Department of History

ABI-MERSHED, Osama W. (PhD, Georgetown, 2003; asst. prof.)
Middle East and North Africa

ÁGOSTON, Gábor (PhD, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1994; assoc. prof.)
Ottoman Empire, Turkey, early modern military

ASTARITA, Tommaso (PhD, Johns Hopkins 1988; prof. and Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean

BENEDICT, Carol Ann (PhD, Stanford 1992; assoc. prof. and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies-Fall 2009)
China, Chinese medicine, Japan

BENTON-COHEN, Katherine (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2002)
19th and 20th century U.S., Gender, American West

CHICKERING, Roger (PhD, Stanford 1968; prof. and faculty, Center for German and European Studies)
Modern Germany

COLLINS, David, S.J. (PhD, Northwestern 2004; assoc. prof.)
Medieval Germany

COLLINS, James B. (PhD, Columbia 1978; prof.)
16th- through 18th-century Europe

DUNKLEY, Peter (PhD, Stanford 1976; assoc. prof. and assoc. dean, School of Foreign Service)
Britain (esp. 19th century)

EVTUHOV, Catherine (PhD, California, Berkeley 1991; assoc. prof.)
Imperial Russia, ideas, culture, religion, local history

GAMES, Alison F. (PhD, Pennsylvania 1992; prof. and Director of Graduate Studies)
Colonial America, Atlantic, migration

GOLDFRANK, David M. (PhD, Washington 1970; prof.)
Medieval and early modern Russia, Russian intellectual and foreign policy, eastern Europe

HADDAD, Yvonne (PhD, Hartford Sem. 1979; prof. and faculty, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding)
Middle East, 20th-century Islamic, social and intellectual

HORVATH-PETERSON, Sandra (PhD, Catholic 1971; assoc. prof.)
Modern France (esp. social and religious)

JACKSON, Maurice (PhD, Georgetown 2001; assoc. prof.)
Atlantic, African-American, Radicalism,

KAMINSKI, Andrzej (PhD, Jagellonian, Poland, 1966; prof.)
Early Modern East Central Europe, Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

KAZIN, Michael (PhD, Stanford 1983; prof.)
U.S. social movements and politics, Reconstruction to present

KIM, Christine (PhD, Harvard 2004; asst. prof.)
Modern Korea, colonial modernity, empire studies

KUISEL, Richard (PhD, Berkeley 1963; adj. prof. and faculty, German and European Studies)
20th-century France, contemporary Europe, Americanization

LANGER, Erick (PhD, Stanford 1984; assoc. prof.)
Latin America and Andes, social and economic, frontiers

LEONARD, Amy (PhD, Berkeley 1999; assoc. prof.)
Early modern Germany, gender, the Protestant Reformation

MANNING, Chandra (PhD, Harvard 2002; assoc. prof.)
19th-century U.S., sectionalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, baseball

MCCANN, Bryan (PhD, Yale 1999; assoc. prof. and Director of Master's Programs)
Latin America, modern Brazil, popular culture

MCCARTIN, Joseph (PhD, SUNY-Binghamton 1990; assoc. prof.)
20th-century U.S. labor, social, political

MCKITTRICK, Meredith (PhD, Stanford 1995; assoc. prof.)
African colonial, gender

MCNEILL, John (PhD, Duke 1981; University Professor)
Environmental, Mediterranean, Atlantic

MILLWARD, James (PhD, Stanford 1993; prof.)
Intersocietal history; late Imperial China; Central and Inner Asia; Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet; frontiers; ethnicity

MORAN CRUZ, Jo Ann Hoeppner (PhD, Brandeis 1976; assoc. prof.; on leave 2008-2010)

medieval and early modern, education and literacy, England

 

MUSCOLINO, Micah (PhD, Harvard, 2006; assist. prof.)
Environmental history

OLESKO, Kathryn (PhD, Cornell 1980; assoc. prof. and faculty, Center for German and European Studies)
17th- to 20th-century European science and technology; gender and science

 

PAINTER, David (PhD, North Carolina 1982; assoc. prof.)
U.S. diplomatic

ROSHWALD, Aviel (PhD, Harvard 1987; prof. and chair)
19th- and 20th-century European diplomatic, ethnic politics and nationalism

ROTHMAN, Adam (PhD, Columbia, 2000; assoc. prof.)
early national U.S., slavery, Atlantic

SAND, Jordan (PhD, Columbia 1996; assoc. prof. and faculty, East Asian Languages)
Modern Japan, social reform, domesticity

SHEDEL, James P. (PhD, Rochester 1978; assoc. prof.)
Habsburg Austria, Germany, central Europe

SPENDELOW, Howard (PhD, Harvard 1982; assoc. prof.)
China, East Asia

STITES, Richard (PhD, Harvard 1968; prof.)
modern Russia, cultural and social

TUCKER, Judith (PhD, Harvard 1981; prof.)
Middle East and Egypt, women, Ottoman

TUCKER, Nancy Bernkopf (PhD, Columbia 1980; prof.)
U.S. diplomatic, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asia

TUTINO, John (PhD, Texas, Austin 1976; assoc. prof. and Director of the GIGH)
Latin America, Mexico, social/cultural/political

VAIDIK, Aparna (PhD, Nehru University, New Delhi 2005)
South Asia

VOLL, John (PhD, Harvard 1969; prof. and faculty, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding)
World history; Middle East, modern Islamic

WITEK, John W., S.J. (PhD, Georgetown 1973; prof.)
East Asia, China, Japan

O'BRIEN, Patricia (PhD, Sydney 1999; visiting asst. prof.)
Australia, race, gender, sexuality, colonial politics, film

 

OTIENO, Alphonse (PhD, Northwestern University 2008, visiting instructor)
Environmental history of Africa, Conservation and Government

 

PINKARD, Susan (PhD, Chicago 1982; visiting asst. prof.)
Europe, history of ideas, history of material culture

SODHY, Pamela (PhD, Cornell, 1982; visiting assoc. prof.)
Southeast Asia, U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

BOWMAN, Matthew (PhD cand., Georgetown;  Lecturer)

U.S. History

 

BRANDOW-FALLER, Megan (PhD cand., Georgetown; Davis Lecturer)

Modern Europe

GROSS, Max (PhD, Georgetown 1979 professorial lecturer)

Islamic Societies, Indian Sub-continent, Indian Ocean, Modern Middle East

 

KAPLAN, Lawrence S. (PhD, Yale 1951; adj. prof.)
U.S. military, diplomatic society

PAXTON, Jennifer (PhD, Harvard 1999; professorial lecturer)
Medieval Europe