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Faculty in the Department of History (Alphabetical)
FREDRIK ALBRITTON JONSSON (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2005). Assistant Professor of British History and in the College (773-702-0638). British history; the British Empire; the Enlightenment; science and environmental history; political economy.
GUY S. ALITTO (Ph.D.
Harvard
University, 1975). Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and of
East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College (773-702-8390). Modern Chinese
Intellectual and Social History; Chinese Labor History; The Chinese
Communist Movement.
LEORA AUSLANDER (Ph.D.
Brown
University, 1988). Professor of Modern European History and the College (773-702-7940).
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, (Ph.D.
Stanford
University, 1986). Associate Professor of Latin American History
and the College (773-834-0284). Modern Brazilian history including social science,
literature, popular religion and state-formation.
JOHN W. BOYER (Ph.D.
University of
Chicago, 1975). Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of
History and the College; Dean of the College (773-702-8576). 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 (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995). Associate Professor of International History and the College. Twentieth century U.S. international history; Postcolonial Southeast Asian history; Global human rights.
SUSAN BURNS (Ph.D.
University of
Chicago, 1994). Associate Professor of Japanese History and the College (773-702-8934).
Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Cultural
History, History of Medicine; Gender and the Body.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY (Ph.D.
Australian National University, 1984).Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the
College. (773-702-8642). 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(Ph.D.
Columbia University,
2002). Assistant Professor of French History and the College. The Enlightenment;
French Revolution; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought;
and the Origins of Capitalism in World-Systems Perspective.
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 & Winter 2008
KATHLEEN NEILS CONZEN (Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972). Professor of American History
and the College (773-702-8381). American Urban History; Immigration and Ethnicity;
Rural History; Western Settlement; Nineteenth-Century Social History.
EDWARD COOK (Ph.D. Johns
Hopkins
University, 1972). Associate Professor of American History
and the College (773-702-8384). Colonial and Revolutionary America; Social History;
Eighteenth-Century Britain.
BRUCE CUMINGS (Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1975). Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International
History and the College; Department Chairperson (773-834-1818). Modern Korean History; East Asian Political
Economy; International History.
JANE DAILEY (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995). Associate Professor of American History and the College (773-834-2582). Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, and legal history.
PRASENJIT DUARA (Ph.D.
Harvard
University, 1983). Professor of East Asian History and of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations and the College (773-702-8285).
Modern Chinese Social and Cultural History; Nationalism and
Transnationalism; History and Post-Structuralist Theory.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
CONSTANTIN FASOLT (Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1981). Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History and the College;
Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division
(773-702-7935). Early Modern Europe; Political, Social, and Legal Thought in Medieval and Early Modern Europe; History and Theory of Historical Writing; Reformation; Conciliar Movement.
SHEILA FITZPATRICK (D.
Phil. Oxford University, 1969). Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of
Modern Russian History and the College (773-702-1784). Soviet Social, Political, and Cultural History; Social Identity; Social Mobility; International Left; Australian History.
CORNELL H. FLEISCHER (Ph.D.
Princeton University, 1982). Kanunî
Süleyman Professor of Islamic and Ottoman
History,
and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College; Director of the Middle
East Center (773-702-8342). Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History;
Social and Cultural History; Comparative Studies in Early Modern
Societies.
RACHEL FULTON (Ph.D.
Columbia
University, 1994). Associate Professor of Medieval History
and the College (773-702-4326). History of Christianity; Medieval European Cultural,
Social, and Religious History; Medieval Liturgy; the Cult of the Virgin
Mary; Scriptural Exegesis and Hermeneutics.
MICHAEL GEYER (Dr. phil.
Albert
Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, 1976). Samuel N. Harper
Professor
of Modern European History and the College (773-702-7939). Contemporary European
History.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
JAN E. GOLDSTEIN (Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1978). Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of
Modern European History
and the College (773-702-8388). Modern European Intellectual History; Modern France;
History of Psychiatry; Conceptions of Selfhood and Identity.
*Directing the University of Chicago Center in Paris in 2007-2008.
