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Faculty in the Department

Academic Year 2011-2012

Department Chair: Barry Strauss
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Jon Parmenter
Director of Graduate Studies: T. Robert Travers

Faculty in the Department

U.S. Political/19th Century America.
Byfield, Judith African and African diaspora history with emphasis on West Africa; gender and labor history; Caribbean history.
Modern European Jewish (esp. France and Germany).
Modern East-Central Europe.
Asian-American and 19th Century U.S.
Chinese-American relations, modern China, Cold War.
Modern China, social/economic/cultural.
Early modern Germany and European history; cultural, social, and religious history.
Modern Latin America.
Science, scientific revolution.
Medieval, Cultural and Norse.
North American refugee / immigration policy; U.S. Latino history; migration in the Americas.
Modern South Asia, gender, colonialism.
Africa, pre-industrial social, comparative gender and ethnicity.
Chinese medical and religious history.
Cultural and intellectual history of early modern Japan (1600-1890).
Germany 1700-1945 (esp. sociopolitical, administrative, political theory, gender/sexuality).
Medieval, legal, political.
Modern U.S. Political and Social History.
Modern Japan, Japanese intellectual and cultural.
Modern European intellectual and cultural.
American foreign policy, Cold War.
Southeast Asian, gender and legal studies.
Late medieval and Renaissance Italy, Florence, Machiavelli.
Early America (before 1815), women and gender.
Native American (esp. Iroquois) and Early American.
Modern American political and social 1930-present.
Greek history and historiography, with particular emphasis on Herodotus and Thucydides.
Roman history, especially Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.
European Cultural and Intellectual History; History of Modern France; Historiography; Gender and Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; Social and Political Thought; Ethics; Publicity and Privacy; Normativity and the Law.
American cultural, intellectual, and environmental history.
Ancient Greece, military.
Modern Southeast Asia.
Modern British and imperial history, colonial India.
Modern Russia and Europe; cultural history; political violence.
African American cultural/intellectual/religious, gender, American south.
Early modern English political and cultural, gender.
Modern European social and political, postwar political culture, French education, International humanitarianism/human rights.