Alan Allport
Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Modern British and European history, war and society
Susan Branson
Professor and Chair, History
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, 1992
Early American women, early American society and culture, science and American society
Brian Brege
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2014
Medieval and early modern Europe, history of globalization, the scientific revolution, diplomatic and imperial history
Craige B. Champion
Professor, History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993
Hellenistic Greece, Greek democracy and republican Rome, ancient imperialism, ethnic identity formation in classical antiquity, the politics of culture in ancient Greece and Rome, classical historiography
Andrew Wender Cohen
Professor, History
Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999
United States history, law, crime, and political economy
Albrecht Diem
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Utrecht, 2000
History of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, early Medieval monasticism, hagiography, gender and sexuality
Michael R. Ebner
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004
History of modern Europe, Italy, Fascism, and political violence
Carol Faulkner
Associate Dean; Professor, History
Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar
Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1998
19th-century America, U.S. women, gender, sexuality, social movements
Jeffrey Gonda
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Yale University, 2012
African American history, 20th century U.S. legal, urban, political.
Paul M. Hagenloh
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Texas, 1999
Modern Russia
Samantha Kahn Herrick
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002M.Phil., Oxford University, 1993
Medieval European history, Christian hagiography and apostolic legends, France
Amy Aisen Kallander
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, women and gender, Tunisia
George L. Kallander
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006
Korean and northeast Asian history and culture
Osamah F. Khalil
Associate Professor, History; Chair, International Relations Program (Undergraduate)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2011
U.S. foreign relations, modern Middle East, Cold War, Arab-Israeli conflict
Radha Kumar
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2015
Modern South Asia: policing and sovereignty, legal history, colonial and post-colonial politics
Norman Kutcher
Professor, History
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
J.D., Boston College, 1985; Ph.D., Yale University, 1991
Cultural, social, and political history of late imperial China
Chris R. Kyle
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Auckland University, 1994
Toponomology, society, law and culture of Westminster and London, the social history of parliaments in early modern Britain
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990
Modern American society, culture, thought; cultural criticism; intellectual history; history of ideas; self, emotion, art of living, ancient and modern; therapeutic culture, civil society, community, race, family; contemplative learning
Gladys McCormick
Associate Professor, History
Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Maxwell School
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Latin America and the Caribbean, 19th and 20th century Mexico
Tessa Murphy
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2016
The Atlantic World; the early Americas in comparative perspective; the colonial Caribbean; slavery and race; the Age of Revolutions.
Mark Schmeller
Associate Professor, History
Director of Undergraduate Studies, History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
United States political and intellectual history, 18th and 19th centuries; communications history; legal history; political thought; Atlantic World.
Martin S. Shanguhyia
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2007
Colonial and postcolonial rural agrarian transformation, land politics, environmental transformations that impact community livelihoods in rural populations of Africa, modern African state politics
Junko Takeda
Professor, History
Daicoff Faculty Scholar
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006
Early modern European history, modern European history, France, Mediterranean, economic globalization, history of science and medicine
Robert Terrell
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., University of
California San Diego, 2018
Modern Germany and Europe, commodity and food history, global and transnational history, the history of Islam and Muslims in Europe
Margaret Susan Thompson
Associate Professor, History and Political Science
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979
Modern American history, government and politics, religion, women's history
David H. Bennett
Professor Emeritus, History
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963
Political extremism in America, 20th-century American history, modern military history
Samuel K. Eddy ~ 1926-2015
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1958
Classical, Greece and Rome
Cissie Fairchilds ~ 1944-2017
Professor Emerita, History
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1972
18th century France, early modern European social, women
Michael Flusche
Associate Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1973
American Civil War and Reconstruction, American south
Robert Gregory ~ 1924-2014
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., UCLA, 1956
East Africa, European expansion, Indian-African relations
Frederick D. Marquardt
Assistant Professor Emeritus, History
Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1973
German social history
Peter T. Marsh
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1962
19th/20th century Britain, international political economy
Dennis Romano
Professor Emeritus, History
Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History, Emeritus
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1981
Renaissance Italy, early modern social and cultural history, Venice
Otey M. Scruggs ~ 1929-2014
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1958
19th century American history, African American history
James Roger Sharp
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
American political history, early national and middle period, 1789-1860
William Stinchcombe ~ 1937-2014
Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967
American diplomatic history, Revolutionary War
John Scott Strickland ~ 1948-2014
Associate Professor Emeritus, History
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984
American South; African American religion and culture; United States social history, 1700-1900
Stephen Saunders Webb
Professor Emeritus, History
Maxwell Professor Emeritus, History and Social Science
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965
Early America, Anglo-American social and political, Native American