History Faculty and Staff

Since 1999. University of California, Berkeley B.A., M.A., Ph.D.  History of Italy; spirituality and religious life; history of cartography, geography, and the medieval world view; urbanism. 

Since 1999. University of California, Berkeley B.A., M.A., Ph.D.  History of Italy; spirituality and religious life; history of cartography, geography, and the medieval world view; urbanism. 

Since 2008. Columbia University Ph.D., M. Phil, M.A.; University of Provence, licence in History; Rice University, B.A. Modern European history and culture, especially modern Germany and East Central Europe; the Cold War; Communism; Russia and the Soviet Union; Central European music and society; cultural history.

Since 2003. Stanford University B.A., University of California, San Diego M.A. & Ph.D. Colonial Latin American history with an emphasis on Mesoamerican and Andean indigenous history. Other courses include the Mexican Revolution, U.S.-Latin American relations, Chile since 1970.

Since 1994. UCLA B.A., Sarah Lawrence M.A., Rutgers Ph.D. History of American women, gender & work, labor history, social welfare, historiography, women’s and gender studies.

Since 1993. University of the Punjab, Lahore B.A., McGill University, Montreal B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison M.A., Ph.D. Russia, Central Asia, the Ottoman Empire; the politics of culture in the Muslim world; nationalism; empire.

Since 2011. B.S. Lahore University, M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College. South Asia, medicine, disease causation, sacred spaces, pilgrimages and public health. British imperialism and colonialism in Indian subcontinent during 19th and early 20th centuries.

Since 1999. Princeton A.B., University of California, Berkeley M.A., Ph.D. Medieval Europe (esp. to 1150) and Byzantium (Late Antiquity-1453); Christian thought (esp. political and social), asceticism, and institutions; crusades; late antique and medieval historiography and hagiography. Research interests: medieval Germany; ecclesiastical conflict and reform in Byzantium and the West; medieval biblical exegesis and social thought; institutional culture in the Middle Ages. Please visit: Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor Webpage.

Since 1998. Carleton College, B.A., Brown, M.A., Ph.D. Early Modern European social, cultural & intellectual history. Comparative popular culture of Continental & British history & history of Anglo-Irish-Scottish relations in pre-modern period. Research focus on family history of 18th c. England, history of aging.

Since 2006. Marquette University B.S., Northwestern University M.A., Georgetown University Ph.D. American and world environmental history, the American West, 19th-century America, and contemporary environmental issues.

Since Fall, 2010.  Clark Atlanta University B.A., Cornell University M.A., Emory University M.A. & Ph.D. African & African Diaspora History. Nigeria, West Africa; Yoruba history, culture, and religion; masquerade and ritual performance; gender, slavery, ethnicity, religion, and performance in Africa.  

Since 1999. Seoul National University, B.A., Harvard A.M., Ph.D. Modern China, East Asian history, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, international relations.

Since 2000. Bowdoin B.A., U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill M.A., Rutgers Ph.D. Colonial America, Early Modern Atlantic World, Age of Revolutions, the Early Republic, women, race and gender in American history.

1967-2001 Wyoming B.A., Oregon M.A., Minnesota Ph.D. British History, American West, Environmental History, American Indian History. More…

Since 1970. Yale B.A., Harvard M.A. and Ph.D. American cultural, material, intellectual history, architecture, religion, and the literature of exploration of the natural environment.  More…

Since 1999. University of California, Berkeley B.A., M.A., Ph.D.  History of Italy; spirituality and religious life; history of cartography, geography, and the medieval world view; urbanism. 

1967-2001 Wyoming B.A., Oregon M.A., Minnesota Ph.D. British History, American West, Environmental History, American Indian History. More…

Since 1970. Yale B.A., Harvard M.A. and Ph.D. American cultural, material, intellectual history, architecture, religion, and the literature of exploration of the natural environment.  More…

1966-1999 Reed B.A., Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto M.A., Ph.D. Medieval history, Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance. Professor Niles returned to his native city, Portland, Oregon, upon retirement.