The history faculty offers undergraduate training in four primary fields and graduate training in five primary fields. In addition, there are active clusters of faculty working in certain special or research areas, some of which cross geographic field boundaries.
Aviña, Alexander (Assoc Professor) - Social Movements and State Violence in 20th century Mexico and Guerrero; Capitalism, Drugs, and Drug Wars; Cold War Latin America; the Left in Modern Mexico and Latin America; Sports in Latin America
Barnes, Andrew (Professor) - Christianity, Christian Missions, African History, Europe
Cichopek-Gajraj, Anna (Assoc Professor) - Modern East European Jewish history, Holocaust and post-Holocaust studies, modern history of Poland, history of antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence, comparative and social studies, theories of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and belonging
Critchlow, Donald (Professor) - Modern American political and policy history, particularly in how actors perceive the world and act on their perceptions
El Hamel, Chouki (Professor) - The intellectual history of Islam and Islamic institutions in Northwest and West Africa
Fixico, Donald (Professor) - American Indians, oral history and the U.S. West
Gray, Susan (Assoc Professor) - Colonialism, the interplay of place, race, and gender, North American borderlands
Harris, Lauren (Assoc Professor) - History education and world history
Holian, Anna (Assoc Professor) - Late modern Europe; migration and displacement; architecture and urban history; film studies
Jones, Christopher (Assoc Professor) – Energy, economics, and environmental history, sustainability, history of technology
Manchester, Laurie (Assoc Professor) - Russia, diaspora culture, return migration, autobiographical practices, religion
Lim, Julian (Asst Professor) – Migration and borders; race, ethnicity and culture; mobility and belonging
O'Donnell, Catherine (Assoc Professor) - Early American history; culture and religion; American political thought
Osburn, Katherine (Assoc Professor) - American Indian ethnohistory; gender, race, identity and political activism; cultural ecology
Rush, James (Professor) - Colonialism and religion in 19th and 20th century Indonesia
Saikia, Yasmin (Professor) - South Asia, Muslim identity and history, gender and violence, memory, children's history of the present
Samuelson, Hava (Professor) – Jewish intellectual history, feminism and Jewish philosophy; religion and ecology; religion, science, and technology
Schermerhorn, J. Calvin (Professor) - 19th-Century African American history, capitalism and slavery, the Atlantic World
Tebeau, Mark (Assoc Professor) - US urban and social history, landscape, and place, oral history, public history, digital humanities
Thompson, Victoria (Assoc Professor) - history of urban space, travel and travel writing, and the history of women, gender and sexuality