Dec 11, 2025  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog

History Faculty


CHAIR

Tuska Benes Professor (Ph.D., Washington - Seattle).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Andrew Fisher (Ph.D., Arizona State).

PROFESSORS

Frederick Corney (Ph.D., Columbia), Philip Daileader (Ph.D., Harvard), Melvin Ely William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities (Ph.D., Princeton), Lu Ann Homza James Pickney Harrison Chair (Ph.D., Chicago), Catherine Kelly (Ph.D., Rochester), Professor of History and Executive Director, Omohundro Institute, Leisa Meyer, Professor of American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison) (on leave Spring 2026), Joshua Piker (Ph.D., Cornell) (on leave 2025-2026), Nicholas Popper (Ph.D., Princeton), Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard), Carol Sheriff (Ph.D., Yale), and Chitralekha Zutshi Class of 1962 Professor of History (Ph.D., Tufts).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary)(on leave 2025-2026), Chandos Brown (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave Fall 2025), Gérard Chouin Margaret L. Hamilton Associate Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse) (on leave 2025-2026), Kara French (Ph.D., Michigan), Julia Gaffield (Ph.D., Duke), Cristina Galmarini (Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia), Scott Heerman (Ph.D., Maryland), Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Ph.D., Harvard), Hiroshi Kitamura (Ph.D., Wisconsin - Madison) (on leave 2025-2026), Betsy Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Kathrin Levitan (Ph.D. Chicago), Paul Mapp (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard), Simon Middleton William E. Pullen Chair (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Centre), Adrienne Petty (Ph.D., Columbia), Jeremy Pope (Ph.D., John Hopkins), Fabricio Prado (Ph.D., Emory), Hannah Rosen (Ph.D., Chicago), Chinua Thelwell (Ph.D., New York University) (on leave 2025-2026), and Richard Turits (Ph.D., Chicago) (on leave 2025-2026).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Zachary Hershey (PhD., Pennsylvania), Abdoulie Jabang (Ph.D., Michigan State), Peyman Jafari (Ph.D., Leiden University) (on leave Spring 2026), and Brianna Nofil (Ph.D., Columbia).

TEACHING PROFESSOR

Jerry Watkins, III (Ph.D., King’s College).

ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Nicole Dressler (Ph.D., Northern Illinois).

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Sarah McCartney (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Greensboro).

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Julie Richter (Ph.D., William & Mary), and Robyn Schroeder (Ph.D., Brown).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Nathaniel Berndt (Ph.D., Duke).

COURTESY PROFESSORS

Christopher Grasso (Ph.D., Yale), and Karin Wulf (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins).

COURTESY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Brett Rushforth (Ph.D., California - Davis).

ADJUNCT LECTURERS

David Brown (M.A., Massachusetts-Boston), Michael Butler (Ph.D., Virginia), Irina Gorbunova-Ford (Ph.D. Far Eastern Academy of Public Service, Khabarovsk, Russia), Jeffrey Klee (Ph.D., Delaware), Amy Limoncelli (Ph.D., Boston College), Carl Lounsbury (Ph.D., George Washington), Amy Stallings (Ph.D., William & Mary), and Holly White (Ph.D., William & Mary).