Department of History | The University of Chicago

GUY S. ALITTO
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1975

FIELDS: Modern Chinese Intellectual History; Chinese Social History; Chinese Local Rural History.

LEORA AUSLANDER
Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D. Brown University, 1988

FIELDS: 19th and 20th century European Social History with a focus on France and Germany; Material Culture and Consumption; Gender History and Theory; Jewish History; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe.

DAIN BORGES
Associate Professor of Latin American History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1986

FIELDS: Modern Brazilian history including social science, literature, popular religion and state-formation.

JOHN W. BOYER
Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College; Dean of the College
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1975

FIELDS: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Political and Cultural History, particularily in Germany and the Habsburg Empire; Religion and Politics in Modern European History.

MARK P. BRADLEY
Professor of International History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995

FIELDS: Twentieth century U.S. international history; Postcolonial Southeast Asian history; Global human rights.

MATTHEW BRIONES
Assistant Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2005

FIELDS: Comparative race relations; Asian/Pacific Islander American history; African American history; interracial and interethnic coalitions and conflicts; immigration; transnationalism, especially between the U.S. and the Philippines; and the history of baseball and American culture.

SUSAN BURNS
Associate Professor of Japanese History and the College
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1994

FIELDS: Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Cultural History, History of Medicine; Gender and the Body.

DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D. Australian National University, 1984

FIELDS: Modern South Asian history; subaltern, indigenous, and minority histories; labor history; history of Bengal; history in/and public life; empire, colonial rule, and modernity; postcolonial theory and history.

PAUL CHENEY
Assistant Professor of French History and the College
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002
FIELDS: The Enlightenment; French Revolution; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought; and the Origins of Capitalism in World-Systems Perspective.

KATHLEEN NEILS CONZEN
Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972

FIELDS: American Urban History; Immigration and Ethnicity; Rural History; Western Settlement; Nineteenth-Century Social History.

EDWARD COOK
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1972

FIELDS: Colonial and Revolutionary America; Social History; Eighteenth-Century Britain.

BRUCE CUMINGS
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College; Department Chairperson
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975

FIELDS: Modern Korean History; East Asian Political Economy; International History.

JANE DAILEY
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995

FIELDS: Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, and legal history.

CONSTANTIN FASOLT
Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1981

FIELDS: Early Modern Europe; Political, Social, and Legal Thought in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; History and Theory of Historical Writing; Reformation; Conciliar Movement.
On Leave: 2009- 2010

SHEILA FITZPATRICK
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of Modern Russian History and the College
D.Phil. Oxford University, 1969

FIELDS: Soviet Social, Political, and Cultural History; Social Identity; Social Mobility; International Left; Australian History.

CORNELL H. FLEISCHER
Kanunî Süleyman Professor of Islamic and Ottoman History, and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1982

FIELDS: Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History; Social and Cultural History; Comparative Studies in Early Modern Societies.
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Winter 2010

RACHEL FULTON
Associate Professor of Medieval History and the College
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1994

FIELDS: History of Christianity; Medieval European Cultural, Social, and Religious History; Medieval Liturgy; the Cult of the Virgin Mary; Scriptural Exegesis and Hermeneutics.

MICHAEL GEYER
Samuel N. Harper Professor of Modern European History and the College; Faculty Director of the Human Rights Program
Dr.Phil. Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, 1976

FIELDS: Modern German and European History; Globalization & World History; Human Rights; European War & Genocide.

JAN E. GOLDSTEIN
Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Modern European History and the College
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1978

FIELDS: Modern European Intellectual History; Modern France; History of Psychiatry; Conceptions of Selfhood and Identity.

ADAM GREEN
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1998

FIELDS: Modern U.S. History; African American History; Urban History; Comparative Racial Politics; Cultural Economy.

RAMÓN A. GUTIÉRREZ
Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980

FIELDS: Chicano History; Race and Ethnicity in American Life; Chicano/Latino Studies; Indian-White Relations in the Americas; Social and Economic History of the Southwest; Colonial Latin America; Mexican Immigration.

