Faculty

The faculty and staff in the History Department at the University of Minnesota are deeply committed to instilling in students an appreciation for and understanding of the past. The approximately forty full-time faculty have varied academic backgrounds and possess diverse and interdisciplinary research interests.

The department also draws upon visiting lecturers and scholars who bring their expertise in many areas of study. Our graduate students come from all over the world and occupy a unique position as both students and graduate assistants/instructors who bring their diverse research interests to their teaching. Furthermore, the staff members in the department offer many years of experience at the University of Minnesota, provide professional support to faculty and students and keep the department running smoothly. Together faculty, graduate students, and staff are dedicated to providing students with the support they need to learn and excel in today's complex world.

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Office Hours	Specialty
Bernard S. Bachrach Professor	1114 Heller Hall 612-624-3301 bachr001@umn.edu		Renaissance and Medieval eras and Medieval Military
Iraj Bashiri Professor	1043 Heller Hall 612-624-3314 bashi001@umn.edu		Islamic World and Literature
Susanna Blumenthal Professor	436 Mondale Hall 612-626-5694 blume047@umn.edu	Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm	American Cultural and Intellectual History, Anglo-American Legal History, and History of Human Sciences
Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor	1214 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu		Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Pre-Modern and Early Modern World History
Sarah Chambers Professor	1218 Heller Hall 612-625-6376 chambers@umn.edu		Colonial Latin America; Gender, Cultural, and Legal History
David Chang Distinguished McKnight Professor	1143 Heller Hall 612-624-9045 dchang@umn.edu		Race and Nationalism, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and 19th and 20th Century United States
Anna Clark Professor	1051 Heller Hall 612-624-8015 clark106@umn.edu	Mondays 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Wednesdays 3:00pm - 4:00pm	British, Irish, European, Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Tracey Deutsch Associate Professor	1045 Heller Hall 612-624-8547 tdeutsch@umn.edu		United States, Women's History, and Business
Gail Dubrow Professor	1016 Heller Hall 612-625-6191 dubrow@umn.edu		United States, Urban, Women, Asian-American, and Public History
Kirsten Fischer Associate Professor	1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 kfischer@umn.edu	Tuesdays 2:00pm - 3:00pm	Colonial and Revolutionary America, United States, and Social and Intellectual
Andrew Gallia Associate Professor	1041 Heller Hall 612-626-4268 abgallia@umn.edu	Mondays 2:00pm - 3:30pm	Ancient History
Katharine Gerbner Professor McKnight Land Grant Professor	1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu		Atlantic World, Early America, Comparative Early Modern, Caribbean, Religion, and Race
J. David Hacker Associate Chair and Associate Professor	1235 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hacke010@umn.edu		Demographic History, Quantitative History, and American Civil War
Carol Hakim Associate Professor	1216 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu	Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm	Modern Middle East
Allen F. Isaacman Regents Professor	910 Heller Hall 612-624-8037 isaac001@umn.edu		Central and Southern Africa
Christopher M. Isett Associate Professor	920 Heller Hall 612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu	Mondays and Tuesdays 5:00pm - 6:00pm	Post-War East Asian Political Economies, Global and Post-War Capitalism, East Asia's Cold War, Comparative Economic History, Agrarian, and 18th–20th Century China
William P Jones Professor	1118 Heller Hall 612-625-6418 wpjones@umn.edu	On Sabbatical	20th Century United States, Race, and Labor History
Erika Lee Regents Professor Distinguished McKnight Professor Rudolph J Vecoli Chair in Immigration History Director of the Immigration History Research Center	1012 Heller Hall 612-625-5573 612-624-9569 erikalee@umn.edu		20th Century United States, Asian-American, Immigration, and American West
