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 and intellectual history (Joint appointment in Modern Languages department.

Clay McShane Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; (Director of Undergraduate Studies) Urban history, recent U.S. history, and Social History.

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

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

Phillip Backstrom

Charmarie Blaisdell

John Post