Fields of Interest
Faculty are organized into the following areas of interest. Click on the area of interest to display a corresponding faculty listing.
Africa & African Diaspora
Africa & the Middle East
Asia
Britain, Ireland, & British Empire
Early Modern Europe
Labor
Latin America
Medieval
Modern Europe
Religion
U.S.
Women & Gender
Africa / African Diaspora
| Karen Miller |
Afro-American history; history of African-American women; American social history; history of higher education |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration |
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| Zachary Morgan |
Brazilian History, Modern Latin America, African Diaspora/Atlantic World |
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Martin Summers |
African American Intellectual and Cultural History, Gender and Masculinity, Race and Sexuality, Race and Mental Illness, and African Diaspora |
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Frank Taylor |
Economic, social, political and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African Diaspora; Black social and political thought |
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Africa and Middle East
| Benjamin Braude |
Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration |
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| Dana Sajdi |
Pre-modern Middle Eastern history (mainly but not exclusively Ottoman history); popular and learned literary cultures; historiography; book history and urban history. |
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Asia
| Rebecca Nedostup |
Modern China; social, cultural and political history; religion, nationalism and modernity |
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| Prasannan Parthasarathi |
Modern South Asian history; Colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history |
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| Franziska Seraphim |
Modern and contemporary Japanese history: social, political, and cultural; historical memory; social movements; relations with Asia; comparative history with Germany |
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Britain, Ireland, and British Empire
| James Cronin |
European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history |
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| Robin Fleming |
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism |
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| Kevin Kenny |
The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland |
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| Kevin O'Neill |
Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy |
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| Prasannan Parthasarathi |
Modern South Asian history; Colonialism; labor history; comparative history; economic history |
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| Robert Savage |
Irish political and cultural history, film and media in Ireland and Britain, Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century. |
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Owen Stanwood |
Colonial America; early modern Britain; transatlantic religious and political history |
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Early Modern Europe
| Sarah Ross |
Early-Modern Europe (especially the Cultural and Intellectualy History of Renaissance Italy and England), Women and Gender, Humanism |
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Owen Stanwood |
Colonial America; early modern Britain; transatlantic religious and political history |
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Labor
| James Cronin |
European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history |
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| Kevin Kenny |
The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland |
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| Deborah Levenson-Estrada |
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with special interest in the social history of family, women and children; modernity; working class history; and intellectual movements |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam |
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Latin America
| Deborah Levenson-Estrada |
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with special interest in the social history of family, women and children; modernity; working class history; and intellectual movements |
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| Zachary Morgan |
Brazilian History, Modern Latin America, African Diaspora/Atlantic World |
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| Sergio Serulnikov |
Colonial Latin America; Andean history and society; social movements; colonialism |
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| Frank Taylor |
Economic, social, political and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African Diaspora; Black social and political thought |
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Medieval
| Robin Fleming |
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism |
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| John Rosser |
Late Roman and Byzantine History; Byzantine archaeology; medieval fortifications |
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Modern Europe
| Paul Breines |
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural history; social movements; history of Marxism; gender and identity; post-structuralism |
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| James Cronin |
European social and economic history; comparative labor history; state and society in Europe since 1750; British history; contemporary history |
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| Roberta Manning |
Twentieth-Century Russia, with special interests in the social and political history of the Stalin era, political terror, the Cold War, peasant studies and women's history |
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| Kevin O'Neill |
Modern Ireland; peasants in colonial society and economy |
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| Devin Pendas |
German History; Modern Europe; Legal History; History of Mass Violence and War |
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| Robert Savage |
Irish political and cultural history, film and media in Ireland and Britain, Northern Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century. |
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| Paul G. Spagnoli |
France 1789-1914; demographic history; social and economic history of modern Western Europe |
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Religion
| Benjamin Braude |
Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history |
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| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Rebecca Nedostup |
Modern China; social, cultural and political history; religion, nationalism and modernity |
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| David Northrup |
History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration; Islam |
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| James O'Toole |
American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts |
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| Virginia Reinburg |
Early modern European history; religious and social history; the Reformation |
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| Stephen Schloesser, SJ |
Late Modern Europe; Religious Representations; Modernisms; Music |
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Owen Stanwood |
Colonial America; early modern Britain; transatlantic religious and political history |
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U.S.
| Mark Gelfand |
American history (1877-present); American political, legal, and business history |
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| Seth Jacobs |
Twentieth-century United States; U.S. foreign policy; U.S.-Asian relations |
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| Kevin Kenny |
The American Irish; U.S. immigration and labor; modern Ireland |
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| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Patrick Maney |
U.S. History, 1865-Present, the Presidency, and Congress |
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| Thomas O'Connor |
Mid-nineteenth century American history; history of Boston; the age of Jackson; the Civil War |
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| James O'Toole |
American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts |
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| David Quigley |
Nineteenth-century United States; urban history; Civil War and Reconstruction; America and the world |
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| Alan Rogers |
United States Constitutional and legal history; the American Revolution |
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Owen Stanwood |
Colonial America; early modern Britain; transatlantic religious and political history |
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Martin Summers |
African American Intellectual and Cultural History, Gender and Masculinity, Race and Sexuality, Race and Mental Illness, and African Diaspora |
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Women and Gender
| Paul Breines |
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural history; social movements; history of Marxism; gender and identity; post-structuralism |
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| Cynthia Lyerly |
American women, with a special interest in gender ideology, religion, women and race; and the history of the South |
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| Sarah Ross |
Early-Modern Europe (especially the Cultural and Intellectualy History of Renaissance Italy and England), Women and Gender, Humanism |
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Martin Summers |
African American Intellectual and Cultural History, Gender and Masculinity, Race and Sexuality, Race and Mental Illness, and African Diaspora |
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