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Faculty in the Department

Academic Year 2012-2013

Department Chair (Acting): Isabel Hull
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Aaron Sachs
Director of Graduate Studies: Durba Ghosh

Faculty in the Department

U.S. Political/19th Century America.
Bassi, Ernesto Colonial Latin America; Caribbean history; Atlantic World.
Byfield, Judith African and African diaspora history with emphasis on West Africa; gender and labor history; Caribbean history.
Modern European Jewish (esp. France and Germany).
Modern East-Central Europe.
Asian-American and 19th Century U.S.
Chinese-American relations, modern China, Cold War.
Early modern Germany and European history; cultural, social, and religious history.
Modern Latin America.
Science, scientific revolution.
Medieval, Cultural and Norse.
North American refugee / immigration policy; U.S. Latino history; migration in the Americas.
Modern South Asia, gender, colonialism.
Africa, pre-industrial social, comparative gender and ethnicity.
Chinese medical and religious history.
Cultural and intellectual history of early modern Japan (1600-1890).
Germany 1700-1945 (esp. sociopolitical, military, legal, administrative, and political theory).
Medieval, legal, political.
Modern U.S. Political and Social History.
Modern Japan, Japanese intellectual and cultural.
Modern European intellectual and cultural.
American foreign policy, Cold War.
Southeast Asian, gender and legal studies.
Minawi, Mostafa Modern Middle East, Ottoman History, Mediterranean and North African Imperial History.
Late medieval and Renaissance Italy, Florence, Machiavelli.
Early America (before 1815), women and gender.
Native American (esp. Iroquois) and Early American.
Roman history, especially Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.
European Cultural and Intellectual History; History of Modern France; Historiography; Gender and Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; Social and Political Thought; Ethics; Publicity and Privacy; Normativity and the Law.
American cultural, intellectual, and environmental history.
Ancient Greece, military.
Modern Southeast Asia.
Modern British and imperial history, colonial India.
Modern Russia and Europe; cultural/intellectual history; political violence.
African American cultural/intellectual/religious, gender, American south.
Early modern English political and cultural, gender.
Modern European social and political, postwar political culture, French education, International humanitarianism/human rights.