph.D. Yale University; Russian and Ukrainian Studies.

Christina Gilmartin Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; East Asia, 20th-century China, modern Japan, gender studies (Director of Asian Studies Program, joint appointment in Modern Languages department.)

Robert Hall Ph.D. Florida State University; African-American history, US colonial, social, and cultural history (Joint appointment with African-American Studies).

Assistant Professors of History

Timothy Brown Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; Modern Germany, and Imperialism.

Gerald Herman M.A. Northeastern University; European cultural history, history of science and technology, war in the 20th century, media and history (Joint appointment with Department of Education; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies).

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi Ph.D. Harvard University; Middle East, Islam, diaspora, Arabic cultural and intellectual history.

Katherine A. Luongo Ph.D. University of Michigan; African, South Asian and World History.

Anna Suranyi Ph.D. UCLA; English and Atlantic history, Intellectual and Cultural History.

Karin Velez Ph.D. Princeton University; Atlantic World, Early Modern Iberian and French Empire, Popular Religion.

Emeritus Professors of History

Patrick Manning Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; African history, world history, economic, social, demographic history. Currently teaching at University of Pittsburgh

Anthony Penna D.A. Carnegie-Mellon University; Environmental history, U.S. education history, recent U.S. and World history.

Phillip Backstrom

Charmarie Blaisdell

John Post