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Chair

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Serena Zabin Bio
Chair of History
Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 219
Phone: 507 222 4845
Email: szabin@carleton.edu

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.

 

Faculty

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Antony Adler ’06 Bio
Lecturer in History
Office: Leighton Hall 222
Phone: 507 222 5009
Email: aadler@carleton.edu
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Rebecca Brueckmann Bio
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 212
Phone: 507 222 5241
Email: rbrueckmann@carleton.edu
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Andrew Fisher Bio
Professor of History
Off Campus: Winter 2023, Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: 507 222 4189
Email: afisher@carleton.edu

Since Fall, 2003. Stanford University B.A., University of California, San Diego M.A. & Ph.D. He has also studied Nahuatl in Mexico as well as at Yale University and UCLA. Latin American history, society and culture, the comparative topics of slavery, obstacles to nation-building, and the role of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial settings.

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Annette Igra Bio
Director of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: 507 222 5240
Email: aigra@carleton.edu

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.

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Adeeb Khalid Bio
Director of Middle East Studies
Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History
Office: Leighton Hall 205
Phone: 507 222 4214
Email: akhalid@carleton.edu

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.

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Amna Khalid Bio
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 206
Phone: 507 222 4213
Email: amkhalid@carleton.edu

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.

 

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Brendan LaRocque Bio
Lecturer in History and Asian Studies
Off Campus: Winter 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 214
Phone: 507 222 5010
Email: blarocqu@carleton.edu
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Austin Mason Bio
Assistant Director for Digital Humanities
Director, Digital Arts and Humanities
Lecturer in History
Off Campus: Fall 2023
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 239B
Phone: 507 222 4853
Email: amason@carleton.edu
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Meredith McCoy Bio
Assistant Professor of American Studies and History
Off Campus: Winter 2023, Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 221
Phone: 507 222 4763
Email: mlmccoy@carleton.edu
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Victoria Morse Bio
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning
Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 203B / Weitz Center for Creativity 122
Phone: 507 222 4191
Phone: 507 222 4210
Email: vmorse@carleton.edu

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. 

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William North Bio
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 203A
Phone: 507 222 4202
Email: wnorth@carleton.edu

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.

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Susannah Ottaway ’89 Bio
Laird Bell Professor of History
Off Campus: Winter 2023, Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 211
Phone: 507 222 5446
Email: sottaway@carleton.edu

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.

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Pedro Quijada Bio
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 211
Phone: 507 222 4169
Email: pquijada@carleton.edu
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David Tompkins Bio
Director of Cross-Cultural Studies
Director of the Center for Global and Regional Studies
Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 419
Phone: 507 222 4215
Email: dtompkins@carleton.edu

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.

 

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George Vrtis Bio
Professor of Environmental Studies and History
Off Campus: Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 208
Phone: 507 222 5410
Email: gvrtis@carleton.edu

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.

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Thabiti Willis Bio
Associate Professor of History
Off Campus: Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
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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.  

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Seungjoo Yoon Bio
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 209
Phone: 507 222 4211
Email: syoon@carleton.edu

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

Staff

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Marynel Ryan Van Zee Bio
Director of Student Fellowships
Lecturer in History
Office: Laird Hall 137
Phone: 507 222 4555
Email: mryanvanzee@carleton.edu
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Mieux Williamsen Bio
Administrative Assistant in History
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: 507 222 4217
Email: mwilliamsen@carleton.edu

Emeriti Faculty

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Robert Bonner Bio
Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Prof of History & the Lib Arts, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 5769
Email: rbonner@carleton.edu

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

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Clifford Clark Bio
Professor of History and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 4217
Email: cclark@carleton.edu

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…

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Kirk Jeffrey Bio
Professor of History, Emeritus
Email: kirkjeffrey@carleton.edu
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Carl Weiner
W. H. Laird Professor of History and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 4217
Email: cweiner@carleton.edu

1964-2004 Queens College B.A., Columbia M.A. Western Europe, French history in comparative context with England, Spain and Italy.  More…

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Faculty | Student Departmental Advisors |

Faculty

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Victoria Morse Bio
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning
Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 203B / Weitz Center for Creativity 122
Phone: 507 222 4191
Phone: 507 222 4210
Email: vmorse@carleton.edu

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. 

Student Departmental Advisors

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Hannah Rosenberg ’23
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Dane Swanser ’23
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Emeriti Faculty |

Emeriti Faculty

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Philip Niles
Professor of History, Emeritus
Email: pniles@carleton.edu

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.

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