Faculty by Specialization
For faculty by name see Faculty Directory
African History
Steve Davis
Associate 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
African-American History
Anastasia Curwood, Associate Professor
Vanessa Holden, Assistant Professor
Gerald Smith
Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1988
Research Interests: African-American history; education and the civil rights movement; African-Americans in Kentucky
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
Associate 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
Associate Professor
Research Interests: 19th century British history; crime
Byzantine History
Bruce Holle
Associate Professor
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
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
Associate 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
Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995
Research Interests: Early Medieval Europe; legal history; manuscript studies
Early Modern History
Erik Lars Myrup
Associate 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;
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley, 1977
Research Interests: Early modern France; autobiography; the Haitian Revolution; Jewish Studies
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
Emily Mokros, Assistant Professor
Akiko Takenaka
Associate 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
Associate Professor
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
Latin American History
Joseph Clark, Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Research Interests: Brazil and Latin America; early modern expansion; cross-cultural encounters
Medieval Europe History
Abigail Firey
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
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
Tammy Whitlock
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Modern British history; political culture; citizenship
Modern Jewish History
Jeremey Popkin
T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Professor of History
Ph.D., University of California/Berkeley, 1977
Research Interests: Early modern France; autobiography; the Haitian Revolution; Jewish Studies
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
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;
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
Melanie Goan
Associate Professor
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
Gerald Smith
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
