Department of History

Katrina Jagodinsky is a legal historian examining marginalized peoples’ engagement with nineteenth-century legal regimes and competing jurisdictions throughout the North American West. Research Expertise: Comparative Legal History, North American West, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, U.S. Nineteenth-Century, and Women's History.

Dr. Ali Yaycıoğlu is a historian specializing in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey.

Cam Grey is a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. They are an environmental and social historian working in the late and post-Roman world. Research Expertise: Roman environmental social, economic, agrarian and legal history, particularly in the late antique period, Disasters, their causes, impacts, implications, and aftermaths, Interactions between human populations and […]

Honor Sachs is an associate professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Research Expertise: Early America with a particular focus on slavery, gender, and law. Funded as part of the Harrison Lectureship.

Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of History and Art History and the director of the American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware. Research Expertise: Early American and Atlantic World History with a focus on 18th-century material culture. Funded as part of the Harrison Lectureship.

Jessica Marglin is the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of religion, Law, and History at the University of California-Dornsife. Research Expertise: Jews and Muslims in modern North Africa and the Mediterranean, legal history, Non-Muslims in the Islamic world, and Mediterranean Studies.

Jennifer Luff, an associate teaching professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins, is a historian of politics and labour in the US and the UK, with special interests in the history of civil liberties and state repression, political organizing, and working-class conservatism.

Kathleen López is an associate professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University. Research Expertise: Latin American and Caribbean History, Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean, Race and Ethnicity in the Americas, Diaspora and International Migration, Latinx History, and Public Humanities.

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with associate professorJapa Pallikkathayil (Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh).

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)Gilman 308, 4:45pm-6:15pm, November 10, 2025

Nicole Archambeau is an associate professor, in the History Department, at Colorado State University. Research Expertise: Medieval history, Mediterranean Europe, and Social History of Healing and Medicine.

Political and Moral Thought Seminar with Alex Haskins (Wheaton College)