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Faculty
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Emmanuel K. Akyeampong West African History, comparative slavery, social and cultural history
David Armitage Early Modern, Intellectual and International History
Sven Beckert 19th century United States,capitalism, transnational history
David Blackbourn Modern European History, including the political, social, and cultural History of Germany from the 18th to the 20th century, with a particular recent interest in environmental history and German history from a transnational perspective.
Ann Blair Early Modern France; early modern European intellectual and cultural history, history of the book, history of science
Sugata Bose South Asia and comparative dimensions of Modern History across the Indian Ocean
Vincent Brown Slavery, Caribbean Social and Cultural History, Early Revolutionary America
Joyce Chaplin Early American history, the history of science, intellectual history, environmental history.
Lizabeth Cohen 20th century U.S. social, political, and cultural history.
Nancy F. Cott 19th and 20th century U.S. history, with an emphasis on gender
Emma Dench Hellenistic, Roman Republican and early Roman imperial history, especially questions of identity and historiography
Caroline Elkins Modern Africa, British Empire, and Twentieth Century Counter-Insurgencies
Drew Gilpin Faust United States - principally in the cultural and gender histories of the antebellum and Civil War South
Niall Ferguson International history; financial history; American and British imperial history
Alison Frank Modern central European history, international history, history of economic life
Ivan Gaskell The writing of history from artifacts (including artworks), philosophy of art and artifacts, museology, and relations among museum scholarship, history, art history, anthropology, and philosophy.
Andrew Gordon Modern Japanese History, with a primary research interest in history of labor and of consumer society, and more broadly the social and political history of modern Japan. Current project is Stitching in Modern Times: The Sewing Machine in Japan
Peter Gordon Modern European Intellectual History; Germany and France; existentialism, critical theory, theories of knowledge, modern Jewish thought
James Hankins Renaissance intellectual history; history of political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition.
Henrietta Harrison The social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China.
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 19th and 20th century American History, African-American History, Women's History, Religious Studies
Patrice Higonnet Comparative Historiography of the French and American Revolutions; the theme of suicide in French History and Literature, 17th-19th centuries; 19th and 20th century Political History; French History, 1750-1950
Maya Jasanoff Modern British and imperial history, with special attention to colonial South Asia, the British Atlantic world, and Britain's relations with Europe
Andrew Jewett Modern American intellectual and political history; universities and academic disciplines
Walter Johnson Nineteenth-century U.S., slavery, capitalism, imperialism; social and historical theory.
Christopher P. Jones Cultural history of Greco-Roman antiquity, Hellenistic period, History of Middle and Late Roman Empire
Cemal Kafadar Ottoman History, Turkish Studies, Modern and Modern History of the Middle East and the Balkans
Edward L. Keenan Muscovite Social, Cultural, Political History to 1700; Cultural History of the East Slavs; Slav-Tartar Relations
William C. Kirby Modern Chinese History, with special concern for 20th century Political and Economic History; Chinese-foreign cultural and economic relations
Mark A. Kishlansky History of Early Modern Britain, focusing on the History of Politics and the Parliamentary Armies; Tudor-Stuart Period
James Kloppenberg American and European intellectual and political history
Philip A. Kuhn Late imperial and modern Chinese history and political thought. Chinese diaspora.
Angeliki E. Laiou Byzantine History with special emphasis on social and economic institutions; History of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages; the crusades; medieval economic history
Elisabeth Laskin American war and society, particularly the American Civil War, and the intersection of military and social history.
Jill Lepore Early America
Mary Lewis 19th and 20th-century French and European imperialism; social, Legal and Political History; immigration and citizenship.
Malinda Maynor Lowery Native American history, with an emphasis on Native American identity and race relations
Charles S. Maier Comparative 20th century European political, economic, and social history; global and international history including comparative empires; Cold War and European-American relations; German and Italian national histories
Erez Manela 20th century international history; United States in the world; evolution of international society; colonialism and nationalism; history of global health
Terry Martin Russia and Eastern Europe; USSR formation of national identity and government
Kenneth Maxwell 18th and 19th century Latin America
Ernest R. May Changes in government and public opinion in the United States, 1930-1980; comparative American institutional development, foreign policy, defense and intelligence organizations in Europe and the United States, 1900-present; 20th century Diplomatic History; World War II; Cold War
Michael McCormick Early Medieval History: cultures, societies, and economies of the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean basin; biomolecular archaeology; computational philology; paleography and codicology
Lisa McGirr 20th century American Social and Political History, Women’s Studies, history of conservatism
Ian Miller 19th- and 20th-century Japan, especially cultural and environmental history; comparative imperialism; history of exhibition; history of public health and medicine.
Roy Mottahedeh Pre-Modern Social and Intellectual History of the Islamic Middle East
Afsaneh Najmabadi Socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality in Modern Middle East and South Asia
Susan E. O'Donovan African-American History, Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction, the South
Kelly O'Neill-Uzgiris Imperial Russia; economy and trade in the Black Sea; social and cultural history; comparative history of empires
E. Roger Owen Political and Economic History of Modern Middle East
Steven Ozment Intellectual, Social, and Cultural History of Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe; Renaissance and Reformation
Serhii Plokhii Intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.
Uta G. Poiger Cultural history of German international relations, the history of racism, and gender history.
Emma Rothschild 18th century history, especially the history of economic thought and economic history
Daniel Smail Medieval social and cultural history; history of law and justice; natural history and historiography.
Rachel St. John 19th- and 20th-century United States history with a particular emphasis on the North American West and transnational borderlands history
Judith Surkis Modern France and Europe; Cultural and Intellectual History; Gender, Sexuality, and Empire; History and Theory
Hue-Tam Ho Tai Social and cultural history of modern Vietnam.
Stephan Thernstrom Social, demographic, and economic history of America; 20th century Social History, immigration, race and ethnicity.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Early American Social History; Women's History; material life in Early America
John Womack Jr. Latin America and Latin Europe from 16th century-present; industrial and labor history, particularly in Mexico.
     

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