Faculty — Fields of Interest
Africa and African Diaspora
| Karen Miller |
Afro-American history; history of African-American women; American social history; history of higher education |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration |
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| Zachary Morgan |
Brazilian history; modern Latin America; African diaspora/Atlantic world |
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Martin Summers
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African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora |
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Frank Taylor
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Economic, social, political, and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought
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Africa and the Middle East
| Benjamin Braude |
Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration |
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| Dana Sajdi |
Pre-modern Middle Eastern history (mainly but not exclusively Ottoman history); popular and learned literary cultures; historiography; book history and urban history |
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Asia
Jeremy Clarke, S.J.
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Modern China, 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 |
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| Rebecca Nedostup |
Modern China; social, cultural, and political history; religion, nationalism, and modernity; spatial history; ritual studies |
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| Prasannan Parthasarathi |
Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history |
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| Franziska Seraphim |
Modern and contemporary Japanese history: social, political, and cultural; historical memory; social movements; relations with Asia; global and comparative history |
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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 |
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| Robin Fleming |
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism |
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| Kevin Kenny |
American immigration; global migration and diaspora |
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| Kevin O'Neill |
Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy |
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| Prasannan Parthasarathi |
Modern South Asian history; colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history |
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| Robert Savage |
Irish political and cultural history; film and media in Ireland and Britain; Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century |
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Owen Stanwood
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Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history |
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Early Modern Europe
| Sarah Ross |
Early-modern Europe (especially the cultural and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy and England); women and gender; humanism |
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Owen Stanwood
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Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history |
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Labor
| James Cronin |
European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history |
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| Kevin Kenny |
The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland |
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| Deborah Levenson-Estrada |
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with special interest in the social history of family, women, and children; modernity; working=class history; and intellectual movements |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam |
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Latin America
| Deborah Levenson-Estrada |
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with special interest in the social history of family, women, and children; modernity; working=class history; and intellectual movements |
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| Zachary Morgan |
Brazilian history; modern Latin America; African diaspora/Atlantic world |
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| Sylvia Sellers-García |
Colonial Latin America; early modern Spain; colonial Central America; history of empire; spatial history and cartography; narrative and literature |
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| Frank Taylor |
Economic, social, political, and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought |
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Medieval
| Robin Fleming |
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism |
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| John Rosser |
Late Roman and Byzantine history; Byzantine archaeology; medieval fortifications |
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Modern Europe
| Julian Bourg |
Modern European intellectual and cultural history; modern French history; the 1960s; terror and political violence; French theory |
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| James Cronin |
European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history |
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| Roberta Manning |
Twentieth-century Russia, with special interests in the social and political history of the Stalin era, political terror, the Cold War, peasant studies, and women's history |
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| Kevin O'Neill |
Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy |
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| Devin Pendas |
German history; modern Europe; legal history; history of mass violence and war |
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| Robert Savage |
Irish political and cultural history; film and media in Ireland and Britain; Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century |
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Religion
| Benjamin Braude |
Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history |
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Jeremy Clarke, S.J.
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Modern China, 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 |
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Charles Gallagher, S.J.
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American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; U.S. diplomatic history; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; American religious history; history of the Holocaust |
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| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Rebecca Nedostup |
Modern China; social, cultural, and political history; religion, nationalism, and modernity; spatial history; ritual studies |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam |
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| James O'Toole |
American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts |
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| Virginia Reinburg |
Early modern European history; religious and social history; the Reformation |
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United States
Charles Gallagher, S.J.
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American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; U.S. diplomatic history; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; American religious history; history of the Holocaust |
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| Mark Gelfand |
American history (1877-present); American political, legal, and business history |
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| Seth Jacobs |
Twentieth-century United States; U.S. foreign policy; U.S.-Asian relations |
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| Kevin Kenny |
American immigration; global migration and diaspora |
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| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Patrick Maney |
U.S. history, 1865-present; the Presidency; Congress |
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| Thomas O'Connor |
Mid-nineteenth-century American history; history of Boston; the age of Jackson; the Civil War |
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Arissa Oh
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Twentieth-century United States; U.S. immigration and race; Asian-American history; family and kinship; Cold War social policy |
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| James O'Toole |
American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts |
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| David Quigley |
Nineteenth-century United States; urban history; Civil War and Reconstruction; America and the world |
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| Heather Richardson |
Nineteenth-century U.S. History, politics and economics, antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction, history of the American West, history education |
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| Alan Rogers |
United States Constitutional and legal history |
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Owen Stanwood
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Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history |
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Martin Summers
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African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora |
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Women and Gender
| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, and women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Sarah Ross |
Early-modern Europe (especially the cultural and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy and England); women and gender; humanism |
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Martin Summers
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African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental illness; African diaspora |
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