Faculty List

Arrom, Silvia M.
Jane's Professor of Latin American Studies
Expertise: Latin America. Women's history. Social history. Specializes in Mexican history. Teaches on Latin American history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latinos in the United States.

DeCoster, Jonathan
Lecturer in History

Engerman, David
Professor of History
Expertise: History of American foreign policy. American Intellectual and cultural history. International history and American history in transnational contexts.

Fischer, David Hackett
University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History
Expertise: American history, comparative history.

Freeze, Gregory
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History
Expertise: Modern Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history

Hang, Xing
Assistant Professor of History
Expertise: Early modern China (17th and 18th centuries), Ming-Qing transition, Dutch/Spanish/Zheng Taiwan, East Asian world order, Eurasian comparative history

Hopper, Ian
Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Modern Britain and the World from 1750

Hulliung, Mark L.
Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas
Expertise: Intellectual, cultural, and political history, American and European

James, Heyward Parker
Lecturer in History

Jankowski, Paul
Raymond Ginger Professor of History
Expertise: Modern European and French history.

Kamensky, Jane, Chair
Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization
Expertise: North America before ca. 1830, cultural history, the writing of history.

Kapelle, William E.
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Medieval history.

Kelikian, Alice A.
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Modern history. Social institutional history. Italian cinema.

Martínez, Rodolfo Fernandez
Lecturer in History

Sohrabi, Naghmeh
Assistant Professor of Middle East History
Charles Goodman Chair in Middle East History

Sreenivasan, Govind
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Early modern European history. Germany.

Sundiata, Ibrahim
Samuel and Augusta Spector Professor of History
Expertise: Africa: Social history. Slavery. The African diaspora. Afro-Brazil.

Willrich, Michael
Professor of History
Expertise: United States social and political history, with special interests in legal history, urban history, and the Progressive Era (1890-1920).

Affiliate Faculty Members

Antler, Joyce
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture and Women's and Gender Studies
Expertise: Women's history. Social history.

Donahue, Brian
Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies (on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund)
Expertise: American environmental studies.

Freeze, ChaeRan
Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies
Expertise: East European Jewish history.

Hansen, Karen
Professor of Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies
Expertise: Contemporary families; historical sociology; feminist theory; sociology of gender, class & race/ethnicity; community studies.

Kryder, Daniel
Associate Professor of Politics
Expertise: American political development. History of race policy and politics. The presidency. Wartime politics.

Polonsky, Antony
Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies
Expertise: East European Jewish history. Holocaust studies.

Reinharz, Jehuda
President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History; Director, Tauber Institute
Expertise: Modern Jewish history.

Sarna, Jonathan
Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History
Expertise: American Jewish History & Life; Jews in the Americas.

Sheppard, Eugene
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought
Expertise: Modern German and German-Jewish intellectual history. A special interest in modern German Jewish thought, and the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American, European, and Israeli public sphere as well as the academy.

Williams, Chad
Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies
Expertise: African American and modern United States History. African American military history. World War I. African American intellectual history.

Faculty Emeriti

Black, Eugene C.
Professor Emeritus of History

Keller, Morton
Professor Emeritus of History

Schrecker, John
Professor Emeritus of History

Vanger, Milton
Professor Emeritus of History