Graduate School Bulletin

Faculty of History Department

Professors

Hong, Young-Sun, Ph.D., 1989, University of Michigan: Modern Germany, humanitarianism and human rights, race, gender.

Kelton, Paul, Ph.D., 1998, University of Oklahoma: Indigenous peoples of North America, environment and medicine, early American history.

Lim, Shirley, Ph.D., 1998, UCLA: Twentieth-century U.S., Asian-American history, cultural history, women.

Lipton, Sara, Ph.D., 1991, Yale University: Medieval Europe, Jewish history, religion, gender.

Sellers, Christopher, Ph.D., 1992, Yale University; M.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1992: U.S. environmental history, medicine and the body, transnational industrial and urban history.

Shankar, Shobana, Ph.D., 2003, University of California, Los Angeles: Africa (particularly West Africa), colonial and postcolonial politics, religion, health, Muslim-Christian interactions, Africa-South Asia connections.

Tomes, Nancy J., Ph.D., 1978, University of Pennsylvania: U.S. social and cultural history, history of medicine, women, gender.

Wilson, Kathleen, Ph.D., 1985, Yale University: Modern British cultural and political history.

Zolov, Eric, Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago: Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, popular culture, global 1960s.

Associate Professors

Anderson, Jennifer, Ph.D., 2007, New York University: Atlantic World, race, colonialism, labor, commodities, environmental history.

Beverley, Eric L., Ph.D., 2007, Harvard University: Early modern and modern South Asia, Indian Ocean, Muslim world, urban studies, law and crime, transnational history.

Chase, Robert, Ph.D., 2009, University of Maryland: Post-1945 U.S., civil rights law and politics, the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Chicano movements, prisons and policing.

Cooper, Alix, Ph.D., 1998, Harvard University: Early modern Europe, science, medicine, environment, women and gender, cross-cultural encounters.

Flores, Lori, Ph.D., 2011, Stanford University: Twentieth-century U.S., Latino, immigration, race, labor, gender, U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Frohman, Larry, Ph.D., 1992, University of California, Berkeley: Modern Europe, surveillance studies and the information society, welfare and social policy, intellectual history.

Masten, April, Ph.D., 1999, Rutgers University: Nineteenth-century U.S. cultural history.

Mimura, Janis, Ph.D., 2002, University of California, Berkeley: Modern Japan, imperialism, fascism, political-economy, technology and society.

Newman, Elizabeth Terese, Ph.D., 2008, Yale University: Mexico, environmental humanities, anthropology, archaeology.

Rilling, Donna J., Ph.D., 1993, University of Pennsylvania: Colonial and early national U.S., economic, business, social history.

Assistant Professors

Ballan, Mohamad, Ph.D., 2019, University of Chicago: Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, Borderlands, Intellectual History, Iberian Studies.

Fernando, Tamara, Ph.D., 2022, University of Cambridge: Indian Ocean world, Persian/Arabian Gulf, Sri Lanka, histories of science, environment, and labour.

Glickman, Susannah, Ph.D., 2023, Columbia University: Computing, Political Economy, 20th century US and the World, Histories of Science.

Mantilla Morales, Valeria, Ph.D., 2024, University of Toronto: Latin America and the Caribbean; Colombia; cultural history; colonialism; race; Food; Environment; cartography.

Lecturers & Visiting Scholars

Backfish, Charles, A.M., 1968, New York University: Social studies education.

Chambers, Mark, Ph.D., 2021, State University of New York, Stony Brook: Environmental, African American & U.S., Science, Technology, and Medicine along the color line.

Affiliated Faculty

Adams, Margarethe, Music: Kazakhstan and Northwest China; music, sound, and belief; temporality and popular culture; Islam in Central Asia.

Asare, Abena, Africana Studies: Contemporary Africa, international human rights, penal abolition, truth and reconciliation, historical justice, historical theory.

Burgos-LaFuente, Lena, Hispanic Languages & Literature: Caribbean literatures, poetry, Latin American essay writing, sound studies, and transatlantic literary crossings in the first half of the twentieth century.

