Faculty by Specialization
For faculty by name see Faculty Directory
African History
Steve Davis
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2010
Research Interests: South African history; microhistory; public history
Francis Musoni
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University, 2011
Research Interests: Colonial and Post-Colonial Southern Africa; border jumping; informal sector histories; borderland cultures
Sophie Roberts
Assistant Professor; Zantker Professor of Jewish History
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2010
Research Interests: Modern France and North Africa; antisemitism; citizenship
Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California/Los Angeles, 2008
Research Interests: African history; Eritrea; colonialism
African-American History
Joanne Melish
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1988
Research Interests: African-American history; education and the civil rights movement; African-Americans in Kentucky'
Gerald Smith
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1988
Research Interests: African-American history; education and the civil rights movement; African-Americans in Kentucky
Jakobi Williams
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California/Los Angeles, 2008
Research Interests: African-American history; 20th century United States history; the Black Panther Party and the Black Power/Civil Rights movements
Ancient History
Daniel Gargola
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1988
Research Interests: Roman Republic; legal history; rituals
David Hunter
Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies, Division of Classics
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Theology (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity), 1986
Research Interests: Early Christianity; Patristics; marriage and celibacy in the early church
Atlantic World History
Erik Lars Myrup
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research Interests: Brazil and Latin America; early modern expansion; cross-cultural encounters
British History
Phil Harling
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992
Research Interests: Modern British history; political culture; citizenship
Tammy Whitlock
Lecturer
Research Interests: 19th century British history; crime
Byzantine History
Bruce Holle
Senior Lecturer
David Olster
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985
Research Interestss: Early Christianity; Byzantium; rhetoric
Cultural History
Francie Chassen-López
Professor
Ph.D., National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Interests: Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history
Denise Ho
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009
Research Interests: Modern China; cultural history; social history
Karen Petrone
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Research Interests: Russian and Soviet history; gender history; cultural history; war and memory
Akiko Takenaka
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2004
Research Interests: Modern Japanese history; social and cultural history; memory and representation
Digital History
Jane E. Calvert
Associate Professor; Director/Editor, The John Dickinson Writings Project
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
Research Interests: Early modern Anglo-American theology and political theory
Abigail Firey
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995
Research Interests: Early Medieval Europe; legal history; manuscript studies
Early Modern History
Erik Lars Myrup
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research Interests: Brazil and Latin America; early modern expansion; cross-cultural encounters
Jeremy Popkin
T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History; Director, UK Jewish Studies program
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley, 1977
Research Interests: Early modern France; autobiography; the Haitian Revolution; Jewish Studies
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
Research Interests: Early modern Europe; the Inquisition; cultural history
Scott K. Taylor
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2001
Research Interests: Early modern Europe; Early modern Spain; Alcohol and Drugs history
East Asian History
Denise Ho
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Havard University, 2009
Research Interests: Modern China; cultural history; social history
Akiko Takenaka
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2004
Research Interests: Modern Japanese history; social and cultural history; memory and representation
Gender History
Francie Chassen-Lopez
Professor
Ph.D., National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Interests: Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history
Melanie Goan
Lecturer
Research Interests: 20th century U.S. history; women's history; Appalachian history; history of medicine
Kathi Kern
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989
Research Interests: 19th century U.S. history; gender history; religion
Karen Petrone
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Research Interests: Russian and Soviet history; gender history; cultural history; war and memory
International History
Paul Chamberlin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2009
Research Interests: International history; the Cold War; Middle Eastern history
Lien-Hang Nguyen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
Research Interests: U.S. foreign relations; Southeast Asia; the Cold War
Latin American History
Francie Chassen-Lopez
Professor
Ph.D., National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Interests: Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history
Erik Lars Myrup
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research Interests: Brazil and Latin America; early modern expansion; cross-cultural encounters
Medieval Europe History
Abigail Firey
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995
Research Interests: Early Medieval Europe; legal history; manuscript studies
David Hunter
Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies, Division of Classics
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Theology (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity), 1986
Research Interests: Early Christianity; Patristics; marriage and celibacy in the early church
Modern Europe History
James Albisetti
Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1976
Research Interests: 19th century German and Western European History; history of education and the professions; social history of the middle classes; women's history
Ellen Furlough
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1987
Research Interests: Modern France and Europe; tourism; consumer cultures
Philip Harling
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992
Research Interests: Modern British history; political culture; citizenship
Karen Petrone
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Research Interests: Russian and Soviet history; gender history; cultural history; war and memory
Sophie Roberts
Assistant Professor; Zantker Professor of Jewish History
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2010
Research Interests: Modern France and North Africa; antisemitism; citizenship
Tammy Whitlock
Lecturer
Research Interests: Modern British history; political culture; citizenship
Modern Jewish History
Jeremey Popkin
T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History; Director, UK Jewish Studies program
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley, 1977
Research Interests: Early modern France; autobiography; the Haitian Revolution; Jewish Studies
Sophie Roberts
Assistant Professor; Zantker Professor of Jewish History
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2010
Research Interests: Modern France and North Africa; antisemitism; citizenship
Russian History
Karen Petrone
Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
Research Interests: Russian and Soviet history; gender history; cultural history; war and memory
Daniel Rowland
Associate Professor, emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University, 1976
Research Interests: Early modern Russia; art and architecture; Russian literature
United States History
Jane E. Calvert
Associate Professor; Director/Editor, The John Dickinson Writings Project
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
Research Interests: Early modern Anglo-American theology and political theory
Tracy Campbell
Professor of History; Co-Director, Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
Ph.D., Duke University, 1988
Research Interests: 20th century U.S. history; public policy; elections
Eric Christianson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1976
Research Interests: U.S. history; history of medicine; environmental history
Ronald Eller
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1979
Research Interests: Appalachian history; public policy and economic development
Ron Formisano
Bryan Chair Professor
Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1966
Research Interests: American history; political history; populist movements
Melanie Goan
Lecturer
Research Interests: 20th century U.S. history; women's history; Appalachian history; history of medicine
David Hamilton
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Iowa, 1985
Research Interests: 20th U.S. history; state-building; agricultural history
Kathi Kern
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989
Research Interests: 19th century U.S. history; gender history; religion
Mark Kornbluh
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor of History
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1988
Research Interests: U.S. history; oral history; academics in the age of the Internet
Joanne Melish
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 1996
Research Interests: 19th century U.S. history; African-American history; cultural history
Lien-Hang Nguyen
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
Research Interests: U.S. foreign relations; Southeast Asia; the Cold War
Gerald Smith
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1988
Research Interests: African-American history; education and the civil rights movement; African Americans in Kentucky
Mark Summers
Professor
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley, 1980
Research Interests: 19th century U.S. history; political history; political cartoons
Amy Murrel Taylor
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research Interests: 19th century U.S. history; American South; Civil War
Jakobi Williams
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Calinfornia/Los Angeles, 2008
Research Interests: African-American history; 20th century U.S. history; the Black Panther Party and the Black Power/Civil Right movements
