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	Specialty
Bernard S. Bachrach Professor	1114 Heller Hall 612-624-3301 bachr001@umn.edu	Renaissance and Medieval eras, 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	American Cultural and Intellectual History, Anglo-American Legal History, 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, 19th and 20th Century United States
Anna Clark Professor	1051 Heller Hall 612-624-8015 clark106@umn.edu	British, Irish, European, Women, Gender, Sexuality
Tracey Deutsch Associate Professor	1045 Heller Hall 612-624-8547 tdeutsch@umn.edu	United States, Women's History, Business
Gail Dubrow Professor	1016 Heller Hall 612-625-6191 dubrow@umn.edu	United States, Urban, Women, Asian-American, Public History
Kirsten Fischer Associate Professor	1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 kfischer@umn.edu	Colonial and Revolutionary America, United States, Social and Intellectual
Andrew Gallia Associate Professor	1041 Heller Hall 612-626-4268 abgallia@umn.edu	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, Race
J. David Hacker Associate Chair and Associate Professor	1235 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hacke010@umn.edu	Demographic History, Quantitative History, American Civil War
Carol Hakim Associate Professor	1216 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu	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	Post-War East Asian Political Economies, Global and Post-War Capitalism, East Asia's Cold War, Comparative Economic History, Agrarian, 18th–20th Century China
William P Jones Professor	1118 Heller Hall 612-625-6418 wpjones@umn.edu	20th Century United States, Race, 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, American West
Mai Na Lee Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	937 Heller Hall 612-625-6124 mainalee@umn.edu	Southeast Asia
Malinda Lindquist Associate Professor	1139 Heller Hall 612-626-4263 lindqust@umn.edu	African-American, United States
Patricia Lorcin Professor Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial and Postcolonial, Mediterranean
Howard Louthan 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, Christian-Muslim relations
Saje Mathieu Associate Professor	1233 Heller Hall 612-625-7769 smathieu@umn.edu	African-American, American Social and Political History, 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, American Women
Mary Jo Maynes Professor	1010 Heller Hall 612-624-9330 mayne001@umn.edu	Modern Germany, European Social, Women
Patrick McNamara Associate Professor	1212 Heller Hall 612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu	Latin America, Mexico
Hiromi Mizuno Associate Professor	941 Heller Hall 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu	Modern Japan, Gender and Sexuality, Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
Kevin Murphy Professor	1047 Heller Hall 612-624-9021 kpmurphy@umn.edu	Urban, Gender and Sexuality, Political and Cultural
Jean O'Brien Distinguished McKnight Professor	1014 Heller Hall 612-624-5794 obrie002@umn.edu	Colonial American, Native American
Zozan Pehlivan Assistant Professor	918 Heller Hall 612-624-5712 zozan@umn.edu	Environmental history, Middle East, Modern Muslim World, and the 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, Comparative Women's History
Kathryn L Reyerson Professor	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu	Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Medieval France, Social and Economic History, 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	Jewish, North African, Mediterranean
JB Shank Professor	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, History of Science
Ajay Skaria Professor	924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu	South Asia, Environmental History
Theofanis G. Stavrou Professor	1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu	Russia, Modern Greek studies, Eastern Orthodoxy
Andrea Sterk Associate Professor	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu	Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History
Ann Waltner Director of Graduate Studies and Professor	912 Heller Hall 612-624-3810 waltn001@umn.edu	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	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, Pragmatism

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Keletso Atkins Associate Professor	852 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9847 atkin013@umn.edu	Afro-American & 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, Nature Study Movement
Nabil Matar Professor	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Modern Arabic Literature; 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, 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; 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, 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, 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, American Indian/Alaska Native History
Igor Tchoukarine Lecturer	943 Heller Hall 612-626-7598 itchouka@umn.edu	20th Century Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 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, Modern European Social and Political History
John K. Evans Professor Emeritus	evans002@umn.edu	Ancient, Rome
Sara M. Evans Regents Professor Emerita	s-evan@umn.edu	20th-Century US Social, American Women
Edward L. Farmer Professor Emeritus	efarmer@umn.edu	Modern China, Comparative Early Modern, World
David Good Professor Emeritus	goodx001@umn.edu	European Economic, Austria
George D. Green Professor Emeritus	green007@umn.edu	American Economic & Business
John Howe Professor Emeritus	howex002@umn.edu	Political, 18th- & 19th-Century American
Thomas Kelly Professor Emeritus	kelly004@umn.edu	Ancient, Greece
David O. Kieft Associate Professor Emeritus	kieft001@umn.edu	European Diplomatic
David Kopf Professor Emeritus	kopfx001@umn.edu	India, Comparative World
Byron K. Marshall Professor Emeritus	marsh004@umn.edu	Japan
Lary May Professor Emeritus	mayxx001@umn.edu	American Studies, US
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, 20th-Century France
Lisa Norling Professor Emerita	norli001@umn.edu	American Revolution, 18th and 19th Century America, Women and Gender, Maritime
Carla Rahn Phillips Professor Emerita	phill002@umn.edu	Early Modern Europe, Social & Economic, Spain
William D Phillips Professor Emeritus	phill004@umn.edu	Medieval & Early Modern Europe, Mediterranean, Spain
Richard L. Rudolph Professor Emeritus	rrudolph@umn.edu	Modern European Social & Economic, Eastern Europe
John A. Thayer Professor Emeritus	thaye001@umn.edu	European Intellectual, Italy
James Tracy Professor Emeritus	tracy001@umn.edu	Renaissance & Reformation, 16th-century Europe

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