Faculty by Field Specialty
Chairperson: Bruce Cumings
Africa | Ancient | Britain | Byzantine | Caribbean-Atlantic | East Asia
Early Modern Europe | Intellectual | International | Islam/Middle East
Latin America | Legal | Medieval Europe | Modern Europe
Modern Jewish | Russia | Science & Medicine | South Asia | United States
Emeritus Faculty | Associated Faculty
Faculty Office Hours - Spring 2008
Faculty Updates 2008-09
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African History
RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005. Assistant Professor of African History and in the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
rjeanbaptiste@uchicago.edu or 834-8767
EMILY LYNN OSBORN Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000. Assistant Professor of African History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
eosborn1@uchicago.edu or 834-9019
Profs. Austen (Emeritus) and Comaroff (Associate Faculty) also offers courses in this field.
Ancient History
JONATHAN M. HALL Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1993. Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Ancient Greek History; Professor and Chair of Classics. Teaching at Chicago since 1996.
jhall@uchicago.edu or 834-0756
*On Leave: 2007-2008
Profs. Kaegi (Byzantine) and Ando (Associate Faculty) also offer courses in this field.
British History
FREDRIK ALBRITTON JONSSON Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005. Assistant Professor of British History and in the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
fljonsso@uchicago.edu or 702-0638
Profs. Cook (U.S.), Helmholz (Associate Faculty), Johns (History of Science), and Winter (History of Science) teach in this field.
Byzantine History
WALTER E. KAEGI Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. Professor of Byzantine History, the Ancient Mediterranean World, the Division of the Humanities, and the College; Voting Member of the Oriental Institute. Teaching at Chicago since 1965.
w-kaegi@uchicago.edu or 702-8346
Caribbean-Atlantic History
PAUL CHENEY Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002. Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
cheney@uchicago.edu or 702-2631
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 and Winter 2008
THOMAS C. HOLT Ph.D., Yale University, 1973. James Westfall Thompson Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1987.
tholt@uchicago.edu or 702-8389
JULIE SAVILLE Ph.D., Yale University, 1986. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1994.
jsaville@uchicago.edu or 702-2695
Profs. Austen (Africa) and Borges (Latin America) teach courses in this field.
East Asian History
GUY S. ALITTO Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975. Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1980.
galitto@uchicago.edu or 702-8390
MARK P. BRADLEY Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995. Associate Professor of International History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
mbradley@uchicago.edu
*On Leave: 2007-2008
SUSAN L. BURNS Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994. Associate Professor of Japanese History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2002.
slburns@uchicago.edu or 702-8934
BRUCE CUMINGS Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975. Chair, Department of History. Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, International Relations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago from 1987 to 1994 and since 1997.
rufus88@uchicago.edu or 834-1818
PRASENJIT DUARA Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983. Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1991.
dua1@uchicago.edu or 702-8285
*On Leave: 2007-2008
JAMES E. KETELAAR Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987.
Professor of Japanese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1996.
jketelaa@uchicago.edu or 834-0763
Sr. Lecturer Hevia (Associate Faculty) also offers courses in this field.
Early Modern European History
PAUL CHENEY Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002. Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
cheney@uchicago.edu or 702-2631
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 and Winter 2008
CONSTANTIN FASOLT Ph.D., Columbia University, 1981. Professor of European History and the College. Master of Social Science Collegiate Division. Teaching at Chicago since 1983.
icon@uchicago.edu or 702-7935
Profs. Fleischer (Islam), Johns (History of Science), Swerdlow (History of Science), and Woods (Islam) also offer courses in this field.
History of Science and Medicine
ADRIAN JOHNS Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1992. Professor of History, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science & the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2001.
johns@uchicago.edu or 834-7571
ROBERT J. RICHARDS Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1971; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978. Morris Fishbein Professor of Science and Medicene. Professor of History, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Psychology, and the College; Director of the Fishbein Center. Teaching at Chicago since 1976.
r-richards@uchicago.edu or 702-8348
NOEL SWERDLOW Ph.D., Yale University, 1968. Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Committee on Conceptual Foundations of Science, History, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1968.
nms@uchicago.edu or 702-7969
ALISON WINTER Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1993. Associate Professor of History, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2001.
awinter@uchicago.edu or 834-7571
Prof. Goldstein (Modern Europe) also offers courses in this field.
Intellectual History
PAUL CHENEY Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002. Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
cheney@uchicago.edu or 702-2631
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 and Winter 2008
Profs. Goldstein (Modern Europe), Harris (U.S.), Ketelaar (East Asia), Novak (U.S.), Postone (Modern Europe), Richards (History of Science), Sewell (Modern Europe), and Stanley (U.S.) teach in this field.
