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.
Robyn d'Avignon
West Africa; history of science, technology, and the environment; ethnic and state formation
Hasia Diner
American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history
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 Juette
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
Julie Livingston
The Body, Southern Africa, Interspecies, Gender, Ethnography, Development
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
Timothy Naftali
US presidential history; intelligence and terrorism; Soviet Union and the world; US and the world; Cold War; LGBTQ and civil rights history
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
David Oshinsky
Ren Pepitone
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History of gender and sexuality, cultural history, urban history, modern
Britain and its empire
Kim Phillips-Fein
20th century U.S. history, political history, business and labor history, social movements.
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