Faculty and Staff
Art History
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Lawrence Butler | Medieval, Islamic, Architecture |
| Robert DeCaroli | Asian art history, Buddhist studies |
| Michele Greet | Twentieth-century Andean art; Latin American artists in Europe |
| Carma Hinton | |
| Carol Mattusch | Classical art and archaeology; rediscovery of antiquity |
| Ellen Wiley Todd | American art history |
History
UNITED STATES
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| D. Michael Bottoms | 19th-century US, American West, political, legal, constitutional history |
| Jane Turner Censer | 19th century U.S.; American South; women, gender, and family in U.S. |
| Christopher Hamner | Military history, individual experience of battle, combat motivation |
| Cynthia A. Kierner | Colonial and revolutionary U.S.; early republic; old south; gende |
| Meredith Lair | War and American society; post-1945 social and cultural history; the Vietnam War; American theater history |
| Alison Landsberg | American studies; film and mass culture; cultural memory |
| Michael O’Malley | History of money, value and exchange, history of music and recording technology, history of criminology. Digital music production, digital pedagogy. |
| Paula Petrik | Nineteenth-century U.S. social, trans-Mississippi West, business and economic |
| Zachary Schrag | Post-1945 U.S. history. Urban history, including city planning, the vernacular landscape, the Washington metropolitan area, and urban riots. The history of technology, especially urban technologies and public policy debates. Human subjects regulations. |
| Randolph Scully | Early America, race, gender, religion, Southern history, Virginia history |
| Martin Sherwin | Cold War-era politics, diplomacy, and culture; history and film; nuclear history |
| Suzanne Smith | African American, 20th century Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Urban and Popular Music |
| Rosemarie Zagarri | Colonial and revolutionary America, early republic, early American women |
EUROPE
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Steven Barnes | Modern Russian and Soviet History, Totalitarianism, Cold War Europe |
| Jack Censer | French, European social |
| Samuel Collins | Early medieval, religion |
| Dina Copelman | Modern British, European women, European social |
| Marion Deshmukh | Germany, Europe |
| Mack P. Holt | Political, religious, social, and cultural history of early modern France; the history of wine |
| T. Mills Kelly | Czech History, Drinking Cultures, Digital History |
| Randolph Lytton | Classical Greece and Rome |
| Sean Takats | Eighteenth-century France; the Enlightenment; cultural history; history of medicine; early modern empire; the consumer revolution |
| Rex Wade | Russian and Soviet History, the Russian Revolution |
WORLD
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Shaul Bakhash | |
| Joan Bristol | Latin America, social and cultural history |
| Benedict Carton | Africa, Environment and Health, Global and Imperial Histories, Oral History |
| Michael Chang | Political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial China; ethnicity; state-formation; court studies |
| Sumaiya Hamdani | Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history |
| Matthew Karush | Latin America, labor history |
| Wendi Manuel-Scott | |
| Thomas McDow | Global History, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Islam |
| Brian Platt | Japan, East Asia |
| Peter Stearns | Modern European and American and comparative social history; history of emotions; world history |