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Gary Reger, Chair
Charles A. Dana Research Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization:  Greek and Roman, Hellinistic economic and social


Dario A. Euraque
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization: Central American, Race & Ethnicity

Cheryl L. Greenberg 
Raether Distinguished Professor of History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: African American, 20th-century United States

Joan D. Hedrick
Professor of History
Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of specialization: Women's Studies, American cultural and intellectual

Samuel D. Kassow
Charles H. Northam Professor of History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Area of specialization:  Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe

Eugene Leach
Professor of History and American Studies and
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: United States, American Studies

Louis Masur
William R. Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values
Director of American Studies Program
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of specialization:  American culture

Rev. Borden W. Painter, Jr.  Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: Modern Italy, Renaissance and Reformation,
Tudor-Stuart England

Barbara Sicherman, Emeritus
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Women, culture, American studies


John H. Chatfield
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of specialization: Early America

Jonathan Elukin  
Associate Professor of History 
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of specialization: Medieval, Christian-Jewish relations

Luis A. Figueroa
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Areas of specialization: Caribbean, Latinos in the U.S., Film and History

Kathleen Kete   
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of specialization: Modern Europe, France

Michael Lestz
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: China, Japan

Susan D. Pennybacker
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Areas of specialization: Modern Britain, 20th century Europe, race and imperialism, comparative urban, 20th century Hartford

Vijay Prashad
Associate Professor and
Director of International Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Areas of specialization: India, South Asia, Asian-Americans


Zayde Antrim
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of specialization:  Middle East

Jeffrey P. Bayliss
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of specialization: Japan, Korea

Sean Cocco
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Washington
Areas of specialization: early modern Europe, cultural, Italy

Abosede George
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University
Areas of specialization:  African studies, African women, comparative childhood

J. Ronald Spencer
Lecturer in History and
Associate Academic Dean
M.A., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Civil War and Reconstruction


Denise Bossy
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: early America, crosscultural contact, Native American

Stephanie Gilmore
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Areas of specialization:  comparative women's, 20th-century US, race and gender

Stephen K. O'Brien
Visiting Lecturer in History
M.A., Yale University
Areas of specialization:  Latin America, modern Mexico

Thomas M. Truxes
Visiting Lecturer in History
Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin
Area of specialization: Britain, Ireland, North Atlantic, economic

 

  
 
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