Members of the Field of History
Jefferson Cowie
Associate Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
American history; Postwar U.S. social and political, labor and working class, comparative.
269 Ives Hall
607-255-7097
jrc32@cornell.edu
Ileen DeVault
Professor, Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History
American social history; labor and working-class history; gender and women's history.
340 Ives Hall East
607-255-3055
iad1@cornell.edu
Robert L. Harris
Professor, Africana Studies
Afro-American history; Afro-American historiography; thought and culture; leaders and movements.
449 Day Hall
607-255-5358, 607-255-4625
rlh10@cornell.edu
Peter Hohendahl
Professor, German Studies
Modern European, especially intellectual.
193 Goldwin Smith Hall
607-255-8353, 607-255-5526
puh1@cornell.edu
Ronald Kline
Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering
History of technology and engineering in the United States.
394 Rhodes Hall
607-255-4307
rrk1@cornell.edu
Isaac Kramnick
Professor, Government
European and American political though since the 18th century.
311 White Hall
607-255-9175
ik15@cornell.edu
David S. Powers
Full Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Qur'an and Hadith, Islamic History, Law, Gender, the Maghrib
Forthcoming Publication: Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyllvania Press, 2009.
407 White Hall
607-255-6275
dsp4@cornell.edu
Sara B. Pritchard
Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies
History of technology, environmental history; 20th century France and French empire
301 Rockefeller Hall
607-255-3691
sbp65@cornell.edu
Bruce Rusk
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Cultural history of late imperial China, especially history of scholarship, connoisseurship,
and confucianism
375 Rockefeller Hall
607-255-0289
br79@cornell.edu
Naoki Sakai
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
Early modern and modern Japan; comparative intellectual history and comparative colonialism.
386 Rockefeller Hall
607-255-1344
BIO
ns32@cornell.edu
Nicholas Salvatore
Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
American history; social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on African American and labor history; radicalism and dissent.
290 Ives Hall
607-255-2240
nas4@cornell.edu
Suman Seth
Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies
History of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; gender and science; science, race, and colonialism.
303 Rockefeller Hall
607-255-6325
ss536@cornell.edu
Keith Taylor
Professor, Asian Studies
Southeast Asian history; Vietnam.
380 Rockefeller Hall
607-255-3237
kwt3@cornell.edu
(updated July 2009)