JONATHAN HALL
Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Ancient Greek History and the College; Professor and Chair of Classics
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1993

FIELDS: Greek social and cultural History, especially ancient Greek ethnicities; history and material culture.

CAMERON HAWKINS
Assistant Professor of Ancient History and the College
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2006

FIELDS: Economic and social history of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire; warand society in ancient Greece and Rome.

JAMES HEVIA
Professor, International History and the New Collegiate Division
Director, International Studies Program
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1986

FIELDS: Modern China, British Empire, Imperialism and Colonialism, Global Studies.

THOMAS C. HOLT
James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1973

FIELDS: African American, Southern, and British Caribbean History.

RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE
Assistant Professor of African History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005

FIELDS: Central Africa; history of women, sexuality, and gender; urban history; customary and modern law; post-colonial social and cultural history.

ADRIAN JOHNS
Professor of History of Science and the College; Professor and Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1992

FIELDS: History of early modern science and the history of the book.

WALTER KAEGI
Professor of Byzantine History and the College; Voting member, Oriental Institute
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965

FIELDS: Byzantine and Late Roman Political, Social, Military and Religious Structure; Historiography; European Military History and Strategy; Byzantino-Islamic History.
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Winter 2010

JAMES KETELAAR
Professor of Japanese History and of of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1987

FIELDS: Nationalism and Religion; Pre-modern and Modern Japanese History.

EMILIO KOURÍ
Associate Professor of Latin American History and the College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1996

FIELDS: Rural Mexico since 1750, including social relations and movements; agrarian, agricultural, business and legal history, and the "Indian question"; the Spanish Caribbean; U.S. Latino history.

JONATHAN LYON
Assistant Professor of Medieval History and the College
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2005

FIELDS: Social, economic, political, legal and institutional history of Europe 800 to 1400; medieval noble families.
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Winter 2010

DAVID NIRENBERG
Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992

FIELDS: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations.

EMILY LYNN OSBORN
Assistant Professor of African History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000

FIELDS: African History; Francophone Africa; Gender in Africa; Colonialism; Technology Transfer and Diffusion.
On Leave: 2009-2010

MOISHE POSTONE
Professor of Modern European History and the College
D.Phil. J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 1983

FIELDS: Modern European Intellectual History; Social Theory, especially Critial Theories of Modernity; Twentieth-Century Germany; Anti-Semitism; Contemporary Global Transformations.

ROBERT J. RICHARDS
Morris Fishbein Professor of Science and Medicine, Professor of History, Philosophy, and Psychology and the College; Director of the Fishbein Center
Ph.D. St. Louis University, 1971; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978

FIELDS: History of Biology and Psychology; Philosophy of History; Germany Intellectual History.

JULIE SAVILLE
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1986

FIELDS: African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative Slavery and Emancipations.
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Spring 2010

JAMES T. SPARROW
Assistant Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Brown University, 2002

FIELDS: Modern United States political and social history; war and society; social science and the state; technology; history and new media.
On Leave: Autumn 2009 and Winter 2010

AMY DRU STANLEY
Associate Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1990

FIELDS: United States Gender, Legal, and Intellectual History.
On Leave: 2009- 2010

CHRISTINE STANSELL
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of American History and the College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1979

FIELDS: Women's and gender history; Antebellum U.S. social and political history; American cultural history; Modern fiction.

MAURICIO TENORIO
Professor of Latin American History and the College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1993

FIELDS: Modern. Cultural history, urban history, international history, Americas; Latin America, Spain, U.S., Mexico.

BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History and the College
D.Phil. Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001

FIELDS: Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and diplomacy of twentieth century Europe.

ALISON WINTER
Associate Professor of History of Science and the College
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1993

FIELDS: History of medicine and the history of human sciences after 1750; nineteenth-century science; British history.

JOHN E. WOODS
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1974

FIELDS: State Formation and Economic History in the Premodern Islamic Middle East and Central Asia.
On Leave: Autumn 2009

TARA ZAHRA
Assistant Professor of East European History and the College
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005

FIELDS: Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration.
On Leave: 2009- 2010

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