Cheryl L. Greenberg
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
Eugene Leach
Professor of History and American Studies and Director of Graduate
Studies
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: United States, American Studies
Borden W. Painter
Acting President of Trinity College
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of specialization: Modern Italy, Renaissance and Reformation, Tudor-Stuart England
Gary Reger (on leave 2003-2004)
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization: Greek and Roman, Hellinistic economic and social
Barbara Sicherman
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Women, American cultural, medicine
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
Dario A. Euraque
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Area of specialization: Latin America
Kathleen Kete (on
leave, spring, 2004)
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
D. Phil., Cambridge University
Areas of specialization: Modern Britain, 20th Century European political culture, race and
imperialism, comparative urban, contemporary Hartford
Vijay Prashad
Associate Professor and
Director of International Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Areas of specialization: India, South Asia, Asian-Americans
Luis A. Figueroa
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Areas of specialization: Caribbean, Latin America, Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.A
Monica M. Van Beusekom
Assistant Professor of History
PhD., Johns Hopkins University
Area of Specialization: Africa, 20th Century social and economic
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J. Ronald Spencer
Lecturer in History and
Associate Academic Dean
M.A., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Civil War and Reconstruction
Johanna Fernandez
Visiting Lecturer of History
Area of Specialization: 20th-century U.S., African American
Geoffrey Porter
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
PhD., New York University
Area of Specialization: North Africa, Middle East, 19th and 20th-century
Daniel J. Taravella
Visiting Lecturer in History
M.A., University of Chicago
Areas of specialization: Greek and Roman, social and cultural
Thomas M. Truxes
Visiting Lecturer in History
Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin
Area of specialization: Ireland
