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