Environmental History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, History of Animals, Mediterranean History, Italian Renaissance.
Department Faculty
Karl Appuhn
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer

Early Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Iran, Sunni-Shiite Divide, Sects and Sectarianism in the Middle East, Empire and Identity Formation in the Middle East
Monique Bedasse

East Africa, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Decolonization, Transnational history, Intellectual and Political history, Pan-Africanism, Twentieth century
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak

History and Theory; Semiotic Anthropology; Material Culture; Media and Communication; Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages; Medieval Cultural Techniques; Documentary and Archival practices in the Middle Ages; Medieval France; Medieval Identity; Medieval Sign Theory; Medieval Diplomatics and Sigillography.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Zvi Ben-Dor

Global History, Early Modern and Modern Chinese History, Asian and European Islam, Religion and World History, Middle Eastern History, History of Geography, Arab-Jewish and Mizrahi History
Edward Berenson

Cultural history, colonialism, history and memory.
Audrey Célestine

Migration; memory; race and identity in France, the French Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe) and the United States, social movements, history and sociology
Robyn d'Avignon

West Africa; history of science, technology, and the environment; ethnic and state formation
Nicole Eustace

Eighteenth-century North America in the Atlantic world; gender, culture, and politics
Ada Ferrer

Cuba, comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution
Sibylle Fischer
Caribbean literature and culture; Spanish American Independence; the Haitian Revolution; culture and politics in the nineteenth century; the history of political thought.
Stefanos Geroulanos
Conceptual History (19th- to 21st-Century Western Europe), History of Science & Medicine, Historical Epistemology, French and German History
Rebecca Goetz

Histories of Religion, race, and Slavery, Colonialism and Empire in the Atlantic World, and Indigenous North America
Michael Gomez

West Africa, African Diaspora, Islam, Slavery, Social and Cultural Transformations
Manu Goswami
19th & 20th century Indian history, History of Economic Thought, Political Economy, Social Theory, Historiography
Stephen Gross

Modern Germany; European Unification; Economic History and Political Economy; International Relations; Energy Policy; World War I and II.
Steven Hahn

Nineteenth Century United States, History of Slavery and Emancipation, History of Capitalism
Martha Hodes

19th-century United States; race; Civil War and Reconstruction; gender; craft of historical writing
Jennifer Homans

Cultural History Europe and America; History of Dance; Criticism and the arts
Irvin Ibarguen

Latino/a history, Migration/immigration in the Americas, Transnational histories
Daniel Jütte

Cultural History, Urban History, History of Knowledge, Jewish History, German History, History of Material Culture and Everyday Life
Rebecca Karl

Modern China; Intellectual history; women and gender
Kevin Kenny

U.S. immigration, nineteenth-century U.S., slavery, Irish emigration, global migration
Yanni Kotsonis

Imperial Russia; political economy; history of the modern state; history of taxation in Russia and the world; contemporary economic theory, liberalism, and neoliberalism.
Kevin Li

Modern Southeast Asia, Vietnam; nationalism, revolution, and decolonization; civil wars; outlaws and the state; urban history
Tatiana Linkhoeva

Modern Japan, Empire and Imperialism, Intellectual History, Japanese-Soviet Relations
David Ludden

South Asia; Middle East; East Asia; World History; Globalization; Agrarian History; Economic Development
Michele Mitchell
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African Diaspora; Gender and Sexuality; West/East/South Africa; feminist theory
Maria Montoya

U.S. History, History of the American West, Environmental History, Labor History
Jennifer Morgan

History of the Black Atlantic World; Comparative Slavery, Gender and sexuality studies
Andrew Needham

I specialize in recent United States history, with teaching and research emphases in environmental, American Indian, and urban and suburban history as well as the history of the American West.
Ellen Noonan

Public history; history education; African-American history; cultural history; digital humanities
Anne O'Donnell
Soviet Union and its successors, history of the state, cultures of economic life, urban history
Guy Ortolano

British history, urban history, history of science, intellectual history, historiography, twentieth century, social democracy, neoliberalism, world histories
Ren Pepitone
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History of gender and sexuality, cultural history, urban history, modern
Britain and its empire
Susanah Romney
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Atlantic History, Women's and Gender History, Early Modern Dutch Empire, Native American and Indigenous History
Andrew Sartori

Modern South Asia, British Empire, Intellectual History, History of Economic Thought, History of Capitalism, Social Theory
John Shovlin

Political and cultural history of ancien régime Europe, particularly France; the French Revolution; history of political economy; aristocratic culture and politics; international politics and international political thought in eighteenth-century Europe; the Franco-British relationship.
Nikhil Pal Singh

Race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy.
Thomas Sugrue

20th century U.S. history, race, cities and suburbs, public policy, civil rights, politics.
Madina Thiam

West Africa, African Diaspora, Sahel, Mali, social history, migrations, memory, gender, slavery, French colonialism, Atlantic and Saharan race-making
Sinclair Thomson

Colonial Latin America; Andean region; peasant and Indian politics; Andean religion; race/ethnicity; historical imagination and political memory; Bolivian history and politics.
Thomas Truxes

Early-modern Irish history; Ireland and the Atlantic world before 1800; early-modern maritime history; the overseas trade of British America; eighteenth-century urban life, particularly New York City
Alejandro Velasco

Modern Latin America, especially Venezuela; urban politics and social movements; oral historical and ethnographic methods
Joanna Waley-Cohen

Early Modern Chinese History
Yijun Wang

Early Modern China; Material Culture; History of Technology
Barbara Weinstein

Race, gender, labor, and political economy, especially in relation to the making of modern Brazil
Lawrence Wolff
Eastern Europe, Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, Enlightenment, history of childhood