faculty
Angus Burgin
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 304
- 410-516-7575
Research Interests: 20th-century United States, political history, intellectual history, and history of capitalism
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Christopher S. Celenza
James B. Knapp Dean and Professor of History and Classics
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- Wyman N615
N. D. B. Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 390
Research Interests: Twentieth-century America, racism, capitalism, urban and suburban history, and African diaspora
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Mary Fissell
Professor; joint appointment with the History of Medicine
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- 369B Gilman; 308 Welch Library, East Baltimore campus
- 410-955-3662
Research Interests: Early-modern medicine, the patient's perspective in the history of medicine, gender, sexuality, and the history of the body, popular culture, and books and reading in early modern England and the Atlantic world
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
François Furstenberg
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Gilman 306
Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries and French Atlantic
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jules Gill-Peterson
Associate Professor and Diversity Champion
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- Gilman 392
Research Interests: Transgender history, history of sexuality, gender and race, and history of science and medicine
Education: PhD, Rutgers University
Didier Gondola
Professor
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- Gilman 338C
Research Interests: Popular cultures, masculinities, 20th-century African Diaspora, and the social impact of Chinese commodities on urban Africa
Education: PhD, Université Paris
Victoria Harms
Associate Teaching Professor
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- Gilman 342
Research Interests: 20th and 21st- century European history, Cold War, sports history, racism, democracy and backsliding
Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Katie Hindmarch-Watson
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 318
Research Interests: Modern Britain and the British Empire, urban space, gender and sexuality, and labor and technology
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Louis R. Hyman
Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History and Professor at the SNF Agora Institute
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- Gilman 319
Research Interests: U.S. history, capitalism, financial, economic, labor, business, consumer, policy history, and quantitative methods
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Lawrence Jackson
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History
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- Gilman 26
- 410-516-1103
Research Interests: African American Literature, Literary History, Biography, and American History
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Peter Jelavich
Professor
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- Gilman 370
Research Interests: Cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, popular culture, mass culture, and the media, and modern social and cultural theory
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Jessica Marie Johnson (she/her/ella)
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 372
Research Interests: Women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora, histories of slavery and the slave trade, and digital history and new media
Education: PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Martha S. Jones (she/her/hers)
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, Professor at the SNF Agora Institute, and Director of Graduate Studies
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- Gilman 320
Research Interests: Race and rights in the 19th century U.S. with an emphasis on slavery, law, gender, and visual culture
Education: PhD, Columbia University
H. Yumi Kim
Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 330A
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Japan and Korea, medicine and religion, folk culture, colonialism, and the history of women and gender
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Michael Kwass
Professor
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- Gilman 338A
Research Interests: Early Modern France and French Empire, French Revolution, political economy, capitalism, and globalization
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Anne E. Lester
John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History
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- Gilman 322
Research Interests: Medieval Europe, Materialities, Crusade Cultures, Religious Movements and Monasticism, Women and Gender, Law and Society, Urban Life and the Environment
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Julian Lim
Arthur Eisenberg and Susan Engel Associate Professor
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- Gilman 330B
Research Interests: Immigration, North American Borders and Borderlands, Race; Law, U.S. West, Pacific World, 19th-20th century U.S. History, and U.S. Expansion and Empire
Education: PhD, Cornell University
James Loeffler
Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History
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- Gilman 394
Research Interests: Modern Jewish History, Global Eastern Europe, Cultural and Legal History, Antisemitism, Human Rights, Genocide, and International Law
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Diego Javier Luis
Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 330F
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America, Spanish Pacific, Early Philippines, Global Diasporas, Race-Making, History of Slavery
Education: PhD, Brown University
Casey Lurtz (she/her)
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 330G
Research Interests: Modern Mexico and Latin America more broadly, rural and agricultural history, commodities, history of development, economic history, and Atlantic history
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Pawel Maciejko
Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture
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- Gilman 338F
Research Interests: Early modern history, Jewish history, intellectual history, and East-Central Europe
Education: DPhil, University of Oxford
Minkah Makalani
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Africana Studies
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- Gilman 326
Research Interests: Intellectual history, black internationalism, political theory, Caribbean independence, Black Power, race and racial identity, and artistry
Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Marshall
Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History
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- Gilman 330E
- 410-516-0458
Research Interests: Early Modern British and Early Modern British Imperial History, Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, and the History of Political Thought
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Laura Mason
Teaching Professor
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- Gilman 344
