History Department

Fields of Interest

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 Europe

Labor

Latin America

Medieval

Modern Europe

Religion

U.S.

Women & Gender


Africa / African Diaspora

Davarian Baldwin American and African American 20th Century Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Social and Political Thought, Urban History
 
Karen Miller Afro-American history; history of African-American women; American social history; history of higher education
 
David Northrup History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration
 
Zachary Morgan Brazilian History, Modern Latin America, African Diaspora/Atlantic World

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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Africa and Middle East

Benjamin Braude Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history
 
David Northrup History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration
 
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

Rebecca Nedostup Modern China; social, cultural and political history; religion, nationalism and modernity
 
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; comparative history with Germany
 

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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
 
Robin Fleming Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism
 
Thomas Hachey Modern Ireland
 
Kevin Kenny The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland
 
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.
 
Peter Weiler Modern British history; British labor history
 

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Early Modern Europe

Virginia Reinburg Early modern European history: religious and social history; the Reformation
 
Sarah Ross Early-Modern Europe (especially the Cultural and Intellectualy History of Renaissance Italy and England), Women and Gender, Humanism
 

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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
 
Marilynn Johnson U.S. urban and social history; American Western history
 
Kevin Kenny The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland
 
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
 
David Northrup History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam 
 
Peter Weiler Modern British history; British labor history
 

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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
 
Zachary Morgan Brazilian History, Modern Latin America, African Diaspora/Atlantic World
 
Sergio Serulnikov Colonial Latin America; Andean history and society; social movements; colonialism
 
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
 
John Rosser Late Roman and Byzantine History; Byzantine archaeology; medieval fortifications
 

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Modern Europe

Paul Breines Modern European Intellectual and Cultural history; social movements; history of Marxism; gender and identity; post-structuralism
 
James Cronin European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history
 
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
 
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
 
Alan J. Reinerman European history since 1789; European diplomatic history; Modern Italy; Hapsburg Empire and successor states
 
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 1789-1914; demographic history; social and economic history of modern Western Europe
 
Stephen Schloesser, SJ Late Modern Europe; Religious Representations; Modernisms; Music
 
Peter Weiler Modern British history; British labor history
 

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Religion

Benjamin Braude Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history
  
Cynthia Lyerly American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South
 
Rebecca Nedostup Modern China; social, cultural and political history; religion, nationalism and modernity
 
David Northrup History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam 
  
James O'Toole American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts
 
Virginia Reinburg Early modern European history; religious and social history; the Reformation
 
Stephen Schloesser, SJ Late Modern Europe; Religious Representations; Modernisms; Music
 

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U.S.

Davarian Baldwin American and African American 20th Century Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Social and Political Thought, Urban History
 
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 U.S. urban and social history; American Western history
 
Kevin Kenny The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland
 
Cynthia Lyerly American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South
 
Thomas O'Connor Mid-nineteenth century American history; history of Boston; the age of Jackson; the Civil War
 
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
 
Alan Rogers United States Constitutional and legal history; the American Revolution
 

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Women and Gender

Paul Breines Modern European Intellectual and Cultural history; social movements; history of Marxism; gender and identity; post-structuralism
 
Marilynn Johnson U.S. urban and social history; American Western history
 
Cynthia Lyerly American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South
 
Sarah Ross Early-Modern Europe (especially the Cultural and Intellectualy History of Renaissance Italy and England), Women and Gender, Humanism
 
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