Leo J. Garofalo
Associate Professor of History, Chair of the History Department
Latin American and Caribbean history • The history of race and ethnicity • African diaspora and Afro-Latin America • Peru and the Andes
Dean Accardi
Assistant Professor of History
Early modern and modern South Asia • Islamic world • Gender • Religion and politics
Henryatta L. Ballah
Assistant Professor of History
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Africa • The Atlantic World • Civil wars • Youth history • Labor and social movements • Women's history
Michael Cangemi
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
20th Century US history • US diplomatic/foreign relations history • United States in the World • modern Central American history • modern Catholic history • human rights history
David Canton
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Africana Studies Program
20th-Century American social history • Civil rights movement • Urban history • Hip Hop music and Black culture in post-industrial America
Sheetal Chhabria
Associate Professor of History
South Asian history • Colonialism • Urbanism • Capitalism • Global history • Postcolonial studies
James T. Downs
Professor of History, Director of the American Studies Program
U.S. History • African-American Studies • History of medicine and public health
Marc Forster
Henry B. Plant Professor of History, College Marshal, Assistant Chair of the History Department
Early modern Germany (1500-1800) • German Catholicism, popular religion and popular culture, rural society
Eileen M. Kane
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Program
Russian/Soviet/post-Soviet history • Modern Europe • Empires
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
Frederick S. Paxton
Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of History, SATA Perugia, Spring 2018
Medieval Europe • Death, Dying, Sickness and Healing • The Middle Ages in Big Historical Perspective • Big History
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)
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
Intellectual history of modern Europe (post -1700) • Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
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 of American History
(On sabbatical Fall 2018)
Colonial North America • Women and gender • Family history
Helen Mulvey
Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor Emeritus of History