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Faculty
Visiting Faculty
Corinne Bloch
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
Dimitris Kousouris
Sarah Lopez
Valeria Manzano
Emeriti Faculty
Bentley Duncan
Harry Harootunian
Ping-ti Ho
Halil Inalcik
Julius Kirshner
William McNeil
Associated Faculty
Associated Faculty
MUZAFFAR ALAM
Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D.Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
1976
FIELDS:
Urdu and Indian Persian literature, history of late medieval and early
modern northern India.
MICHAEL ALLEN
Associate Professor of Classics
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1994
FIELDS:
Early medieval cultures, literatures, and societies; medieval historical writing; books, script, and learning in Medieval Europe; role of women in medieval education; Latin paleography.
CLIFFORD ANDO
Professor of Classics and the College
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996
FIELDS:
Roman imperial history; Law, administration and cultural change in the Roman empire; Religion and intellectual life in late antiquity; Religion in the Roman empire.
CATHERINE BREKUS
Associate Professor of the History of
Christianity
Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
FIELDS:
American religion of the colonial, early national, and
antebellum periods; history of women and religion; revivalism, slave
religion, millennialism, and popular religious movements.
ALAIN BRESSON
Professor of the Classics Department
doctorat d'État, University of Franche-Comté, 1994
FIELDS: Ancient world with particular interests in the ancient economy, the Hellenistic world, and the epigraphy of Rhodes and Asia Minor.
JEAN COMAROFF
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of London, 1974
FIELDS:
History
of ideology; missionization and popular resistance in South Africa.
JOHN E. CRAIG
Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Division
Ph.D. Stanford
University, 1973
FIELDS:
Economic and social history of modern Europe; historical demography;
comparative education.
FRED M. DONNER
Professor of Near Eastern History.
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1975
FIELDS:
Near Eastern History, Islamic History (Rise of Islam),
Political History, Theory of History, Apocalyptic Thought.
ROBERT W. FOGEL
Charles R. Walgreen Professor
of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business and
Economics
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1963
FIELDS:
The escape from hunger and high mortality in Europe,
America, and the Third World since 1750; aging during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries; business ethics; the political realignment of
the 1850s.
JAMES GROSSMAN
Associate Member
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
FIELDS: American South; Slavery; U.S. Social History; American Labor History; Urban History
R.H. HELMHOLZ
Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1970
FIELDS: His teaching interests have been centered in the law of property and in various aspects of natural resources law. His research interests have been concentrated in legal history. In the latter, his principal contribution has been to show the relevance of the Roman and canon laws to the development of the common law.
DENNIS J. HUTCHINSON
William Rainey Harper
Professor in the College, Sr. Lecturer at the Law School, Master of
the New Collegiate Division, and Assoc. Dean of the College
LL.M. University of Texas, Austin, 1974
FIELDS:
Judicial behavior; constitutional history;
development of legal thought.
ROCHONA MAJUMDAR
Assistant
Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003
FIELDS:
Social and
cultural history of modern South Asia.
PAUL MENDES-FLOHR
Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the
Divinity School, the Department of History, and the Committee on Jewish
Studies
Ph.D. Brandeis University
FIELDS:
Modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy
and religious thought, German intellectual history, and the history and
sociology of intellectuals.
JOHN F. PADGETT
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1978
FIELDS: Specializing in American politics, organizational theory, mathematical models, and public policy. He is best known for his models of the federal budget process, although he has written on a variety of topics. The American Journal of Sociology published both his 1993 article "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434" and his 1985 essay "The Emergent Organization of Plea Bargaining." He is a Director of the Organizations and State-Building Workshop.
LUCY K. PICK
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School
Ph.D. University of Toronto
FIELDS:
Medieval religious thought and practice, relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, the development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and the ways in which religion shapes lives through ritual.
A. HOLLY SHISSLER
Associate
Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History.
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
FIELDS:
Ottoman History,
History of the Early Turkish Republic, Modern Middle East History,
Nationalism, Intellectual History.
COREY TAZZARA
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in History, Stanford University, 2011
FIELDS:
Early modern Italy; economic and political history; the Ottoman Empire; the Mediterranean world.