Mai Na Lee Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	937 Heller Hall 612-625-6124 mainalee@umn.edu	Wednesdays 11:45am - 12:45pm	Southeast Asia
Malinda Lindquist Associate Professor	1139 Heller Hall 612-626-4263 lindqust@umn.edu	Wednesdays 2:30pm - 3:30pm	African-American and United States
Patricia Lorcin Professor Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	On Sabbatical	Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial and Postcolonial, and Mediterranean
Howard Louthan Director of Graduate Studies Professor	1116 Heller Hall 612-624-7834 hlouthan@umn.edu		Early Modern Europe; Central Europe; Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious History
Michael Lower Professor	1220 Heller Hall 612-626-1796 mlower@umn.edu		Crusades, Medieval Mediterranean, and Christian-Muslim relations
Saje Mathieu Associate Professor	1233 Heller Hall 612-625-7769 smathieu@umn.edu	Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment only	African-American, American Social and Political History, and Comparative Immigration
Elaine Tyler May Regents Professor	207 Scott Hall 612-626-7847 1110 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 mayxx002@umn.edu		United States, American Studies, and American Women
Mary Jo Maynes Professor	1010 Heller Hall 612-624-9330 mayne001@umn.edu	Mondays 11:45am - 1:00pm, Tuesdays 10:00am - 11:30am	Modern Germany, European Social, and Women
Patrick McNamara Associate Professor	1212 Heller Hall 612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu	Wednesdays 12:30pm - 2:00pm	Latin America and Mexico
Hiromi Mizuno Associate Professor	941 Heller Hall 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu	Tuesdays 10:30am - 12:00pm	Modern Japan, Gender and Sexuality, and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
Kevin Murphy Professor	1047 Heller Hall 612-624-9021 kpmurphy@umn.edu	Tuesdays 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Urban, Gender and Sexuality, Political, and Cultural
Jean O'Brien Distinguished McKnight Professor	1014 Heller Hall 612-624-5794 obrie002@umn.edu		Colonial American and Native American
Zozan Pehlivan Assistant Professor	918 Heller Hall 612-624-5712 zozan@umn.edu	Tuesdays 1:30pm - 3:30pm	Environmental history, Middle East, Modern Muslim World, Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Kurdistan
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Associate Professor	935 Heller Hall 612-624-8079 pohla001@umn.edu		Africa, South Africa, Social and Cultural history, and Comparative Women's History
Kathryn L Reyerson Professor	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu	Thursdays 1:30pm - 3:30pm	Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Medieval France, Social and Economic History, and Legal History
Steven Ruggles Distinguished McKnight Professor Regents Professor	945 Heller Hall 612-624-4081 ruggl001@umn.edu		American Demographic and Social History
Daniel Schroeter Professor Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History	1018 Heller Hall 612-624-9526 schro800@umn.edu	Wednesdays 9:30am - 11:30am	Jewish, North African, and Mediterranean
JB Shank Professor	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	Mondays 10:30am - 11:30am, 1:00pm - 2:30pm	Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, and History of Science
Ajay Skaria Professor	924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu		South Asia and Environmental History
Theofanis G. Stavrou Professor	1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu	Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:10am - 1:00pm	Russia, Modern Greek studies, and Eastern Orthodoxy
Andrea Sterk Associate Professor	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu		Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Byzantine History
Ann Waltner History Department Chair and Professor	912 Heller Hall 612-624-3810 waltn001@umn.edu	Mondays 10:00am - 12:00pm	Traditional China
Liping Wang Associate Professor	939 Heller Hall 612-624-4834 lipin003@umn.edu		Modern Chinese Social and Cultural
Barbara Y. Welke Distinguished McKnight Professor of History & Law	1039 Heller Hall 612-624-7017 welke004@umn.edu	On Sabbatical	American Legal and Constitutional, American Women's, and Modern American history
Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor	914 Heller Hall 612-624-1886 wolfe023@umn.edu		European Union, Soviet Union, History of Media and Communications, and Pragmatism