ADAM GREEN (Ph.D. Yale University, 1998). Associate Professor of American History and the College (773-702-3282). Modern U.S. History; African American History; Urban History; Comparative Racial Politics; Cultural Economy.
RAMÓN A. GUTIÉRREZ (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980). Professor of American History and the College (773-702-3286). 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 (Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993). Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities;
Professor of Ancient Greek History and the College; Professor and Chair of Classics
(773-834-0756). Greek social and cultural History, especially ancient
Greek ethnicities; history and material culture; historical linguistics.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
RICHARD HELLIE (Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1965). Thomas E. Donelly Professor of Russian
History and the College (773-702-8377). Russian History; Muscovite Social, Economic,
and Legal History.
THOMAS C. HOLT (Ph.D. Yale
University, 1973). James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service
Professor of American History and the College (773-702-8389). African American,
Southern, and British Caribbean History.
RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2005). Assistant Professor of African History and the College (773-834-8767). Central Africa; history of women, sexuality, and gender; urban history; customary and modern law; post-colonial social and
cultural history.
ADRIAN JOHNS (Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1992). Professor of History of Science and the College; Professor and Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (773-702-2334).
History of early modern science and the history of the book.
WALTER KAEGI (Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1965). Professor of Byzantine History
and the College (773-702-8346). Voting member,
Oriental Institute. Byzantine
and Late Roman Political, Social, Military and Religious Structure;
Historiography; European Military History and Strategy;
Byzantino-Islamic History.
JAMES KETELAAR (Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1987). Professor of Japanese History and of of
East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College (773-834-0763); Director of The
Center for East Asian Studies. Nationalism and Religion; Pre-modern and
Modern Japanese History.
EMILIO KOURÍ (Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1996). Associate Professor of Latin American
History and the College (773-834-4769). 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 (Ph.D. University
of Notre Dame, 2005). Assistant Professor of Medieval History
and the College (773-834-0584). Social, economic, political, legal and institutional
history of Europe 800 to 1400; medieval noble families.
DAVID NIRENBERG (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992). Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought (773-702-3423). Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations.
WILLIAM NOVAK (Ph.D.
Brandeis University,
1991). Associate Professor of American History and the College (773-702-7938). United
States and Comparative Legal History; Political Thought; Regulation and
the State.
*On Leave: Autumn 2007
EMILY LYNN OSBORN (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000). Assistant Professor of African History and the College (773-834-9019). African History; Francophone Africa; Gender in Africa; Colonialism; Technology Transfer and Diffusion.
MOISHE POSTONE (D. Phil.
J. W.
Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 1983). Professor of Modern
European
History and the College (773-702-8560). Modern European Intellectual History; Social
Theory, especially Critial Theories of Modernity; Twentieth-Century
Germany; Anti-Semitism; Contemporary Global Transformations.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
ROBERT J. RICHARDS (Ph.D. St. Louis
University, 1971; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1978). Morris Fishbein
Professor of Science and Medicine, Professor of History, Philosophy,
and Psychology and the College ; Director of the Fishbein
Center (773-702-8348). History of Biology and Psychology;
Philosophy of History; Germany Intellectual History.
JULIE SAVILLE (Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1986). Associate Professor of American History
and the College (773-702-2695). African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative
Slavery and Emancipations.
JAMES T. SPARROW (Ph.D.
Brown
University, 2002). Assistant Professor of American History
and the College (773-834-1271). Modern United States political and social history; war and society; social science and the state; technology;
history and new media.
*On Leave: Autumn 2007 & Winter 2008
AMY DRU STANLEY (Ph.D.
Yale
University, 1990). Associate Professor of American History
and the College (773-702-4327). United States Gender, Legal, and Intellectual History.
CHRISTINE STANSELL (Ph.D. Yale University, 1979). Professor of American History and the College (773-702-3313). Women’s and gender history; Antebellum U.S. social and political history; American cultural history; Modern fiction.
