History Faculty

Department Leadership

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Tamara Loos

Professor Department Chair

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
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Raymond B. Craib

Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History Director of Graduate Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Historical Geography

Faculty in the Department

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Edward E. Baptist

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social
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Ernesto Bassi Arevalo

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
  • Historical Geography
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Derek Chang

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational
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Mara Yue Du

Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • International & Diplomatic
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Intellectual
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Cristina Florea

Assistant Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
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Paul Friedland

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Intellectual
  • Political Thought
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Maria Cristina Garcia

Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • International & Diplomatic
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Durba Ghosh

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Empires and Colonialism
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Lawrence B. Glickman

Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Social
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Political Thought
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Sandra Elaine Greene

Stephen ’59 and Madeline ’60 Anbinder Professor of African History

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Social
  • Comparative and Transnational
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TJ Hinrichs

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Religion
  • Intellectual
  • History of Science & Medicine
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Olga Litvak

Laurie B. and Eric M. Roth Professor of Modern European Jewish History

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Mostafa Minawi

Associate Professor of History and the Director of Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
  • Historical Geography
  • International & Diplomatic
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Jon W. Parmenter

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social
  • Empires and Colonialism
  • Historical Geography
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Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Academic Interests:

  • Social
  • Religion
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Russell Rickford

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social
  • Intellectual
  • Political Thought
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Kristin Roebuck

Assistant Professor & Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow

Academic Interests:

  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Migration and Citizenship
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
  • International & Diplomatic
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Intellectual
  • Political Thought
  • History of Science & Medicine
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Aaron Sachs

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Historical Geography
  • Intellectual
  • Environmental
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David Silbey

Adj. Associate Professor and Associate Director Cornell in Washington

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Eric Tagliacozzo

John Stambaugh Professor of History

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and Transnational
  • Empires and Colonialism
  • Historical Geography
  • Religion
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Claudia Verhoeven

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Intellectual
  • Political Thought
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Rachel Judith Weil

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Cultural
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Legal and Constitutional
  • Political Thought

Postdoctoral Fellows

Members of the Graduate Field

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Louis Hyman

Professor, Director of the Institute for Workplace Studies

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Ronald R. Kline

Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering Emeritus and Graduate School Professor

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Nick Salvatore

Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations, Emeritus

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Suman Seth

Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science

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