Faculty
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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 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
Assistant Professor of History
A.B., Harvard University; 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
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 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
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.
Faculty Emerita
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Jerold Auerbach
Professor Emeritus of History
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research interests have included modern American history, the history of freedom of speech since the framing of the Bill of Rights, the history of the American legal profession, American Jewish history, and the history of Israel from its biblical foundation to the present.
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Paul A. Cohen
Professor Emeritus of History
Cornell University, B.A. University of Chicago, M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University
Retired from teaching in 2000, but continues to be active in the field of Chinese history.