International History
MARK P. BRADLEY Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995. Associate Professor of International History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
mbradley@uchicago.edu
*On Leave: 2007-2008
BRUCE CUMINGS Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975. Chair, Department of History. Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, International Relations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago from 1987 to 1994 and since 1997.
rufus88@uchicago.edu or 834-1818
PRASENJIT DUARA Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983. Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1991.
dua1@uchicago.edu or 702-8285
*On Leave: 2007-2008
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (D. Phil. Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001). Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Prof, Modern European Jewish History, Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth century Europe. Teaching at Chicago since 2003.
bmjw@uchicago.edu or 702-3637
*On Leave: 2007-2008
Profs. Austen (Africa), Chakrabarty (South Asia), Fitzpatrick (Russian), Geyer (Modern Europe), Kaegi (Byzantine), Postone (Modern Europe), and Sr. Lecturer Hevia (Associate Faculty) also offer courses in this field.
Islamic/Middle-Eastern History
CORNELL H. FLEISCHER Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982. Kanunî Süleyman Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Islamic and Ottoman History, History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1993.
c-fleischer@uchicago.edu or 702-8342
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (D. Phil. Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001). Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Prof, Modern European Jewish History, Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth century Europe. Teaching at Chicago since 2003.
bmjw@uchicago.edu or 702-3637
*On Leave: 2007-2008
JOHN E. WOODS Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1970.
j-woods@uchicago.edu or 702-8343
Profs. Donner (Associate Faculty) and Kaegi (Byzantine) also offer courses in this field.
Latin American History
DAIN BORGES Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Associate Professor of Latin American History & the College; Director, Center for Latin American Studies. Teaching at Chicago since 2001.
dborges@uchicago.edu or 834-0284
EMILIO KOURÍ Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996. Associate Professor of Latin American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2001.
kouri@uchicago.edu or 834-4769
MAURICIO TENORIO Ph.D. Stanford University, 1993. Professor of Latin American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
tenoriom@uchicago.edu or 702-3708
Legal History
Profs. Donner (Assoc. Faculty), Fasolt (Early Mod. Europe), Fusaro (Early Mod. Europe), Helmholz (Assoc. Faculty), Hutchinson (Assoc. Faculty), Novak (U.S.), and Stanley (U.S.) offer courses in this field.
Medieval Europe
RACHEL FULTON Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994. Associate Professor of Medieval History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1994.
rfulton@uchicago.edu or 702-4326
JONATHAN LYON Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2005. Assistant Professor of Medieval History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
jlyon@uchicago.edu or 834-0584
DAVID NIRENBERG Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992. Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
nirenberg@uchicago.edu or 702-3423
Profs. Fasolt (Early Modern Europe), Kaegi (Byzantine),Woods (Islam), and Sr. Lecturer Pick (Associate Faculty) also offer courses in this field.
Modern Europe, 1300-Present
LEORA AUSLANDER Ph.D., Brown University, 1988. Professor of Modern European History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1987.
lausland@uchicago.edu or 702-7940
JOHN W. BOYER Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975. Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History, International Relations, and the College; Dean of the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1974.
j-boyer@uchicago.edu or 702-8576
PAUL CHENEY Ph.D., Columbia University, 2002. Assistant Professor of Modern European History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.
cheney@uchicago.edu or 702-2631
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 and Winter 2008
MICHAEL E. GEYER Dr.phil. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 1976.
Samuel N. Harper Professor of Modern European History, International Relations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1986.
mgeyer@uchicago.edu or 702-7939
*On Leave: 2007-2008
JAN E. GOLDSTEIN Ph.D., Columbia University, 1978. Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of European History, the Conceptual Foundations of Science, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1978.
jegoldst@uchicago.edu or 702-8388
*Directing the Chicago Center in Paris in 2007-2008.
MOISHE POSTONE Dr.phil., J. W. Goethe-Universität, 1983. Professor in the College, and of Modern History and Jewish Studies. Teaching at Chicago since 1987.
m-postone@uchicago.edu or 702-8560
*
On Leave in 2007-2008.
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (D. Phil. Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001). Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Prof, Modern European Jewish History, Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth century Europe. Teaching at Chicago since 2003.
bmjw@uchicago.edu or 702-3637
*On Leave: 2007-2008
TARA ZAHRA (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005). Assistant Professor of East European History.
Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration. Teaching at Chicago in Autumn 2007.
tzahra@uchicago.edu or 834-2599
Profs. Austen (Africa), Craig (Associate Faculty), Fitzpatrick (Russia), Fleischer (Islam), Sewell (Emeritus), Swerdlow (History of Science), and Woods (Islam), also offer courses in this field.
Modern Jewish History
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (D. Phil. Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001). Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Prof, Modern European Jewish History, Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth century Europe. Teaching at Chicago since 2003.
bmjw@uchicago.edu or 702-3637
*On Leave: 2007-2008
Profs. Auslander (Modern Europe), Geyer (Modern Europe), Mendes-Flohr (Associate Faculty), and Postone (Modern Europe) teach courses in this field.
