Kathleen Kete, Chair
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of specialization: Modern Europe, France
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
John H. Chatfield
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Area of specialization: Early America
Sean Cocco
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Washington
Areas of specialization: early modern Europe, cultural, Italy
Dario A. Euraque
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization: Central American, Race & Ethnicity
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
Scott Gac
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., City University of New York
Areas of specialization: 19th Century U.S., race and culture, social reform
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
Michael Lestz
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: China, Japan
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
Seth M. Markle
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., New York University
Areas of specialization: African decolonization, Postwar African American History, theories of the African Diaspora, Nationalism and Pan-Africanism, black radical thought, Hip-Hop culture
Susan D. Pennybacker
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
Gary Reger
Charles A. Dana Research Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization: Greek and Roman, Hellinistic economic and social
J. Ronald Spencer
Lecturer in History
M.A., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Civil War and Reconstruction
Andrea Mosterman
Visiting Lecturer in History
Ph.D., Boston University
Areas of specialization:
Elana Passman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Areas of specialization: Modern Europe, France, Germany, transnational
Thomas M. Truxes
Visiting Lecturer in History
Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin
Area of specialization: Britain, Ireland, North Atlantic, economic