Department of 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 Southern 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.