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Keletso Atkins Associate Professor	852 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9847 atkin013@umn.edu	Afro-American and African Studies
Jon Butler Adjunct Research Professor	butle115@umn.edu
Brenda Child Associate Professor	104 Scott Hall 612-624-4190 child011@umn.edu	American Studies
Victoria Coifman Assistant Professor	825 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5709 coifm001@umn.edu	Comparative Tropical
Christine DeLisle Assistant Professor	19 Scott Hall 612-625-3821 cdelisle@umn.edu	American Indian Studies
Vincente Diaz Associate Professor	19 Scott Hall 612-625-2376 vmdiaz@umn.edu	American Indian Studies
Mosen Goudarzi Assistant Professor	266 Nicholson Hall 612-625-6519 goudarzi@umn.edu	Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Sally Kohlstedt Professor	123 Pillsbury Hall 612-624-9368 sgk@umn.edu	Science and Nature Study Movement
Nabil Matar Professor	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Modern Arabic Literature and Arab-Islamic Civilization
Keith A. Mayes Assistant Professor	827 Social Sciences Building 612-624-5202 mayes@umn.edu	African American
Stuart McLean Professor	523 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3507 mclea070@umn.edu	Latin America and Demography
Karen Painter Associate Professor	132 Ferguson Hall 612-624-7512 kpainter@umn.edu	Germany Musicology
Paul Stone Assistant Professor	152 Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs 612-626-0728 stone069@umn.edu	United States Trans-Mississippi Western & North American frontier, American Church & Religious, and 20th Century Southwestern
Eva von Dassow Associate Professor	245 Nicholson Hall 612-626-4787 vonda001@umn.edu	Near East
John Watkins Professor	312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	Sovereignty and Queenship, Medieval and Early Modern Diplomacy, Premodern Political Culture, and Classical and Medieval Origins of the Renaissance
Benjamin Wiggins Affiliated Assistant Professor	180 O. Meredith Wilson Library 612-624-0535 benwig@umn.edu	United States, Insurance, Risk, and Digital Humanities

Visiting Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Jessica Arnett Lecturer	1037 Heller Hall 612-625-6190 arne0207@umn.edu	Modern U. S. History, Settler Colonialism, and American Indian/Alaska Native History
Igor Tchoukarine Lecturer	943 Heller Hall 612-626-7598 itchouka@umn.edu	20th Century Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and History of Tourism
Nathan Weaver Olson Lecturer	1137 Heller Hall 612-624-6010 olso6158@umn.edu	Latin America
Juergen Pirker Visiting Assistant Professor	1227 Heller Hall jpirker@umn.edu 612-624-9007	Modern Europe

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Gary Cohen Professor Emeritus	gcohen@umn.edu	Austria and Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Modern European Social and Political History
John K. Evans Professor Emeritus	evans002@umn.edu	Ancient and Ancient Rome
Sara M. Evans Regents Professor Emerita	s-evan@umn.edu	20th-Century US Social and American Women
Edward L. Farmer Professor Emeritus	efarmer@umn.edu	Modern China, Comparative Early Modern, and World
David Good Professor Emeritus	goodx001@umn.edu	European Economic and Austria
George D. Green Professor Emeritus	green007@umn.edu	American Economic and Business
John Howe Professor Emeritus	howex002@umn.edu	Political and 18th- & 19th-Century American
Thomas Kelly Professor Emeritus	kelly004@umn.edu	Ancient and Ancient Greece
David O. Kieft Associate Professor Emeritus	kieft001@umn.edu	European Diplomatic
David Kopf Professor Emeritus	kopfx001@umn.edu	India and Comparative World
Byron K. Marshall Professor Emeritus	marsh004@umn.edu	Japan
Lary May Professor Emeritus	mayxx001@umn.edu	American Studies and United States
Russell R. Menard Professor Emeritus	menar001@umn.edu	Colonial America
Michael F. Metcalf Professor Emeritus	mmetcalf@umn.edu	Scandinavia
John Kim Munholland Professor Emeritus	munho001@umn.edu	Contemporary Europe and 20th-Century France
Lisa Norling Professor Emerita	norli001@umn.edu	American Revolution, 18th and 19th Century America, Women and Gender, and Maritime
Carla Rahn Phillips Professor Emerita	phill002@umn.edu	Early Modern Europe, Social & Economic, and Spain
William D Phillips Professor Emeritus	phill004@umn.edu	Medieval & Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean, and Spain
Richard L. Rudolph Professor Emeritus		Modern European Social & Economic, and Eastern Europe
John A. Thayer Professor Emeritus	thaye001@umn.edu	European Intellectual and Italy
James Tracy Professor Emeritus	tracy001@umn.edu	Renaissance & Reformation and 16th-century Europe

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