Full Time Faculty

		Paul Bookbinder (Ph.D. Brandeis University) – Professor Bookbinder’s research interests are in the history of political violence and terrorism. He teaches courses in German history, with special emphasis on the Weimar and Hitler eras.
		Vincent J. Cannato (Ph.D. Columbia University) -- Professor Cannato's research interests include 20th century political history, American urban history and urban politics, and immigration and ethnic history.
		Michael B. Chesson (Ph.D. Harvard University) – Professor Chesson’s research and teaching interests include slavery and the slave trade, the nineteenth century South, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.
		Jonathan M. Chu (Ph.D. University of Washington) – Professor Chu’s research interests are in American colonial and legal history and he teaches courses in those areas as well as the American Revolution.
		Spencer Di Scala (Ph.D. Columbia University) – Graduate Program Director – Professor Di Scala’s research interests are in modern Italian history, particularly Italian socialism. He teaches courses in Italian and European history.
		C. Tracy Goode (Ph.D. (ABD) University of Arizona) – Asst. Professor Goode’s research focuses on the unique position of Mexico in the global economy of the early modern world.  Her current research investigates the role of merchant bureaucrats in the colonial economy that connected Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
		James Green (Ph.D. Yale University) – Professor Green's research interests are in U.S. labor and working class history. He teaches public history in the graduate program and undergraduate courses in modern US labor, social and political history, social movements and the history of Boston.
		Timothy Hacsi (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) -- Professor Hacsi's research interests include American urban history, the history of education, the history of poverty, charity, and welfare, and the history of social policy, especially policy pertaining to class, race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.
		David Hunt (Ph.D. Harvard University) – Professor Hunt’s current research interests are the Vietnam War and 20th-century Vietnam; peasant studies; the French Revolution and French social history; politics and culture; world history in the early-modern period
		Esther Kingston-Mann (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) – Professor Kingston-Mann teaches courses in Russian history, modern Europe, and the Cold War. Her current research focuses on the comparative history of property rights, with a particular emphasis on gender issues.
		Ruth A. Miller (Ph.D. Princeton University) -- Professor Miller teaches Middle Eastern history, focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Islamic law. Her research interests include Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, Islamic and comparative law, and comparative histories of gender and sexuality.
		William A. Percy (Ph.D. Princeton University) – Professor Percy’s current research interests include ancient Greece and Rome, the middle ages. the history of common law, and gay studies. He teaches courses in medieval history, social and institutional.
		Woodruff D. Smith (Ph.D. University of Chicago) – Professor Smith's research focuses on modern Germany, imperialism, the history of the social and cultural sciences, the relationship between economics and culture. He is working on a study of respectability in the 19th century. He teaches courses on 18th and 19th-century Europe, imperialism and colonialism, globalization, and Atlantic history.
		R. Malcolm Smuts (Ph.D. Princeton University) – Professor Smuts' research interests are in the court culture of England, 1580-1640, the history of London, 1580-1640, and early Stuart politics and political thought. He teaches courses on Tudor-Stuart England and England in the Age of Revolution, 1660-1850.
		Ananya Vajpeyi (Ph.D. University of Chicago) – Professor Vajpeyi teaches South Asian History, with a focus on caste, state, law, nationalism,violence and modernity; Colonialism and Decolonization in Asia and Africa -- 19th and 20th centuries; Indian and European intellectual history.
		Julie P. Winch (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College) – Professor Winch’s areas of specialty are African-American history, in both the United States and the Caribbean; the Early American Republic, and maritime history.
		Roberta L. Wollons (Ph.D. University of Chicago) – Department Chair – Professor Wollons' research specializations are in American Progressive Era history, women's history, and the history of education.

Joint Appointments

Weili Ye (Ph.D. Yale University) – Joint appointment in History and Women’s Studies Program. Professor Ye’s area of specialty is modern Chinese history. She teaches courses on the history of East Asia and women in Asia. Professor Ye's research interests are in the social, cultural and intellectual history of twentieth-century China. She has published books on Chinese students in the United States and on women in the Chinese Revolution and is currently working on a study of the generational cohort that joined the Chinese Communist Party at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War.

Part-time faculty

Gary M. Miller (Ph.D. Yale University) – Professor Miller's research interests include early modern Europe, particularly the history of the Reformation in Germany. He is also interested in the history of Christianity and the history of modern Germany.

Robert J. Sauer (Ph.D. Boston College) – Professor Sauer's research interests include military history, international terrorism, global diplomacy, and the Roman Catholic Church.