A Distinguished Faculty

Katherine Pence, Chair
Associate Professor
German & women’s history

• Ervand Abrahamian
  Distinguished Professor                                Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics
  

• Charlotte Brooks
  Associate Professor
  20th century U.S., Asian American, urban, race, immigration, politics and policy, modern China and the Chinese diaspora
• Thomas Desch-Obi
  Associate Professor
  African and African Diaspora history
  
  
• Julie Des Jardins
  Professor
  Modern American history, gender and American women
  
  
• Vincent DiGirolamo
  Assistant Professor
  19th, 20th century history, focus on immigration, labor, New York City, childhood
  
  
• Johanna Fernández
  Assistant Professor
  20th century U.S. History, history of social movements, political economy of American cities, African-American history
  
• Bert Hansen
  Professor
  History of science and medicine; American history
• Thomas R. Heinrich
  Associate Professor
  American business and industrial history
• Brian Murphy
  Assistant Professor
  Early American republic; U.S. economic and political history
  
• Veena Oldenburg
  Professor
  History of India; Third-World women
• Alfonso Quiroz , 1956-2013
  Professor
  Latin American history; Caribbean history
• Tansen Sen
  Associate Professor                                                Asian history; China, Japan,
  India; Buddhism
• Clarence Taylor
  Professor
  Modern African American, religion, civil rights
• Randolph Trumbach
  Professor
  18th century England; social history; history of sexuality
• Faculty Emeriti
• In addition to a number of valued adjunct faculty members, the department also benefits from continue association with its retired faculty members, designated emeriti.
• Carol Berkin
  Presidential Professor Emerita
  American Colonial and Revolutionary History; women's history
• Selma Berrol
  Professor Emerita
  History of Education; Urban History
• Jane Bond
  Professor Emerita
  20th Century Europe; Modern France
• Stanley Buder
  Professor Emeritus
  American urban history; history of housing and planning; American business
• Henry L. Feingold
  Professor Emeritus
  American Jewish History; Holocaust Studies
• Murray Rubenstein
  Professor Emeritus
  Asian history; Sino-American studies
• Pamela Sheingorn
  Professor Emerita
  Medieval culture; Medieval history; women's history
• Cynthia Whittaker
  Professor and Chair Emerita
  Russian and Soviet history; Modern European history

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