Firbas, Paul, Hispanic Languages and Literature: Epic poetry, textual criticism, historiography and colonial geography of South America.

Gulema, Shimelis, Africana Studies: Modern and contemporary Africa, migration and diaspora, modernity and modernization, urbanization.

Hesford, Victoria, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Gender, sexuality, queer and feminist theory, U.S. queer and feminist history, popular and mass culture in the postwar era, critical theory.

Honisch, Erika Supria, Music: Music, politics, and religious culture in early modern Europe,  historical sound studies, music’s materialities, historiography, and music in ritual.

Levy, Daniel, Sociology:  Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Globalization, Collective Memory Studies.

Lloyd, Karen, Art: European Renaissance and Baroque Art, Italian Sculpture, Early Modern Europe and the Americas, Early Modern Art Theory.

Miletsky, Zebulon, Africana Studies: African-American history, civil rights, black power, urban history, racial identities, hip-hop studies.

Newman, Andrew, English: Early American History, indigenous studies, media studies, memory studies.

Schäfer, Wolf, Technology and Society: Global history, science, technology.

Uriarte, Javier, Hispanic Languages and Literatures: Travel writing, war, state power, global capital, Southern Cone, Brazil, Amazon.

Vernon, Kathleen M., Hispanic Languages and Literatures: contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema, literature and popular culture.

Vialette, Aurélie, Hispanic Languages and Literatures: Social movements, working-class organization, carceral studies, archival studies, 19th-century Iberian studies, Spanish/Catalan popular music.

Wilson, Nick, Sociology: Historical sociology, political economy, social theory, colonialism, empire, British Studies.

Emeriti Faculty

Barnhart, Michael, Ph.D., 1980, Harvard University: U.S. foreign policy; 20th-century U.S. history; modern Japan.

Bottigheimer, Karl S., Ph.D., 1965, University of California, Berkeley: Tudor-Stuart England and Ireland; early modern Europe and
Ireland.

Cowan, Ruth Schwarz, Ph.D., 1969, Johns Hopkins University: modern science, technology and medicine.

Goldenberg, Robert, Ph.D., 1974, Brown University: Jewish history and religion in late antiquity; rabbinic literature and exegesis.

Gootenberg, Paul, Ph.D., 1985, University of Chicago: Modern Latin America, Andes, economic-social history, drug history, commodities.

Kuisel, Richard F., 1963, University of California, Berkeley: modern Europe, France, Germany.

Landsman, Ned, Ph.D., 1979, University of Pennsylvania: Early American History and Scotland.

Larson, Brooke, Ph.D., 1978, Columbia University: Colonial and postcolonial Andes, peasants, race, ethnicity.

Lebovics, Herman, Ph.D., 1965, Yale University: Modern Europe; intellectual and cultural history; Germany and France.

Lemay, Helen R., Ph.D., 1972, Columbia University: Medieval and Renaissance history; history of science and medicine; women’s history.

Man-Cheong, Iona, Ph.D., 1991, Yale University: Late imperial China, empire, oceans, diaspora, transnationalism.

Marker, Gary J., Ph.D., 1977, University of California, Berkeley: Russian social and intellectual history; history of printing; European labor history.

Miller, Wilbur R., Ph.D., 1973, Columbia University: U.S. social and political history, Civil War and Reconstruction, crime and criminal justice history.

Rosenthal, Joel T., Ph.D., 1963, University of Chicago: Medieval history; medieval England; social history.

Roxborough, Ian, Ph.D., 1977, University of Wisconsin (joint appointment with Sociology): Latin America, labor, war and the military.

Williams, John A., Ph.D., 1963, University of Wisconsin: British Empire; Africa; the Commonwealth; expansion of Europe.

Wishnia, Judith, Ph.D., 1978, Stony Brook University: Modern Europe; France; labor history; women’s history.

Zimansky, Paul, Ph.D., 1980, University of Chicago: Ancient Near East, ancient imperialism, archaeology.