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Sabri Ates
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • Middle East
  • Ottoman-Iranian Relations
  • Kurdish History
  • Borderlands/Sectarianism
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Rachel Ball-Phillips
Associate Lecturer

  • Asia
  • South Asian History
  • Cinema and History
  • Human Rights
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Kate Carté
Associate Professor

  • United States
  • Colonial North America
  • Early Modern
  • History of Religion
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Crista J. DeLuzio
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
  • United States
  • History of Women and Gender
  • History of Children and Childhood
  • History of Family
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Melissa Barden Dowling
Department Chair and Associate Professor 
  • Ancient
  • Roman history, culture, archaeology and literature
  • Greek history, culture, archaeology and literature
  • Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology
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Jeffrey A. Engel
Professor, Director of the Center for Presidential History              
  • United States
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Political History
  • The Presidency
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Neil Foley

The Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History 

  • United States
  • Racial ideology
  • U.S.-Mexico borderlands
  • Immigration/nativism
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Andrew R. Graybill
Professor  

  • United States
  • Nineteenth Century
  • North American West
  • Borderlands and Great Plains
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Jo Guldi
Associate Professor
  • Europe
  • British History
  • Digital History
  • British Empire
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Rick Halperin
Adjunct Lecturer             
  • United States
  • Human Rights
  • Holocaust/Genecide
  • Death Penalty
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Kenneth M. Hamilton 
Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies              

  • United States
  • American Urban History
  • African American History
  • African American Sports History
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Associate Professor 
  • History
  • Modern Germany and Austria
  • Nationalism
  • Political and Cultural History
 
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Jill E. Kelly
Associate Professor  

  • Africa
  • South Africa
  • Gender
  • Oral History
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Macabe Keliher
Associate Professor

  • Asia
  • Premodern and Modern China
  • Eurasian Empires
  • History of Capitalism
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Thomas J. Knock
Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor             

  • United States
  • 20th Century U.S.
  • Presidential Politics
  • U.S. Foreign Relations
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Bianca Lopez
W.R. Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 

  • Medieval
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • History of Christianity
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Alexis McCrossen
Professor

  • United States
  • Cultural History
  • Social History
  • Business History

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Pablo Mijangos y González
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in History
  • Global History of Catholicism
  • Latin American History
  • Mexican History
  • Spanish History
  • Legal History 
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Brandon Miller
Adjunct Assistant Professor 

  • Russia/East-Central Europe
  • Cultural History
  • History of Everyday Life
  • Gender and Sexuality
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Daniel T. Orlovsky
Professor and George Bouhe Research Fellow in Russian Studies 
  • Russia
  • Revolutions
  • Social History
  • Institutions of Culture
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Ariel Ron
Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era 
  • United States
  • Political Economy
  • Nineteenth Century History
  • Agricultural History
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Kathleen A. Wellman
Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
 

  • Europe
  • Early Modern France
  • Intellectual History
  • Agricultural History
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Laurence H. Winnie
Senior Lecturer   
  • Europe
  • Modern France
  • Society and Religion