Department Chair

Eileen M. Kane, Professor of History, Chair of the Department of History

Eileen M. Kane

Professor of History, Chair of the Department of History

Russian/Soviet/post-Soviet history • Modern Europe • Empires


Faculty

Dean Accardi, Assistant Professor of History

Dean Accardi

Assistant Professor of History

Early modern and modern South Asia • Islamic world • Gender • Religion and politics


Sheetal Chhabria, Associate Professor of History

Sheetal Chhabria

Associate Professor of History

South Asian history • Colonialism • Urbanism • Capitalism • Global history • History of Poverty


Taylor  Desloge, Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Taylor  Desloge

Visiting Assistant Professor of History


Marc Forster, Henry B. Plant Professor of History, College Marshal

Marc Forster

Henry B. Plant Professor of History, College Marshal

Early modern Germany (1500-1800) • German Catholicism, popular religion and popular culture, rural society


Leo J. Garofalo, Professor of History

Leo J. Garofalo

Professor of History

Latin American and Caribbean history • The history of race and ethnicity • African diaspora and Afro-Latin America • Peru and the Andes


Kris  Klein Hernández, Assistant Professor of History

Kris  Klein Hernández

Assistant Professor of History

Borderlands History • Comparative Ethnic Studies • U.S. History • Comparative Racialization


Catherine McNicol Stock, Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History

Catherine McNicol Stock

Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History

Rural radicalism, domestic terrorism • Social, cultural and political history of the United States, 1877 to present, including the American West • Rural America • The Great Depression and the New Deal


Sarah A. Queen, Professor of History, Global Capitalism Pathway Coordinator

Sarah A. Queen

Professor of History, Global Capitalism Pathway Coordinator

Early Chinese cultural history • The spiritual and philosophical dimensions of Confucianism and Daoism • Confucianism in East Asia Today (Confucianism and Human Rights; Confucianism and Democratization; and Confucianism and Ecology)


Matthew  Swagler, Assistant Professor of History

Matthew  Swagler

Assistant Professor of History

Modern Africa • Decolonization • Africa and the United States • Youth and Childhood • The Global 1960s



Staff

Nancy Lewandowski

Academic Department Assistant

Michael Burlingame, May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History

Michael Burlingame

May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History

U.S. History • The Civil War • Abraham Lincoln • Psychohistory


Bruce Kirmmse, Professor Emeritus of History

Bruce Kirmmse

Professor Emeritus of History

Intellectual history of modern Europe (post -1700) • Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


Frederick S. Paxton, Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor Emeritus of History, SATA Perugia, Spring 2018

Frederick S. Paxton

Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor Emeritus of History, SATA Perugia, Spring 2018

Medieval Europe • Death, Dying, Sickness and Healing • The Middle Ages in Big Historical Perspective • Big History


Sara Lee Silberman

Associate Professor Emeritus of History

The political, social, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Vincent Thompson

Professor Emeritus of History

Modern Africa • Africa and the New World • African-American History • Role of women in African history

Lisa H. Wilson, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of American History

Lisa H. Wilson

Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of American History

Colonial North America • Women and gender • Family history


In Memoriam

Elinor Despalatovic

Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor Emerita of History

Helen Mulvey

Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor Emerita of History