NOEL SWERDLOW (Ph.D. Yale University, 1968). Professor of the History of Science and
of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College (773-702-7969). History of the Exact
Sciences, Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century.
MAURICIO TENORIO. (Ph.D.
Stanford University, 1993). Professor of Latin American History
and the College (773-702-3708). Modern. Cultural history, urban history, international history, Americas; Latin America, Spain, U.S., Mexico.
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN (D.Phil.
Oxford University, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford University, 2001). Harriet
& Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History
and the College (773-702-3637). Jewish and Middle Eastern History and politics and
diplomacy of twentieth century Europe.
*On Leave: 2007-2008
ALISON WINTER (Ph.D.
Cambridge
University, 1993). Associate Professor of History of Science
and the College (773-834-7571). History of medicine and the history of human sciences
after 1750; nineteenth-century science; British history.
JOHN E. WOODS (Ph.D.
Princeton
University, 1974). Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College (773-702-8343). State
Formation and Economic History in the Premodern Islamic Middle East and
Central Asia.
TARA ZAHRA (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2005). Assistant Professor of East European History and the College (773-834-2599).
Transnational and Comparative History; Nationalism; Childhood, Gender, and the Family; War and Occupation; Borderlands; Displacement and Migration.
Visiting Faculty
DAVID ARNOLD, Lurcy Visiting Professor of South Asian History, Spring 2008.
LORRAINE DASTON. Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History, 2005-2008 (teaching in Autumn quarters).
TAMARA GRIGGS , Research Scholar & Lecturer of Early Modern European History, 20007-2010.
JAMES GROSSMAN, Visiting Senior Researcher of American History, Spring 2008.
CAMERON HAWKINS, Visiting Assistant Professor of Ancient History, 2006-2008.
KITTIYA LEE, Post-Doctoral Scholar of Latin American History, 2006-2008.
JORGE MYERS , Tinker Visiting Professor of Latin American History, Autumn 2007 & Winter 2008.
MARY BUCK YOUNG, Visiting Lecturer of East Asian History.
Emeriti Faculty
RALPH A. 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, 1967). 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.
HANNA H. GRAY (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1957). Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritas of History.
HARRY HAROOTUNIAN (Ph.D. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1957). Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of History.
NEIL HARRIS (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965). Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of American History and of Art History.
PING-TI HO (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1952). James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus of History.RONALD B. 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 Univeristy, 1960). Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emeritus of American History.
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 and Renaissance History.
EMMET LARKIN (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1957). Professor Emeritus of British and Irish History. Victorian Political and Religious History; The Celtic Fringe.
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 of 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 European History and of Political Science.
RONALD SUNY (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1968). Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Associate Faculty
MUZAFFAR ALAM (Ph.D.Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1976). Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Urdu and Indian Persian literature, history of late medieval and early modern northern India.
MICHAEL ALLEN (Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1994). Associate Professor of Classics. 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 (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996). Professor of Classics and the College. 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 (Ph.D. Yale University, 1993). Associate Professor of the History of Christianity. American religion of the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods; history of women and religion; revivalism, slave religion, millennialism, and popular religious movements.
JEAN COMAROFF (Ph.D. University of London, 1974). Professor of Anthropology. History of ideology; missionization and popular resistance in South Africa.
JOHN E. CRAIG (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1973). Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Division. Economic and social history of modern Europe; historical demography; comparative education.
FRED M. DONNER (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1975). Professor of Near Eastern History. Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (773-702-9544). Near Eastern History, Islamic History (Rise of Islam), Political History, Theory of History, Apocalyptic Thought.
ROBERT W. FOGEL (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1963). Charles R. Walgreen Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business and Economics. 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 HEVIA (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1986). Director, International Studies; Senior Lecturer, Social Science Collegiate Division.
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. Judicial behavior; constitutional history; development of legal thought.
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. Modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals.
LUCY K. PICK (Ph.D. University of Toronto). Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School. 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 (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1995). Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History. Ottoman History, History of the Early Turkish Republic, Modern Middle East History, Nationalism, Intellectual History
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