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William Rowe
Department Chair

Department of History
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2850 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

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FACULTY SPECIALTY


Africa

Sara Berry
Economic and Social History of Africa with special interest in agrarian studies

Pier M. Larson
African history with specializations in East/Southern Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, and the history of slavery and the slave trades.

Asia

Tobie Meyer-Fong
East Asia, especially social and cultural history of China since 1600

William Rowe
Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history


Caribbean

Franklin Knight
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with emphasis on the late colonial period, an interest in American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean

Melanie Shell-Weiss
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa

Early Modern Americas

Toby Ditz
Colonial British America and the early republic, with special emphasis on cultural history and women, gender, and masculinity

Franklin Knight
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with emphasis on the late colonial period, an interest in American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean

John Russell-Wood
Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America with emphasis on Brazil, an interest in the Portuguese seaborne empire and comparative colonialism


Early Modern Europe

David Bell
Early Modern European history, with emphasis on France, Nationalism, War

Richard Kagan
Early modern European history with an emphasis on Spain and Iberian expansion

John Marshall
Early modern Europe, with emphasis on British and intellectual history

East Asia

Tobie Meyer-Fong
East Asia, especially social and cultural history of China since 1600

William Rowe
Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history

Europe

David Bell
Early Modern European history, with emphasis on France, and the origins of nationalism.

Jeffrey Brooks

Russian and Soviet History, with an emphasis on culture and society, the press, and popular culture

Richard Kagan
Early modern European history with an emphasis on Spain and Iberian expansion

Peter Jelavich

Modern European cultural and intellectual history

John Marshall

Early modern Europe, with emphasis on British and intellectual history

Ken Moss
Modern Jewish history; Russia and Eastern Europe; nationalism; theory and practice of cultural history


Gabrielle Spiegel
Medieval history, with special interest in historiography and linguistic analysis

Judith Walkowitz
Modern European cultural and social history with special interest in Great Britain, comparative women's history

Latin America

Franklin Knight
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with emphasis on the late colonial period, an interest in American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean

John Russell-Wood
Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America with emphasis on Brazil, an interest in the Portuguese seaborne empire and comparative colonialism

Ben Vinson
Latin American Historian with a particular interest in race relations, especially the experience of the African Diaspora

Medieval

Gabrielle Spiegel
Medieval history, with special interest in historiography and linguistic analysis

Modern Europe

Jeffrey Brooks
Russian and Soviet History, with an emphasis on culture and society, the press, and popular culture

Peter Jelavich

Modern European cultural and intellectual history 

Judith Walkowitz

Modern European cultural and social history with special interest in Great Britain, comparative women's history

Modern United States

Nathan Connolly
20th Century U.S., race, migration, and urban history

Louis Galambos

Economic, Business, and Political History of the United States with emphasis on institutional change in the period since 1880

Michael Johnson

Nineteenth-century United States history with emphasis on slavery and the South

Dorothy Ross

American intellectual history, the history of the social and behavioral sciences

Mary P. Ryan
19th century U.S., Urban, Cultural Landscape

Melanie Shell-Weiss
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa


Ronald Walters
Social and Cultural History of the United States with special interest in radicalism, reform, race, and popular culture

Oceans & Empires in Comparative Perspective

Richard Kagan
Early modern European history with an emphasis on Spain and Iberian expansion

Franklin Knight
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with emphasis on the late colonial period, an interest in American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean

Pier M. Larson
African history with specializations in East/Southern Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, and the history of slavery and the slave trades.

John Russell-Wood
Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America with emphasis on Brazil, an interest in the Portuguese seaborne empire and comparative colonialism

United States

Nathan Connolly
20th Century U.S., race, migration, and urban history

Toby Ditz
Colonial British America and the early republic, with special emphasis on cultural history and women, gender, and masculinity

Louis Galambos
Economic, Business, and Political History of the United States with emphasis on institutional change in the period since 1880

Michael Johnson
Nineteenth-century United States history with emphasis on slavery and the South

Philip Morgan
Early Modern colonial British America, Slavery

Dorothy Ross
American intellectual history, the history of the social and behavioral sciences

Mary Ryan
19th century U.S., Urban, Cultural Landscape

Melanie Shell-Weiss
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa


Ronald Walters
Social and Cultural History of the United States with special interest in radicalism, reform, race, and popular culture

Urban

Nathan Connolly
20th Century U.S., race, migration, and urban history

Peter Jelavich
Modern European cultural and intellectual history 

Richard Kagan
Early modern European history with an emphasis on Spain and Iberian expansion

John Marshall
Early modern Europe, with emphasis on British and intellectual history

Tobie Meyer-Fong
East Asia, especially social and cultural history of China since 1600

Ken Moss
Modern Jewish history; Russia and Eastern Europe; nationalism; theory and practice of cultural history

William Rowe
Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history

John Russell-Wood
Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America with emphasis on Brazil, an interest in the Portuguese seaborne empire and comparative colonialism

Mary Ryan
19th century U.S., Urban, Cultural Landscape

Melanie Shell-Weiss
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa

Judith Walkowitz
Modern European cultural and social history with special interest in Great Britain, comparative women's history


Women & Gender

Toby Ditz
Early modern era, especially early America, with a special interst in gender and culture and the history of manliness and masculinity

Tobie Meyer-Fong
East Asia, especially social and cultural history of China since 1600

Mary Ryan
19th century U.S., Urban, Cultural Landscape

Melanie Shell-Weiss
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa


Judith Walkowitz
Modern European cultural and social history with special interest in Great Britain, comparative women's history

 

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