Research Interests: French Revolution, democracy and violence, cultural history and media, history and film, and French film
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Tobie Meyer-Fong
Professor and Department Chair
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- Gilman 330C
Research Interests: East Asia, especially social and cultural history of China since 1600
Education: PhD, Stanford University
R. M. A. Noor
Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 314
Research Interests: Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Islam, Sufism, Occultism, the Body, the Senses, and Kingship
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Sarah Pearsall
Professor
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- Gilman 302
Research Interests: Early American history, American Revolution, Atlantic history, Caribbean history, gender, households, and sexualities
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Erin Rowe (she/her)
Professor
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- Gilman 338G/San Martin Center Rm 268
Research Interests: Early modern Spain, the Mediterranean, saints and sanctity, and women and gender
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
William Rowe
John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History
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- Gilman 324
- 410-516-7580
Research Interests: Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Stuart Schrader
Associate Professor of History and Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism
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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Policing, racial inequality in criminal punishment, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Todd Shepard
Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor
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- Gilman 316
Research Interests: Modern France and French empire, decolonization, and gender and sexuality
Education: PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Elizabeth Thornberry
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 338E
Research Interests: History of gender, sexuality, empire, and law in Southern Africa and across the continent
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Sasha Turner
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 338B
Research Interests: Caribbean and African Diaspora social and cultural histories, women and children, the body and emotions, reproduction, nursing, midwifery, and community health care
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Leah Wright Rigueur
SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 348
Research Interests: 20th Century United States political and social history, Modern African American history, with an emphasis on race and political ideology, the American Presidency and presidential elections, policies and civil rights movements, and protest and unrest in the United States
Education: PhD, Princeton University
research professors
Tamer el-Leithy
Research Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Social & Cultural History of the Medieval Middle East and Mediterranean, History of Religious Difference, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic documents, the Cairo Geniza, and Arabic Documentary Cultures
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Louis Galambos
Research Professor
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Research Interests: Economic, business, and political history of the United States with emphasis on institutional change in the period since 1880
Education: PhD, Yale University
postdoctoral fellows
Blake Grindon (she/her)
Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Gilman 338D
Research Interests: The American Revolution, African American History, Canadian History, Cultural History, Early America, French and British Imperialism, Military History, Native American History, History of Slavery, History of Race, and Visual and Material Culture
Education: PhD, Princeton University
emeritus professors
Sara Berry
Professor Emerita
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Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Jeffrey Brooks
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Russian culture and politics 19th-20th century, Russian literature and history, Russian popular culture, and the Cold War
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Toby Ditz
Professor Emerita and Academy Professor
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Research Interests: History of early America and the Atlantic world, cultural history, and the history of women, gender, and masculinity
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Michael P. Johnson
Professor Emeritus
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- Greenhouse 112
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century United States history with emphasis on slavery and the South
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Richard Kagan
Academy Professor and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History
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Research Interests: Early modern European history
Franklin W. Knight
Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus of History
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Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history with an emphasis on the late colonial period, American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Ruth Leys
Academy Professor and Henry Wiesenfeld Professor Emerita of the Humanities
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Research Interests: History and theory of psychoanalysis, history of psychiatry and psychology, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, and feminist theory
Philip D. Morgan
Harry C. Black Professor Emeritus of History
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Research Interests: Early Modern colonial British America and slavery
Education: PhD, University College London
Randall M. Packard
Professor Emeritus, joint appointment with History of Medicine
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- [email protected]
- 410-955-3178
Research Interests: Social history of disease and healing in Africa, history of public health, and the history of colonial and post-colonial medicine
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin
Mary Ryan
John Martin Vincent Professor of History Emerita
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century United States, urban, cultural landscape, and gender history
Education: PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gabrielle Spiegel
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emerita
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Research Interests: Medieval history, with special interest in historiography and linguistic analysis
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Judith Walkowitz
Professor Emerita
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Research Interests: Modern European cultural and social history with special interest in Great Britain and comparative women's history
Education: PhD, University of Rochester
Ronald Walters
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Social and cultural history of the United States with special interest in radicalism, reform, race, and popular culture
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley