United States: Faculty
Mark P. Bradley Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995. Associate Professor of International History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
Kathleen Neils Conzen Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972. Professor of American History and the College; Chair, Department of History. Teaching at Chicago since 1976. Special Interests: American urban history; immigration and ethnicity; rural history; western settlement; nineteenth-century social history.
Edward M. Cook Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1972. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1971. Special Interests: Colonial and revolutionary America; social history; eighteenth-century Britain.
Jane Dailey Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007. Special Interests: United States Since 1865;
Social and Political History of the Post-Civil War South;
The Civil Rights Movement;
Women and Gender in American History.
Adam Green Ph.D., Yale University, 1998. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
Ramón Gutiérrez Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980. Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
Neil Harris Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of American History, Geographical Studies, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1969. Special Interests: History of modern culture; history of technology, communications, architecture, and the arts of design.
Thomas C. Holt Ph.D., Yale University, 1973. James Westfall Thompson Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1987. Special Interests: African-American, Southern, and British-Caribbean history.
William J. Novak Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1991. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1991. Special Interests: U.S. and comparative legal history; political thought; regulation and the state.
Julie Saville Ph.D., Yale University, 1986. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1994. Special Interests: African American and Caribbean history; com-parative slavery and emancipations.
James Sparrow Ph.D., Brown University, 2002. Assistant Professor of Americah History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2003. Special Interests: The social and cultural history of the national state; the history of political culture, policy and politics; the history of the consumer culture; the history of technology; history and new media.
Amy Dru Stanley Ph.D., Yale University, 1990. Associate Professor of American History, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1994. Special Interests: U.S., gender, legal, and intellectual history.
American History graduate students also work closely with many other University of Chicago faculty members both within and outside the Department. Some non-Americanist Department members who have served on recent U.S. dissertation committees include Bruce Cumings in international history and foreign relations, Michael Geyer in military history and human rights; Ralph Austen in slavery and race, Leora Auslander in gender and women's history, Emilio Kourí in Mexican-American and rural history, and William Sewell in social history. Many Chicago faculty members in other departments share our interest in training students in American History. Some who have served on recent dissertation committees include William Brown and Kenneth Warren in English, Miriam Hansen in film studies, Catherine Brekus in Divinity, Michael Conzen in geographical studies, Raymond Fogelson in Anthropology, and Philip Bohlman in Music. James Grossman, Vice-President for Research at the Newberry Library, is also a Senior Lecturer in the History Department and regularly works with American history graduate students on African-American and 20th century history.