Department of History

Faculty

Gregory Childs
Gregory Childs
Assistant Professor of Latin American History
781-736-2291 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 105
Office Hours: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and by appointment

Expertise: African diaspora studies, Latin American and Caribbean history, critical theories (race, social, legal), history of psychiatry, alterity and difference, philosophy of history and historiography, Atlantic world history, graffiti and hip hop studies

Emilie Connolly
Emilie Connolly
Assistant Professor of History
781-736-2312 Golding Judaica Center, 119

Expertise: North American Indigenous history, the history of capitalism, and 19th-century United States history

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Abigail Cooper
Abigail Cooper
Assistant Professor of History
781-736-2284 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 121
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: U.S. history, slavery and emancipation, civil war and reconstruction, American religion and culture, 19th- century United States, social history of marginalized peoples

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Yuri Doolan
Yuri Doolan
Assistant Professor of History, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2350 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 216
Office Hours: 1-2 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and by appointment

Expertise: Asian American studies, transnational U.S. history, modern Korea, women’s history, gender and sexuality, oral history, critical mixed race studies

Gregory Freeze
Gregory Freeze
Raymond Ginger Chair in History
Department Chair
781-736-2766 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 213
Office Hours: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and by appointment

Expertise: Modern Russia, modern Germany, history of globalization, religion 

Xing Hang
Xing Hang
Visiting Associate Professor of History
781-736-2270
Office Hours: 10-11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays via Zoom

Expertise: East Asian world order, maritime East Asia, Eurasian comparative history, Ming-Qing transition, overseas Chinese, Chinese nationalism and identity

William E. Kapelle
William E. Kapelle
Associate Professor of History
Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-2279 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 120
Office Hours: 2:35-3:30 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and by appointment

Expertise: Roman and medieval history

David Katz
David Katz
Professor of History
Director, History of Ideas Program
781-736-2799 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 108
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment only

Expertise: History of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), early modern English history, early modern European religious history

Alice A. Kelikian
Alice A. Kelikian
Associate Professor of History
781-736-2276 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 219
Office Hours: 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and by appointment

Expertise: Modern European history, social history, Italian cinema and culture

Wangui Muigai
Wangui Muigai
Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History
781-736-2083 Rabb Graduate Center, 109
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: Race and health, history of medicine and science, African American cultural and intellectual history, history of childhood

Hannah Weiss Muller
Hannah Weiss Muller
Associate Professor of History
781-736-2278 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 119
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: Britain and the British Empire

A.J. Murphy
A.J. Murphy
Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2361 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 118
Office Hours: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and by appointment

Expertise: Cold War U.S., military history, business history, and the history of gender and sexuality

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Mate Rigo
Assistant Professor of History
781-736-2275 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 123
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: Modern East-Central and Western Europe, comparative and transnational history, history of capitalism, global Cold War, global socialism(s)

Amy Singer
Amy Singer
Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
781-736-2281 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 217
Office Hours: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and by appointment

Expertise: Ottoman and Turkish history; charity and philanthropy in Islamic history; agrarian history; Ottoman Jerusalem and Palestine

Avinash Singh
Avinash Singh
Assistant Professor in History, the International and Global Studies Program, and South Asian Studies
Office Hours: 12-4 p.m. Wednesdays and by appointment

Expertise: Modern Indian history; South Asian culture, literature and film; religion and politics; Asian digital cultures; global history of sport; post-colonial Caribbean literature

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History
781-736-5327 Lemberg Hall, 108
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: Modern Middle East history, modern Iran history, nationalism, historiography, comparative revolutions

Govind Sreenivasan
Govind Sreenivasan
Associate Professor of History
781-736-2277 Golding Judaica Center, 104
Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: Early modern European history, especially Germany, world history

Michael Willrich
Michael Willrich
Leff Families Professor of History
781-736-2292 Golding Judaica Center, 115
Office Hours: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and by appointment

  • Expertise: United States social, legal and political history

Teaching Affiliated Faculty

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Darlene Brooks Hedstrom
Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies
Office Hours: 1-2 p.m. Tuesdays (Mandel 213); 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays (Lown 308)
Pronouns: she/her

Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity. Material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean World. Foodways in Late Antiquity.

ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2987 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 312

Expertise: Jewish history, women's and gender studies

Leah Gordon
Leah Gordon
Harry S. Levitan Director of Education
Associate Professor of Education
781-736-2001 Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 217

Expertise: The history of education, intellectual history, the relationship between social science and social policy, and ideas about race, class, and inequality in modern America

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Rachel L. Greenblatt
Judaica Librarian
781-736-4688 Farber Level 2
Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Expertise: Early modern history, especially Jewish cultural history in early modern Central Europe and Habsburg lands; women's history and gender studies; history and memory

Karen V. Hansen
Karen V. Hansen
Professor of Sociology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
781-736-2651 Pearlman Hall, 209

Expertise: Sociology of gender, class and race/ethnicity, families and kinship, historical sociology, community studies

Laura Jockusch
Laura Jockusch
Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies
781-736-2959 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 310

Expertise: Modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies

Daniel Thomas Kryder
Daniel Thomas Kryder
Luis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics
781-736-2778 Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 202

Expertise: American political development, qualitative methods, policing and social movements, history of race policy and politics

Jehuda Reinharz
Jehuda Reinharz
President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History
Director, Tauber Institute
781-736-8581 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 304

Expertise: Modern Jewish history

Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan Sarna
University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History
781-736-2977 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 213

Expertise: American Jewish history and life, Jews in the Americas; American religion

Eugene R. Sheppard
Eugene R. Sheppard
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought
781-736-2965 Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 307

Expertise: Modern European Jewish intellectual history, history of Jewish nationalism and zionism, modern European intellectual history, history of continental philosophy, modern German Jewish thought, the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American, European, and Israeli public sphere as well as the academy

Chad Williams
Chad Williams
Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History
781-736-3250 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 220

Expertise: African American and modern United States history, African American military history, World War I, African American intellectual history

Faculty Emeriti

Joyce Antler
Joyce Antler
Professor Emerita of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: Women's history, social history, history of education, history as theater, Jewish women's history, women and gender studies

Silvia M. Arrom
Silvia M. Arrom
Professor Emerita of History

Expertise: Latin America, women's history, social history, Mexican history, Latin American history, U.S.-Latin American relations, Latinos in the United States

David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer
University Professor Emeritus of History

Expertise: American history, comparative history

Mark L. Hulliung
Mark L. Hulliung
Richard Koret Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas

Expertise: Intellectual, cultural and political history, American and European

Paul Jankowski
Paul Jankowski
Raymond Ginger Professor Emeritus of History
781-736-2274 Golding Judaica Center, 23
Office Hours: 11 a.m.-12.30 p.m. Mondays, Thursday and by appointment

Expertise: Modern European and French history, history of modern war

Antony Polonsky
Antony Polonsky
Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies

Expertise: East European Jewish history, Holocaust studies

John Schrecker
John Schrecker
Professor Emeritus of History

Expertise: East Asian history and civilization, Sino-Western and Sino-American relations, modern China, traditional Chinese thought

Ibrahim Sundiata
Ibrahim Sundiata
Professor Emeritus of History

Expertise: Africa: social history, slavery, African diaspora, Afro-Brazil