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Department Chair
Uta G. Poiger
Professors of History
Ballard C. Campbell
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; American and Comparative history, government, politics and public policy.
William M. Fowler, Jr.
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; American colonial, maritime, and Revolutionary history.
Laura L. Frader
Ph.D. University of Rochester; European, French, womens’, gender, and labor history. (Associate Dean of Faculty)
Harvey Green
Ph.D. Rutgers University; American cultural history, public history, material culture, literary history, western U.S. history, history of sport. (Director of Public History Programs)
Tom Havens
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Japanese Cultural History.
Clay McShane
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; Urban history, recent U.S. history, and Social History.
Uta G. Poiger
Ph.D. Brown University; Modern Germany, Gender and Sexuality, The Holocaust and Comparative Genocide, Race and Ethnicity, Americanization, History of Consumption, Comparative History (Chair of Department)
Harlow Robinson
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; Russian/Soviet and East European cultural history, history of music (Joint appointment in Modern Languages).
Raymond Robinson
Ph.D. Harvard University; U.S. history, history of media, and U.S. elites.
Associate Professors of History
Timothy Brown
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; Modern Germany, and Imperialism.
Jeffrey Burds
Ph.D. Yale University; Russian and Ukrainian Studies.
Christina Gilmartin
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; East Asia, 20th-century China, modern Japan, gender studies (Director of Asian Studies Program, joint appointment in Modern Languages department.)
Robert Hall
Ph.D. Florida State University; African-American history, US colonial, social, and cultural history (Joint appointment with African-American Studies).
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Ph.D. Harvard University; Middle East, Islam, diaspora, Arabic cultural and intellectual history.
Heather Streets-Salter
Ph.D., Duke University; World History, the History of Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern British History, Race and Gender Studies.
Assistant Professors of History
Gerald Herman
M.A. Northeastern University; European cultural history, history of science and technology, war in the 20th century, media and history (Joint appointment with Department of Education; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies).
Katherine A. Luongo
Ph.D. University of Michigan; African, South Asian and World History.
Charissa Threat
Ph.D. University of Iowa; 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History, African American History, and Gender Studies.
Emeritus Professors of History
Anthony Penna
D.A. Carnegie-Mellon University; Environmental history, U.S. education history, recent U.S. and World history.