Russian History
SHEILA FITZPATRICK (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1969). Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of Modern Russian History, Slavic and Eastern European Studies, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1990.
sf13@uchicago.edu or 702-1784
RICHARD HELLIE Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965. Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of Russian History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1966.
hell@uchicago.edu or 702-8377
South Asian History
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY Ph.D., Australian National University, 1984. Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the
College. Teaching at Chicago since 1995.
dchakrab@uchicago.edu or 702-8642
Profs. Alam (Associate Faculty), Majumdar (Associate Faculty), and Woods (Islam) also offer courses in this field.
United States History
MARK P. BRADLEY Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995. Associate Professor of International History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
mbradley@uchicago.edu
*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.
k-conzen@uchicago.edu or 702-8381
EDWARD M. COOK Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1972. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1971.
ecook@uchicago.edu or 702-8384
JANE DAILEY Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
dailey@uchicago.edu or 834-2582
ADAM GREEN Ph.D., Yale University, 1998. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
apgreen@uchicago.edu or 702-3282
RAMÓN A. GUTIÉRREZ Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980. Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
rgutierrez@uchicago.edu or 702-3286
THOMAS C. HOLT Ph.D., Yale University, 1973. James Westfall Thompson Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1987.
tholt@uchicago.edu or 702-8389
WILLIAM J. NOVAK Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1991. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1991.
nov9@uchicago.edu or 702-7938
*On Leave: Autumn 2007
JULIE SAVILLE Ph.D., Yale University, 1986. Associate Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1994.
jsaville@uchicago.edu or 702-2695
JAMES SPARROW Ph.D., Brown University, 2002. Assistant Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 2003.
834-1271
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.
adstanle@uchicago.edu or 702-4327
CHRISTINE STANSELL Ph.D., Yale University 1979. Professor of American History and the College. Teaching at Chicago in 2007.
stansell@uchicago.edu or 702-3313
Profs. Brekus (Assoc. Faculty), Cumings (International), Fogel (Assoc. Faculty), Grossman (Visiting Professor), and Hutchinson (Assoc. Faculty) also offer courses in this field.
Professors Emeriti
RALPH AUSTEN Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966. Professor Emeritus of African History
ALLEN G. DEBUS Ph.D., Harvard University, 1961. Morris Fishbein Professor Emeritus of History of Science and Medicine
T. BENTLEY DUNCAN Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1961. Associate Professor Emeritus of Modern History
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN Ph.D., Harvard University, 1941. LL.D., L.H.D., Litt.D., D.Hum. John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of American History
CHARLES M. GRAY Ph.D., Harvard University, 1956. Professor Emeritus of British Legal History and the College
HANNA H. GRAY Ph.D., Harvard University, 1957. Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of History and the College; President Emerita of the University
HARRY HAROOTUNIAN Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1957. Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of History and Civilizations in the College
NEIL HARRIS Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of American History, Art History, Geographical Studies, and the College
PING-TI HO Ph.D., Columbia University, 1952. James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus of History
RONALD INDEN Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972. Professor Emeritus of South Asian History, and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
HALIL INALCIK Ph.D., University of Ankara, 1942. University Professor Emeritus of Ottoman History
BARRY D. KARL Ph.D., Harvard University, 1960. Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emeritus of American History and the College
FRIEDRICH KATZ Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1954. Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Latin American History.
JULIUS KIRSHNER Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970. Professor Emeritus of Medieval History
EMMET LARKIN Ph.D., Columbia University, 1957. Professor Emeritus of British and Irish History
WILLIAM H. McNEILL Ph.D., Cornell University, 1947. Robert A. Milikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History
TETSUO NAJITA Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
PETER NOVICK Ph.D., Columbia University, 1965. Professor Emeritus of Modern History.
WILLIAM H. SEWELL Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and European History.
RONALD SUNY Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968. Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Associate/Associated Faculty
MUZAFFAR ALAM Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1976. Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
MICHAEL ALLEN Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1994. Associate Professor of Classics.
CLIFFORD ANDO Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996. Professor of Classics and the College.
CATHERINE BREKUS Ph.D., Yale University, 1993. Associate Professor of the History of Christianity.
JEAN COMAROFF Ph.D., University of London, 1974. Professor of Anthropology.
JOHN E. CRAIG Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973. Associate Professor of Social Sciences.
FRED M. DONNER Ph.D., Princeton University, 1975. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Oriental Institute.
ROBERT W. FOGEL Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963. Charles R. Walgreen Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business and Economics.
JAMES GROSSMAN Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1982. Visiting Professor of American History.
JAMES HEVIA Ph.D., University Chicago, 1986. Senior Lecturer and Director of International Studies.
DENNIS J. HUTCHINSON LL.M., University of Texas, Austin, 1974. William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, Sr. Lecturer at the Law School, and Master of the New Collegiate Division.
ROCHONA MAJUMDAR Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003. Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Social and cultural history of modern South Asia.
PAUL MENDES-FLOHR Ph.D, Brandeis University. Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the Divinity School, the Department of History, and the Committee on Jewish Studies.
LUCY K. PICK (Ph.D. University of Toronto). Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School.
HOLLY SHISSLER Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995. Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History.