Faculty

  • C. Pat Giersch

    Associate Professor of History

    B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University

    Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in 1700s, and 20th century transnational trade networks.

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  • Katherine Grandjean

    Assistant Professor of History

    B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University

    Research interests: early American history; early modern travel and communications; Native American history; cultural encounter.

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  • Brenna Greer

    Brenna W. Greer

    Assistant Professor of History

    B.A., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    Historian of race, gender, and culture in 20th century U.S. with focus on African American business and visual culture.

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  • Simon Grote

    Simon Grote

    Assistant Professor of History

    A.B., Harvard College; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)

    Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe

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  • Lidwien Kapteijns

    Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of History

    B.A., Universiteit van Amsterdam; M.A., University of London; Doctoraal, Ph.D., Universiteit van Amsterdam

    African historian focusing on Somalia and Sudan; translator of historical and popular culture texts in Arabic and Somali. 

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  • Frances Malino

    Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History

    B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University

    Director of Jewish Studies, research in Jewish and European history, founding member of Digital Heritage Mapping and Diarna project.

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  • Y. Tak Matsusaka

    Associate Professor of History

    B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Japanese specialist focusing on Japanese imperialism, nationalism of the Meiji era, and the history of the Imperial Japanese Army.

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  • Alejandra Osorio

    Alejandra Osorio

    Associate Professor of History

    B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

    Associate Professor of History with a focus on the intersection of politics and urban culture in colonial Latin America.

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  • Ryan Alexander Quintana

    Assistant Professor of History

    B.A., University of Tennessee (Knoxville); M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)

    Historian of race, slavery, space, and the state in the late colonial and early national eras.

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  • Valerie Ramseyer

    Associate Professor of History

    A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Medieval historian of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, with special interest in t he relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.

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  • Nikhil Rao

    Associate Professor of History

    B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Scholar of urban history and urban economic and political development in South Asia.

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  • Guy M. Rogers

    Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of History and Classical Studies

    B.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., University of London; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

    Classicist and historian of Greek and Roman history, ancient religion and warfare, Alexander the Great and western civilizations.

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  • Quinn Slabodian

    Quinn Slobodian

    Assistant Professor of History

    B.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., New York University

    Engaged in teaching and writing the history of modern Germany and the world.

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  • Nina Tumarkin

    Nina Tumarkin

    Professor of History

    B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Historian of Russia, current research on Russian historical memory of the Soviet past.

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