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Faculty are organized into the following areas of interest. Click on the area of interest to display a corresponding faculty listing.

Africa & African Diaspora
Africa & the Middle East
Asia
Britain, Ireland, & British Empire
Early Modern
Labor
Latin America
Medieval
Modern Europe
Religion
United States
Women & Gender

Africa and African Diaspora

Karen Miller	Afro-American history; history of African-American women; American social history; history of higher education

Zachary Morgan	Brazilian history; modern Latin America; African diaspora/Atlantic world

Martin Summers	African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora

Frank Taylor	Economic, social, political, and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought

Africa and the Middle East

Benjamin Braude	Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history

Dana Sajdi	Pre-modern Middle Eastern history (mainly but not exclusively Ottoman history); popular and learned literary cultures; historiography; book history and urban history

Asia

Jeremy Clarke, S.J.	Modern China, from the middle of the nineteenth century until the present, with a particular focus on Chinese Christian history; missiology and east-west cultural exchange from the late sixteenth-century through to the eighteenth-century; the history of painting and photography in modern China

Prasannan Parthasarathi	Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history

Franziska Seraphim	Modern and contemporary Japanese history: social, political, and cultural; historical memory; social movements; relations with Asia; global and comparative history

Ling Zhang	Environmental, economic, and political history of China; Chinese middle period; comparative history of water and rivers; landscape studies; historical geography; environmental ethics and environmental justice

Britain, Ireland, and British Empire

James Cronin	European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history

Robin Fleming	Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism

Thomas Hachey	Modern Ireland

Penelope Ismay	Early Modern and Modern European social history, Britain and the British empire; social history of the economy; urbanization and migration; and modernity

Kevin Kenny	American immigration; global migration and diaspora

Kevin O'Neill	Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy

Prasannan Parthasarathi	Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history

Robert Savage	Irish political and cultural history; film and media in Ireland and Britain; Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century

Owen Stanwood	Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history

Early Modern History

Penelope Ismay	Early Modern and Modern European social history, Britain and the British empire; social history of the economy; urbanization and migration; and modernity

Prasannan Parthasarathi	Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history

Virginia Reinburg	Early modern French history; the Reformation

Sarah Ross	Early modern Europe; humanism; women and gender

Dana Sajdi	Pre-modern Middle Eastern history (mainly but not exclusively Ottoman history); popular and learned literary cultures; historiography; book history and urban history

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia	Colonial Latin America; early modern Spain; colonial Central America; history of empire; narrative and literature

Owen Stanwood	Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history

Labor

James Cronin	European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history

Marilynn Johnson	US urban and social history, violence, the American West, post-1965 immigration

Kevin Kenny	The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland

Deborah Levenson	Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America with special interest in Central America, social constructions and modernity; labor and urban history, and the history of art

Prasannan Parthasarathi	Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history

Latin America

Deborah Levenson	Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America with special interest in Central America, social constructions and modernity; labor and urban history, and the history of art

Zachary Morgan	Brazilian history; modern Latin America; African diaspora/Atlantic world

Sylvia Sellers-García	Colonial Latin America; early modern Spain; colonial Central America; history of empire; narrative and literature

Frank Taylor	Economic, social, political, and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought

Medieval

Robin Fleming	Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism

Zachary Matus	Intellectual and cultural history of Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages

Ling Zhang	Environmental, economic, and political history of China; Chinese middle period; comparative history of water and rivers; landscape studies; historical geography; environmental ethics and environmental justice

Modern Europe

Julian Bourg	Modern European intellectual and cultural history; modern French history; the 1960s; terror and political violence; French theory

James Cronin	European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history

Thomas Dodman	Modern European social and cultural history; modern France and French Empire; war and society; medicine and emotions; critical social theory and psychoanalysis

Penelope Ismay	Early Modern and Modern European social history, Britain and the British empire; social history of the economy; urbanization and migration; and modernity

Kevin O'Neill	Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy

Devin Pendas	German history; modern Europe; legal history; history of mass violence and war

Robert Savage	Irish political and cultural history; film and media in Ireland and Britain; Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century

Paul G. Spagnoli	France 1789-1945

Religion

Benjamin Braude	Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history

Jeremy Clarke, S.J.	Modern China, from the middle of the nineteenth century until the present, with a particular focus on Chinese Christian history; missiology and east-west cultural exchange from the late sixteenth-century through to the eighteenth-century; the history of painting and photography in modern China

Charles Gallagher, S.J.	American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; U.S. diplomatic history; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; American religious history; history of the Holocaust

Cynthia Lyerly	American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South

Zachary Matus	Intellectual and cultural history of Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages

James O'Toole	American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts

Virginia Reinburg	Early modern European history; religious and social history; the Reformation

United States

Charles Gallagher, S.J.	American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; U.S. diplomatic history; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; American religious history; history of the Holocaust

Mark Gelfand	American history (1877-present); American political, legal, and business history

Seth Jacobs	Twentieth-century United States; U.S. foreign policy; U.S.-Asian relations

Marilynn Johnson	US urban and social history, violence, the American West, post-1965 immigration

Kevin Kenny	American immigration; global migration and diaspora

Cynthia Lyerly	American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South

Patrick Maney	U.S. history, 1865-present; the Presidency; Congress

Arissa Oh	Twentieth-century United States; U.S. immigration and race; Asian-American history; family and kinship; Cold War social policy; gender

James O'Toole	American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts

David Quigley	Nineteenth-century United States; urban history; Civil War and Reconstruction; America and the world

Heather Richardson	Nineteenth-century U.S. History, politics and economics, antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction, history of the American West, history education

Alan Rogers	United States Constitutional and legal history

Owen Stanwood	Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history

Martin Summers	African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora

Women and Gender

Marilynn Johnson	US urban and social history, violence, the American West, post-1965 immigration

Cynthia Lyerly	American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, and women and race; and the history of the South

Arissa Oh	Twentieth-century United States; U.S. immigration and race; Asian-American history; family and kinship; Cold War social policy; gender

Sarah Ross	Early modern Europe; humanism; women and gender

Martin Summers	African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora